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What’s new in each WELTEN release for Mac.

Release 1.0.1 · Build 13

Recover a lost purchase code

Restore ownership through your original purchase email while keeping your existing Macs activated.

Purchase recovery

  • A new Lost your recovery code? link in Access & billing guides you through email recovery.
  • Replacing a recovery code keeps existing Macs activated. WELTEN explains when its saved code has been replaced.
  • Copy or privately save your new code, then use the existing restore flow. Your forest and history stay on each Mac.

Release 1.0 · Build 12

WELTEN 1.0: focus, grow and keep your progress

The commercial release brings purchase and recovery controls to WELTEN, with no app usage statistics.

Access and ownership

  • Complete your first focus session for free, then choose a one-time purchase or an explicit seven-day subscription trial.
  • Restore a purchase or private-beta access with your recovery code and manage your two personal installations in Access & billing.
  • Your existing forest, projects and history remain on your Mac and stay viewable when access ends.
  • Access & billing opens clearly when a Quick Focus start requires a purchase or beta code.

Privacy and updates

  • WELTEN no longer collects app usage statistics. The optional statistics controls and unsent local statistics queue have been removed.
  • Update notifications remain a separate choice. Existing beta participants receive their access details before the commercial update is offered.

Beta 1.0 · Build 9

Focus Sound, Reminders tasks and a calmer new design

Sound for your sessions, your Apple Reminders tasks at the timer, an automatic Do Not Disturb and a redesigned app from the first step to your history.

New

  • Focus Sound: choose Forest, white, pink or brown noise to mask voices around you while you focus. It fades in and out with the session, stays silent during breaks and remembers a volume for each audio output.
  • Play your own music instead: a Spotify playlist in the Spotify app, or a YouTube video or playlist in a small player above Wurzel. Music starts with your session and pauses with it.
  • Apple Reminders: link a Reminders list to a project, pick a task when you start, tick it off at the end and get the next task offered for the following round. Nothing is completed without your click.
  • Turn on a macOS Focus such as Do Not Disturb while you focus, using two shortcuts you choose in the Shortcuts app.
  • A new three-step welcome: choose your display, decide on optional statistics and plant your first tree, for example in a short five-minute session.
  • Match macOS: the app can now follow your Mac’s light or dark appearance.

Improved

  • The menu bar panel and Quick Focus share one redesigned panel with a duration wheel, an editable minute value, routines, task and tree in one place.
  • Redesigned dashboard with Today, World, Progress and History, and Settings grouped into Focus, World and App with search.
  • While a session runs, Today shows a calm focus view with the clock, your task and the growing tree.
  • History groups sessions by day and searches project names and linked tasks too.
  • Wurzel speaks in short bubbles and shows a small session pill with the remaining time and Pause.
  • Running sessions use far less CPU: the forest keeps its calm idle pace while a tree grows.

Fixed

  • WELTEN no longer freezes after waking from sleep when a display briefly disconnects. If it ever stops responding, it restarts on its own.
  • The panel summary of today’s focus time is shortened to fit instead of being cut off.

Beta 1.0 · Build 7

Optional statistics and update notices

Two separate, optional choices: sharing anonymous usage milestones and being notified about new versions.

New

  • You can choose to share three anonymous usage milestones. It is off by default and never includes project names, notes or focus history.
  • Notify me when an update is available: WELTEN checks while it is running and you choose when to download and install.
  • Existing testers see a one-time invitation after updating. Closing it or choosing Not now keeps statistics off.

Improved

  • Shorter, clearer statistics notice with a direct link to the privacy details.
  • Running focus sessions and presets defer an update until you install it yourself.
  • Both choices can be changed later in Settings under Privacy and Updates.

Fixed

  • Corrected the packaging of the download archive.

Beta 1.0 · Build 3

First private beta

Focus sessions grow Waldlichtung, a living forest world that runs quietly behind your desktop icons.

New

  • Name an intention, pick a project and duration, and plant a permanent world element when the session completes.
  • Seven selectable tree families: Oak, Birch, Sakura, Ginkgo, Ume, Momiji and Sugi.
  • Local projects and focus history. Your world and sessions stay on your Mac.
  • Wurzel, an optional companion for your focus sessions.

Download for Mac · Private-beta terms