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Introducing the New CruxAI: The Full Stack Creator OS
Today, we’re releasing the most complete version of CruxAI yet: a more personal workspace for thinking and creating, plus a full Site Builder for taking an idea from conversation…
CruxAI Summary
Crux Interactive releases a major update for CruxAI featuring a redesigned workspace with improved conversations and file management, a fully rebuilt iOS app matching the web experience, and a new Site Builder that lets users create working hosted apps through natural conversation with AI.
Today, we’re releasing the most complete version of CruxAI yet: a more personal workspace for thinking and creating, plus a full Site Builder for taking an idea from conversation to a working, hosted app.
This update focuses on one simple goal: make powerful work feel clear, dependable, and easy to control.
A more capable CruxAI workspace
CruxAI now feels more like a focused partner for ongoing work—not just a chat window.
- A polished, responsive workspace. The redesigned interface brings a calmer visual system, refined light and dark modes, smoother motion, improved contrast, and a more consistent type system across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- Personalized starting points. Dynamic greetings and suggestions can reflect the time of day and the context you choose to let CruxAI remember, helping you return to important work with less setup.
- Better conversations. Edit and resend a message, keep message actions visible, search your full conversation history, rename, archive, or delete conversations, and move between recent chats more easily.
- Real-time responses that read naturally. Streaming now arrives with a smoother fade-in treatment, clearer thinking states, and improved readability while an answer is still being written—including code blocks.
- Live Work Plans. When CruxAI is carrying out a multi-step task, you can follow the actual plan, current action, reasoning updates, and live file output. File-writing output stays collapsed by default, and expands only when you want to inspect it.
- Artifacts that stay useful. Files CruxAI creates appear in clean file cards, open in Canvas for previewing, support selection-based follow-up questions, and retain version history for review or restoration.
- A cleaner Library. Created files, images, canvases, and other outputs are organized more clearly, with better grouping, metadata, search, and preview behavior.
- Flexible response modes. Choose Fast, Think, or Pro depending on the task. CruxAI+ members can also choose from the CRX-4, CRX-3.5, and CRX-3.2 model families.
A redesigned iOS experience
The iOS app has been fully updated to match the power and clarity of the new CruxAI workspace, bringing a more native, polished, and consistent experience across iPhone and iPad.
- A unified design system. The iOS app now closely matches the CruxAI web experience, with updated spacing, colors, typography, navigation, and layout.
- Native-feeling navigation. A new liquid glass bottom navigation style and improved transitions make the app feel more at home on iOS.
- A better chat experience. The main chat screen has been refined with a cleaner welcome state, improved composer, polished quick actions, and better keyboard behavior.
- Full sidebar access. The CruxAI sidebar is now available on iOS, giving faster access to conversations, Discovery, Flow, Apps, Library, Shopping, Settings, and other workspace areas.
- Smarter sidebar interactions. Swipe gestures, improved open/close behavior, and optimized layouts across iPhone portrait, landscape, and iPad make navigation more natural.
- iPad-style collapsible sidebar. On larger screens, the sidebar can collapse while keeping icons visible, similar to the web experience.
- Improved landscape layouts. The app no longer feels cramped or visually broken in landscape, with dedicated controls and better spacing.
- Cleaner conversation headers. Headers adapt while scrolling, keeping long chats easier to read and navigate.
- Conversation history and search. Access history and search directly from the conversation title area, matching the web experience.
- Restored Discovery. Discovery is now fully integrated into the iOS sidebar.
- Refined settings experience. Settings are easier to access and use, with clearer Light and Dark appearance options and a unified web-style configuration system.
- Improved Flow on iOS. Flow now includes working navigation, plan and checkpoint views, better controls, and cleaner interaction states.
- Expanded response actions. CruxAI responses now include actions like copy, regenerate, feedback, and sending useful outputs into Flow.
- Clearer icons and controls. Updated iconography reduces confusion between Flow and branching actions.
- Model selection improvements. Eligible CruxAI+ users can choose between CRX-3.2, CRX-3.5, and CRX-4 models directly in the app.
- Smoother navigation and animations. Page transitions and interactions feel faster and more consistent.
- Better keyboard handling. Improved dismissal behavior and interaction across more screens.
- Improved touch targets. Larger, more forgiving controls reduce accidental taps, especially in Flow plan sheets.
- Cleaner top bar design. The profile and action icon area has been refined for clarity.
- More accurate conversation handling. Larger conversation libraries are now supported more reliably when available.
- Clear guidance for web-only features. Build access on iOS directs users to the web experience when needed.
- Polished supporting screens. Apps, Library, Shopping, Discovery, News/Briefing, Live Mode, login, and onboarding have all been updated to match the new design.
- Updated branding and icons. Improved app icon assets across iPhone, iPad, and Mac-style sizes.
- Foundation for widgets and live activities. Groundwork has been added for future quick actions outside the app.
- Performance and stability improvements. Faster sidebar interactions, smoother scrolling, and more reliable conversation loading.
- Bug fixes and polish. Numerous UI fixes, layout improvements, keyboard corrections, and overall refinement.
CruxAI Site Builder: build apps from a conversation
Site Builder is now a complete creation environment inside CruxAI. Describe an idea, discuss it naturally with CruxAI, and decide when it is ready to become a working project.
- Conversational building. You can ask questions, refine the idea, or request changes before a build begins. CruxAI decides when to plan, explain, or start working—rather than forcing every message through a separate setup flow.
- Private drafts and live preview. Projects begin as private drafts. Review a live preview as you work, then publish only when you are ready.
- Project workspace. Each app has its own files, previews, app data, conversations, version history, release controls, and project settings.
- Full file control. Browse folders, create files and folders through proper dialogs, upload files, drag to organize, download an individual file or the entire project, and edit source directly in a purpose-built editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, undo, and redo.
- Media built in. Images, video, audio, GIFs, and other media can be previewed directly in the workspace instead of being treated as opaque attachments.
- Changes you can review. CruxAI reports what it changed after a build, lets you review version-to-version diffs, and gives you quick ways to restore a version, refresh the workspace, or clear cached preview content.
- A real app console. The preview’s browser messages are available inside Site Builder. Errors and warnings can be sent straight to CruxAI with context, so you can ask for a fix without manually copying logs.
- Rich builder responses. Site Builder conversations now support Markdown, code formatting, tables, and mathematical notation with KaTeX.
- Bring your own materials. Attach references from your device or Crux Cloud so CruxAI can use them while designing or building the project.
Apps with real capabilities
Site Builder can now support more than static pages.
- App data and relationships. Build and manage the data an app needs, including tables, fields, relationships, and record updates, using language designed for people who are not database specialists.
- Accounts and sign-in. Add managed authentication and user-facing account flows when an app needs them.
- Forms and submissions. Add contact, support, request, and other forms, then view submitted responses in the project workspace.
- Uploads for your users. Apps can accept user uploads through managed project storage, keeping project assets organized and available to the app.
- Server-side capabilities. When a project needs backend behavior, CruxAI can build with the appropriate server tools and runtime support rather than limiting the project to front-end code.
- Protected configuration requests. When a project needs a credential or external-service setting, Site Builder can request it through a dedicated secure-entry flow instead of asking for it in the regular chat.
Publishing and ownership controls
CruxAI gives creators more control over how projects are shared.
- Publish projects to a *.cruxapps.io address when you are ready.
- Unpublish a project or place it in maintenance mode at any time.
- Use an owner-only preview while a project is in progress.
- CruxAI+ members can connect a custom domain to a project through guided DNS setup.
- Keep a separate Site Builder conversation history for every project, so decisions and earlier requests remain easy to revisit.
Plans and creative headroom
Site Builder includes its own monthly building allowance. Free accounts receive monthly build capacity with CRX-3.2 Think, while CruxAI+ members receive a substantially larger monthly allowance and can choose from the available Fast, Think, and Pro options across supported CRX models. Image generation is also available within the applicable plan allowance.
Built for a more dependable everyday experience
Alongside the new capabilities, this release includes broad reliability, performance, mobile-layout, upload, preview, editor, history, and publishing improvements. We also made ongoing security and platform hardening improvements to help keep projects, accounts, and stored content better protected.
