Empti hasn't had a numbered release yet, so changes are grouped by week, newest first. Each entry says what changed for you, not how it was built.
Week of 2 November 2026–
- New
Give an agent one folder. Settings → Agents gives a single folder to an agent's computer, read-only or read and write, until a date you choose. The agent joins with a one-time command, you check its name and key before letting it in, and you can revoke it at any time.
- New
Pages for drives and teams in the launcher. The launcher's home screen has a row for your drives and one for each team. Open one to see its drives, who's in the team, open invites and recent activity, and connect or eject drives from there.
- Improved
Signing out locks things down. When you sign out, or your session ends, Empti disconnects your drives and closes search until you sign in again. Your drives are remembered for next time.
- Improved
The “move big files” step in setup now runs in the launcher, so moves carry on there after setup closes.
- New
Your drives as S3 buckets.
empti serve s3lets rclone, the AWS CLI, boto3 and other S3 tools read and write your drives. It listens only on your own computer, and files are encrypted and decrypted there. Keys made withempti s3 keyscan be read-only or limited to one drive. See the command line. - New
The
empticommand on Linux. The command and its S3 gateway run on Linux (x86_64 and ARM). On a computer without a browser,empti loginshows a code that you approve from a signed-in computer, or in the Mac app under Settings → Account → Sign in a computer. - New
Hand over a team. A team's owner can offer the team to one of its admins. The admin accepts or declines, and everyone in the team sees a notice when the owner changes.
- New
Delete your account. Settings → Account → Delete account… ends your plans, deletes your files and deletes the teams you own. Teams with other people in them are listed for you to confirm first.
- New
empti setupcreates a vault for a new account from the command line. - Improved
Big files upload while they're still being copied. A large file no longer has to land on your Mac in full before it starts uploading.
- Improved
Comments open in seconds: the thread no longer waits for the people list and activity to load first.
- Improved
Someone you invite to a team can make their Empti account with that invite, without a separate beta invite code.
- Improved
The team invite page and Empti's emails now look like the rest of Empti.
- Fixed
Empti's items in Finder's right-click menu, such as Copy share link and Keep on this Mac, were missing on macOS 26. They're back.
- Fixed
Fixes from a two-person test of Teams: the comments panel shows when it's loading and sending, the approval card looks for the new person's code by itself, and joining says which account you're signed in with.
- New
Teams. Make a team, invite people with a link or by email, and share team drives. Members can add and change files; viewers can only look. Each file has comments, @mentions and an activity list beside it.
- New
Team membership you can check. Who is in a team is kept in a signed record that every member's Mac checks for itself, and team keys are used only when that record names them. People invited by email are confirmed with a six-digit code, and an eight-word team code lets you check with the owner that you see the same team. How it works.
- New
Private drives in a team. Owners and admins can limit a team drive to chosen people. Making it private re-encrypts it with a key of its own, and its People list sets who can view or edit. For now, a private drive can't be made open again.
- New
Set a name and photo in Settings → Account. Your teammates see them beside your email.
- Improved
No more ._ files. Finder used to leave a hidden ._ file beside every file and folder on the drive. The drive now keeps that information itself, on this Mac, and tidies away the ._ files already there.
- Improved
Every delete now asks first, including collections, comments, invites, add-on storage and moving originals to the Trash after a move.
- Improved
Shorter, plainer wording across Teams, private drives, Account and Plan & Storage. Reopening setup now starts from the welcome screen.
- Fixed
Finder badges and the drive's sidebar symbol could disappear after a drive was ejected and reconnected.
- New
More than one drive. Make more drives in Settings → Drives. Each appears in Finder as its own disk and can be connected, ejected, renamed or deleted on its own. A deleted drive waits in Recently deleted for 30 days.
- New
Fork a drive. A fork is a second copy of a drive that you can change freely. Nothing is uploaded again, so it's ready at once.
- New
Plan & Storage. A new page in Settings shows your storage, the space kept versions use, and your drives.
- Improved
Finder badges, the right-click menu, search, versions, share links, Keep on this Mac and Move big files work on every drive, not only the first. The first drive can be renamed too.
- Improved
With Finder badges on, the drive shows Empti's own folder symbol in Finder's sidebar.
- Fixed
Changes from your other Macs show correctly in Finder: new files open even if Finder looked for them earlier, moved or removed files stop opening under their old name, and a folder removed elsewhere no longer comes back.
- New
Empti accounts. Sign in with Apple or Google. Your encrypted files live in your Empti account, with no storage keys to set up on your Mac.
- New
Use a second Mac. Sign in on another Mac and enter your passphrase to open the same drive. Settings → Account lists your Macs and signs any of them out, and changing your passphrase signs out the others.
- New
Live sync. Changes on one Mac show up on your others within about 30 seconds. If two Macs change the same file at once, both are kept, the second named after the Mac it came from.
- New
Share links. Share a file, a folder or a collection as a link. The page decrypts the files in the other person's browser, previews them and offers Download all as a zip. Links end after 1, 7 or 30 days, can have a password and a download limit, and are deleted once they end. Settings → Shared links shows views and downloads and turns links off.
- New
Versions and Recently deleted. Replaced and deleted files are kept for 30 days, with up to 20 earlier versions of each file. Right-click a file in Finder and choose Previous versions… to open or restore one.
- New
The
empticommand. Reach your drive from Terminal, scripts and agents, even when the drive isn't connected: list, read, upload, move and delete, with--jsonoutput. See the command line. - New
Settings → Uploads shows what's uploading, waiting for Wi-Fi, queued or failed, with Retry and Upload anyway, and can limit upload speed. Settings → Permissions shows each permission Empti needs and opens the right page of System Settings.
- Improved
Settings is reorganised: your account first, then your workspace and drives, then system settings.
- Improved
Quicker jumps in videos. Empti keeps connections ready, so jumping to another point in a video rarely waits for a new one to open.
- Improved
Empti now keeps up to 10 GB of recently opened files on your Mac by default, up from 2 GB. Change it in Settings → Cache.
- Improved
While it's connected, the drive sits in Finder's sidebar under Favourites, and it has a new aluminium drive icon.
- Improved
When you drag files onto the menu bar icon, you can drop them into any folder on the drive. Folders open as you rest on them, as in Finder.
- Improved
Setup now covers opening at login, the launcher's shortcut and dropping files on the menu bar.
- Fixed
A file could occasionally upload twice. Each file now uploads once.
- New
A new look. Empti's windows use Liquid Glass, in Light, Dark or System appearance, with SF Pro for text and New York for headings.
- New
Search by what's in a file. Photos, frames of videos and the text in screenshots are labelled on your Mac as they upload, so a search like “pictures with the cat” finds them. Save a search as a collection. Labels and collections are encrypted and synced, and Settings can label files you uploaded earlier.
- New
The launcher finds and opens your apps too. With nothing typed, it lists Empti's commands, Settings pages and your apps.
- New
Upload activity opens in the launcher: what's uploading, what's waiting for Wi-Fi, recent uploads and how much of the cache is used.
- New
Drag files onto Empti's menu bar icon to add them to the drive.
- Improved
The menu bar icon opens a plain macOS menu, with an extra item only when something needs fixing. In Finder, the drive shows Empti's own icon.
- Fixed
The launcher could crash when its results changed while it was being drawn.
- New
The Empti app. A menu bar app, setup that creates your encrypted vault and recovery key, and Settings. Empti updates itself: Check for Updates… is in its menu.
- New
A drive you can copy into. Copy files and folders onto the drive and they're encrypted and uploaded. Once a file is up, the copy on your Mac is removed and it streams from the cloud when you open it. Uploads carry on where they stopped if Empti quits.
- New
Edit files on the drive like any others. Each save is uploaded as a new version.
- New
The drive appears in Finder as a disk at
/Volumes/Emptiand connects when you log in. - New
Finder badges. Each file shows whether it's uploading, in the cloud or on this Mac. Right-click for Keep on this Mac, Free up space and Copy path.
- New
Search from anywhere. Press ⌥ Space in any app to find files on the drive by name. It searches your Mac's own files too, with Move to Empti.
- New
Move big files. Empti lists the largest files in your home folder and moves the ones you pick. It checks each upload before offering to move the original to the Trash.
- New
On a phone hotspot or in Low Data Mode, files over 50 MB wait for Wi-Fi. Upload anyway sends one straight away.
- New
When 10 GB is already waiting to upload, copies onto the drive pause until uploads catch up, instead of filling your disk. The amount can be changed in Settings.
- Improved
Videos keep their first and last few megabytes on your Mac after uploading, so they start playing sooner the first time you open them.
Week of 26 October 2026
- New
The first working drive. A 5 GB video stored in the cloud starts playing from a double-click in Finder in about 3 seconds, with nothing downloaded first.
- New
Encrypted from the start. Each file is split into 4 MiB pieces, and each piece is sealed with AES-256-GCM before it leaves your Mac. A piece that has been changed refuses to open rather than give back wrong data.