What's New

New tools, features and fixes as they ship. Dates are when each change went live.

July 2026

Site plumbing

Improved URL handling so tool pages, bio pages, blogs, countdowns and RSVP pages all resolve at their short addresses. Improved page load with compression and asset caching.

Email updates

Added a signup box on the homepage, the free tools page and every tool page, so you can be told when new tools ship without creating an account. One click unsubscribes.

Free tools now have a home

Added a Free Tools page listing every tool that works without an account, linked from the main navigation and the sitemap. Improved the sitemap to include the free tools and public bio pages and blogs.

Added Journal - Your Private Notebook, Encrypted

A real journal on real lined paper - aged cream pages, ruled lines, a red margin, and handwritten ink. And unlike a paper journal, nobody else can ever read this one. Every entry is encrypted before it touches the database. Not hidden, not access-controlled - encrypted. Even someone staring directly at the database sees scrambled text. - Keep up to 12 separate journals - a daily log, a prayer journal, a gratitude book - each with its own leather cover in six colours - Write on paper that feels like paper: ruled lines your writing sits on, a red margin line, punched holes, and a handwriting font for the date, title, and every word you put down - Add an optional password to any journal for a second lock. A password journal is sealed with a key derived from that password alone - the site itself cannot open it without you. Fair warning: there is no reset. Forget the password and those pages are gone for good, which is exactly the point - Unlocked journals stay open for 30 minutes while you write, then lock themselves. A Lock Now button seals one instantly, and repeated wrong guesses trigger a cooldown - Add, change, or remove a journal's password anytime - your existing entries carry over safely through every change - Date any entry, give it a title or don't, and find old pages fast with the entry index and filter - Ctrl+S saves from the keyboard, and the page warns you before you walk away from unsaved writing - Works in light and dark mode - the paper stays paper

Added Contract Builder - A Proper Contract in Minutes

Pick the kind of agreement, tick the clauses you want in it, fill in the blanks, and take away a PDF or Word file ready to sign. - Twelve agreement types built in - work and home improvement, subcontractor, service, maintenance retainer, equipment rental, independent contractor, consulting, creative services, mutual and one-way NDAs, bill of sale, and payment plans - Build it from clauses, not a fixed template. Tick deposits, late fees, change orders, warranty, site access, permits, confidentiality, ownership of work and more on or off until it matches the job - The form only asks for what your clauses actually need, so a bill of sale never asks you about warranties - Anything you have not filled in shows up highlighted, with a running count, so nothing goes out with a blank in it - Pick a saved client and their details drop straight in. Your own business details come from the same profile your invoices use - Live preview as you type, laid out the way the finished document will read - Download as a PDF or a Word file, or print it. All three come from the same source, so the Word copy always matches what you approved - Send the PDF through PDF Sign to get it signed - Contracts save to your account alongside your invoices, ready to reopen and reuse for the next job - Every contract carries a plain note that it is a template rather than legal advice, so you and your customer both know where you stand

Improved Blueprint Designer & 3D Walkthrough — the biggest upgrade yet

Blueprint Designer now understands rooms. Close off a space with walls and it's detected automatically, with live square footage that updates as you draw — drag a wall and watch the numbers change in real time. The new Rooms tool lets you click any room to name it and choose a floor finish (light or dark wood, tile, carpet, or concrete), and your plan renders it all right on the canvas: tinted floors, room names, and areas, exactly like a professional architectural drawing. Exports include it all. Drawing got faster too. Turn on auto-dimensioning and every wall labels its own length — no more placing dimension lines by hand. Switch the whole plan between feet-and-inches and metres with one dropdown. Duplicate any piece of furniture, label, or wall with Ctrl+D. And the furniture library grew to 22 pieces with the addition of kitchen islands, desks, bookshelves, TV stands, wardrobes, coffee tables, and nightstands. Starting from scratch is now optional: three fully furnished starter templates — Studio Apartment, Two-Bed Apartment, and Bungalow — are one click away on the start screen, complete with named rooms, doors, windows, and furniture. Load one and make it yours. The 3D Walkthrough brings all of it to life. The floor finishes you pick in the Designer now render as real materials — wood planks, grouted tile, carpet, concrete — room by room. Furniture is no longer simple blocks: sofas have arms and cushions, beds have headboards and pillows, stoves have burners, showers have glass enclosures, and nightstands even have little lamps. A new Light control moves the sun through morning, noon, and evening with matching skies. The ceiling now follows the shape of your house instead of covering the whole lot. And as you walk through your home in first person, a new heads-up display tells you exactly which room you're standing in and how big it is. Draw a kitchen, pick tile, hit View in 3D — and thirty seconds later you're standing on that tile. On your phone or your desktop, it all just works.

Added Connected tools, blueprint cross-links, and a mobile overhaul

Xerion's tools have always worked together — now they actually show it. Every tool page has a new "Works together with" section pointing to its companion tools, with a quick note on why: Invoice Generator links to Recurring Invoices and Payment Reminder, Document Scanner links to PDF Merge and PDF Sign, Recipe Box links to Meal Planner, and dozens more connections across the whole library. No more digging through 190 tools to find the one that finishes the job. The blueprint tools got the deepest integration. Blueprint Designer now has a "View in 3D" button right in the editor — one click saves your plan and opens it in the 3D Walkthrough. Every saved plan card has a 3D shortcut, and inside the walkthrough, an "Edit plan" button takes you straight back to the drawing board. Both blueprint tools are also now fully touch-friendly. In the Designer: pinch to zoom, two-finger pan, a slide-up options panel, and on-screen Rotate, Delete, and Finish Wall buttons so you never need a keyboard. In the 3D Walkthrough: pinch to zoom the orbit view, and walk mode has a virtual joystick — touch the left side to move, drag the right side to look around. Drawing a floor plan on your couch and walking through it on your phone is now a real thing you can do.

Added 3D Model Maker - Build Real 3D Models in Your Browser

Stack up boxes, spheres and cylinders, push them together, and punch holes straight through. No install, no CAD experience, and everything measured in millimetres. - Eight solid shapes to build with - box, sphere, cylinder, cone, pyramid, wedge, tube and ring - Turn any shape into a hole - combine it with your model and it cuts clean through, leaving a real opening you can see right through - Combine parts into one solid, and split them back apart whenever you want. Your holes and pieces stay editable, so you can move a hole and re-combine as many times as you like - Click a shape to drop it in, drag it to move, and hold Shift to lift it off the workplane. Everything snaps to whole millimetres - Type in exact numbers for position, size and rotation when you need to be precise - Twelve colours, plus full undo and redo - Spin the camera any way you like, or jump straight to top, front, side or corner views - Export a clean image of your model on a grey, white, or transparent background - Models save to your account - come back later and keep building

Added Xerion Desktop for Windows

Xerion is now a real Windows app. Xerion Desktop puts all 190+ tools in a fast native program with features a browser tab cannot match - free with every Xerion account. - Tabs: run multiple tools side by side in one window. Ctrl+T opens a new tab, Ctrl+W closes one, and middle-click works just like a browser. - Quick Launcher: press Ctrl+Alt+X from anywhere in Windows - even with Xerion closed to the tray - to search every tool and jump straight in. - Stays signed in: log in once and the app remembers you, your license, and your session between launches. - Matches your theme: the app follows your Light, Dark, or System preference instantly, right down to the window chrome. - Native touches: a tray icon with quick shortcuts, taskbar jump list, desktop notifications, and no browser clutter around your tools. - Automatic updates: the app checks for new versions on startup and updates itself in a couple of clicks. Works on Windows 10 and 11, installs without admin rights, and takes seconds to set up. Grab it from the new Get the App page, linked right from your dashboard. Not on Windows? The same page now shows how to install Xerion as an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android device, or Mac - full screen, its own icon, one account across all of them.

Improved Security Hardening

We've tightened security across Xerion to keep your data safe. Nothing changes in how you use your tools - this is behind-the-scenes work for your peace of mind. - Reinforced protection around sensitive files and internal systems - Added extra safeguards to how uploads and files are handled - Strengthened defenses against common web attacks - Your data stays yours: everything is backed up nightly, and you can export it anytime from Export My Data

Added Blueprint Designer - Draw Real Floor Plans in Your Browser

Sketch your house, your renovation, or your dream shop layout the way an architect would - and it actually measures itself. One grid square = 1 foot. - Walls that read like blueprints - click to place corners and they draw as true double lines, with grid snapping and endpoint magnets so rooms close cleanly - Doors and windows live on walls - click a wall to place them, and they cut the opening and draw proper symbols, swing arc and all. Click a door again to flip its swing - Furniture at true scale - beds, sofa, dining set, bathroom fixtures, kitchen appliances, stairs, and more, placed with a click and rotated with R - Dimension lines that label themselves - click two points and the line draws itself with arrows and the length in feet and inches - Room labels for kitchens, bedrooms, and everything else - Live measurements while you draw - the wall tool shows the running length before you commit - Full undo and redo, zoom and pan, grid and snap toggles, and keyboard shortcuts throughout - Export as a clean black-on-white plan or a classic white-on-navy blueprint, with an optional title block showing the plan name, date, and scale - Plans save to your account - come back and keep drawing where you left off

Improved The Photo Editor Is Now Photo Studio

The Photo Editor grew up. What was a single-image crop and redact tool is now a full layered editor - the kind of thing you'd normally open a desktop app for. - Layers - stack images, drawings, and text with visibility, opacity, and blend modes like Multiply, Screen, and Overlay - Nine tools - Move with scale and rotate handles, Brush, Eraser, Shapes, Text, Select, Crop, Redact, and Eyedropper - Non-destructive adjustments - brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and blur per layer, with one click to flatten them in when you're sure - Redaction stayed - black-out or pixelate sensitive parts of screenshots and receipts, now on any layer - Full undo and redo, zoom and pan, and keyboard shortcuts throughout (B for brush, V for move, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S) - Open images by browsing, dragging them in, or just pasting with Ctrl+V - Export as PNG or JPEG with quality control - exports never leave your device - Projects save to your account - pick up where you left off, with previews on the start screen - Lift any selection to its own layer with Ctrl+J Same tool, same place - your links and bookmarks still work.

Added Command Palette - Press Ctrl+K Anywhere

Jump to any tool without touching the mouse. Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac), type a few letters, Enter. - Fuzzy matching - "bkk" finds Bookkeeping - Phrases work too - "new expense" or "new invoice" jump straight to the right tool - Your recent tools float to the top before you've typed anything

Improved The Dashboard Now Works Like a Desk

Logging in used to drop you at a wall of every tool on the platform. Now it drops you at your work. This is the biggest change to Xerion's dashboard since launch. - Your desk - pin your go-to tools and they become large launcher tiles at the top of your dashboard - Live numbers on tiles - Invoicing shows what's outstanding and how much is overdue, Bookkeeping shows this month's net, right on the dashboard before you've clicked anything - Quick actions bar - one-tap shortcuts like + Invoice and + Expense that jump straight into the right tool - Continue where you left off - your recent tools, one row, always at hand - Smart rows - your most used tools, what's new on Xerion, and suggestions that pair with what you already use - Customize everything - hit Customize and the dashboard becomes editable in place: hide any tool or category with one tap, bring anything back just as fast, and drag tiles to arrange it your way - Presets to start from - Business, Personal, or Everything, applied live in front of you, then fine-tune from there - Undo built in - hide something by accident and a toast offers to bring it right back - Nothing is ever lost - hidden tools still work, still show up in search and the command palette, and are one click from returning - The full catalog lives on - every tool, browsable by category, right below your desk

Added Bookkeeping for Business & Personal

Real books, the kind a business actually runs on - and it plays with the rest of Xerion. Paid invoices from your billing tools flow straight in as income. - Unlimited books - keep the business and the household completely separate, each with its own categories, currency, and tax setup (HST-ready out of the box) - Full transaction ledger - income and expenses with categories, payees, reference numbers, notes, and a tax portion on every entry, including a one-click calculator that pulls the tax out of a tax-inclusive total - Receipt attachments - snap a photo or attach the PDF right when you enter the expense, up to 5 per transaction, stored privately and viewable anytime from the paperclip on each entry - Recurring transactions - rent, retainers, insurance. Weekly, biweekly, monthly, or yearly with optional end dates, pause and resume, and automatic posting. Month-end entries are smart: the 31st clamps to shorter months without drifting - Import paid invoices - one click pulls your paid Xerion invoices in as income, with client, date, and tax filled in automatically. Nothing double-books - CSV import - bring in bank exports or spreadsheets. Columns are auto-detected, you preview before anything commits, and messy rows are skipped and reported - Reports - Profit & Loss by category for any period, a 12-month income vs expenses trend, top clients and top payees, and a tax summary showing exactly what you've collected, paid, and owe - CSV export - any date range, formatted for your accountant - Filters everywhere - date range, type, category, and text search across the ledger, with live totals for whatever you're looking at - Duplicate any transaction with one click - last month's entry again, dated today
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