Pocket CVI 1.0 — the app is out of its 0.x releases. Everything the 0.4 series stabilized — iCloud sync across Macs, licensing, daily update checks — is now the foundation, not the work in progress.
New
- Website import spots a brand's own guideline links: when the site you import links its brand guidelines — a page like example.com/brand or the PDF itself — Pocket CVI picks that up directly and files it as the official guide, even when the page is too new for any search engine to know about. Web search still covers sites that don't link their own.
- Pocket CVI can now also be installed with Homebrew: brew install --cask nullbase-saas/tap/pocket-cvi.
Fixed
- A crash on macOS 26.5 that could quit the app about ten seconds after launch while it synced changes from another Mac.
- Your library can no longer be emptied by a sync error: something is removed from iCloud only when you delete it yourself — never because one of your devices merely didn't have a copy.
Improved
- You can buy Pro without leaving your trial: Settings → License shows how long is left, a link to the plans, and a field for a license key — so a trial no longer has to run out before you can buy or redeem one.
Improved
- Pocket CVI now always checks for a new version once a day, so a fix can't sit unseen on your Mac. Settings shows when it last looked.
- Whether updates install on their own — or wait until you've read the release notes and clicked — is now the setting you control, under Settings → General → Updates.
New
- Manage your subscription from inside the app: update your card, change your plan or fetch past invoices, without hunting for the email you bought with.
- If a renewal payment is late, the Settings button shows a warning — amber while Pro still works, red once it doesn't — so you don't find out mid-project.
Improved
- When a license lapses, Settings → License now says which license it was, when it expired and which payment was missed, with a direct link to fix it.
- Your license key is shown in full and can be copied in one click.
Improved
- Settings → License now shows when your subscription actually renews. It previously showed the date Pro is enforced until, which includes a grace period — so a monthly license charged on the 20th appeared to renew on the 27th.
New
- If a renewal payment is late, Pocket CVI now says so and tells you how long Pro stays active while you sort it out.
Improved
- Redesigned color picker: the loupe is now a round, binocular-style lens — clearer magnification, a center target on the exact pixel, and the value shown in a tidy pill.
New
- Continuous picking (Settings → Picker): keep the loupe open and grab several colors in a row — each click saves the color, and Esc closes it.
- Picking a color that's already in the collection (or Recent) no longer adds a duplicate.
New
- Check for Updates in Settings — a button under Settings → General → Updates, so you can check for a new version without opening the app menu.
Improved
- App updates and downloads now come from a dedicated, faster download host.
The first public release of Pocket CVI — a native macOS color picker and brand-kit manager.
New
- Screen color picker with a magnifier loupe and crosshair, and auto-copy in HEX, RGB, or HSL.
- Brand-kit collections: colors, logos, fonts, and documents, each with rich-text CVI notes.
- Collection from Website — import a brand's colors, logos, and real webfonts straight from its site.
- Extract dominant colors from any image, and a local 5-role brand-palette generator.
- WCAG-style contrast checking and font install detection.
- iCloud sync of your whole library — colors, notes, and the logo, font, and document files themselves — across your Macs.
- Share a whole kit as a single self-contained .pocketcvi file.
Pro
- Bring-your-own-key AI: connect your own Claude or ChatGPT key, or a model you host yourself (Ollama, LM Studio). AI writes brand descriptions, names colors, finds official brand guides, and drafts palettes.
- Generate a print-ready design manual (PDF), including a premium edition set in the brand's own typefaces.
- Export your palette as swatches for Illustrator and Photoshop (.ase), PowerPoint and Keynote (.thmx), the macOS color picker (.clr), and developers (CSS / JSON / Tailwind).
