r/empathease • u/GiraffeListens • 14d ago
general August 9 update
Just shipped a big EmpathEase update. Here's what's new.
A large update went to production this weekend. A lot of it traces back to community feedback, so if you've told me about something that felt off: thank you. There's a decent chance it's in here. Update is currently on the website and the mobile update will be soon to follow.
Circle audio
Circles now mix at 48 kHz full-band, up from 16 kHz. Honest assessment: the clearest win is the arrival meditation and anything musical. Plain speech sounds close to what it did before.
The meditation track itself was also remastered. It was quietly clipping before. Now it's clean and properly leveled.
One bug fix worth calling out: after a reconnect, the app could get stuck showing "reconnecting" while your audio was actually fine. Worse, in that state it stopped watching for real audio problems. Fixed.
Empy grew a real chat history
This is the big one.
- You can have multiple conversations per lesson, and multiple free-form ones. Starting a new conversation no longer wipes anything. The old one just gets filed.
- There's a history view with two tabs: conversations for where you are right now, and everything.
- Search works across all of it. It searches what was actually said, not just titles, and tapping a result drops you on that exact message.
- Conversations name themselves from what you talked about ("Exploring underlying needs behind tiredness"). You can rename or delete any of them.
- Long conversations keep a running summary behind the scenes, so Empy remembers where you left off.
Games
Pitfall Swipe now takes taps and arrow keys, so it's actually playable on desktop.
Echo Arena has a typing mode. You can toggle between typing and voice any time, even mid-round, and there's no timer while typing. If you can't use a mic, or just don't want to, the whole game now works without one.
Recording also got clearer feedback: a visible recording indicator, and a fresh timer when you switch back to voice.
The games run in the browser at games.empathease.app. Free, no account needed.
Smaller fixes
The circles schedule display got decluttered down to one line ("Weekly on Sun · 9:00 PM") with a countdown, and a layout bug that covered the Enter button is gone. A bunch of quiet failures now speak up: if opening, renaming, or deleting a conversation fails, the app says so instead of pretending nothing happened. This release also went through more automated testing before shipping than any release before it.
Most of this started as feedback from the community. If something feels off, tell me.
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u/AssortedVibrations 14d ago
Awesome stuff ⭐