What changed

Changes you would notice, newest first. How to use them is in Help.

v0.1.58 · 20 October 2026

Fewer stock phrases

Suggestions leave out sentences built on stock phrases such as “paved the way” or “shed light on”.

v0.1.57 · 20 October 2026

Chat reads whole papers

When chat searches the literature, it now reads the free full text of the first papers it finds and answers from their results and figures, not only their abstracts.
Suggestions draw on more of your papers instead of leaning on one.

v0.1.56 · 20 October 2026

A cleaner first sentence

The first sentence of a chapter no longer starts with “However” when the sentence before it was left out.

v0.1.55 · 20 October 2026

Suggestions that do not repeat themselves

A suggested sentence that says again what the sentence before it said is left out.
Sentences that lean on stock phrases such as “fostered” or “plays a critical role” are left out wherever they appear in a suggestion.
The first sentence of a chapter is set in your thesis’s own state or country, not another one.
Chat answers say “found by the search” in plain words.

v0.1.54 · 20 October 2026

Chat looks further when your library is small

When fewer than ten of your papers bear on a question, chat offers to search the literature too, so its answer can draw on more studies and their figures.
Suggestions no longer cite a paper for how your own thesis is organised.

v0.1.53 · 20 October 2026

Fuller chat answers, cleaner suggestions and drafts

Chat answers now draw on up to twice as many papers, give the figures each study reports, say when an effect is small or was not found, and end with how strong the evidence is.
Suggestions no longer describe your own study’s aims, repeat that “more research is needed”, or lean on stock phrases.
Drafted sections are written in proper paragraphs that bring studies together, with their figures.
Papers about the place your thesis names (a state, or a country) are used first.
Citations side by side read as one, “(Kumar, 2021; Rao, 2020)”, and titles such as “Dr.” no longer appear in author names.
The suggestion bar, the evidence card and the “Draft inserted” note no longer sit over your text.
A deep research question past its allowance is answered as a normal question, and a draft that wrote nothing no longer uses up a draft.
The setup questions show their choices as buttons, and a chapter plan that cannot be made says why under the title.

v0.1.52 · 19 October 2026

The Chrome add-on saves to the thesis you are working on

The add-on’s Save card now starts on the thesis you worked in most recently.
A paper that is free to read on PubMed Central is now read in full when you save it, not only its abstract.
Saving from an article page attaches the PDF the page offers, and the card says what really happened to it.
Before you save, the card shows the volume, issue and pages, and how widely the journal is cited.

v0.1.51 · 16 October 2026

Cleaner citations in your Word file, and a draft that asks first

A new thesis always gets its first search for papers, even when this month’s automatic searches are used up; a later search that is refused for the month now says so, with Find papers, and the setup card no longer calls an uncited first sentence cited.
In drafted sections the citation now sits inside the sentence, before the full stop, as it already did in suggestions; a citation always has a space before it; an author name no longer carries a stray full stop ("Mohammed. & Maheswari").
Suggestions and drafts no longer write "The study by Bagla 2026 found…": the sentence reads "One study found…" and keeps its citation.
A paper the chapter already cites three times or more now gives way to your other papers, so one paper no longer fills the chapter.
Draft a section first shows the section and its note, which you can change, and drafts when you press Draft (Ctrl+Enter).
The suggestion bar no longer covers the next heading, and the title box of a new thesis keeps what you type.

v0.1.50 · 11 October 2026

Signing in opens your theses

Signing in opens the list of your theses, with Continue writing at the top for the chapter you had open. The browser’s Back button from a chapter brings you back to the list.
Start another thesis is now above your theses, not below them.

v0.1.48 · 11 October 2026

Grey suggestions that say what the papers found

A suggestion now opens with a concrete finding (a figure, a measured effect, or what was found in a named place), puts the citation inside each sentence, and names a tool by what it does rather than its product name.
A paper whose PDF holds a stray hidden character is now read in full instead of losing its text.

v0.1.47 · 11 October 2026

A faster, more honest first sentence, a free trial with room to try things, and better drafts

A drafted section now opens each paragraph with what the studies found, cites every sentence on its own, names a tool by what it does rather than its product name, and puts the findings in its own order instead of repeating the paper’s list.
Setting up a new thesis takes four steps instead of five: your field and university are now an optional line under the title, guessed from the title for you.
As soon as you name the thesis, the chapters are planned and the first sentence is on its way. The questions about your aim stay open beside it and are still optional: your answers become the aim and objectives.
If no paper in your library is about the place your title names (say, Karnataka), the first sentence is not offered, so you never start with a sentence that cites another country. The card says so and Find papers is one press away.
The free trial now has 10 section commands (Formalise, Simplify, Expand and the rest), 10 questions to your library, 20 citation suggestions and 3 drafted sections, so a first session no longer runs out after two edits.
Proofreading has its own allowance: one run reads up to 2,000 words, 10 runs on the trial and 30 a month on a paid plan. It no longer uses up your section commands.
Paid plans now have 40 section commands a month instead of 4.
The free trial’s allowances are for the whole 14-day trial and do not start again on the 1st. The usage menu, your Account page and the limit message say so, with the date your trial ends.

v0.1.42 · 10 October 2026

Writing that reads more naturally, honest paper search, and an AI use statement

Editor ⋯ → AI use statement writes a first-person statement of how you used Thesis Copilot on this thesis: the features you actually used, how much of the text began as AI text you accepted and how much of that you have since edited, how your sources were added, and the dates. Every number comes from what the product recorded; where the record cannot tell, the statement says so.
Edit it freely, add a per-chapter table, copy it, or insert it as an ordinary last chapter you can change or delete. English and Hindi.
The export dialog can add it as an appendix to the whole thesis (off unless you tick it). Writing the statement uses no allowance.
Suggestions, drafts, chapter builds, edit actions, chat answers and revisions no longer come with dashes ("—") as punctuation: an aside is set off with commas or brackets, a list follows a colon, two clauses meet at a semicolon. Only the punctuation changes; the words, the figures and the citations stay exactly where they were.
Your own dashes are yours: an edit or a tone rewrite of text you wrote with dashes keeps them, and proofreading never suggests one.
Number ranges (2015–2020), hyphenated words, minus signs, quotations, equations, code and tables are left as they are.
Suggestions no longer open a sentence with a padding word such as "Additionally," or "Furthermore,": the sentence starts with what it is about. When you stop mid-sentence, the suggestion still continues your sentence as you began it.
When a paper index is not answering, the search now says so by name and says where the results did come from, instead of showing "nothing found". Automatic sources add only a couple of closely matching papers from such a search and try again later.
The suggestion bar sits under the suggestion instead of over your paragraph; Refine and the evidence card no longer open on top of each other; Escape or Discard closes the edit menu; a suggested citation shows in your citation style from the start and sits before the full stop; the export preview shows every citation; the library header counts agree; and the first undo no longer removes your chapter’s section headings.

v0.1.40 · 9 October 2026

Set up inside the editor, a whole literature review, and only kept suggestions count

A new thesis opens straight in the editor: a short "Set up this thesis" card at the top of the chapter takes the title, your field, a few questions and the chapter plan, and every step can be skipped or finished later.
Paid plans can write the whole literature review chapter in one go, once a month: a section for each theme, delivered as drafts you accept one by one, with the quality report.
Assist suggestions count against your monthly allowance only when you keep them. Dismissing one, or typing past it, costs nothing.
A comment or reply on your thesis now sends an email to the others who can see it, at most one an hour for each thread; turn it off under Account or from the link in any email.

v0.1.37 · 9 October 2026

Sub-headings in your plan, and no paper stuck at "Looking it up"

A planned Literature Review or Methodology now comes with sub-headings where a section names its parts, for example "Policy and institutional barriers" becomes Policy barriers and Institutional barriers.
A paper is added to your library once, even when two searches find it at the same moment; copies left stuck at "Looking it up…" are cleared.
A reference file that lists the same paper twice adds it once.
The calm editor and its chat are in Hindi too.

v0.1.36 · 9 October 2026

A calmer editor, with chat open from the start

The editor is calmer: chat opens beside your chapter, every other tool is one click away on the icon rail, the formatting bar is one row with More, and Usage, History and Help sit under ⋯. Nothing was removed.
Your thesis status is one short line above the page; Show opens the full detail.
Chat puts its scope choices above a taller box, so you see where an answer will come from before you ask.
Papers are read faster: abstracts are indexed ahead of full texts, and a new thesis offers its first cited sentence in about 15 seconds.
Springer Nature papers you add are read in full, not just their abstract.
A new chapter in a thesis about one place no longer drifts to another place in its first suggestion.
The sign-in and sign-up pages no longer jump when a code is sent; the AI edit bar no longer covers the side panel.

v0.1.34 · 9 October 2026

Writing that draws on more of your papers, and research questions anywhere

Suggestions and drafts now read from across your whole library, not the few papers nearest the sentence: a drafted section cites about twice as many different papers.
A new thesis offers its first cited sentence in about 20 seconds, and the planned headings arrive around it.
Ask a research question from your theses page, with no thesis open: answered from the literature, or from all your theses at once, each source labelled with its thesis.
The examiner review now also names the chapter’s strengths and the questions an examiner might ask you in a viva.
"Search the literature" in the AI edit panel: papers on your text are added to your library first, then cited.
Highlight and note passages in the paper reader; your highlights come back when you reopen the paper.
Papers you add from Discover, the Papers tab, chat or a pasted reference go into the collection chosen in "Add into".
Rename and search your chats. Figure and table numbers in every export match their cross-references.
Many fixes: the formatting toolbar stays at the top, menus and dialogs stay on screen on a phone, citation brackets can be clicked and tapped, Chicago notes styles work, and Hindi covers the newest screens.

v0.1.32 · 8 October 2026

Replies, reviews in the text, and more ways to work

Your guide and you can reply to each other under a comment, with a thumbs-up on any reply.
Proofreading, the tone review and the examiner now show their fixes in the text: Y accepts, N rejects, Accept all takes them all (one Undo brings them back). Examiner points are tagged Major or Minor.
Check one paragraph from its ⋮⋮ handle: spelling, tone or an examiner read on that block only.
Citations side by side read as one bracket — (Kumar, 2021; Rao, 2022) — in the editor and every export.
Any number of chats per thesis, a chat on one collection, and "Allow this time / Always allow / Skip" when a question needs the wider literature.
Archive a thesis and restore it later; copies are named "… (copy)"; switch between your theses from the chapter rail, with one New menu.
Text colour, highlight, a live contents block and a horizontal rule; paper light and paper dark themes; a serif or sans-serif font for the thesis text.
One export dialog with presets (thesis, plain, double-spaced, two-column), advanced options and a live preview; the compliance checks still run against your university template.
The gap analysis opens as an editable chapter with every claim cited; Source quality charts the years and venues your chapter cites; Word import says why citations were not linked.
When a monthly allowance is used up, every screen says which one, how many of how many, and the date it resets.
A Keyboard shortcuts window; "How was this?" after a chapter build or viva set; nothing sticks out of its box at any width.

v0.1.31 · 7 October 2026

A quicker setup, and citations from more papers

After the title, two short steps: your sources and citations (style, web search, library search, publish year, indexing and preprints), then how to structure the thesis (Smart headings, Standard thesis chapters, or none).
Indexing: papers found for you can be limited to core international journals, PubMed (MEDLINE), DOAJ, ABDC, ERIH PLUS or SciELO. Scopus, Web of Science and UGC-CARE are coming.
Your planned sections now appear as headings in the chapter, and the first suggestion appears under the first one without you typing.
A new thesis starts with about fifteen papers instead of five, and each section finds more papers when fewer than three cover it.
A suggestion draws on several papers instead of leaning on one, and papers you have already cited make way for others.

v0.1.30 · 7 October 2026

Edits that fit the sentence

An edit on part of a sentence (Formalise, Shorten and the rest) now fits back into the sentence: no stray full stop in the middle and no missing space, and it starts in lower case where your selection did.

v0.1.29 · 6 October 2026

Discover from your title

Discover works for a thesis started with Start writing now: the search starts from your thesis title when there is no proposal, instead of asking you to save one first.

v0.1.28 · 5 October 2026

Claims, tone and attachments

A claims map on the Sources page: what your papers claim, how well each claim is supported, which papers disagree, a direction for your thesis and the limits of the evidence.
Pin sources for one section: with the cursor under a heading, the Sources tab offers “This section”, and suggestions and drafts under that heading draw only on its pins.
Tone of voice, on the Flags tab: the chapter is read against your own writing profile or a paper you choose from your library, and each sentence that clearly differs comes with a rewrite you can accept or dismiss.
Attach a file to a chat question: a picture, a PDF, a Word or text file (up to three). It is read for that question only, cited by its name, and never added to your library.
A suggestion that followed a paper’s wording is asked for again in its own words before you see it as final; the notice says so, and the copy warning stays if it is still close.
Two more edits on a selection: Translate (into the language of your thesis) and As a table (the facts the text compares, as a table with the citations kept).
On the Flags tab, Y resolves and N ignores the focused flag, and Resolve all / Ignore all act on every flag shown.
A claim flagged as unsupported, or not supported by its source, has Find a source, which searches the indexes for that sentence.
With "Search beyond my library" set to On, every library question also searches the literature and the answer combines both.

v0.1.27 · 5 October 2026

Research deeply

Research deeply: a switch under the chat box plans your question in parts, searches your library and the literature for each, and answers at length with a citation on every finding and advice for your section. About a minute; it uses one deep research question (one on the trial, three a month on the student plan).
Suggestions no longer present a paper’s own aims (“the study aims to…”) as if they were your thesis’s aims.
Suggestions draw on several papers instead of leaning on your own draft or one source, and author names print correctly in citations and the reference list.

v0.1.26 · 5 October 2026

A faster first session, the paper reader and the Chrome add-on

Start writing now is the first button on a new thesis: the editor opens at once, papers on your title are searched for straight away, and a progress line shows them arriving. A first cited suggestion comes in well under a minute.
A four-step guide for your first minutes in the editor.
Read a paper inside Thesis Copilot: the PDF opens in a reader where you can search it, select a passage and cite it where your cursor was.
The Chrome add-on (0.2.0): save the paper you are reading on a journal site, arXiv or PubMed, or tick several on a PubMed, arXiv or Google Scholar results page; put them in a collection; attach the PDF; then open the paper in Thesis Copilot.

v0.1.25 · 5 October 2026

Suggestions you can steer, and sharing with roles

Every suggestion has Accept, One word, Refine and Dismiss on screen, so it can be kept on a phone too.
Refine offers ready-made changes (shorter, more formal, closer to your topic, complete the paragraph, a contrasting finding) or your own instruction.
Step back to an earlier suggestion with ‹ › after Refine has replaced it.
Mark a suggestion as useful or not with the thumbs on the suggestion bar.
Read the passage behind a suggested citation before you accept it.
Suggestions read the note of the section your cursor is in, not only the chapter’s.
A "/" menu inserts tables, equations, charts, diagrams, footnotes, an AI declaration and a "citation needed" marker.
Equations come with examples, a live preview and a cheat sheet.
Find papers beside your text, add them to your library and cite them where your cursor is.
Selected-text edits can be replaced, inserted below, tried again or discarded.
Comment on your own text; your comments are listed under Review.
Ask chat about a selected passage, and copy a chat answer.
Every check is named in one list on the Flags tab.
Examiner review: a strict examiner reads a chapter you wrote against the passages it cites and flags sentences.
Choose how citations go into the Word file: plain text, linked to the references, or Word citations.
Your library finds possible duplicates (with Merge) and lists papers without full text so you can add the PDF.
Cited-by, open-access and journal-citedness badges on library papers and citations.
Full text from Europe PMC when a publisher’s PDF cannot be fetched.
Sharing has roles: Guide, Co-author or Reader, changed in place; a read-only link you can turn on and off; and Make a copy of a thesis.
Choose your citation style when you create a thesis; a new thesis arrives with its chapters from the outline.
Returning students land back in the chapter they last wrote.
Move a paragraph, table or figure up or down with Ctrl+Shift+↑ / ↓ (⌘+Shift on a Mac).
A High contrast switch in Settings, which works with light, dark and system themes.
Change an earlier answer in the topic conversation with Edit, while turns remain.
Clearer messages: why Suggest has nothing to offer, and "the server could not be reached" instead of "Failed to fetch".
Import a chapter from a Word file.
Collections in your library, to keep papers for each chapter together.
Import your Zotero library, or one collection, with a read-only key.
Write an equation in words, or from a photo of one, and get it typeset.
Chat can search beyond your library and show papers you can add.
Hindi interface (beta), and citations in the language of your choice.
An email when a long job, such as a chapter build, finishes.
Help pages, this What’s new page, and a demonstration on the home page.

v0.1.24 · 4 October 2026

Citations that hold, and better places to look

Citations and equations in AI-written text now survive edits: a later suggestion no longer changes an earlier citation, and Apply no longer removes citations from the selected text.
Narrative citations print as "Kumar (2021) found…" instead of "(Kumar, 2021) found…".
Discover now includes conference papers, reviews, dissertations and books, and leaves out retracted papers.
Expand from my citations shows what your sources cite, recent work citing them, and related work.
The gap map shows how much is published on each theme, and searches again for thin themes.
Add a chat answer to your chapter with its citations.
Diagrams drawn from the steps and links you type, with no AI involved.
A journals page suggests where you might submit, from your thesis and library.
Paste a paragraph into the originality check to see where it follows a source too closely.
Every thesis download carries a SHA-256 fingerprint.
Suggestions appear when you pause, unless you switch that off in Settings.
Suggestions improved, after a measured comparison on real theses.
Clearer first minutes: a new thesis opens its proposal, and a new chapter puts the cursor in place.

v0.1.23 · 1 October 2026

Build a chapter

Build a chapter: it plans the chapter from your objectives, writes each section from your library, checks it and has an examiner read it. Every section arrives as a draft you accept or discard.
Planning is free; a build is one unit of your monthly allowance. The quality report downloads as PDF or HTML.

v0.1.22 · 30 September 2026

Tested instructions behind the AI

Citation suggestions, the proposal, the outline, literature searches and viva questions now use instructions tested against real theses and kept only where they did better.
A passage is never shown as direct support for a figure it does not give.

v0.1.21 · 30 September 2026

First round of tested instructions

The first set of tested instructions behind suggestions and drafts.
Sentences with "et al." are kept whole.

v0.1.20 · 30 September 2026

Writing that reads better

Suggestions and drafts no longer repeat themselves, add filler or end on a dangling connective.
When nothing in your library covers what you are writing, papers can be found and added for you.
The coherence check warns when a cited finding is about a different material or setting.
A review chapter warns about paragraphs that cite nothing.

v0.1.19 · 29 September 2026

The trial, shown

The days left in your free trial are shown on your theses and account pages.
The 14-day trial applies only to accounts created from this release on.

v0.1.18 · 29 September 2026

The free trial lasts 14 days

The free trial ends 14 days after sign-up. Your theses stay and you can keep writing; the AI features then need a plan.

v0.1.17 · 29 September 2026

Administrators, in the open

An administrator can open your thesis to read it, never to change it. Every time, it is recorded and you are emailed.

v0.1.16 · 29 September 2026

For administrators

A change for administrators only; nothing changed for students.

v0.1.15 · 29 September 2026

One look, and links that open

Every page shares one look.
Downloads, figures and "Open PDF" links now open from anywhere.
Long lists come in pages.

v0.1.14 · 28 September 2026

A warning about your address

If someone tries to sign up with the email address of your account, you are told by email.

v0.1.13 · 28 September 2026

A new logo

A new logo and site icons.

v0.1.12 · 28 September 2026

New home and sign-in pages

A redesigned home page, sign-in and sign-up.

v0.1.11 · 28 September 2026

Google sign-in

Google sign-in no longer needs to be pressed twice.

v0.1.10 · 26 September 2026

Passwords

Your account can have a password: add one under Account, choose one at sign-up, or set one from "Forgot password". Signing in with an emailed code still works.