Chunk AI 2.0 is Here

Today I released Chunk version 2.0, just a little over a year since I launched Chunk in February, 2024. It’s been a harrowing journey becoming a full time independent developer and business owner to say the least. However every release gives me a rush of adrenaline thinking about how I can empower even more users to do more amazing things with a tool I created in my living room.

With that said, let’s get to the fun stuff! What’s new in Chunk AI?

Chat Improvements

Over the past couple of months i’ve been working hard on improving not only the utility of Chunk but also I wanted to level up on the look and feel of all of the apps. That started with fixing the text selection Chunk has had since the beginning. I won’t bore you with the nerdy details but lets say it was a bit of a technical challenge to both have all of the fancy formatting Chunk does in Chat and still support Apple’s native text selection. However as someone that uses Chunk everyday, I felt the pain of having to copy the entire text block and not just the specific text I need. After figuring out a solution to that nightmare, it opened up a huge lane of possibilities to provide a much richer experience when interacting with Chunk. So here’s just the start!

Charts!

Multi-line graph

I’m happy to announce native Chart/Graph support in Chunk on all platforms! By taking full advantage of the fact that Chunk is exclusive to Apple’s ecosystem, I’m able to use the powerful Swift Charts framework that allows Chunk to dynamically create beautiful charts on the fly. We’re not talking about just basic bar and line charts either. Chunk can dynamically create up to 8 different graphs and charts and will intelligently decide which to provide based on the context. Or you can just ask Chunk directly to convert your data into a chart. I hope charts will be particularly useful to all of the researchers, students and other professionals using Chunk to assistant with their work.

Charts supported in Chunk:

Bar, Line, Mulit-Line, Area, Grouped, Stacked, Pie, & Scatter

Next week, I’ll be adding the ability to share or save charts as images with a press of a button (as you can see, I already have that working now in my test builds). I can’t wait to see/hear how charts are working for everyone!

Tables

Another improvement to Chat is the improved look of Tables. Tables are great for listing and organizing lots of data. Now it’s easier to view tables, they’re more dynamic and honestly, they’re just prettier to look at. Just ask Chunk to put any data either shared, searched or from an answer and Chunk will quickly organize your information into a sweet list. Please let me know if there are other features you’d like to see added regarding tables and charts going forward.

Coding

Last and certainly not least (especially for me) is improved Code block support, along with Syntax Highlighting. Current LLM’s most popular use case is probably writing and debugging code. So it was important to enrich this experience and make not only reading the code a much better experience but I wanted it to look nice as well, on all platforms. Again there is still more to be done here as well. I’ll be adding a copy button to code blocks as well in the next update.

UI Consistency

The final part of this update, which many may not notice, but it means a lot to me, is design consistency. Who knew, building, maintaining and designing for 4 distinct platforms would be this much work for one engineer/aspiring designer. So it’s been a hell of a design journey for those of you who’ve been around since the early days (last spring) lol. I’m finally to the point where I can legitimately consider Chunk to have a design language. That doesn’t mean there still isn’t a lot of work to do, but I’m much happier where we are now. I still have a lot more work to do, (looking at you Settings tab on the Mac app) especially with the rumors that iOS 19 and macOS 16 will have a full design updates this fall. 😅

There’s a lot of exciting things coming down the road not just for Chunk, but the entire A.I. landscape. Every month theirs a new announcement or new model. I’m proud that we offer an economically viable way for everyday people to be able to use ALL of the top models (for one low price) in a single app. We’ll continue to create useful features that enhance and work with the already very powerful A.I. models and our custom RAG search technology for storing your documents. If you’re already a user of Chunk, thank you. If you’re new and trying to see what we’re all about, welcome!

Chunk is still the cheapest and most powerful way to interact with all of the latest premium AI Models to help you with your work, hobbies and just everyday search. Download Chunk now!

Chunk was mentioned in a blog post in the Netherlands comparing us to Perplexity!