What's shipped, what's next.

New

• Transcribe any voice note. A Transcribe button under every Basecamp voice note: a few seconds later the transcript is posted as a comment on the thread, with a one-line summary and action items on longer notes. Works on teammates' notes and months-old notes alike, in any language.
• The transcript comment is the transcript. Everyone reads the same comment, with or without Assistant, on any device, and Basecamp's own search can find what was said. Each note is transcribed once for the whole workspace; after that the Transcribe button disappears. Campfires and Pings have no comments, so those transcripts show inside Assistant's player.
• A player built for catching up: waveform scrubbing, 1×/1.5×/2× speed that's remembered, resume from where you stopped, an unheard dot on unfinished notes, and auto-advance to the next note in the thread.
• Editable transcripts. On threads the transcript is your comment, editable like any other; Campfire and Ping transcripts have an Edit action in the player, and the summary regenerates from the corrected text.
• Every workspace includes 6,000 transcription minutes per month, tracked in Assistant → Usage. Voice note audio is never stored on our servers. It's read only for the seconds transcription takes; we keep the transcript text, summary, and action items.
• Custom fields on Basecamp's own cards and rows. Every enabled field that has a value now shows up in place, so Priority, Status, Category and the rest are readable without opening anything.
• "Show on item types" per project. The account setting stays the default; a project overrides it only where you say so.
• Admins can gate who adds new field options, admins-only by default, so a shared Status list stays tidy.
• A "No list" Kanban column for todos that aren't in any to-do list, and duplicating a card table can now copy it into another project.

Improved

• Grouping the Kanban by a field now builds real columns instead of stacked swimlanes: one column per option in your admin order, stale values after them, "No {field}" last. Drag a card across and the drop sets that field's value. The item's real list or table membership is untouched.

Changed

• The tag/status preview overlay is gone. Values live on the cards and rows themselves now, so there's nothing extra to hover.

Fixed

• Collapsed Kanban columns accept drops instead of rejecting them.
• The perma toolbar stays visible inside the Kanban detail panel, and Basecamp's top bar and Pings sidebar no longer show through it.
• The first fetch after a cache invalidation bypasses the browser's HTTP cache, closing a hole where stale data could survive revalidation.

New

• Grid view options. A ⚙ next to the List | Grid toggle: show or hide author names, dates, doc & folder icons, and color labels on grid cards, and pick cards per row (Auto or 2–6) and how many folder rows show before scrolling. Cards grow or compact to match. Per user, synced across your devices.
• Color labels in the grid. Every card carries Basecamp's color dot; click it to set an item's color without leaving the grid. The change saves to Basecamp itself, so the list view and your teammates see the same color.
• Drag items out of folders. Drop a row from a folder card onto open grid space and it moves back to the top level. While you drag, live hints show exactly what a drop will do: folders light up with "Move into this folder", open space says "Drop to move out of the folder".
• Show or hide URLs on external link dock cards (Assistant → Options, on by default).
• A one-time review ask. After a couple of weeks of real use, Assistant may ask once for a Chrome Web Store review. "No thanks" is permanent, and it never shows more than three times total.

Fixed

• Moving items in the grid no longer flashes and rebuilds the view. Drag-and-drop is now a smooth in-place update.
• "Show on item types" now truly applies on messages and files: fields unchecked for Messages or Documents no longer appear there.
• The Show-on-item-types settings popover is never cut off on the bottom field rows, and its gear now toggles it closed properly.
• Short custom field names like "Recommender 1" stay on one line in detail views instead of wrapping awkwardly.

Changed

• Grid field pills follow field visibility: only fields set to show on Documents render pills on Docs & Files grid cards.
• Anonymous funnel events now carry the extension version, so we can see how updates roll out.

New

• Move completed subtasks to the bottom (Assistant → Options, off by default): checked-off subtasks float below the ones still to do on cards and to-dos, so what's left is visible at a glance.
• On/off switches in Assistant → Options for unread highlighting and for showing external links as dock cards, so you can tailor which features run. Both default on.

Changed

• Trial and billing status now shows only to Basecamp admins. Members, including clients invited into an account, no longer see trial countdowns or billing badges. If a workspace's subscription lapses, members see a short "ask your Basecamp admin" note instead.

New

• Grid view for Docs & Files. A List | Grid toggle on every Docs & Files page: folder cards that peek inside, image thumbnails, comment counts, your custom-field pills on every card, drag-and-drop reordering that saves back to Basecamp, and cards tinted with each item's Basecamp color.
• External links become real dock cards. A project's external links move from the small flat strip into the tool grid as full-size dock cards, with per-user placement.
• Group the Kanban by any select-type custom field: Priority, Category, Version, and the built-in Tags and Status. Lanes follow the field's option order and colors, and your grouping choice now persists per project.
• Per-project custom fields. Admins choose which fields each project uses from Basecamp's project Rename & settings page: turn custom fields off for a project entirely, or uncheck individual fields. Values are kept and come back on re-enable, and fields you create later stay visible everywhere by default.
• Open external links in a new tab (Assistant → Options). Links that leave Basecamp, in messages, comments, docs, and subtasks, open in a new tab; Basecamp's own navigation is untouched.
• Multi-line subtask titles display their line breaks instead of collapsing onto one line, with URLs still clickable.

Fixed

• Opening Kanban from the home page could load forever; it now opens your most recently updated project.
• The Kanban button opens the exact to-do set or card table you're viewing instead of a previously remembered one.
• The board's auto-refresh no longer strips tag, status, and field chips while fresh data loads.
• Signing out no longer retries a failed auth check in a loop.
• The duplicate-table toast's Resume button actually resumes now, and copies interrupted by closing the tab pick up where they left off.
• The "Duplicate this table" menu icon no longer overlaps its label.

Changed

• Requires Chrome 103 or newer. Requests to Basecamp now time out after 30 seconds instead of hanging silently.

New

• Set how wide the horizontal divider renders in posts, comments, and chats, from Assistant → Options.
• A new Account screen in the popup lets you manage your plan and open the Stripe billing portal without leaving the extension.

Improved

• The extension and your getassistant.io dashboard now share one login, so signing into either gets you into both.
• Kanban opens your most recently updated project automatically instead of dropping you on an empty picker.
• First-run setup now has a welcome checklist you can reopen, clearer in-page prompts, and a one-time tip pointing at the Kanban nav.

Changed

• The "Features" tab is now "Options".

Basecamp 5 support

• Updated the extension for Basecamp's 2026 redesign: navigation, field, and Kanban injection, unread highlighting, and same-origin API calls all work on the new app.basecamp.com.

Pricing

• Moved to one flat price: $29/month or $290/year for unlimited seats. One admin connects and pays, and everyone in that Basecamp account gets access automatically. No per-seat charges, seat assignments, or access requests.

New

• Open in Kanban button on card tables and to-do sets. Jump straight into the Kanban view for that board.
• Click a collapsed Kanban column's title to expand it.

Removed (now native in Basecamp 5)

• Voice notes: Basecamp 5 records voice messages natively.
• Activity sidebar: Basecamp 5 ships a built-in recent-activity feed.
• "Post this message" primary toggle: Basecamp 5 already makes Post the primary action.

New features

• New Features tab inside the Assistant overlay: per-user toggles to enable or disable features.
• Option to make "Post this message" the primary action, with drafting as secondary.
• A copy icon to quickly copy the URL of the open Basecamp page, in the website and the PWA app (cmd+shift+L also works).
• Extension UI now only renders on Basecamp accounts connected to Assistant. No more empty tabs on unrelated accounts.
• Role- and seat-aware gating: members without a seat see a clear "Request access" prompt on the Kanban page instead of a broken experience.
• Basecamp admins on unconnected accounts get a "Connect Assistant" prompt for one-click onboarding from inside Basecamp.
• Settings tabs (Custom Fields, Automations, Integrations) are now admin-only.
• Removed legacy inline Kanban code and two unused feature panels.

Auth & API

• Unified /auth/me endpoint returns identity, accounts, and preferences in a single round trip; retired the separate /auth/accounts call from the extension.
• Cancelling Basecamp's OAuth consent screen now bounces you back to the web app with a friendly message instead of stranding you on a raw API error.

• ETag caching on all GET endpoints for faster re-renders.
• SWR data layer on the web app.
• Custom fields and automations fully wired end-to-end.
• Settings tab UI redesign.

Major release

• Kanban board view (#kanban hash route).
• Custom fields with text, number, dropdown, multi-select, and date types.
• Automations: trigger-based rules to auto-tag, auto-assign, and auto-status.
• Voice notes with auto-transcription.
• Unread highlight across to-dos, cards, and messages.
• Cross-project activity dashboard.

• Tags on any to-do, card, or message.
• Custom statuses with workflow states.
• Chrome extension bootstrap.
• Basecamp OAuth connection flow.
• Per-seat billing via Stripe.