LuciQA 1.0.0 is the first stable release. It contains everything from the 0.1 pre-releases, which were tested on macOS, Windows and Linux: installing the packages, activating and deactivating a Pro license, and updating from one version to the next.
What 1.0 means:
The Pro license you buy is the LuciQA 1.x license. It covers 1.0 and every 1.x update, on up to three devices, with no subscription.
Installed 0.1 versions offer 1.0.0 in Settings → Updates, and a Pro key keeps working after the update.
Nothing changed in the app since 0.1.6 apart from the version number.
Packages are the same as before: macOS Apple Silicon (signed and notarized), Windows x64 (not code-signed) and Linux x64 AppImage and tar.gz. Checksums are on the download page and in SHA256SUMS next to the packages.
0.1.6 · Buying Pro from the app goes through luciqa.com
Notas de versión en inglés
LuciQA 0.1.6 is still a pre-release. The stable release will be 1.0.0.
What changed since 0.1.5:
Buy Pro in the app now opens luciqa.com/buy/, which forwards straight to the same Lemon Squeezy checkout. If you came to LuciQA through an affiliate link, the purchase is credited to that affiliate. The price and checkout are unchanged.
Settings call the provider mode “If needed”, as the control does.
Packages are the same as before: macOS Apple Silicon (signed and notarized), Windows x64 (not code-signed) and Linux x64 AppImage and tar.gz. Checksums are on the download page and in SHA256SUMS next to the packages.
LuciQA 0.1.5 is still a pre-release. The stable release will be 1.0.0.
What changed since 0.1.4:
Model lists stay current on their own. The app downloads its list of provider models from downloads.luciqa.com, so a new or renamed model appears in Settings without installing an update. If the list cannot be downloaded, the one built into the app is used.
Current models: GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra for OpenAI; Claude Haiku 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1; Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.1 Pro (preview); GPT-OSS 20B on Groq; Mistral Medium and Small. A model you had selected that is no longer offered moves to its replacement.
OpenAI models now have a thinking level in Settings, like the other providers.
macOS: downloading an update no longer slows down while LuciQA is in the background.
Packages are the same as before: macOS Apple Silicon (signed and notarized), Windows x64 (not code-signed) and Linux x64 AppImage and tar.gz. Checksums are on the download page and in SHA256SUMS next to the packages.
LuciQA 0.1.4 is still a pre-release. It collects the changes made since 0.1.0 while installing, licensing and updating were tried on real systems. The stable release will be 1.0.0.
What changed since 0.1.0:
Updates: Settings → Updates shows the download progress on one line and, where an installation has to be updated by hand, the address to download from.
macOS: the Dock icon and the Cmd+Tab entry appear while Settings, About, Multi or the image viewer is open. The screen-recording guidance no longer holds up startup.
Linux: the app registers its desktop entry and icon, and the menu bar is hidden. The install guide explains how to update an installation owned by root.
The app’s internal name changed to com.luciqa.app in 0.1.1. A 0.1.0 installation does not update itself: install the current package once, and later versions update from inside the app.
Packages are the same as before: macOS Apple Silicon (signed and notarized), Windows x64 (not code-signed) and Linux x64 AppImage and tar.gz. Checksums are on the download page and in SHA256SUMS next to the packages.
LuciQA 0.1.0 is the first public package. It is a pre-release: installing the published packages, the live license flow and updating from one version to the next are still being verified on real systems. The stable release will be 1.0.0.
What is in it:
Ask about one selected region of the screen. OCR runs on your device and sends the recognized text; Image mode sends the selected image instead, for charts, formulas and diagrams.
Multi (Pro): up to 12 questions from one page, with boxes and OCR text you can edit before anything is sent.
Your own API keys for Groq, Gemini, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI, Cerebras, Mistral, OpenAI and Claude. Requests go directly to the provider.
Several providers at once (Pro), each answer shown separately, and “If needed” providers that are asked only when the other answers differ, a request fails or returns nothing, or the reported confidence is below your threshold.
Reference document and a custom system instruction (Pro).
Nine interface languages, and on-device OCR in the same nine languages.
Optional updates: the app checks after startup, and you choose whether to download and install.
Packages:
macOS: Apple Silicon (arm64) only. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Windows: x64. The installer is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen shows an unknown-publisher warning on first run.
Linux: x64 AppImage and tar.gz, not signed.
Checksums are on the download page and in SHA256SUMS next to the packages.
