This week, we're introducing a new agent behind chat, more control over how you read your sources, and 31 additional languages on iPhone and iPad.

A new agent behind chat

We've rebuilt the agent behind chat to coordinate research across multiple topics and sources. It can work on several parts of your request at once, with each task pursuing a different question or set of sources. One task might explore an explanation while another looks for evidence that challenges it.

Anara brings the findings together in the same chat, so you can explore several lines of inquiry without managing separate conversations.

You no longer have to wait for Anara to finish its response before you reply. Send another message to add a detail you forgot, narrow the question, or ask it to take a different approach. Anara picks up your message and adjusts its work without starting over.

More PDF reader improvements

Following last week's PDF reader update, you can now keep a PDF's original colors while using Anara in dark mode, so charts and figures look as their authors intended. Open the three-dot menu in the PDF viewer and choose Keep original colors. Anara remembers your choice for that PDF in your browser.

Search now loads the remaining matches as you scroll through the results, and comments stay in place when you return to a highlight. Large spreadsheets are easier to work with too: you can edit cells and manage sheets in workbooks where those controls were previously unavailable.

iOS in 31 more languages

Anara for iPhone and iPad now supports 31 additional languages. Choose yours in Settings → Preferences → Language.

You can also return to recent chats and saved PDFs when you're offline, with search across saved chat and document names. New answers still need an internet connection. When you're back in a conversation, swipe to quote a passage in your next message, or dictate a question and review it before sending.

Anara now has an iPhone and iPad companion for research on the go. This update also brings Anara into Microsoft Word and a rebuilt PDF reader to the web and desktop apps, alongside improvements to spreadsheets, presentations, and connectors.

Anara for iPhone and iPad

Take your research with you. Our new iOS app is a companion to Anara on the web, built for the moments when you're away from your computer.

Sign in to access your existing library, read a paper, and ask questions about it. Follow an answer's citations back to the passages behind it, and highlight the parts you want to revisit. Downloaded PDFs are available for offline reading. You can also save papers and links from other apps through the share menu, or scan printed pages into your library with your camera.

Download Anara for iPhone and iPad, or visit our new downloads page for all Anara apps. Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later.

Anara for Microsoft Word

You can now use Anara alongside the document you're writing in Word. The new add-in opens in a side panel, where you can ask questions about your document, rewrite a selection, draft a new section, and search your library and academic literature without leaving Word.

The Cite tab lets you insert references from your library in your preferred citation style, including APA, MLA, Chicago, and Vancouver. Your bibliography updates when you change styles, and citations to your open document take you back to the relevant paragraph.

The add-in works in Word on Windows, Mac, and the web. Follow the installation guide to get started.

A better PDF reader

We've rebuilt the PDF reader in the web and desktop apps to make moving through papers feel smoother. Search, document outlines, and annotations have redesigned sidebars, with more room to read as you open and close them.

Zoom into a figure, find a passage, or return to your highlights and comments without losing your place. The new reader also opens papers you discover through academic search, so you can inspect a source before adding it to your library.

This update changes how usage works in Anara. Every plan now includes one usage meter, with credits to keep you going on heavy weeks and a new choice of two Max sizes. On Free and Plus, the daily AI word and upload counts are gone. Pro now includes every model, including GPT 5.6 Sol, Opus 5, and Fable 5, previously only on Max. Prices haven't changed, and for most people day-to-day work won't feel any different.

How usage works now

Every plan comes with a set amount of AI usage, included at no extra cost. Chat messages, text generations in the note editor, View extractions, and file uploads count toward it, and more powerful models use it up faster. A single meter in the sidebar shows the percentage used and exactly when more frees up, in your timezone. The Free plan refreshes daily. Paid plans refresh weekly on a rolling basis, so one heavy day won't stop your week. Reading, annotating, organizing, and revisiting past answers never count. Read more in Understanding usage limits.

Credits, for when you need more

Paid plans can now add credits instead of waiting for a reset or upgrading. Your included usage is always used first; credits only kick in after it runs out. Workspace owners and admins can add them in a few clicks (members can request them), and an optional auto-refill keeps long projects moving. Credits roll over from month to month and expire 12 months after purchase. See Adding credits to your workspace.

Max now comes in two sizes

Max 5x includes 5 times Pro's usage, and Max 20x includes 20 times, with the same features: every model, Deep Search, and early access to new releases. If you subscribed to Max before the split, you keep your current price and get the full Max 20x limit, with nothing to do on your end. See Choosing between Max 5x and Max 20x.

If you're wondering where the old counters went, What changed with usage limits walks through it, and What happens when you reach your usage limit covers the moment itself: running work always finishes, your message stays in the composer, and everything you've made stays exactly where it is.

We're thrilled to introduce Anara's new look. In this update we're also releasing Views, Anara for Desktop, and seven new models on Pro.

Our new branding

Everything Anara tells you can be traced back to an exact passage in a real source. Citations are the core of the product, so we wanted the brand to carry them too. The asterisk already does this job in print. It sits beside a sentence and points you to the note that supports it, a small mark that stands for proof. That's the idea behind our new logo, a pair of asterisks.

Introducing Views, a new way to extract data from documents

Views is the fastest way to extract specific information from a large set of documents at once. Open a folder, click View, then Create View, and describe what you want to know: sample size, methodology, key findings, anything you would otherwise dig out file by file.

Anara turns your questions into a table with one row per document and one column per question, then fills in every answer with a citation so you can verify it at the source. You can also ask the Anara agent to build or edit one for you. For a full walkthrough, check the guide on extracting data from a folder in our help center.

Anara for Desktop

Anara is now available as a desktop app for Mac. It sits in your Dock, one click away, and keeps your research separate from the clutter of browser tabs. Running on your Mac also lets Anara go further than a browser can. Soon it will be able to work with the files already on your device, not just the ones you upload. Download it at anara.com/download.

More models on Pro

GPT 5.6 Luna, Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiniMax M3, and GLM 5.2 have joined the model picker for Pro accounts on US-based servers. Each model supports longer conversations and larger folders than the previous Pro models.

They have different strengths and speeds, so it's worth trying a few. For help picking the right model, check the guide on choosing models in our help center.

Today spreadsheets come to Anara and the notes editor gets a big update, alongside more than 10,000 additional citation styles and the newest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI in chat.

Sheets

Science runs on data as much as it runs on papers, and we are working on making Anara just as good with the numbers as it is with the literature. Sheets is the first step. Upload an Excel or CSV file and you'll be able to edit cells, write formulas, work across multiple sheets, and export back to Excel or CSV with formulas intact. We also rebuilt how chat understands this kind of data. The agent reads a spreadsheet the way you do, as rows, columns, and formulas, so it can answer questions about even very large files, make edits for you, and cite the exact cells every answer came from.

A better writing experience

We rebuilt how you write in notes. Formatting now lives in a compact menu that appears when you select text, so the toolbar stays out of your way until you need it. Your citations have moved into the note sidebar, where you can see and search every source in one place as you write. And version history has been redesigned, so versions are grouped by when you made them and you can preview an earlier one before deciding to restore it.

10,000 citation styles

Citations in Anara used to come in 12 styles. They now come in more than 10,000, from APA, MLA, Chicago, and Vancouver to the house styles of individual journals. Search for the one your journal or institution uses, set it once, and every citation follows it, in chat and in your notes.

If your format is not in the catalog, create your own. Paste an example reference formatted the way you want and Anara generates the style for you. Refine it in plain language, for example asking for initials instead of full first names, then save it for your whole workspace. If you already have a CSL style file, you can upload that directly.

New models

The latest generation of models is available in chat. GPT 5.6 replaces GPT 5.5, Sonnet 5 replaces Sonnet 4.6, and Grok 4.5 replaces Grok 4.3. If you were using one of the previous versions, you have been moved to the new one automatically.

We have also added Fable 5 on the Max plan, Anthropic's most capable model for the hardest tasks. Fable restricts a lot of life sciences work that the other models allow, so for research in that area we recommend GPT 5.6 Sol.