What's New

v1.9.8 Sep 17, 2026

Home personas, lid-close reconnect & clearer host errors

• Added Sync personas when Home chat sync is on — pick which personas copy between phone and Mac, including photos and memories
• Added Full-width replies in Appearance — your messages stay in a bubble, assistant text uses the whole row
• Added Compress image and resend when LM Studio stops because an attached photo is huge
• Fixes Share with phone dropping after you close the laptop lid and not reconnecting until you refresh
• Fixes Home sync replacing an existing chat title, and leftover image-prompt text showing in titles
• Fixes LM Studio / llama.cpp stopping mid-reply looking like a Mini crash — now says the model server stopped, and points at context / max tokens
• Fixes a sent chat that never reached LM Studio (proxy or tunnel) looking like a Mini bug
• Fixes Kokoro English voice generating silence

Download LM Mini Home 1.9.8

v1.9.0 Sep 8, 2026

App Lock, JAN AI & Persona Voices

• Added App Lock (Pro) — set a 4 or 6 digit PIN and choose how long Home can stay closed before asking again
• Added JAN AI as a local provider
• Added Ability to assign Kokoro, ElevenLabs or Grok voices to Personas from one dropdown
• Improved composer tools bar — icons when collapsed, chips when expanded
• Improved Persona setup — tap Preferred Model to change it, edit avatar from the pencil
• Fixes tools being sent to models that don't support them
• Fixes Ollama regenerate going to the wrong backend
• Fixes App Lock toggle not updating after setting a PIN
• Fixes Pro tags showing for users who already have Pro
• Fixes mixed icon styles in Settings

Download LM Mini Home 1.9.0

v1.8.20 Aug 20, 2026

• Connect from iPhone — pair LM Mini with LM Mini Home over Share with phone.
• Real-time sync — chats stay in sync between LM Mini on iOS and macOS.

v1.8.16 Aug 12, 2026

• Share with phone — QR pair once. Encrypted relay to your Mac — no port forwarding or VPN.
• Run models on this Mac — bundled local inference, no Terminal or Homebrew.
• Share LM Studio & Ollama — phones can use backends already running on the Mac.
• Desktop shell — nav rail for Chats, Personas, Arena, and Settings.
• Menu bar — keep Share with phone available while you work in other apps.

Download LM Mini Home — primary Mac app.

v1.5.2 Aug 30, 2026

• Language packs — Download only the voices you need, matching LM Mini: English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Chinese.
• Shared Kokoro pack — English, Spanish, French, and Chinese share one multilingual model (~400 MB). The first of those you download unlocks the rest.
• German and Russian — Kokoro has no DE/RU model; Connect uses small Piper voices (~34 MB each).
• Chinese (and other scripts) work — Connect no longer defaulted to the English-only engine or dropped CJK lexicons, so Chinese speech synthesizes correctly.

v1.5.1 Aug 24, 2026

• Kokoro extract on Windows — Download no longer shells out to system tar (that hung on Windows 10). Archives unpack in-process, with a timed fallback.
• Use folder / Use file — Point Connect at a Kokoro folder you already extracted (7-Zip is fine), or pick the .tar.bz2 yourself. Unlink leaves your files in place.

v1.5.0 Jul 13, 2026

• Multi-backend remote — Route LM Studio, Ollama, or oMLX through the relay (QR v5 + X-LM-Mini-Backend).
• Version prompts — Pairing warns when Connect or the mobile app needs an upgrade for multi-backend remote.
• Provider-aware help — Connection troubleshooting matches the active desktop backend.

v1.4.1 May 8, 2026

• ComfyUI Streaming Fixes — Resolved an issue causing failures in image generation over remote connections due to proxy timeouts and binary string corruption.
• Stable Deployments — Simplified desktop deployment pipeline removing blocking validation verifications for cross-platform builds.

v1.4.0 April 26, 2026

• USB Mode (beta) — Plug your iPhone into your Mac with a USB cable and run LM Studio without Wi-Fi. Perfect for in-flight use, hotels with locked-down networks, or any time you don't want to share Wi-Fi.
• Free feature — USB Mode is available to everyone on iOS, no subscription required.
• Auto-detect — LM Mini Connect listens for your iPhone over USB and proxies LM Studio requests through the cable. No IP setup needed.
• Tray indicator — Menu bar icon flips to a connected variant and shows “iPhone connected via USB” while a phone is attached.

v1.3.0 April 24, 2026

• New tunnel relay — Connects to relay.lmmini.com (Cloudflare Tunnel + Mac Mini) for faster, more reliable remote access.
• Dual-relay during transition — Also stays connected to the legacy Cloud Run relay until May 1, 2026, so phones running older versions of LM Mini still pair successfully.
• Deprecation banners — Surfaces shutdown warnings from the relay so you know when it's time to update.
• Tougher version check — Reads connect-version.json and uses semver comparison instead of exact-string match.

v1.2.0 April 12, 2026

• Desktop Kokoro TTS — LM Mini Connect can now run Kokoro text-to-speech locally on your computer and expose it to LM Mini on your phone.
• Model Downloads in Connect — Download, cancel, remove, and test Kokoro models directly from the desktop app UI.
• Relay Audio Support — Binary relay forwarding now handles audio correctly, enabling remote Kokoro playback through the relay.
• Improved Desktop UI — Larger window, clearer Kokoro service status, and better error reporting for downloads and synthesis.