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Engineering notes, creator economics, and product announcements from the team building ToRun.
Product
20 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
A Report Button on Everything
If a product can generate images, video, music, speech and text, it has to be possible to report any of them. Not most of them. Any. We had the button on some surfaces. That is a different thing, and the difference is ea…
Perspective
18 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
When Saying Is Not Doing
Someone spent nine turns trying to identify a medication from a description. Three times the assistant really did search. Six times it said it was searching and did nothing. Intermittent, which is the worst kind: it does…
Engineering
16 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
What Auto Is Actually Choosing
A fresh "hello" came back badged with a model that has no function calling at all. Nothing looked broken — it answers well enough — but that turn, and every turn behind it, ran with no web search, no picture or video gen…
Billing
14 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Pay for What Was Delivered
Someone asked our birthday-video workflow for a card for a seven-year-old. The picture step tripped the provider's content rules over the age; the lyrics and the song were made anyway. The run half worked, and the bill w…
Engineering
14 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
When a Model Has a Bad Minute
Every AI provider has bad minutes. A model gets overloaded, a region hiccups, an endpoint answers with an error for ninety seconds. There is nothing unusual about that. What matters is what the app does during those nine…
Announcement
13 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
ToRun 2.5 Is on Your Phone
Version 2.5 went to both stores this week. It is a release about the things you do between the interesting moments: locking the app, pasting text, finding what you made yesterday, and trusting an alarm to ring. A lock of…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
An Assistant That Remembers For You
An assistant that only answers questions is a search box with manners. The useful part is when it holds something for you and gives it back at the right moment. Reminders that actually ring Ask for a reminder in plain la…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Say It, Don't Type It
Ask someone to describe the image they want and they will talk for a paragraph. Ask them to type it on a phone and you get six words. That gap shows up directly in the results. A microphone on every prompt The image, vid…
Product
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Talking to ToRun Got a Lot Better
Voice was the part of ToRun with the widest gap between what it could do and how it felt to use. This release closes most of it. The screen keeps up with the conversation While you are talking, the home screen stops bein…