Fikira 26.10.17: current stable release

26.10.17 October 31, 2026

• A lesson for every week. Learn this week opens a short lesson: the goal, the idea, a worked example, a common mistake, a step to try, then quick questions. Every answer gets feedback that explains it.
• Lessons written from the teacher's syllabus. When a teacher confirms the course map, Fikira writes a lesson for each week and checks it before students see it. The arithmetic is worked out again, every answer is tested, and each question is solved a second time from the lesson. The teacher sees each week's lesson and can have it written again.
• What to do next. A wrong answer brings a new question on the same idea, and two misses in a row lead back to the worked example. Finishing a lesson and showing you can do it on your own are shown separately. Questions come back for review a day later, then after 3, 7 and 21 days. Next for you on the home screen shows the week to work on.
• Lessons in the built-in classes. The statistics and stochastic processes classes now show their written lessons.
• WhatsApp and Ask Fikira follow the lesson. WhatsApp sends the week's lesson and practises its questions. Ask Fikira explains with the week's lesson.
• For teachers. The class view shows whether students come back, finish lessons and try again after a miss.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.16.

26.10.16 October 31, 2026 superseded

• One class, the same everywhere. The Learners tab shows the same students, answers and numbers as the Fikira account page, from every computer and from WhatsApp.
• Sign in once. Confirm your email once on a computer and you stay signed in there for 90 days. If a laptop is lost, choose Sign out on every computer.
• The whole picture in Teacher Studio. Fikira masters now open the overview of every registered user and class from Teacher Studio too.
• Answers checked before students see them. For a question whose answer is a number, Fikira works out the arithmetic again and compares it with the marked answer. It also checks that no two choices are the same. A question that fails waits for the teacher, who sees it in the assessment check and picks the right answer.
• Choices in a new order. Quizzes and practice tests show the choices in a new order each time, so the right answer is not always in the same place.
• A calculator in Ask Fikira. Fikira works out every arithmetic step in its answers again, corrects a wrong result and says so.
• Corrected questions. The statistics and stochastic processes classes built into Fikira now have the corrected questions and answers.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.15.

26.10.15 October 30, 2026 superseded

• Your classes connect when you open Fikira. Classes you joined earlier and the quiz and practice test scores saved on your computer reach your teacher the next time you open Fikira.
• The class list, for teachers. Paste your class list, names and emails, and see who has connected to Fikira and who has not yet. For each student you also see their computer, its memory, the AI model and the Fikira version, and their weekly scores.
• WhatsApp and email, one learner. On WhatsApp, send your email address, then the code Fikira emails you. Your teacher then sees your WhatsApp work and your desktop work together.
• The whole picture, for Fikira masters. The master view opens on every registered user and every class, the same as on the Fikira account page.
• Lighter on 8 GB computers. Fikira frees the AI model's memory a minute after each answer, so a PDF or a browser can stay open beside it.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.14.

26.10.14 October 29, 2026 superseded

• Your teacher sees your progress. When you join a class, your answers to quizzes and practice tests reach your teacher, with the learning outcome each question tests. Your teacher sees which outcomes you have secured and where a short talk would help. Answers given offline are sent when you are back online.
• How sure are you? After you choose an answer, tap Not sure, Fairly sure or Sure. The tap checks your answer. It helps you and your teacher tell a lucky guess from an idea you have really learned.
• A check at the start and the end. When you join a class, a short check of a few minutes shows where you are starting. It is not graded. The same questions come back at the end of the course, so you can see how much you learned.
• Every student in the Learners tab. Teachers now see every student in the class, on any computer and on WhatsApp, by learning outcome: who has secured an outcome, who fixed a mistake but did not keep it, the wrong answer a student keeps choosing, and who needs them this week, with a suggested next step. Confirm your email in Course Code, Class control to see it. The full view and downloads are on the Fikira account page.
• Your email, once. If your Fikira profile has no email, Fikira asks for it once. Your teacher sees your progress by your email, and Fikira uses it to tell you about updates.
• Clear privacy notes. Sign-up and Help now say what goes to your teacher: your answers to a class's quizzes, practice tests and checks, with your name and email. Your chats and saved work stay on your computer.
• Notices from Fikira. Important news, such as a new version, can appear as a short notice in the app.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.12.

26.10.12 October 28, 2026 superseded

• Sign-up codes that work. The verification code from your email is now accepted even when the computer's clock or time zone is set wrong, and if a code is refused, Fikira says why: it expired, it was not the newest one, or there were too many tries. Each code works for 30 minutes, and asking for a new code no longer cancels the one already in your inbox.
• Scores students can act on. After every quiz and practice test, students see their score and what it means for their level: school students see Proficient, Excellent or Mastered; university students see whether they are ready for the week (80% or more); adults in professional courses see the pass mark. These are practice scores, not course grades.
• Retest what you missed. One button asks again only the questions a student got wrong, with the choices in a new order, and updates the score.
• My scores. The course page shows each week's best score and first try, and an overall average.
• Only tested AI models. Fikira now offers and uses only AI models we have tested on real course tasks: course analysis, study plans and reading images. A larger one for computers with 16 GB of memory or more, and a smaller one for 8 GB computers. If you chose a different model before, Fikira tells you it now uses the recommended one.
• More complete course analysis. When the AI's answer runs long or leaves out a graded task, Fikira keeps what is complete, asks again for the rest, and tells you if any task was still not covered.
• Language courses ready to start. Language courses are marked "Early version" and can be started right away.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.10.

26.10.10 October 27, 2026 superseded

• Institution class codes. When you make a class code, you can start it with your school's three letters, for example FIK-AUI435. The last three characters can be your course number or random. No two classes can share a code.
• Assessment check in Curriculum Review. Fikira checks a course against good assessment practice: a short check every week, questions that ask for reasoning, an explanation for every answer, right answers spread across the choices, a task where students show their own process, questions at more than one level, and a clear rule for AI on every graded task. Two of these can be fixed with one click.
• Rules for using AI, for each graded task. Teachers mark each graded task as AI-free, AI-assisted or AI-augmented. Students see the rule for each task on their course page, in plain words, and see changes the teacher makes later.
• Fikira Cloud is ready in AI settings. It will give answers from Fikira's own cloud service within a daily allowance once it is switched on. Until then, Fikira keeps using the AI on your computer.
• Also new on WhatsApp and the website. Quizzes and practice tests on WhatsApp now give a score, show the right answers and let students retest the questions they missed. Teachers can sign in at framethechangelab.com/account to manage their classes from any browser.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.9.

26.10.9 October 27, 2026 superseded

• Share or hand over a class. Under Course Code, Class control lets a teacher confirm their email with a code sent to them, then share a class with another teacher or hand it over. The other teacher accepts in their own Fikira. Students keep the same class code throughout.
• Protected classes. Once a class is under class control, only its owner, its co-managers or a Fikira master can change it, and only after confirming their email.
• Your changes never overwrite newer work. If a class was changed on another computer, Fikira asks you to load the latest version before your change is saved.
• Course analysis keeps going. If an AI model spends its whole answer thinking and returns nothing, Fikira moves to the next model instead of stopping. The image-reading model Fikira offers to download is now the version that answers directly.
• Your own paid AI key works again. A key from a paid AI service in Settings is used again, and Fikira picks the newest low-cost model your key can use.
• Bigger models in Ollama's cloud. In Settings, AI model, you can connect your own Ollama account and add large models that run in Ollama's cloud. Questions sent to them are processed by Ollama and need internet.
• Help us fix problems. If you agree to share anonymous usage data, Fikira also shares your computer type, memory size and which AI model answers, and when a class code does not open. No names, no messages.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.8.

26.10.8 October 26, 2026 superseded

• Your chosen AI model answers everywhere. The model you pick in Settings, AI model, now answers in every part of Fikira: the tutor, practice, flashcards, study plans and course analysis. The top bar shows which model is answering.
• Time for bigger models. On computers that run AI on the processor, Fikira gives your chosen model the time it needs, based on how fast it runs on your computer, instead of switching to a smaller model.
• Windows that fit your screen. Settings and other pop-up windows now scroll inside the screen and keep the Close button in view, on small laptop screens and with Windows display scaling.
• Complete course records. Long course texts are no longer cut short, so library courses score 100% in the syllabus completeness audit.
• Add standard statements. When the audit finds missing sections such as disability services or mental health and well-being, one click adds standard wording that points learners to their institution's own services. You can edit it.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.7.

26.10.7 October 26, 2026 superseded

• Join your teacher's class on any computer. Type your class code and the class opens, even when your teacher set it up on another computer.
• Your teacher's changes reach you. When your teacher updates the class, you see the change the next time you open it.
• Worked solutions in library courses. After you try a problem set, its worked solution appears, as it does in the course library.
• For teachers: open a class you manage. In your course library, use Open a class you manage to bring a class set up on another computer to this one. It keeps its join code, and your saved changes reach your students on their computers and on WhatsApp within seconds.
• Clear when you are offline. If Fikira cannot reach the internet to look up a new class code, it says so instead of saying the code was not found.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.6.

26.10.6 October 21, 2026 superseded

• Upgrade to a bigger AI model in one click. When your computer can run a bigger model, Fikira shows a short note with a Download now button and a progress bar, and tells you plainly when it is ready. The download keeps going while you work.
• The right size for your computer. Fikira suggests the model size that runs well on your computer and checks its speed after downloading.
• Your faster model stays. Fikira keeps the faster model you already have, so Faster answers still works.
• Shown once. The note about a bigger model now appears once and fully on screen.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.5.

26.10.5 October 19, 2026 superseded

• The largest model your computer can run. Fikira looks at every AI model installed on this computer and uses the largest one that fits its memory and answers at a usable speed. It measures that speed as you use it, so a model that is too slow on this computer gives way to a faster one.
• A bigger model when one fits. When this computer can hold a larger model than the one you have, Fikira offers it, with the download size. The suggested models also read images such as graphs, diagrams and photos of handwritten work.
• Choose your model in Settings. Settings, AI now lists the models on this computer with their size, what they can do and how fast they answer here. Choose Largest model or Faster answers, pick a model yourself, or download the suggested one with a progress bar.
• Pictures. A question with a picture goes to a model that can see it. If none is installed yet, Fikira asks you to describe the picture in words.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.4.

26.10.4 October 19, 2026 superseded

• Opens again. 26.10.3 could not open because four of its files were left out of the installer. 26.10.4 includes them, and every release is now opened and checked before it is published. If you installed 26.10.3, download 26.10.4 or later.
• Fairer practice checks. Multiple-choice practice checks no longer put the right answer in the same position every time.
• Bigger model suggestion. Fikira tells you when this computer can run a larger Qwen3 model, how much it gives you, and how to get it.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.2.

26.10.2 October 9, 2026 superseded

• Course codes work again. “Generate course code for students” works for signed-in teachers. In 26.10.1 it wrongly said “Could not reach Fikira server.”
• Saving fixed. Course map updates, course deletion, WhatsApp course activity and the encrypted backup of a teacher’s workspace now send the teacher’s sign-in, so they are no longer refused.
• Clearer messages. When a request cannot be completed, the app now shows the actual reason.
• Mac and Windows. Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Includes everything in 26.10.1.

26.10.1 October 8, 2026 superseded

• Security fixes. Two components the app relies on were updated to safer versions.
• Windows. Signed by Frame the Change LAB through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Mac. Signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon).
• Includes everything in 26.9.27.

26.9.27 September 28, 2026 superseded

• Current stable release for Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows.
• Emailed sign-in, confirmation and password-reset codes now work reliably.
• A teacher's saved workspace opens only for that signed-in teacher or training provider, and is stored encrypted with their account key.
• Only a signed-in teacher or training provider can create a course, and the course is saved as theirs.
• Mac signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows signed through Azure Trusted Signing.

26.9.14 September 14, 2026

• Mac 26.9.14 and Windows 26.9.14 published together. Mac is notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows is signed by Frame the Change LAB through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Study on WhatsApp shows the correct Fikira WhatsApp number again.

26.9.11b September 14, 2026

• Mac 26.9.11b and Windows 26.9.11b published together. Mac is notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows is signed by Frame the Change LAB through Azure Trusted Signing.
• Study on WhatsApp now uses Fikira's new WhatsApp number.
• The Fikira logo now appears in the WhatsApp preview, and the Study on WhatsApp button uses the WhatsApp icon.
• Includes the 26.9.10 study-activity measures.

26.9.10 September 14, 2026

• Mac 26.9.10 and Windows 26.9.10 published together. Mac is notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows is signed by Frame the Change LAB through Azure Trusted Signing.
• With permission, Fikira records basic study activity, such as opening a course, taking a quiz or reviewing flashcards, so teachers can see how the first week is going.

26.9.9 September 14, 2026

• Mac 26.9.9 and Windows 26.9.9 published together. Mac is notarized and Gatekeeper verified (Intel and Apple Silicon). Windows is signed by Frame the Change LAB through Azure Trusted Signing.
• New users choose their role once, and returning teachers and students go straight to their studio or classes.
• Fixed a crash when opening Course Builder before a syllabus was added.
• More accurate course maps when a teacher uploads and confirms a syllabus.