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Beta 1.

Version 1.0, build 1. Released October 4, 2026.

The first public beta. Every part of the app is in. If something breaks or feels wrong, Send Feedback in the sidebar comes straight to us.

Cupertino Lens

Beta 1 for Mac. Free.

Download the beta

Apple IntelligenceOn a Mac that supports it, you can set up a newsroom by describing it, get a short summary of any story, and trace a link to where the story started.

New in Beta 1

Feedback, and what changed.

Send Feedback is at the bottom of the sidebar. After each update, the app shows a short list of what changed.

The Send Feedback window in Cupertino Lens. The Send Feedback window in Cupertino Lens.
A cleaner Send Feedback window that fits on every Mac, with the kinds of note in one row and room to write.
The What’s New screen in Cupertino Lens. The What’s New screen in Cupertino Lens.
After each update, this screen shows what changed. Help › What’s New brings it back any time.

Install it.

  1. Download

    Open the disk image from your Downloads folder.

  2. Drag it over

    Drop the app on the Applications folder beside it. Replacing an older copy is fine.

  3. Open it

    Apple has already checked it, so it opens like any other app.

Release notes

Everything in the beta.

The desks

  • Wire. Every report on Apple, grouped into one story as it spreads, with whoever had it first on top. Filter to reports and rumors, or only what Apple said on the record.

  • Scoops. Who broke each story and how long everyone else took to follow, across a year of coverage, with each outlet’s record.

  • Backend. Changes on Apple’s servers and pages, to the second, in plain words. Search the whole log and export it as a spreadsheet.

  • Markets. Apple beside the companies that build its products, with the news that moved them. Set an alert in a sentence.

  • From Apple, Events, Calendar, Software, Status and Records. Everything Apple publishes and files, each on its own desk.

  • Your own newsrooms. Build one by hand, or describe it and let Apple Intelligence lay it out.

Working with a story

  • Trace. Paste any article’s link and see who reported it first, two steps back through its sources.

  • Compare coverage. Every outlet’s version side by side, with who said what, when and how firmly.

  • Clippings. Save quotes into projects with your notes, and copy a citation as a sentence or a Markdown link.

On your Mac

  • Headlines in the menu bar, widgets on the desktop, and alerts only for what you choose.

  • Saved stories and reading history sync with Cupertino Lens on iPhone through your own iCloud.

  • Send Feedback sits at the bottom of the sidebar. Short tips introduce each part of the app the first time you open it.

  • Updates download in the background and install the next time you quit.

After you install.

Updates install on their own.

New builds download quietly and install the next time you quit. The sidebar offers a restart if you can’t wait, and the first launch after shows what changed.

Feedback in two clicks.

Send Feedback sits at the bottom of the sidebar, or press ⇧⌘’. It carries the app and macOS versions and your Mac’s model, and a picture of the window only if you leave the box ticked.

Good to know

  • The first time you open Scoops, it reads a year of coverage. Races fill in over the first few minutes.
  • Building newsrooms, briefs and link tracing need Apple Intelligence turned on.
  • Syncing with iPhone needs the same Apple Account signed in to iCloud on both.

Download Beta 1.

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Cupertino Lens is independent, and not affiliated with Apple.