New in Drift, newest first. Small fixes are listed under the release they came with.
November 12, 2026: Your own models, picked in the composer. On Flow and Horizon, Settings → Models connects your own keys: OpenRouter in one step, or a key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Groq, Mistral or DeepSeek. The composer then has one control for model and effort, with Drift Auto, Drift Fast and the models your keys can use. Replies on your own key do not count against your Drift limits. Research, delegated jobs, scheduled tasks and iMessage still run on Drift’s models.
November 12, 2026: Lower prices. Flow is now $8 a month, or $6.40 a month billed yearly. Horizon is now $60 a month, or $48 a month billed yearly. Features are the same on both.
November 11, 2026: Drift Sheets: spreadsheets you and Drift edit together. Ask Drift for a budget or a tracker and it opens a spreadsheet beside the chat, with formulas, tabs and filters. Type in a cell or ask Drift to, then download it as Excel or CSV, or share a read-only page.
November 11, 2026: Drift Boards: plans as cards, with a timeline by owner. Ask Drift for a plan and it can make a board that opens beside the chat: cards in columns you can move, and a timeline that groups the same cards by owner. Edit a card yourself or ask Drift to, and the board keeps both.
November 11, 2026: Drift Data: dashboards that refresh on a schedule. Ask for a dashboard and Drift builds tiles from your connected tools, each saying how old its numbers are. Pick Refresh every hour or day, or press Refresh, and share a results-only page.
November 9, 2026: Export your chats, or everything. Settings → Privacy → Your data → Export. Tick the chats you want, or take everything: every chat as Markdown with its files beside it, plus your memories and automations. The download link works for an hour.
November 9, 2026: Choose how hard Drift thinks. A picker beside the “+” in the composer sets the effort for your next message: Low, Medium, High or Extra High. It stays where you left it. Research sets its own.
October 29, 2026: A dark theme. Settings → General → Appearance now offers Light, Dark and System. Dark covers the app itself: chats, My Drift, Focus and projects. A document or an email you open there keeps its own light page, so it looks the way it will export.
October 29, 2026: Focus that never counts against you. A session you leave early is now set aside, not ended early or time lost. If you would like a nudge, turn on the halfway check-in in Settings → Focus & tasks: one quiet message as the session passes its midpoint. It is off by default.
October 28, 2026: Voice chat. When the composer is empty, Start voice chat sits where Send was. Talk, and Drift answers out loud a sentence at a time; Interrupt lets you speak over it. It runs on your browser’s own speech recognition and voices. Anything that needs your decision still shows its card on screen, and a spoken yes is never taken as approval.
October 28, 2026: Branch a chat, or come back to it later. A reply’s More menu can branch the conversation into a new chat with everything up to that point, or read the reply aloud. A chat whose reply finished while you were elsewhere carries a small dot in the sidebar until you open it, and any chat can be marked unread.
October 28, 2026: Automations that speak up only when something is new. In an automation’s details, Tell me can be Every run or Only when something’s new. A run with nothing new says so in its history and sends no push, email or text.
October 20, 2026: Outlook, beside Gmail. Connect Outlook during setup or later. Its mail shows in My Drift’s Needs attention, and an email Drift drafts for you can go out through Outlook as well as Gmail.
October 20, 2026: Make automations and skills from a chat. Ask Drift to set something up and it can create, change or remove an automation from the conversation. Automations can start from an incoming email or a webhook as well as the clock, and each keeps its run history. The chat menu can also turn a conversation into a skill, so a process you walked Drift through once is there next time.
October 17, 2026: Allow once, Always allow, or Don’t allow. Confirmation cards now give three answers. Always allow covers that one action, and each connector’s Permissions on Customize sets every tool to Always allow, Needs approval or Blocked.
October 16, 2026: Editable Drift Docs from chat. Ask for a document you can edit and Drift writes it as a Drift Doc, opening it beside the chat while it is written.
October 15, 2026: Settings in one place. Settings opens as a dialog over the page you are on, with its tabs down the side, Privacy among them. The open tab is part of the address, so a link can take you straight to it.
October 15, 2026: More say over what Drift remembers. Turn memory off for a single chat, pause it, reset it, or have it built from your past chats. You can tell Drift to forget something in the conversation, and adding a memory by hand is one line.
October 14, 2026: Drift Agent Loops. Three standing watches now live on the Automations page: your calendar, the commitments you make in email, and prep before meetings. They read and suggest. Anything that would act still asks you first.
October 14, 2026: See where a memory came from. Each memory shows where Drift learned it and opens the chat at that message. Ask “how do you know that?” and Drift answers from the memories it actually used.
October 11, 2026: Edit docs and decks yourself. In a Drift Doc or deck you can add, remove, reorder and rename sections, format words, and place text boxes, pictures, tables and shapes on a slide. Comments quote the words they are about and take replies.
October 11, 2026: Invite friends, earn Flow. The gift icon in the sidebar has your referral link. Three friends who sign up and finish setup earn you a week of Flow, and five more earn a second week.
October 10, 2026: Fast mode and response styles. The composer’s + menu has Fast mode on Flow and Horizon: the same Drift, answered faster, using your limits twice as fast. Use style picks how Drift writes (Concise, Explanatory, Formal, Learning) or one you write yourself or teach it from a sample of your writing.
October 10, 2026: Longer work opens in a side panel. A document, a page, a chart or a code file Drift writes appears as a row in the reply and opens beside the chat, with its versions, Preview and Code, Copy and Download.
October 10, 2026: Replies you can check. Citations appear as source pills with a preview. A reply’s thinking shows as a short summary that opens to the full text, and the trace includes any code Drift ran and what it printed.
October 8, 2026: Watch sub-agents work. When Drift splits a job across sub-agents, a card in the reply shows each one and the Subagents panel in the chat header shows what each is doing. You can stop one job without stopping the rest.
October 7, 2026: Projects. Group chats around one piece of work, with its own instructions, files and memory. Projects sit in the sidebar, and what Drift learns in one stays in it.
October 7, 2026: Usage by session and by week. Plans now have a weekly limit beside the 5-hour session, and Usage in the account menu shows where you are in both.
October 5, 2026: A guide to texting Drift. The docs now walk through setting up iMessage and RCS with your own Photon project, step by step, using the same field names as the app. Pairing uses a 10-digit code, so the right phone always gets in.
October 4, 2026: Memory that keeps up. Drift recalls past chats and texts by meaning, not only by matching words, and when a fact changes it replaces the old one instead of keeping both. Settings → Memory can clear what it recalls.
September 26, 2026: Email drafts you can edit. An email Drift writes for you appears as a card with To, Subject and the body, each editable in place. It is sent only after you say yes in the chat, and Open in hands it to Gmail, or to Mail on a Mac.
September 23, 2026: Research, Web search and GitHub in the composer. The + menu has Research and Web search toggles, which change how the next answer is found and stay as you left them. Add from GitHub attaches files straight from one of your repositories.
September 17, 2026: Drift Docs and Slides. Documents and decks Drift makes are now living files. It shows the outline first and fills it in while you watch; you can edit them, present a deck, and ask for changes without starting over.
September 14, 2026: Connect an MCP server in one step. Adding an MCP server to Drift is one field for its URL and one sign-in, and its tools are ready in chat.
September 7, 2026: Bring your memory with you. Moving from another assistant? Copy a prompt into it, paste its answer into Drift, and review what Drift found before you keep any of it.
September 7, 2026: Cards over iMessage. Over iMessage, Drift can send cards you tap to open, instead of a link to copy.
August 11, 2026: A chat in its own window. On desktop Chrome and Edge, a chat can float above everything in a small window of its own, from the menu on its sidebar row or in the chat header.
August 6, 2026: Your Drift line can do more. Over text, Drift can now make changes, not only read: it writes automations, turns them on, and they show up in the app. Images it makes arrive as photos, and a long answer comes as a few short texts.
August 2, 2026: Automations on every plan. Every account can now create automations. Your plan sets how many you keep at once: 15 on Free, 50 on Flow, 200 on Horizon. Automations you already have keep running if your plan changes.
August 2, 2026: Voice notes over text. Send your Drift line a voice note and it transcribes it and answers. Photos, PDFs and other files work the same way, with a question or on their own.
August 1, 2026: Texting Drift is reliable again. Replies on an existing text thread could take minutes and arrive as an apology. Every message now gets a real answer in seconds, and the thread keeps its memory between messages.
August 1, 2026: Your line answers only you. A Drift line belongs to the first number that claims it. Anyone else who texts it gets a short note back and nothing more: no access to your agent, your accounts or your data.
August 1, 2026: See what Drift did. Replies carry a trace of the work behind them: the searches, the tools and the sources. It stays with the message, so you can open it later, not only while it streams.
July 31, 2026: A faster, steadier app. Drift opens sooner, a page you have already visited comes back without a loading state, and pages hold their shape while data arrives instead of shifting under you.