BigIdeasDB DesktopBeta

Release notes

What is new in every version of BigIdeasDB Desktop for Mac and Windows.

v0.1.5

November 1, 2026

New

Software Reviews Lab: add a product and read its G2, Capterra, TrustRadius and Trustpilot reviews through Clipper. See ratings, reviews over time, the top complaints and requests with counts, who reviews it, and every quote with a link to its source.
App Reviews Lab: paste an App Store or Google Play link and see what users hate or ask for, with ratings, versions, themes and quotes.
Idea Discovery Lab: type a category and Desktop finds the big, unhappy apps in the App Store and Google Play, counts their complaints into themes and turns each theme into an idea card backed by real quotes.
Local Density Lab: pick an industry and see how many businesses like it exist in each state or county, with staff, pay and change over the years, from Census data.
AI Answers Lab: ask your own AI the questions buyers ask and see whether it names your product or your rivals, and how that changes week to week.
Trustpilot is a review site, next to G2, Capterra and TrustRadius, in Deep Research and the Software Reviews Lab.

Improved

Select messages is now an icon in the chat header, next to History.
After you reopen Desktop, Settings says Clipper is paired and reconnecting, so you never need a new code.

Fixed

Copy buttons copy again. They used to show "Press Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy" instead.
Chat messages no longer slide behind the Select messages bar.

Known limits

Reviews and Trustpilot need Clipper 1.5 from the Chrome Web Store, paired with Desktop.
Letting your AI find and read any website comes with the next Clipper update. Desktop tells you when it is ready.
The Windows installer is unsigned for now, so Windows may show a SmartScreen warning: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Desktop needs a Basic or Pro plan, or the one-time Desktop add-on.

macOS, Apple Silicon macOS, Intel Windows

v0.1.2

November 1, 2026

New

Research business ideas on your own computer, with your own AI. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Ollama, and connects to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT desktop, Cursor and Windsurf over MCP.
Research Labs, each with its own charts, saved searches and weekly re-checks: Trends, Search Demand, Reddit, Communities (Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub), YouTube, App Stores, App Marketplaces (Shopify, WordPress.org, Atlassian), Pricing History and Businesses for Sale.
Deep Research: name a product, approve a plan, and Desktop collects reviews and posts while your AI groups them into a report. Counts are worked out by the app, and every quote is checked word for word against what was collected.
Ideation canvas: lay out the problem, evidence, ideas and assumptions on one board, or let your AI place a first draft.
Evidence board with cards, complaint groups and a timeline, and ideas that link back to their evidence.
Getting started steps that tick themselves as you go, from activating to your first real search.
Clipper for Chrome: pair it with the app to read Reddit through your own browser and send any page into a project.
G2, Capterra and TrustRadius reviews, read through your own browser via Clipper, in Deep Research and the review views.
Other sites: add any website you choose, allow it once in Clipper, and Desktop saves its pages as evidence for your AI and Deep Research.
Built-in chat with "/" commands, skills and "@" mentions.
Your research stays on this computer. Nothing is uploaded to us, and there is no AI bill from us.
Automatic updates, checked and verified before they install.

Known limits

The Windows installer is unsigned for now, so Windows may show a SmartScreen warning: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Other sites and review sites need Clipper 1.5 from the Chrome Web Store, paired with Desktop.
Reddit history searches need a community, such as "invoice app in r/smallbusiness", and can be slow when the archive is busy.
GitHub allows 10 searches a minute without a token, so a first Communities check can take a few minutes.
Desktop needs a Basic or Pro plan, or the one-time Desktop add-on.

macOS, Apple Silicon macOS, Intel Windows

Frequently asked questions

What's the best desktop app for researching business ideas on my own computer?

BigIdeasDB Desktop. It runs on your Mac or Windows computer, uses the AI agent you already pay for, and gathers Reddit, trends and app store evidence into projects. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Notion can help you think, but they do not collect and store the research for you.

How do I update BigIdeasDB Desktop?

Download the newest installer from this page and open it. Your projects and evidence stay on your computer, and your licence keeps working on up to 3 computers.

Where do these release notes come from?

Each version is published as a release on our public releases page. This page lists every published release, newest first, and links the installers for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows.

Installers: macOS, Apple Silicon, macOS, Intel, Windows.