Skimle is updated rapidly with new versions of the application released roughly weekly. See below the latest changes and those planned for the near future.
14 Jul 2026 Release
- The Data view is now called Visualisations, and gains a new Timeline lens
- Timeline trend: five charts (Lines, Split, Bars, Matrix and Area) showing how your categories, subcategories and metadata values move over time
- Compare periods: mark an Earlier and a Later range of documents and see which categories grew or shrank between them
- Word cloud: the words your documents use and the people, places, organisations and topics they name, as a cloud, a text block or ranked bars
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
23 Jun 2026 Release
- Visualisations: a powerful new way to explore your project visually. Overview dashboards, category and document leaderboards, heatmaps, category co-occurrence matrices, distribution charts, and an A/B comparison tool with effect sizes, all exportable as figures or CSV
- Word export of document summaries from the export centre
- The popular Category view is now the default when you open a project, with the most relevant category selected automatically
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
9 Jun 2026 Release
- Invite collaborators to your projects
- Video transcription
- Redesigned category editing: drag and drop to reorganise, merge and move categories, and restructure your whole code tree with AI-guided suggestions
- Export centre: PowerPoint export, richer Excel exports and a quote attribution picker
- Smarter chat: a guided wizard to extract new insights into categories, quotes verified against your source documents, and a dedicated help assistant
- Expanded MCP API
- Billing improvements: VAT ID and organisation billing
- More accurate analyses with a strict analysis mode
- A new document browser side panel for quickly switching between documents
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
22 Apr 2026 Release
- Skimle Anonymise: a new tool for pseudonymising interview transcripts and documents. Automatically detects names, locations, dates, numbers and other sensitive entities, with custom redaction rules, date shifting that preserves relative timing, manual tagging for anything the model misses, editable pseudonyms, and exports to DOCX, Markdown, Excel translation tables and an audit report PDF
- Skimle MCP server: connect AI assistants such as Claude to your Skimle projects directly via Model Context Protocol, with OAuth authentication or API keys, and multi-project access
- Smarter, more reliable chat
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
14 Apr 2026 Release
- Updated styling
- Performance improvements
7 Apr 2026 Release
- Export centre: a new dedicated page for creating rich Word and Markdown exports with category and metadata grouping, secondary grouping, extended quotes, and live preview
- The chat can now help you edit your projects — ask it to tag insights, create categories, or move insights between categories
- Option to skip the initial analysis when creating a new project
- Faster metadata summaries that skip unchanged data
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
30 Mar 2026 Release
- Undo and redo for all actions (Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z)
- Smarter chat search results with reranking
- Use chat to tag insights and categories
- New, more flexible subscriptions and credit top-ups
21 Mar 2026 Release
- Edit, create and delete tags with colour picker and merge support
- Select the date field for use in statistics timeline
- Smart scrolling in the summaries and document views
- Edit and tag insights by clicking on quotes in the document view
- Allow text selection in documents
- Performance improvements
16 Mar 2026 Release
- Edit, import and export metadata
- Import Excel files
- Agentic chat
- Support a for projects in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Arabic and Hebrew
- Faster, improved summaries
- Faster document loading
- Documentation and tutorials
2 Mar 2026 Release
- Skimle Ask: Create a sophisticated interview guides in minutes and let AI handle the burden of conducting interviews at scale
- Export code lists to Word
- Improved Powerpoint exports
- Improved analyses and summary generation
16 Feb 2026 Release
- Add notes to document, insights and categories (in the document, insights or category popup)
- Move and copy insights to other categories (in the insight popup)
- Merge and trim categories using a visual category editor (in Edit > Merge categories)
- Metadata statistics and visualizations (in the spreadsheet/categories selector)
- Run automatic thematic analyses for existing projects (in Edit > Project analyses)
- Automatically tag insights you’ve added with ’Manually added’ (in the document view)
- Easily move to a category’s summary from the spreadsheet view (look for the categories icon in the category popup)
8 Feb 2026 Release
- Add new insights by selecting text in the document view
- Add tags to insights and categories (more options for tags coming soon)
- Use tags to filter insights
- Faster and more accurate analyses with more precise categories
- Metadata-based analyses of categories in the category view
- Edit team member permissions in the home screen (for organisational accounts)
26 Jan 2026 Release
- Redesigned home screen and project views
- Ability to delete projects, insights, categories and documents
12 Jan 2026 Release
- Ability to edit the names of documents, categories, and insights
- Technical improvements to speed up page loading
22 Dec 2025 Release
- Transcription tool for audio files (GDPR compliant). You can find transcriptions in the main menu.
- Powerpoint export tool. You can now export your project data to Word, Excel or Powerpoint by clicking the export button on the toolbar.
8 Dec 2025 Release
- Significant speed increase in all analyses thanks to a shift to Claude models (AWS EU region).
- Default chat model is now Claude 4.5 Sonnet, with Haiku as an option. GPT-5, GPT-5-mini and GPT-4.1 models are supported.
- Fixed a bug related to quotes sometimes missing the first character in PDF files.
26 Nov 2025 Release
- Newly designed "Category View" (previously "Reports") with expanded features and improved user experience
12 Nov 2025 Release
- Improved project creation and data import experience
- New automated thematic analysis with AI: form categories based on your interview questions or headings
- Improved website articles (front page, features, about us, etc.)
- Improved transitions between pages, return to same view you left
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
27 Oct 2025 Release
- Added support for Gpt-4.1, GPT-5-mini and GPT-5. The default model is now GPT-4.1 due to slow GPT-5 on EU Azure
- Improved Excel export with multiple sheets
- Formatting now imported from DOCX files (bold & italics)
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
11 Oct 2025 Release
- Updated the model to GPT-5 (previously was GPT-4.1)
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
1 Oct 2025 Release
- Faster loading of projects
- Manage teams (for organisational accounts)
- Display personal credit situation in billing page
- Updated the website articles (analysing interviews and public consultations)
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
20 Sep 2025 Release
- Create custom categories function in spreadsheet view (top-right corner)
- Demo datasets you can add to your account (on the home page)
- New filtering options (checkbox: Show only key insights for each category)
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
18 Sep 2025 Release
- Option to view only the most important insights on the spreadsheet
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
8 Sep 2025 Release
- Select which insight types to view on the spreadsheet
- Adjust chat window width
- Fix bugs in the confirmation screen after document upload
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements