On May 1, Steve launched its latest update, delivering refined tools, clearer workflows, and a more complete app-building experience. With improvements across Vibe Studio, AI Email, and Chat with AI, this release reflects months of iteration based on real-world usage.
Vibe Studio: New Views, Real-Time Feedback, and Better Control
Vibe Studio continues to evolve as the core of Steve’s AI Engineering system. Users can now enjoy a more responsive and informative environment while building apps from natural language prompts.
What’s New
Device-Specific Layout Views
Preview your application across multiple screen sizes, including mobile, tablet, and desktop. Interact with and test your app within the same environment, without the need for additional setup.
Frame Visibility and Virtual Keyboard
Visualize component structure clearly and simulate keyboard input for a more accurate design experience.
Real-Time Build Progress
Monitor real-time visual updates as your app is generated, helping you stay informed throughout the build process.
Email Notifications
The build process may take five to fifteen minutes, depending on the complexity of changes. Users can close the app and wait while Vibe Studio sends an email notification with a screenshot once the build is complete.
Developer Mode
Developer Mode enables manual code updates directly within Vibe Studio. An embedded, secure, and easy-to-use version of VS Code is available for advanced customization.
New users can sign up and receive five dollars in free credits to begin building with Vibe Studio.
AI Email: Real-Time Sync and Smarter Assistance
The updated AI Email feature in Steve introduces a fully integrated experience designed to reduce friction and improve communication across your workspace. With real-time inbox synchronization, users can read, respond, and manage their emails without switching between tools.
Steve’s AI assistant now tags emails based on their content, helping you quickly identify and prioritize key messages. It also generates instant summaries of lengthy emails, so you can grasp the main points without reading the entire thread.
When replying to emails, Steve suggests context-aware responses that align with your ongoing work and previous activity—making communication more fluid and effective.
All of this happens entirely within the Steve platform, bringing your inbox and intelligent writing support into a single and streamlined environment.
Chat with AI: Context-Aware Collaboration Across Your Favorite Platforms
We’ve supercharged our Chat with AI feature by integrating it with Google Calendar, Gmail, Notion, Google Drive, Google Sheets, and GitHub, giving you access to 40+ impactful actions across your favorite platforms.
But it’s more than just integrations.
Our AI now comes with a sophisticated memory system, designed to capture key topics from your conversations and retrieve them when most relevant, powered by cutting-edge memory retrieval algorithms. Whether you're scheduling meetings, finding important emails, syncing project notes, or managing GitHub issues, it’s all conversational now.
Beyond productivity, our AI is your all-in-one companion. You can brainstorm ideas, explore tech, healthcare, or life topics, or even just joke around, all within a seamless chat interface that feels truly personal.
Also Available in Steve
AI Product Management
Organize tasks, structure workflows, and track progress through intelligent and context-aware project boards. Features include Linear integration, the ability to import tasks from Linear, create tasks through AI prompts, and an upcoming sprint generation feature.
Ideation Session
Collaborate with Steve on product concepts, naming strategies, and market planning through guided AI-driven sessions that help spark and refine ideas.
Together, these tools provide a unified environment where teams can plan, build, and execute without switching between disconnected systems.
New Partner Spotlight: Octogone
We’re excited to welcome Octogone to the Steve ecosystem.
Based in Québec, Octogone is a technology-driven platform simplifying administrative workflows for restaurant and hospitality professionals. Their mission is to streamline operations so business owners can dedicate more time to creating memorable culinary experiences.
With Steve, Octogone is now:
Building and iterating their Flutter app through Vibe Studio, using AI prompts to develop features and interfaces rapidly.
Managing development tasks and collaboration using Steve’s integrated Task Management App, centralizing their team’s workflow inside a single workspace.
This partnership demonstrates how Steve’s AI OS equips growing teams with the tools to streamline development, maintain organizational clarity, and scale effectively.
Growth Snapshot
As of May 8, Steve has surpassed 9,000 users — more than doubling our April user base of 3,817. Since our early launch in November, we’ve seen steady growth and strong retention, with adoption rising across founders, product teams, and technical leads exploring the full potential of Steve’s AI workspace.
Thank you for being part of Steve’s growth. As always, your feedback helps us continue shaping the future of AI-powered workspaces.
