
Pricing is live
Our pricing plan and pricing page are live now.
Remember, the limits specified in the app won't be enforced until July 1, even if you overrun the 25,000 minutes.
All loyalty discounts should be applied automatically at checkout. If you want to see what discount you qualify for, please find it in the announcement.
If you don't see the correct discount at checkout or have questions / feedback about pricing, please let us know via the in-app support chat or [email protected] You can also request a meeting with us there to discuss your team's requirements.

Beta channel
We now have a beta channel, and our latest feature, sound reactions, is available for beta users.
You can opt into the beta channel:
- Individually under "My User Settings" ➜ "Account" ➜ "User release track"
- As a team under "Team Settings" ➜ "General" ➜ "Team release track"
Read more in our beta announcement post.
New desktop app
We've released a new desktop app, which is installed differently from our previous desktop app and therefore unfortunately requires manual installation. The new app lets us ship updates faster moving forwards.
We recommend manually migrating over as soon as convenient. We'll stop supporting the old app in a few weeks.
Learn more and follow our migration guide here.
Changelog
- Plans: manage your plan, including upgrading to Pesto's standard plan (thanks!)
- Billing: manage your bills, see billing history
- Beta channel, available on a per-user or per-team basis
- Sound reactions, in beta
- (New desktop app) installed as user rather than admin (no UAC prompts to update for Windows users)
- (New desktop app) screen drawing fixes
- (Mobile) app speed improvements
- (Web/Desktop) Faster app load
- (Mobile) optimize image loading to reduce bandwidth
- (Internal) more admin features for diagnosing user reports of audio/video call drops
- See team creation date in "Team settings" ➜ "General"
- 42 fixed bugs

Pricing announcement
We're introducing our free and standard plans. This is a very important step for us to become a sustainable business that can serve you to the best of our abilities.
For more details, read the announcement.
M1 / Apple Silicon build (beta)
Our M1 build is now in beta. It's significantly faster than the Intel version on M1 Macs. Download it on our downloads page.
April avatar assets

In April, we celebrated Earth Day, Easter, and some community-requested pets. Assets are available in the store.
Changelog
- Pricing announcement
- M1 build (beta)
- Lofi rooms: now support custom Youtube URLs
- Rich images in chat: can be fullscreened, downloaded, or linked
- Screen drawing: now works on full screen apps in macOS
- Chat: click on GIFs to pause them
- 91 fixed bugs

No War
We've added a "No war" banner to push for peace in Ukraine. It's available for free in the store.
Also, our own Anna Kazannik is working with her aunt, who runs the Dobrobut medical school in Ukraine, to raise money for emergency medical operations for those wounded in the war. You can learn more and donate here.
SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance

We are in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for SOC for Service Organizations (also known as SSAE 18). Achieving this standard with an unqualified opinion serves as third-party industry validation that Pesto provides enterprise-level security for customer’s data.
Read more here.
March avatar assets

In March, we celebrate cherry blossom season and St. Patrick's day. Assets are available now in the store.
Changelog
- No war asset
- SOC-2 Type 1 compliance
- March avatar assets
- Internal: Migrated our build system to Vite
- 67 fixed bugs

Pesto announces $5M in seed funding
We're thrilled to announce that Pesto has raised a $5M seed round led by Jett Fein and Jaja Liao at Headline with participation from Manu Kumar at K9 Ventures and many other awesome investors.
At Pesto, we envision a world where remote work is more effective and less lonely than the office, and this funding enables us to push that vision significantly further.
Read more in TechCrunch (also, read Doug's note)
New color scheme

We've recolored the app to be cleaner, more optimistic, and more visually consistent.
Waiting room
To improve security and the flow for guest users, Pesto now has a waiting room.
Whenever a guest attempts to enter your room, they will enter a waiting room in which they can customize their name and avatar. Meanwhile, you will receive a notification and can decide whether to admit them.
To see what this looks like, read the blog post.
February avatar items

We have much to celebrate in February including Black History Month, Lunar New Year, and Valentine's day.
To participate at your workplace, check out the following items in our avatar store.
Changelog
- New color scheme
- Waiting room
- February avatar items
- Integrations now let you know when they are in an errored state
- Internal: Migrated our codebase to TypeScript
- Moved our Eastern Asia media datacenter from Taiwan to Tokyo
- Fix: when one requests another and they accept, both parties will now enter according to their join defaults rather than pull defaults
- Minor snappiness improvements
- Clear indicator for how to accept audio permissions as a guest
- 62 other bug fixes & polish tasks

Performance & Stability
We've implemented some recent fixes that have significantly improved performance and stability. We wanted to share what work we're doing in this area as we know many of you have experienced performance issues. Follow along at this blog post.
Cold Winter Is Back
Cold Winter, our seasonal team building game, is back for the next few months! You and your teammates are stuck in a bitter winter landscape where one of you is secretly the evil ice mage. Discover the ice mage before they freeze your entire team!
Win 100 points to unlock the magic ice wand. Learn how to play here.
Pesto's 2021 In Review
2021 was a huge year for Pesto! We grew from 2 to 8 people, launched mobile apps and new room types, brought our infrastructures in house, and rebranded to Pesto.
Read more about all the new features we added last year.
Thoughts & Tips
Changelog
- Cold Winter️
- Significant improvement to in-app lagginess
- Changed way data is sent to the client to dramatically reduce bandwidth usage
- Fix periodic instability from API timeouts
- Better deploy process without associated instability
- 2 Memory leak fixes
- Fix unnecessary rendering causing lag
- User wish list avatar items
- 21 unwelcome bugs and stability issues: Please keep the bug reports coming!

Pragli is now Pesto
Pragli is now Pesto, the digitally native, authentically human workplace.
Yes, it's like the pasta sauce. If you're curious, you can learn more about our rebrand here.
With the rebrand, we're changing the format of our newsletter - we'll now ship whenever we have a release. All releases are also available at pesto.app/releases.
Real time sync engine
We recently developed our own real-time sync engine to improve the scale, stability, and performance of our product. Learn more here.
Thoughts & Tips
Changelog
- New static site
- New in-app appearance
- Winter avatar items ☃️
- Fall avatar items 🍂
- 65 unwelcome 🐞🐛🐜 and stability issues: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

🐱 Pragli Pets
Introducing new Pragli Pets!

Thank your fellow Pragli users for the new avatar pets! We hosted an avatar design contest in the Pragli Community page a few weeks back and two of the four winners were pets. So, we decided to add more to the collection.
Join the Pragli Community, you might get to decide which pet comes next!
🪅 Hispanic Heritage Month

It's national Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States!
We're celebrating with a limited time avatar pack that highlights various aspects of Hispanic culture.
Learn about the cultural significance of the items here.
💬 New Content

Stay up-to-date with the latest Pragli memes and comics! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Blog Posts
Changelog
We're working on some huge stability and performance improvements that will be launching in October! Here are a few updates to tide you over:
🦜 Pragli Pets (above)
🪅 Hispanic Heritage Month Avatar Items (above)
15 unwelcome 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

🛍 Pragli Avatar Store 😎
Our avatars just got an upgrade!
There are now limited time avatar items that you can purchase with Pragli Points, our new virtual currency. You can earn Pragli Points by completing missions, playing games, and simply using the Pragli app!
Don't forget to participate in missions to unlock special items as well! Learn more about the avatar store here.

🪐 Spatial Rooms 🛸

There's a new way to hang out with your team!
You can hop in and out of conversations by navigating your avatar around the map. You'll be able to hear and see people as you get closer to other people. As you move away, their audio and video starts to fade.
Read more about the spatial rooms here.
☀️ Special Avatar Items 🌊

Last chance to unlock the special summer avatar items! These items will be gone after Aug 31!
How to unlock:
📸 Share a photo of you or your avatar on social
💬 Caption it with your fav Pragli feature
👉 Tag @PragliHQ and use the hashtag #MyPragliAvatar
💻 Send us a screenshot of your post if your account is private
More details here.
Hiring Update

We're now a team of 7!
We'd like to give a warm welcome to Ryan Perez, our newest engineer 😊
We're still hiring! If you or someone you know is interested, take a look at our job postings here.
New Content

Stay up-to-date with the latest Pragli memes! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Blog Posts
How the Pragli team uses Pragli
Changelog
We're working on some big updates that are coming soon! In the meantime, our changelog may be a little smaller these next 2 months.
🛍 Pragli Avatar Store (above)
🪐 Spatial Rooms (above)
🗑 Set room chats to delete upon leaving
19 unwelcome 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Introducing Team Administration
You can now create different team roles and control the permissions for each role for increased team security.
Read about all the team administration features here.

Pragli Community

Join the Pragli Community!
This is a space for all Pragli users to give suggestions and share articles, tips, and avatar pics. We'll also be posting announcements and special activities in the community.
View the community guidelines here.
Special Avatar Items

Don't forget to unlock your special summer avatar item! You have until the end of August to get them.
How to unlock:
📸 Share a photo of you or your avatar on social
💬 Caption it with your fav Pragli feature
👉 Tag @PragliHQ and use the hashtag #MyPragliAvatar
💻 Send us a screenshot of your post if your account is private
More details here.
Hiring update

We're hiring!
We're currently looking for a product designer and two software engineers.
If you or someone you know is interested, take a look at our job postings here.
New Content

To keep up with the new Pragli memes, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Blog Posts
How to effectively take calls in a loud room
The budgeting and logistics behind our remote team's trip to Hawaii
Changelog
👤 Team Administration (above)
☀️ Summer Assets (above)
📲 Android Share Extension
💬 Message drafts are saved when moving between drafts
🔻 Added "Jump to new messages" button in chat
28 unwelcome 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Happy Pride Month!
There are now pride flag avatar items in Pragli!
To equip a pride flag, click Holdable then select Pride Flag Colors to choose a flag.

Feature spotlight: Lofi Rooms

Introducing Lofi Rooms!
You can now create dedicated rooms where there's no talking, just listening to the same music together. Lofi rooms are great spaces for getting focused work done.
Learn more about Lofi rooms here.
Android App Beta
We have a Pragli Android app available in beta! 🎉
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out this form. We’re targeting early to mid-July for a full release so stay tuned!
Hiring update

We're hiring!
We're currently looking for a product designer and two software engineers.
If you or someone you know is interested, take a look at our job postings here.
Changelog
🎧 Lofi Rooms (above)
📱 Android App Beta (above)
📱 iOS App Improvements: Fixed bugs and improved modal
🤪 GIF keyboard in chat
🌈 Pride Flags (above)
️👩 Download your avatar as a PNG or SVG
45 unwelcome 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

There's an easier way to find things...
You can now search in Pragli!
Click "Search" on the left-hand side of the screen, or press CMD / Ctrl + K, to open search.
You can search for people, commands, or text messages.

Feature spotlight

We've revamped trivia!
Trivia is now multiple choice and has wayyy better questions.
Try it out by making a room of type "Trivia" in Pragli.
Hiring update

We're now 6 people!
We're super excited to have Daniel Liem and Katherine Luo joining to fill out our founding head of product and growth marketing roles.
You can check out Daniel's post about why he joined Pragli here.
For the time being, we've closed out all hiring, but we'll let you know when we have new roles available.
Changelog
🔍 Search (above)
❓ Trivia Revamp (above)
🧶 Outfits: choose and save outfits (top right of appearance tab in settings)
🦺 Stability: a lot of monitoring and stability work for the v2 audio/video backend
41 unwelcome 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Stop Asian Hate

In lieue of the usual intro section, we want to draw attention to the movement to Stop Asian Hate.
Asian Americans are experiencing a broad increase in violence and hate, including the shocking events in Atlanta. We stand against hatred and for inclusiveness and diversity.
If you are interested in taking a stand in your workplace, consider wearing the new "Stop Asian Hate" facemask.
Feature spotlight

We're excited to introduce Pragli's third seasonal game - the Great Sloth Race! 🦥
The Race is an asynchronous, in-team betting game. Play it to unlock the Sloth Hoodie.
Learn more here.
Hiring update

We've filled our founding engineering roles! Welcome Sean & Anna to the Pragli team. You can find their first contributions in the changelog below.
We're officially opening our founding Go-to-market lead role.
If you're interested in making dog memes and telling the Pragli story, please check out our posting here.
Changelog
😷 Stop Asian Hate Mask (above)
🦥 Great Sloth Race (above)
⚡ A/V update: improved video performance, renamed stable => v1 and beta => v2, made v2 the default for new rooms
🥳 Birthday customization: add your birthday to show a special indicator (Anna's first contribution!)
🔊 Volume control: control each other user's volume in the room (Sean's first contribution!)
✏️ Name quick rooms: so that others can decide whether they want to join in
🎨 Room color picker: moved from the icon into the room settings
🤔 Reaction popover: see who did what reactions
🔊 Request sound: tweaked the ring to be less aggressive
🦥 Coverings: a new avatar category. We moved the hijab here, plus added the sloth hoodie.
🔒 Locked appearance options now have a tooltip for why they are locked
🗃️ Better organized user settings
🖼️ Bigger thumbnail for share options in the desktop app
🎤 New tray icons: for unread, offline, and mute/unmute state
🏴☠️ New eyepatch: in "accessories" rather than "tops"
33 inferior 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Get ready for a mad rush of little changes! Shout out to you if you make it through this changelog.
Feature spotlight

... But first, it's worth noting that our iPhone app now works on iPad.
Grab it on the App Store here, and let us know what you think!
Changelog
📱 iPad app
💇 7 new avatar hair styles
🧙 Wizard: promote us on social and let us know to unlock wizard assets; unlock all 3 to gain special in-room powers
🔀 Rooms: can now be re-ordered, edited, and pinned/unpinned
🔣 Rooms: removed naming restrictions, so go emoji / whitespace crazy!
🕵️ Private rooms: make rooms that only certain people can join
✏️ Messages: edit & delete text messages
👍 Messages: reactions! (hover on web/desktop, long press on mobile)
↔️ Left / Right bar: can now be resized (hover over border)
🎉 Celebrations / GIPHY: now show up on the relevant avatar
📅 Calendar: shows up 5 minutes before events now
🔴 Mobile app badge with number of notifications
👂 Mobile app: button to switch between speaker, ear, and headphones
🤙 Requests: now ring continuously, rather than once
🔉 Local sound when you mute/unmute
📱 Status icon for mobile app
🖱️ Scrollbars: added them in several places
⏱️ Option to increase the amount of time between when you go offline and Pragli auto-kicks you from a room
⚡ Faster call connect for Beta A/V
⚙️ Moved around task bar settings
👀 Rooms: added an indicator in the top right of the avatar for when someone is in a (not private) room
🔉 Rooms: new icons for different room types
🐧 Linux: icon should show up now
9 lowly 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Come work on dog GIFs with us!
We're gearing up for a big 2021, and we're starting by hiring two founding software engineers (remote). If you're interested in working on Pragli, learn more here.
Feature spotlight

Our iPhone app is now generally available!
- Make requests and join rooms
- Supports audio, video, and (!!) screenshare
- Text chat (DMs & discussions)
- Set your status
You can get it on the App Store here. Let us know what you think!
Request for A/V beta users
We're working on a new audio, video, and screenshare backend.
The goal is less video lag, higher quality screenshare, and more people in one room.
We are looking for teams to participate in the beta. Teams who join the beta will see a switch in any given room to switch the audio/video backend to the beta (see below).
If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form.

Changelog
📱 iPhone app (see above)
🖥️ Beta A/V system (see above)
🔊 Audio output: select audio out (desktop app, Chrome, Edge only)
53 overwhelming 🐛🦗🐜 (I'm cheating a bit by including iPhone beta bugs 🤷): Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Sincerely wishing you a happy holiday season!
We have some new swag available for both the lucky and unlucky of us weather-wise. Check it out Pragli.

Feature spotlight

🌬️ Cold Winter 🥶 is a new temporary game.
In Cold Winter, one of your teammates is secretly an evil ice mage. Find and defeat them before they freeze the whole town.
Win games to gain points; gain 100 points to unlock the special crown.

Learn more here.
Request for iPhone beta users
We're making our iPhone app available in a limited beta.
If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form. We'll try to let as many people in as possible. We're targeting early-to-mid January for a full release.
Changelog
It's a bit smaller than usual this time... we're deep in some new and exciting projects for Jan and Feb.
🌬 Cold Winter (see above)
🎉 Holiday swag (see above)
😊 Room-only guests can now set an avatar
2 miniscule 🐛🦗🐜: Please keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

Our spooky Halloween surprise is here to stay.
Dark mode is now on by default for anyone using a dark-themed OS. To manually change your theme settings, please go to "My user settings" → "Interface".
Read more here.
Feature spotlight #1

Discussions launched earlier this month.
Discussions provide group messaging inside Pragli. They also launched with support for mentions (eg @Doug).
Learn more here.
Feature spotlight #2

Japanese language support is now available in Pragli.
We're fortunate to have a large number of Japanese users, but English is not common in Japan. So, we figured we'd make it a bit easier for them to use the product.
Learn more here.
Battle islands update
The time of battle islands is coming to an end. Please wrap up all games by Friday - on Saturday, the Battle Islands will disappear into the oceanic unknown from whence it came. Any collected crowns will stay around.
Changelog
💬 Discussions (see above)
🕶️ Dark mode (see above)
🌸 Japanese language support (see above)
❤️ Character resolution: In text chat, automatic resolution of certain unicode characters (eg <3, -->, :(, etc)
🚥 Windows title bar: collapsed it into the UI for a prettier experience on Windows
🛑 Destroy team: added a formal button under team settings (be careful!)
31 nasty 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!
Howdy!

We launched our first seasonal game! And it's island themed, because October means beaches and sunshine, right? 😬
🌴 Battle islands 🌴 is a game where you and your entire team anonymously battle another Pragli team. The winning team unlocks a special crown for the entire team.

Try it out in Pragli, or read more here.
Feature spotlight

Pragli has a new tray mode! Now, without opening the app main window, you can:
🗣️ See the online users in your team
#️⃣ See who's chatting in the team rooms
🎙️ Mute and unmute yourself
📽️ Turn your video on and off
🖥️ Start and stop sharing your screen
✏️ Edit your status
🟢 Go online and offline
Learn more here.
Pricing update
We're pushing pricing again. This time, we're doing so indefinitely. We still intend to introduce a paid tier at some point, but we clearly aren't very good at predicting when we're going to do it, so we'd rather just push it indefinitely.
We promise that we will get at least one full month's notice before introducing a paid tier.
Changelog
🌴 Battle islands (see above)
🎛️ Tray mode (see above)
🗳️ "I'm voting" t-shirt
🔊 Louder audio options for chat notifications
🚦 Statuses: now show up even when offline
42 displeasing 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Is it rainy outside? What about for your furry, 4-legged co-worker in Vancouver? Now, you can find out with the new Pragli weather integration!
Here's what it looks like:

You can enable this under "My user settings" => "Integrations". Learn more here.
Feature spotlight

We're excited to introduce the command palette to Pragli. Bring it up with CMD / CTRL + K, then use it to navigate Pragli with the keyboard only.
Use the palette to join a room, request a colleague, send a DM, or even mute/unmute (+ more).
Learn more here.
Changelog (it's a big one...)
🌞 Weather integration (see above)
⌨️ Command Palette (see above)
👑 Referrals: you can use your referral URL to get credit towards the crown without inviting someone to your team
🚦 Connection quality indicator: in a room, if someone's internet connection is unstable, it now shows up above their avatar
🙋 Revamped support: replaced Intercom in-app with "Pragli team" - use it to give use feedback / request support
🤔 Rate your call: you may get prompted after a call; it's not required, but it is massively appreciated!
🔈 Speaking indicator: a subtle hint for those speaking in another room
🧢 Baseball caps!
👀 Anime eyes: for expressing confusion or suspicion
🤖 Monospace: in DMs or room chat, use ` or ``` to format code
📷 Mirror video option: under "My user settings" => "Audio and Video"
🖥️ Keep Pragli window on top option under "My user settings" => "Interface"
🍏 Big Sur support
#️⃣ Hotkeys: Many hotkeys now work in browser (not just desktop app)
#️⃣ Hotkeys: Global / local (in-app) setting
#️⃣ Hotkeys: CMD/Ctrl + , to open settings
🚪 Default door closed: this only affects new users
47 indefensible 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

We're excited to introduce direct messaging to Pragli. DMs support emoji 😊, attachments 📁, and rich text. Learn more here.
Feature spotlight

Screen drawing
When sharing your entire screen from a desktop application, viewers will now be able to draw on your screen!
Read more here.
Note: you can disable this when selecting the screen.
Changelog
💬 DMs (see above)
🖌️ Screen drawing (see above)
🛎️ Revamped requests: added a progress bar and made the buttons more clear
8 formidable 🐛🦗🐜: Less than usual, but we're making it up with a bug bash this week. Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Pragli is free until at least Nov 1
Our paid tier introduction won't be until at least Nov 1. We just haven't made time to figure out how to price Pragli yet. Instead, we're focused on product stability and new features for the time being.
Feature Spotlight
Pragli Scheduler for Google Calendar

We're excited to introduce Pragli Scheduler for Google Calendar. This Chrome extension adds an "Add Pragli" button to schedule the meeting in a new, temporary Pragli room. Guests can join, so use it for external meetings too! (They'll only see the room, not your entire team).
You can install the extension here.
Or, for more info, check out our launch announcement.
New avatar options

A few updates:
1) We launched a pride avatar hoodie in support of the LGBTQ+ community. Happy (belated) pride!
2) We've provided some crowns for our top inviters out there. Check them out in the new "special" section of the avatar options.
3) We figured we needed some new shades with all the sun we're getting...

Changelog
📅 Google Calendar extension (see spotlight above)
👩🦱 More avatar options (glasses, pride hoodie, crowns)
▶️ Buttons: moved most in-room interactive buttons onto the avatar based on your feedback
🔊 Audio refactor: audio won't briefly cut in/out when you switch teams, enter full screen, or otherwise navigate within the UI
🔄 Revamped updater: we'll update "softly" rather than doing a reinstall most of the time now
🖱️ Reworked avatar picker: should be simpler
32 unsuitable 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️

Black lives matter. Please read our statement.
Feature Spotlight #1

We've revamped our presenter view.
Click on someone's video or screen share to move it to full screen, where you can now see all meeting participants.
Read more here.
Feature Spotlight #2

Mobile web is now in early access. Note that it is still very rough around the edges, but we wanted to give you something to try out.
If you're curious, read more here.
Changelog
🖥️ Revamped presenter view (see spotlight #1)
📱 Mobile early access (see spotlight #2)
🖤 "I can't breathe mask": added an avatar option to show your support
🖼️ Big room stability: increased audio / video stability in the 6-17 person range in one room
🤫 Silence intercom option: to remove the big blue bubble (under My User => Interface)
⌨️ Toggle video hotkey: Ctrl/Cmd Shift D by default. Can be configured under My User => Hotkeys
❌ Now allowed to delete default rooms
32 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Please welcome the latest member of the Pragli team - Stella! Stella is a 9 week old labrador. Stella joins Pragli as a content specialist. She's already hard at work, seen here demonstrating Pragli's new open door / closed door feature. In her spare time, she likes to remove all plant life from the backyard.
Feature Spotlight #1
🚪 Open door, closed door

Two big updates this month, plus a lot of small ones (check the changelog).
The first is open door, closed door. This is a new mechanic designed to simplify the interface and provide a clear indication to users on how to manage their privacy.
If your door is open, you receive communication like a walkie-talkie and show presence in the form of a donut (10 minute idle timer).
If your door is closed, you receive communication like a phone call ("request") and do not show presence.
This replaces all forms of presence detection. For those of you looking for "Facial recognition mode", we still support it inside a room as "video avatar" (hover over video, then select "video avatar"). We believe it's more private than full-on video on.
Feature Spotlight #2
👩🦱 More avatar options

If you're like us, shelter-in-place orders have forced you to grow out your hair a bit. Show off your quarantine doo with these new hair styles. Many more options have also been added, and more are on the way!
Changelog
🚪 Open door, closed door (see spotlight #1)
👩🦱 More avatar options (see spotlight #2)
🙏 Rooms: Both "channels" and "direct conversations" are now "rooms" (for simplicity)
🏢 Introducing the "Main office": where you are when you're online and not otherwise in a room, added to clarify that you don't need to always be in a room
📅 Hide calendar event button: in case an event is showing you as busy, when you're really not
🔽 Team header dropdown: moved a bunch of somewhat common operations into a new dropdown; hover over your team name to activate
🔀 Team switcher: Removed the team switcher when there's only one team. Shrunk it. Moved signout and add team to the team header dropdown. Simplified new user experience.
↔️ Smarter layout: does a better job (still not perfect) of resizing avatar windows
💵 Save money: made some changes to reduce our infra bills. Figured we'd keep you in the loop 🤷
34 unfavorable 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Effective today, Pragli is launched! 🎉
For full details on what this means, please read our launch post.
Highlights:
- To assist with COVID-19, Pragli will remain free until June 1, 2020 and will have an indefinite free tier beyond then.
- Pragli raised a pre-seed round led by Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures
We're launching on Product Hunt tomorrow, so we'll break from our usual once-per-month cadence to do a special announcement. Sorry in advance for the spam.
We really need your help for the launch to be a roaring succces - please help amplify the reach of our launch by sharing Pragli! 🙌
Feature Spotlight

The big addition to Pragli this month is call stability.
Huge shoutout to Vivek for making major breakthroughs to dramatically decrease the risk of dropped audio or video. If you've ever had audio drop for no apparent reason or seen a black screen, odds are that Vivek fixed it for you.
Otherwise, we've been pretty busy the launch - we'll get back on feature work as soon as things quiet down after the launch.
Changelog
📞 Call stability: see spotlight
💦 Splash animation: while booting Pragli
🔇 Mute others: if someone is being unintentionally unmuted, you can now mute them by clicking the sound icon on them. To protect privacy, you can't unmute them though.
🛑 Removed click-to-leave channels / conversations: a lot of users reported this was an unintuitive behavior. You can still leave by click the button in the top bar.
📈 Scale: significantly increased our server efficiency in advance of the launch
🚒 Firewall detection: Pragli now detects firewalls that block our audio/video
⚡ Big team CPU issues: some fixes that were causing especially high CPU usage in bigger teams
11 delinquent 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Please consider filling out our user survey.
We couldn't find a good puppy-fills-out-survey gif, so we asked this pup to give you a woof instead.
If you've ever used or thought about using Pragli, please consider filling out our user survey. Every result helps us out immensely! It should only take a minute. 🙏😍💪
Feature Spotlight
🔒 Lock

The big addition to Pragli this month is locking. Channels and conversations can be locked for privacy. Users cannot just join locked meetings - instead, they must knock.
🛎️ Knock

You can knock by clicking on a locked conversation / channel, or by clicking the knock button on the respective user. You'll be shown a notification until they answer your knock.
📣 Request

If someone else is in a channel or conversation (locked or unlocked), and you want to get their attention, you can now request them.
- When they accept your request, they'll jump into your conversation / channel
- If you're not in one, you'll both jump into a new conversation.
We want to know what you think! Share your feedback with us via the blue chat bubble in the bottom right of Pragli.
Content Rundown

(Graphic from Asynchronous communication is also distracting)
Blog Posts
- We worked remotely on top of a U-Haul
- Asynchronous communication is also distracting
- The state of coronavirus and remote work
Other
Changelog
🔒 Lock, 🛎 Knock, 📣 Request: see spotlight
👶 New setup flow: we have a new setup checklist in the bottom-left of the UI. Complete it for a surprise!
🎉 Edge Chromium Support: we didn't actually do anything except whitelist it, but we'll take credit for supporting it!
⚡ Big internal refactor: Should make things faster in both web and desktop, and it will certainly make us move faster in delivering features in the future. Even more speed improvements coming very soon.
💵 Save money: made some changes to reduce our infra bills, which don't help you... but help us? Maybe this shouldn't be here. 🤔
7 obtuse 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

To make Friday more fun, we remotely worked from the top of a U-Haul for the day.
We wouldn't recommend it. It turns out the top of a U-Haul is quite flimsy! Also, the ergonomics aren't great up there.
We'll have more lessons learned and a v2 of this remote work experiment coming soon...
Feature Spotlight
Presence Rework

🍩Donuts
The top left icon is now always a donut.
- You no longer turn orange due to idleness. Instead, the donut gradually transforms from a full circle to a thin ring.
- In Live Avatar - Keyboard/Mouse and Photo Mode, the full circle becomes a ring over 3 min of inactivity.
- In Live Avatar - Keyboard/Mouse, the avatar grays out only after the full 3 min have elapsed (as opposed to old 15s).
- In Live Avatar - Facial Recognition, Pragli shows a full circle if you are detected and a ring if you are not.

🚥Colors
Your status indicator now turns orange only if you:
- Are in a conversation / channel
- Set a manual status with "warn" behavior
- Automatically get a status via a calendar event with "warn" behavior
Your status indicator turns red if you:
- Set a manual status with "block" behavior
- Automatically get a status via a calendar event with "block" behavior
Your status indicator turns black if you're offline.
Results
- Simplicity - reduces 5 disparate symbols (green dot, orange dot, yellow triangle, red cross circle, black dot) to 4 similar symbols (green, orange, red, black, all donuts)
- Less Overbearing - you stay green even if idle. In keyboard/mouse mode, your avatar doesn't gray out until 3 minutes have elapsed (vs 15s before)
- "Chance of Response" signal - the donut still gives a sense if the person may have just stepped away momentarily, so you know that you might not reach them if you start a conversation
We want to know what you think! Share your feedbajck with us via the blue chat bubble in the bottom right of Pragli.
Content Rundown

(Graphic from 6 categories of remote teams)
Blog Posts
- Social Signals #3: Using Google or Outlook Calendar to signal availability
- Getting Started with Pragli
- FAQ
- How to authenticate with Google Oauth in Electron
- Firebase as a React Hook - as featured on Hacker News, discussed by @Firebase, featured in Firebase Weekly
- How we hired a part-time QA Tester for $40 / session
- Building a walkie-talkie for remote work - as featured on Hacker News
- The 6 categories of remote teams
- Social Signals #4: Using audio channels to signal status
Other
- We worked from the top of a U-Haul last Friday
- New logo! Thanks for filling out our survey last time.

Changelog
🍩Presence Rework: presence is simpler and less overbearing. See spotlight.
📅Calendar Rework: calendar events are simpler and more clear
😊Logo: the homepage, blog, and product now show the new logo
🖥Size Memory: Pragli remembers its size and location across boots
🛑Better Updates: future updates will never start while you're in a conversation or channel
🧐Debuggability: we made some big internal improvements to our ability to diagnose bugs and crashes
17 contemptible 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

Happy Holidays!
For the New Year we resolved to improve our logo. So we came up with a design and a few color schemes, and we would love your feedback.
Please click here to view our ideas and choose your favorites.
Feature Spotlight

Speed & Performance
You may have previously noticed that Pragli can really hog CPU during conversations / meetings. As of mid December, Pragli is more efficient in the following scenarios:
- ~70% less CPU during audio-only conversations
- ~50% less CPU when hosting screen share
- ~50% less CPU when receiving screen share, but not maximizing it
- ~20% less CPU when receiving screen share maximized
- ~30% less CPU when receiving video
- Similar performance when sending video (to be improved)
We know that we need to do more work on the video performance, but we're pretty happy with performance on all other fronts. Please continue to let us know if you notice any performance issues.
Content Rundown
Blog Posts
Changelog
🚀Performance Overhaul: Faster performance for Pragli in a variety of scenarios - check out the spotlight above.
⭐Starred Teammates: Star teammates to have them always show up before other members of your Pragli team
🚪Status Rework: statuses display more clearly. Easier & faster to select manual statuses. Add time to manual statuses, and exactly customize duration.
📅Outlook Calendar Integration: same as Google Calendar integation, but for Outlook
⏰Scheduled boot per-device: scheduled boot is now per-device rather than per account, so you can disable it on your personal laptop while keeping it on your work computer
#️⃣Channel Ordering: Changed from creation time to alphabetical
🔗Automatic sign in: navigating to the sign in page when already logged in now authenticates straight through to the app
⏰Scheduled boot clarifications: added deep link to schedule customization in popup
💅Polish: took a week to smooth over many (over 20) interactions/details
29 gnarly 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Howdy!

For those of you in the US - hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Sorry for being a few days late... our backlog was a little "stuffed" 😉
Feature Spotlight

Have you ever had someone start a conversation with you while in a Zoom or Google Hangouts meeting?
Introducing Pragli's new Google calendar integration. Pragli will now alert your teammates when you're in a meeting and prevent them from starting conversations with you.
Some features of the calendar integration:
- You can add as many calendars as you want, and you can label them as work or personal
- You can set each calendar's privacy level (public or private)
- Pragli automatically unfurls most video conference links (Zoom, Webex, etc)
- During meetings, choose whether teammates can start a conversation with you, are blocked, or can click through with a warning (as above)
Configure the integration by clicking on your avatar in the top left, and then going to "Integrations." Once you've added the integration, you'll be able to mess with its settings.
Outlook integration coming soon.
Content Rundown

We pushed out our first "Pragli" GIF ever. Hopefully you didn't drive through LA last week...
Blog Posts
- Remote Work Trends According to US Census Data
- Include your Remote Team with “Brady Bunch” Video Conferencing
- Graphic: Top 25 remote cities in the US

Changelog
📅 Calendar Integration: it's finally here! Check out the spotlight above.
#️⃣Slack Window Management (Mac desktop only): hit CMD+Shift+U to automatically resize Slack and Pragli together. Customize the resize under "Configure User" => "Interface", and customize the hotkey under "Configure User" => "Hotkeys"
🚪Sign in with Microsoft: sign in... using Microsoft...
#️⃣Invite by Slack: now has type to search
🎧Status Hotkey: Hit Cmd/Ctrl+S while in Pragli to set or unset your status - customizable under "Configure User" => "Hotkeys"
8 unpleasant 🐛🦗🐜: Keep the bug reports coming!️
Up Next
🚀Performance Overhaul: we've been working on a number of performance improvements for the last week or so. They'll (hopefully) be shipping this weekend.
Happy Holidays!
We won't be sending another newsletter until 2020. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
👻 Boo!

Happy Halloween!
While we've squashed some spooky 🐛🦗🐜 in Pragli, there's still some ugly bugs running around in there. Please continue to keep us posted as you run into either outright bugs or behaviors you didn't expect.
Feature Spotlight

Have you ever had a teammate enter #water-cooler, and you would've joined, but you just didn't notice they were there?
Notifications let you know when your teammates want to hang out or speak with you.
We've added two kinds of notifications:
- Channel Notifications - get notified whenever someone enters the channels of your choice
- Meeting Start Notifications - get notified whenever someone pulls you into a channel or direct conversation
Notifications can be annoying, so we've taken the following steps to make this as configurable and low-key as possible.
1) Configurability - you choose which channels you are subscribed to. Unsubscribe from any channel by clicking the bell next to it.

2) Throttling - we won't show channel notifications more than once every 20 seconds
3) Silence - Pragli notifications don't have sounds
4) No history - Pragli notifications do not go into your OS history
If you still hate these notifications, please let us know, and then turn off all notifications under your user settings under "Notifications."
We hope you like them. Vivek and I have found them useful for encouraging us to converse more, on both work and non-work topics.
Content Rundown
Mini-Products
- Leaderboard for Product Hunt, a filterable list of the top 1,000 products on Product Hunt
Blog Posts
Changelog
🤫Auto "Do Not Disturb": during screen share, Pragli will automatically put your computer into DND (Mac only)
💬Notifications: get notified when someone starts a conversation with you, or when teammates enter and leave different channels
👥Team Management: remove teammates from your team in Team Settings => Members
#️⃣Channel Preferences: delete channels in Team Settings => Channels
14 gross 🐛🦗🐜: including an issue on Macbook Pros where the screen would start flashing red and potentially crash. Keep the bug reports coming!️
Up Next
📅 Calendar Integration: it's finally happening! We've actually budgeted time for a full calendar integration. So it'll get done in November... probably...
📹 Zoom Integration: so that people won't click on you if you're in a Zoom call. We might not be able to figure this out, since Zoom doesn't provide APIs for telling if a given user is currently in a meeting (only if they are host). We're trying to get creative by looking at running processes / file system events. Let me know if you have any ideas on how we can make this work.
Howdy!

The #1 complaint from y'all has been the lack of polish and general bugginess of the product.
In response, we've been focusing on stability and polish as much as possible. We will continue to make this our top priority for the time being.
We're looking for more help with bugs. If you've run into a bug in Pragli, please report it via the chat bubble in the bottom right hand corner of Pragli. If possible, we would love to solve it with you immediately. Alternatively, shoot me an email at [email protected]
Feature Spotlight

Picture in picture allows you to share video and screen share at the same time.
Also, Pragli no longer disconnects audio briefly while starting the screen share.
Pro tip: after entering full screen, click the arrows in the top right to swap between the video and screen share.
Content Rundown
Mini-Products
- Revitalize, a set of mental health resource for remote workers
Blog Posts
Changelog
🖼️Picture in picture: share video and screen share at the same time
🎉Celebrate: click on the celebrate icon to share confetti with everyone in the meeting!️
🎵Deeper Spotify Integration: mouse over someone's playing music to see what they're playing, then click to give it a listen yourself; also, auto-pause music during conversations
👥/pragli in Slack: use /pragli from Slack to make a meeting link that anyone in the Slack channel can use
↪️️Browser => Desktop Redirects: opening a Pragli link in the browser will now cause the desktop app to open (if installed)
💬Chat Indicator: if you've hidden chat, Pragli will now show an indicator if you have unread chats
🖥Revamped Screen Share Picker: in the desktop app only, Pragli has a new screen share picker
🤫Silent Room: now, you will join #silent-room muted by default
🔗Channel Links: it's easier to create guest mode links to channels with the inline channel link button
#️⃣Channel Colors: choose a color for your channel by clicking on the hashtag
🐞Bug Fixes: fixed a lot of issues with random disconnects, as well as other things - more incoming!
Howdy!

We launched a blog!
And we have our first couple pieces...
- What is an online office? (I know you already know...)
- What we find frustrating about asynchronous remote work
Is there something we should write about? Share your feedback by replying to this email.
Survey of the Day
If you are reading this, you probably love remote work. However, we want to know what's your least favorite part.
If you are willing to share, submit your response here.
Feature Spotlight

Guest Mode enables Pragli meetings with teammates who aren't signed into Pragli.
Simply click the link in a channel or conversation and share it with others for them to jump in.
Pro tip: since channels stick around forever, you can embed channel links into meeting invites. For instance, you can create a #standup channel, and then paste the meeting link into the weekly calendar event.
Changelog
👻Guest Mode: create a meeting link that anonymous guests can use (without accessing your entire team)
😱Statuses: no longer are you limited to "focused" - you can now be 🌮 eating lunch, ☎ on a call, or 💤 catching up on sleep ️
🎥Better Video / Photo Mode: now takes up entire participant window
🔑Leave Call Hotkey (desktop app only): hit CMD+SHIFT+E / CTRL+SHIFT+E to leave your current conversation / channel
◀Sidebar Hider: see your team in full screen️
⚡Speed Improvements: less CPU usage in calls
🐞Bug Fixes: lots of them (and more incoming)
Up Next
📅Scheduled Meetings: integrate your calendar to automatically import and start meetings in Pragli
🐞Bug Fixes: we're spending a lot of time on bugs - keep letting us know about them by clicking on the blue bubble in the bottom right of Pragli
Howdy!

Welcome to the Pragli Newsletter!
This publication will be used to infrequently (maybe once a month?) send you the latest on Pragli.
- You are on this list because we spoke with you about Pragli or you gave the product a try, and we figured you would be interested.
- If we were mistaken, feel free to click "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the page.
We want to know if this is useful / what we can do better. Please share your feedback with us by replying to this email.
Survey of the Day
A number of you have told us that you don't exactly love the name "Pragli"...
We also think we can do better, but we are having trouble coming up with something great.
If you have ideas, please submit them here.
Feature Spotlight

Channels are like persistent meeting rooms. We include two for you by default:
- #water-cooler: Socialize with your teammates. No one in there? Join to signal to your teammates that you are free to chat
- #silent-room: Mute yourself when you join! This is a place to feel present with your teammates while you crank through your work
Some channel ideas to try:
- #standup: Where your team meets at 9am sharp to do the daily standup
- #war-room: Your product is down? Bad publicity? Office on fire? Jump into #war-room and pull in your colleagues to figure it out, now!
Two Spotlights!?
We had some catching up to do...

The team switcher allows you to quickly switch between teams and easily be online in multiple teams at once.
Importantly, anyone can start a conversation with you from any team in which you are online.
Want to only be online in one team, but want access to others? Just click the "set status" button underneath each team to set how you show up.
You can customize your team logo by clicking the ⚙️under the team name.
Changelog
#️⃣Channels: persistent meeting rooms
🏘️Team Switcher: switch easily between teams and be online in several at once
⚙️Settings Rework: settings have been split into user and team settings. Click on your avatar in the top left to mess with user settings, and click on the ⚙️ below the team name to access team preferences
👶New User Experience Rework: no more setup panes! New users drop straight into their team, where they will be gently prompted to learn about certain features
🎧Timed Focus Mode: click the 🎧below your avatar in the top left and select an amount of time. Your teammates will be shown how much longer in your focus session, and will be cautioned against interrupting you until it is over
📷Photo Mode: instead of a live avatar, Pragli takes photos of you periodically
Up Next
📅Scheduled Meetings: integrate your calendar to automatically import and start meetings in Pragli
👻Guest Mode: create a meeting link that anonymous guests can use (without accessing your entire team)