Changelog

On desktop, the editor no longer carries a top navigation bar. The space it used to take now belongs to your work.

• The project menu moved into the panel row. Rename, settings, and everything you used to reach for up top now sit right next to your tabs, where the rest of your project controls live.
• Publish rides the preview toolbar. The Publish button is now on the preview, exactly where you are already looking when you are ready to ship.
• A taller canvas and a calmer screen. Fewer bars competing for attention means more room for your code and your live preview, and the controls you need are next to the work instead of parked at the top.

Nothing was taken away - every action still has a home, just a better one. On phones and tablets the familiar top bar stays, so smaller screens are unchanged.

The template gallery is now fully stocked. Open "Start from a template" and you land in a browsable library of ready-made starting points - more than 50 of them - so you rarely have to begin from a blank screen.

• Site templates for landing pages, portfolios, and other static sites you can publish as-is and then reshape by describing the changes you want.
• Coding starters for full-stack apps - React, Vue, plain JavaScript, and more - including clean Empty starters for when you want the framework without any demo content.
• Ready in every language. The whole gallery is translated, so template names and descriptions read naturally across all of Playcode's supported languages.

Pick one and you are in the editor with a working project in a single click.

The top of the sidebar now holds a workspace switcher. Your personal space and any team workspaces you belong to are one click apart, and the switcher always shows which one you are working in.

Your account controls moved in behind it - profile, plan, and workspace settings now live under the switcher instead of being scattered around the screen. One tidy corner tells you who you are and where you are building, and gets you between workspaces without hunting for a menu.

On desktop, each project in the sidebar now shows a thumbnail - a screenshot of the project itself - so you recognize the one you want by sight instead of reading down a list of names.

Hover a project and a larger preview pops up, giving you a fuller look before you open it. Finding the right project across a long list is now a glance, not a hunt.

The project sidebar is now resizable. Drag its edge to make it as wide or as narrow as you like, from a slim strip to a roomy panel. Double-click the edge to snap back to the default width.

Playcode remembers the width you chose and brings it back every time you return, on every screen.

Settings is now one word. Everything that used to hide in the Preferences and Appearance menus - theme, language, editor options, AI defaults - lives in a single Settings modal you can open from anywhere.

The modal is grouped by scope, so it is always clear who a setting affects:

• Project - name, archive, publish address and custom domains, plus how the project runs: watermark, live reload, SPA mode, live view delay, loop protection, and production build options. This group appears when you open Settings from inside a project.
• You - profile, appearance, editor preferences, and your AI defaults (model tier, effort, context, voice input). These follow you across all workspaces.
• Workspace - general settings, people and teams, billing and plans, usage, and the affiliate program.

Two behaviors worth knowing:

• A chat keeps whatever quality settings you give it; a new chat starts from your defaults in Settings.
• To make the current chat's setup your default, use Set as my default right in the build-quality dialog - one tap, no extra dialog.

The project menu now holds only actions. Every knob has a home in Settings.

Playcode now asks for confirmation before you increase context above Medium, switch to Ultra, or move from a stronger model to Economy.

Each dialog explains the practical trade-off without discouraging the choice. Economy highlights lower credit use and explains what to do if a complex task starts repeating; larger context and Ultra explain their higher credit use. Re-selecting the current mode, lowering context, or leaving Ultra remains immediate.

Pro mode now starts with GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI's flagship model for complex builds, detailed design work, and difficult debugging.

Your existing model choice is preserved if you selected one yourself. You can switch the Pro model at any time from the build-quality picker or Preferences > AI Model > Quality Model.

Cloud projects now have a File Explorer. Open the Files tab in the editor's left panel to browse everything the AI built for you - and edit any file yourself.

• Browse your whole project. Folders load as you expand them, so even huge projects open instantly.
• Edit with a real code editor. Click a file to open it in a tab with syntax highlighting. Changes save automatically to your app.
• Stays in sync with the AI. When the AI finishes making changes, the file tree and your open files refresh on their own.
• Full file management. Create, rename, delete, and download files and folders right from the tree - folders arrive as a single archive.
• Upload from your computer. Drop files or whole folders onto the tree (structure preserved), or use the upload button.
• Markdown preview. Open any .md file and flip between source and a rendered preview.
• Drag to move. Reorganize your project by dragging files and folders in the tree.

Your files live on your app's own server, so what you see in the explorer is exactly what your app runs. Big or binary files (images, archives) show a summary card with a download button instead of opening as text.

Building a site is half the job - people need to find it. Your Playcode AI can now research real search data while it works on your project:

• Keyword research. Ask "what keywords should my site target?" and get real Google search volumes, difficulty scores, and search intent - not guesses. It can also pull the full keyword list any competitor ranks for.
• Backlink intelligence. See who links to any site: total authority, top referring domains, and the exact linking pages. Great for finding sites that link to your competitors but not to you yet.
• Live Google results. Check who actually ranks for a search today - and whether your site shows up.

Just ask in chat: "find low-competition keywords for my bakery site", "who links to my competitor?", or "where do I rank for handmade candles?". The AI pulls the data, reads it, and turns it into a concrete plan - new pages, better titles, link targets.

Available on paid plans. Each lookup uses a small amount of credits (about the same as generating an image), and repeated identical lookups within a day are free.