ChatKeeper Adventure Builds
Currently-licensed users can get early access to new and experimental ChatKeeper versions through Adventure Builds. These are sneak peeks at work in progress that let me share ChatKeeper more frequently and get faster feedback during development. Do you feel adventurous?
ChatKeeper 2026.01.178-adventure - January 30, 2026
Windows .msi (x86_64) macOS .pkg (arm64) macOS .pkg (x86_64) Linux .rpm (x86_64) Linux .deb (x86_64)
If the terminal isn’t your preferred environment, you’re in luck: this is the first peek at a GUI version of ChatKeeper! The GUI can do everything that the Command Line Interface (CLI) version can do, and the CLI is still included and fully supported. For the GUI, just use the desktop or menu shortcut, or invoke chatkeeper with no arguments.
Changes since version 1.3.0
- Most obviously, the GUI! Installation will create both a desktop and menu shortcut on your workstation. (Tip: just drag and drop your ChatGPT export into the application.)
- New version numbering scheme. Version numbers are now partially date-based, starting with the year and month in which a release was built. The third number resets each month and increments for every build (including test builds). Adventure builds also get a
-adventuretag at the end. - New platform-specific installers. ChatKeeper now uses native installers instead of straight binary downloads. This is required for GUI support, desktop shortcuts, and…
- Automatic addition to your PATH. Now you can just type
chatkeeperin a terminal no matter where you are - Fixed a failure to convert some conversations. Multimodal text parts containing non-strings were causing errors.
- Added proper handling for “Your Year with ChatGPT” conversations.
Still In Progress
- Provide a “Don’t show this dialog again for this build” option on some dialogs. The goal is to inform you, not annoy you 😁.
- Save and remember the GUI options between runs so you don’t have to enter them manually on each run.
- Implement the “Check for Updates” web page that users can open in their browser from the “Help & More” section of the GUI.
Known Issues (working on them now)
- On Windows, clicking the “Desktop” icon in a file or folder dialog appears to do nothing, and generates some error output to its log.
- If you are prompted by the GUI to install a license, and you install one that has already expired, there is no warning.
- The application icon is inconsistent on some platforms. Rather than the intended light bulb, you may see a default black and white Java “Duke” icon, either in menus or while running.
If you are currently using version 1.3.0 or earlier…
- Mac users: type
brew remove martian-software-inc/chatkeeper/chatkeeperin a terminal to remove the old version and avoid conflicts. - Everyone else: just delete the old chatkeeper executable.
