Pages takes a huge step forward

Pages was only the beginning.

Throughout September, we shipped one of the largest development cycles since its release and turned it into a significantly more complete workspace for writing, organizing information and collaborating.

Databases get much more powerful

We expanded databases with several new ways to work with your information:

• Timeline / Gantt view

• Chart view

• Form view

• Gallery view

• Relations between databases

• Better filtering and grouping

• Faster database views

• Instant updates when editing data

• Redesigned database controls

Forms can also be published publicly, with every response automatically added to the connected database.

We also introduced a template gallery with 37 templates, including multi-page packs and live previews.

Tasks received their own dedicated block with:

• Due dates

• Recurrence

• Reminders

• Assignment

• Markdown export

Pages also gained live collaborator cursors and improved synchronization, making real-time collaboration much smoother.

Introducing Drime AI

September also introduced Drime AI directly inside Pages.

Instead of being a separate chatbot, Drime AI works with the page you’re currently editing.

It can:

• Write content

• Rewrite and improve existing content

• Restructure a page

• Create tables

• Work with databases

• Make changes directly inside your document

• Preview changes before applying them

• Undo an entire AI action

It’s powered by Mistral and is designed around privacy. It only receives the content you explicitly work with and does not have access to the rest of your Drime account. Your content is not used to train the model.

We also added:

• Side-by-side columns

• Better tables with headers, colours and merged cells

• Improved embeds

• Custom callout colours and icons

• Inline dates and reminders

• Better code blocks

• Outline navigation

• Improved slash commands

• Create with AI templates

• Publishing of sub-pages alongside their parent page

Pages is evolving quickly, and there’s still a lot more planned.

Drive gets more powerful

Drive also received a large number of new tools.

One of the most visible additions is the new Photos Map.

Photos and videos containing location metadata can now be explored directly on a map, making it much easier to rediscover media based on where it was captured.

We also added a completely new Storage view.

You can now more easily:

• Find your largest files

• Find duplicate files

• Understand where your storage is being used

• See usage across Drive

• See Vault usage

• See file version storage

• See workspace storage

• See Trash usage

Tags were improved too, with better search, multi-selection support and the ability to add tags directly from the right-click menu.

You can also generate a share link for multiple selected files at once.

Backups become part of Drive

Backups now have their own dedicated section directly inside the Drime sidebar.

Instead of treating a Backup like something completely separate, you can browse and interact with its files much more like regular Drive content.

You can:

• Browse Backup files

• Search inside Backups

• Select files

• Use right-click actions

• Download content directly

We also continued improving Backup performance and reliability across Desktop throughout the month.

More file formats and previews

Our goal is for Drime to understand as many of the files you store as possible.

September added:

• A real BIM viewer for IFC files

• Element inspection

• IFC properties

• Spatial tree navigation

• RAR extraction

• 7z extraction

• Better RAW camera thumbnails

• Improved NEF support

• Improved CR2 support

• Improved ARW support

• Improved DNG support

Video review comments also gained reactions, direct links and faster thumbnails.

The file list itself received pinned headers, cleaner selection controls and redesigned file dialogs.

Vault gets one of its biggest updates yet

Vault evolved considerably this month.

You can now create multiple Vaults inside the same account.

Each Vault can have:

• Its own name

• Its own colour

• Its own passphrase

• Its own encryption keys

• Its own reset flow

This makes it much easier to separate encrypted content based on projects, personal files or different use cases.

Encrypted PDF editing

The PDF Editor is now available directly inside Vault with end-to-end encryption.

Your PDF is decrypted locally in the browser, edited locally, then encrypted again before being stored.

Drime never needs access to the decrypted document.

We also improved Vault downloads significantly.

Large files can now be decrypted progressively while downloading instead of needing to fit entirely into memory, and folders can be compressed while they download.

Other Vault improvements include:

• Encrypted text file editing

• Drag and drop similar to Drive

• Faster listings

• Faster refreshes

• Progressive previews

• Better sorting

• Improved selection controls

A completely new Music Player

Audio had one of its largest upgrades yet.

Drime now has a persistent Music Player that keeps playing while you browse the rest of your Drive.

It includes:

• Persistent playback

• Reorderable queue

• Playlists

• Shared playlists between web and mobile

• Play an entire folder as a playlist

• Album artwork

• Artist metadata

• Album metadata

• Audio thumbnails

• Timestamped comments

You can also decide whether opening an audio file should simply preview it or immediately start playing it in the Music Player.

Sign gets Advanced Electronic Signatures

Sign also had a major month.

We introduced a new Advanced Electronic Signature level.

It includes:

• Individual PAdES signatures

• Qualified timestamps

• One-time signing certificates

• Signing codes sent by SMS or email

• Improved audit certificates

We also added multi-document envelopes.

Several PDFs can now be included in the same signing process while remaining separate signed documents.

Documents can be:

• Reordered

• Renamed

• Replaced

• Added together in batches

We also improved field editing, recovery and sealing reliability throughout Sign.

Mobile gets some of its biggest updates ever

September was an enormous month for Android and iOS.

Pages comes to mobile

Drime Pages is now available directly inside the mobile application.

You can:

• Create Pages

• Edit Pages

• Work with databases

• Share documents

• Access version history

.dpage files also open directly in the mobile app.

Pages is available across multiple languages and continues getting closer to the full web experience.

The PDF Editor gets rebuilt

We completely rebuilt the mobile PDF Editor.

The new editor goes significantly beyond basic annotations.

It includes:

• Proper text markup

• Advanced annotation editing

• Real redaction

• PDF forms

• Signatures

• Page management

• Merge

• Split

• Compress

• On-device OCR

Scan to PDF was rebuilt too, with better multi-page scanning and optional OCR.

This is one of the biggest document updates we’ve ever shipped on mobile.

Vault gets much closer to the web experience on mobile

Mobile now supports multiple Vaults per workspace.

You can:

• Switch between Vaults

• Use separate passwords and encryption keys

• Access Vault Trash

• Edit encrypted text files

• Preview encrypted content

• Download files

• Play encrypted videos

Vault now also automatically locks again when appropriate.

Performance and compatibility between web and mobile were improved significantly.

Photo Backup and Gallery improvements

Photo Backup continued receiving major reliability work, particularly on iOS.

We’ve reworked how originals are handled so Drime can:

• Upload the original file

• Better prevent duplicate uploads

• Recover missing uploads

• More reliably continue interrupted backups

Gallery also received:

• A new Comfortable layout

• Density controls

• Simpler sorting

• Simpler filtering

• Better performance

We also added an EPUB reader, while Markdown files can now open directly inside Pages.

Desktop had an enormous month

If you’ve been following our weekly updates, you’ve probably noticed just how quickly the Desktop apps have been changing.

During September alone, we shipped more than 10 updates across Windows and macOS.

A huge part of this work came directly from your logs, reports and testing.

Thank you.

Windows

Windows received some of its biggest sync updates yet.

Earlier in the month, we improved:

• Upload to Drime from Explorer

• Backup recovery after crashes

• Backup folder relinking

• Backup scanning

• Exclusion rules

• Online-only files

• Placeholder handling

• Network recovery

• IPv4 fallback

• Explorer thumbnails

• Synchronization recovery

We also fixed many situations where sync could stop or remain stuck after an interruption.

Later in the month, we shipped an even larger update.

Vault Sync

Vault is now available directly on Windows Desktop.

You can synchronize encrypted Vault content with your computer and use Selective Sync to decide which encrypted folders should remain locally available.

Multiple workspace synchronization

Workspace sync was completely reworked.

You can now synchronize multiple workspaces at the same time, with independent Selective Sync configurations for each workspace.

We also shipped:

• Dozens of additional synchronization fixes

• Much faster synchronization when adding files from Explorer

• Faster Backup startup

• Faster Backup scanning

• Better file display

• Better overall responsiveness

macOS keeps moving fast

The macOS application has also received frequent updates throughout September.

Among the improvements:

• Better handling of very large Finder folders

• Multipart uploads for large files

• Better retry behavior

• Fixed Finder actions

• Better recovery after sleep

• Client-side previews

• EXIF extraction during uploads

• Automatic recovery when a Drive stops responding

• Many sync reliability fixes

And we’re continuing.

Vault Sync and the new multiple-workspace system are also being brought to macOS.

Workspaces, accounts and localization

Workspaces gained:

• More complete audit trails

• Alert policy events

• Audit search

• Product access controls

• Invite-domain restrictions

• Clear identification of externally received files

• Password policies

Account customization also improved with:

• New avatar picker

• Photos or emoji avatars

• Custom avatar backgrounds

• Password strength indicator

• Redesigned checkout

  
  

Drime added Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, completely retranslated Japanese, and improved translation coverage throughout the platform.

Performance still matters

Features are important, but they can’t come at the expense of performance.

September included improvements to:

• File and folder renaming

• Pages databases

• File selection

• File hovering

• Quick View animations

• Audio waveform rendering

• Copy-link interactions

• General mobile navigation

• Vault listings

• Backup scanning

• Desktop synchronization

Developers, we need your feedback

Drime is working on OAuth 2.0 support and a proper application system for the Drime API.

Today, many integrations require users to manually create and provide an API token.

We want to make that much simpler. Developers will be able to create a Drime application, integrate Drime into their product, and let users authorize access through a proper authentication flow.

We’ve already integrated an early version into Transfr as a demo, and we’re now looking for developers who want to help us test the developer platform.

We know many of you already have feedback about our API and that’s exactly what we’re looking for.

To participate, send us an email at contact@drime.cloud.

What’s next

October is already looking busy.

iOS

A major iOS update is coming with a large batch of fixes and improvements, including:

• Improved iOS Files integration, especially for downloads

• More PDF Editor improvements

• A new Gallery view

• Additional reliability and performance fixes

Windows & macOS

Desktop development continues at the same pace.

Thank you

September was probably the largest month of releases we’ve ever had.

Thank you again for all your support and for sticking with us while we keep pushing Drime forward.

We’re not slowing down.

See you next month.

The Drime Team