Whiteboards are here

One of the most requested collaborative features is finally available.

You can now create collaborative whiteboards directly inside Drime.

Unlike traditional whiteboard tools, Whiteboards behave like real files inside your drive through the new .drimeboard format. You can organize them, move them, share them, and collaborate on them exactly like any other file.

Features include:

• Real-time collaboration

• Diagrams and flowcharts

• Text and rich content

• Drawing tools

• Arrows and connectors

• Slides and presentations

• Reactions

• Comments

• Sharing and permissions

• Vault support

And because Whiteboards are integrated into Vault, you can even create fully end-to-end encrypted whiteboards.

Desktop V2 is now available on Windows

This is by far our biggest desktop release ever.

The previous desktop application had accumulated technical limitations over time, making it difficult to maintain and improve.

Rather than patching the existing app, we decided to rebuild everything from scratch.

For the past three weeks, the application has been used by beta testers and early adopters while we monitored performance and stability.

The feedback has been extremely positive.

Major additions include:

• Completely rebuilt sync engine

• Selective Sync

• Custom Drime folder location

• File and folder exclusions

• Desktop notifications

• Network bandwidth limits

• Proxy support

• Storage management controls

• Native "Open With" integration

• Open files directly with applications installed on your computer

• Share files directly from the desktop app

• Copy links directly from the desktop app

We're still actively collecting feedback and shipping updates every week.

Introducing Drime Backups (Beta)

Following the release of Desktop V2, we're introducing Drime Backups.

Backups allow you to protect important folders on your computer by continuously backing them up to Drime.

Unlike synced folders, backups are stored as read-only copies in the cloud, making them ideal for recovery and long-term protection.

Current features include:

• Folder backups

• Scheduled backups

• Backup monitoring

• Real-time status

• Error tracking

• Centralized backup management

This is currently available in beta on Windows and will continue to evolve over the coming months.

Search gets a major upgrade

Search has been one of our biggest focuses this month.

We've redesigned large parts of the search infrastructure to make it significantly faster, more accurate and more reliable.

New capabilities include:

• Full-text search inside newly uploaded PDF files

• Full-text search inside DOCX files

• Full-text search inside XLSX files

• Full-text search inside PPTX files

• Typo tolerance

• Fuzzy matching

• Faster indexing

• Improved caching

• Folder-specific search

To be clear, Drime only extracts searchable text. No AI is used to analyze your documents.

Vault continues to evolve

Vault received several important updates this month.

The biggest change is that every workspace can now have its own Vault.

Other improvements include:

• One Vault per workspace

• Encrypted sharing links

• Whiteboard support

• Improved previews

• Better reliability

• UI consistency with Drive

Encrypted sharing remains fully end-to-end encrypted. Drime never has access to your encryption keys or shared content.

Send & Track improvements

We've continued improving analytics and tracking capabilities.

New additions include:

• Better bot filtering

• Exclude workspace members from analytics

• Real-time presence

• PDF click tracking

• Video event tracking

• Multiple links per file

Drime Sign improvements

Several improvements have been made across Drime Sign.

• Faster /sign page

• New drag-and-drop sidebar

• New editor interface

• Improved field handling

• Various bug fixes and reliability improvements

Referrals are now available

You can now invite friends and earn additional storage.

Available from Settings → Invite Friends.

How it works:

• Share your referral link

• A friend signs up

• They verify their email

• Both accounts receive 5GB of storage for 365 days

You can earn up to 30GB of additional storage.

Contacts & Sharing Suggestions

When you share files, folders or workspaces, Drime now automatically learns who you collaborate with.

Features include:

• Automatic contact creation when sharing with someone

• Sharing suggestions

• Dedicated Contacts page to manage your network

• Remove contacts at any time

Additional improvements

We've also shipped a large number of smaller but impactful features.

Transcription

• Audio transcription

• Search inside transcripts

• Edit transcript content

• Replace transcript text

Sharing

• New Share with Transfr button

• Instantly send files to Transfr.me

Authentication

• Secure Passkey support

• Passwordless authentication

File management

• New file picker with integrated previews

• Folder search support

• Better drag-and-drop experience

Personalization

• Profile picture resizing

• Custom date formats

• Improved date display

User experience

• Improved navigation

• Better toolbar behavior while scrolling

• Numerous UI improvements

Bug fixes

As always, a large part of our work goes into fixing issues across the platform.

Some notable fixes include:

• Drag-and-drop overlay issues

• Quick Access navigation problems

• Responsiveness issues

• Profile picture update issues

• Workspace avatar issues

• Branding configuration bugs

• Upload issues after profile updates

• Gallery selection issues

• Image rotation issues

• Various gallery interactions

• Dozens of additional bug fixes

Mobile improvements

We're continuing to improve the mobile experience.

Recent updates include:

• Better upload reliability

• Improved large file handling

• Backups page support

• Stability improvements

• Performance optimizations

Some of these updates are currently awaiting approval from Apple and Google.

What about macOS?

We know many of you are waiting for Desktop V2 on macOS.

The wait has been longer than expected, but we wanted to make sure the rewrite was worth it.

The Windows release has given us valuable feedback and confidence in the new architecture, and we're actively working toward the macOS release.

A note about Desktop V2 upgrades

Desktop V2 cannot automatically upgrade from the previous desktop application.

If you're still using the old version:

• Download Desktop V2 manually from drime.cloud/desktop

• Uninstall the previous desktop app

• Install the new version

In some situations, remnants of the old application can create conflicts even after uninstalling. We've added automatic cleanup mechanisms, but if you encounter any issues, please contact us and we'll help.

Thank you

Every month, Drime continues to grow faster than we expected. With that growth comes new challenges, but also new opportunities to improve the platform.

Thank you again for all your feedback, bug reports, feature requests and support. We read far more than you might think, and many of the features released this month came directly from community feedback.

We're just getting started!

The Drime Team