{"slug": "ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode", "title": "Ekorbia v0.2 — chat groups and comparison-chat mode", "summary": "Ekorbia released version 0.2.0 of its desktop application, introducing user-defined chat group folders in the sidebar and a comparison-chat mode that lets users send one prompt to two or three installed models simultaneously. The update also adds model attribution and token counts to every assistant message, and includes database migration support for seamless upgrades without data loss.", "body_md": "[← All posts](./index.html)\n\n#\nEkorbia *v0.2* — chat groups & comparison\nmode\n\n**Ekorbia 0.2.0** is out with two new significant new\nfeatures and a couple of quality-of-life improvements.\n\n## Chat groups (sidebar folders)\n\nThe history sidebar used to be flat with date buckets:\n*Today*, *Yesterday*, *This week*.\n\n0.2.0 adds user-defined folders that sit above the date buckets:\n\n-\nClick\n**+ New group** at the top of the sidebar to create one. -\n**Drag** any chat onto a folder header to file it. -\n**Drag it back** into a date section to unfile. -\n**Right-click** a chat for a context menu (rename, move, delete).\n\nGroups are intentionally one level deep — no nested folders.\n\n## Compare 2-3 models side-by-side\n\nA new **comparison-chat mode**. Click the columns\nicon in the sidebar, pick 2 or 3 installed models, send\none prompt — every model streams its response into an\nadjacent column in parallel. When you find the answer\nyou want, click **✓ Keep this** on that column.\n\nThree things happen on Keep:\n\n- The chat transitions from compare mode to a normal single-model chat.\n- The kept model becomes the chat's active model — follow-ups go to it.\n-\nThe unpicked responses are preserved under a\n**▸ N alternatives** disclosure on the kept message, so the comparison stays inspectable later.\n\nIt's deliberately a one-turn experience. If you want to\nkeep comparing you start a new compare chat. The full\nwalkthrough — including how the per-column Stop button\nworks, what to do if one model errors out, and the VRAM\ngotchas when picking three large models — is in the\n[docs](../docs/chat/compare.html).\n\nCaveat: attachments aren't supported in compare mode yet. Files, folders, and the memory file are skipped for comparison sends. Prompts attach normally.\n\n## Model + tokens footer on every assistant message\n\nA subtle monospace line at the bottom of every assistant reply now shows which model produced the response and the token counts (prompt / completion / total). If you switched models mid-conversation, scrolling back through the chat now makes attribution obvious — no more \"wait, which one wrote that?\"\n\n## Under the hood: database migrations\n\nFor the engineers: 0.2.0 introduces an\n`apply_migrations()`\n\nstep in\n`db.rs`\n\nthat runs after\n`execute_batch(SCHEMA)`\n\n, using\n`ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN`\n\nfor any new columns\non upgraded installs. It's idempotent via\n`PRAGMA`\n\nintrospection, so fresh installs\nno-op through it and upgrades pick up the new columns\ncleanly.\n\nPractical effect: from 0.2.0 onward, schema changes can ship without users having to delete their database. The chat groups and compare-mode features both rely on this — it'd have been substantially harder to ship them otherwise.\n\n## How to get it\n\nThe\n[releases page](https://github.com/ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop/releases/latest)\nhas the `.dmg`\n\n. Existing 0.1.x users: the\nfirst launch will run the migration silently, no action\non your part.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode", "canonical_source": "https://ekorbia.com/blog/2026-05-25-ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-compare.html", "published_at": "2026-05-25 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 13:45:13.984729+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Ekorbia"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-comparison-chat-mode.jsonld"}}