# Ekorbia v0.2 — chat groups and comparison-chat mode

> Source: <https://ekorbia.com/blog/2026-05-25-ekorbia-v0-2-chat-groups-and-compare.html>
> Published: 2026-05-25 00:00:00+00:00

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#
Ekorbia *v0.2* — chat groups & comparison
mode

**Ekorbia 0.2.0** is out with two new significant new
features and a couple of quality-of-life improvements.

## Chat groups (sidebar folders)

The history sidebar used to be flat with date buckets:
*Today*, *Yesterday*, *This week*.

0.2.0 adds user-defined folders that sit above the date buckets:

-
Click
**+ New group** at the top of the sidebar to create one. -
**Drag** any chat onto a folder header to file it. -
**Drag it back** into a date section to unfile. -
**Right-click** a chat for a context menu (rename, move, delete).

Groups are intentionally one level deep — no nested folders.

## Compare 2-3 models side-by-side

A new **comparison-chat mode**. Click the columns
icon in the sidebar, pick 2 or 3 installed models, send
one prompt — every model streams its response into an
adjacent column in parallel. When you find the answer
you want, click **✓ Keep this** on that column.

Three things happen on Keep:

- The chat transitions from compare mode to a normal single-model chat.
- The kept model becomes the chat's active model — follow-ups go to it.
-
The unpicked responses are preserved under a
**▸ N alternatives** disclosure on the kept message, so the comparison stays inspectable later.

It's deliberately a one-turn experience. If you want to
keep comparing you start a new compare chat. The full
walkthrough — including how the per-column Stop button
works, what to do if one model errors out, and the VRAM
gotchas when picking three large models — is in the
[docs](../docs/chat/compare.html).

Caveat: attachments aren't supported in compare mode yet. Files, folders, and the memory file are skipped for comparison sends. Prompts attach normally.

## Model + tokens footer on every assistant message

A 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?"

## Under the hood: database migrations

For the engineers: 0.2.0 introduces an
`apply_migrations()`

step in
`db.rs`

that runs after
`execute_batch(SCHEMA)`

, using
`ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN`

for any new columns
on upgraded installs. It's idempotent via
`PRAGMA`

introspection, so fresh installs
no-op through it and upgrades pick up the new columns
cleanly.

Practical 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.

## How to get it

The
[releases page](https://github.com/ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop/releases/latest)
has the `.dmg`

. Existing 0.1.x users: the
first launch will run the migration silently, no action
on your part.