TL;DR: Download Dash 8 for macOS and try it out! Dash 8 is free for all Dash subscribers and brings AI integration capabilities along with several improvements: AI Integration Dash 8 introduces support for MCP (Model Context Protocol), a protocol that allows AI assistants like Claude to access your documentation directly. This means you can now ask AI tools to search through your installed docsets…
TL;DR: Download Dash 7 for macOS and try it out! Dash 7 is the latest version of Dash and comes with a general-purpose docset generator and lots of new features. Dash 7 costs only €1.25 / month (billed yearly) . Subscribe here . There’s no need to worry if you purchased Dash recently, existing Dash licenses are valid in Dash 7 for 2 years since the date of purchase of the old license .…
TL;DR: Download Dash 6 for macOS and try it out! Dash 6 is the latest version of Dash and comes with a new interface design and lots of new features. Dash 6 is a paid upgrade ( $19.99 + VAT ). To upgrade, download Dash 6 and add your existing Dash license in Preferences > Purchase and you’ll be prompted to upgrade. Anyone that purchased Dash after the 15th of November 2020 gets to upgrade…
I’ve decided to discontinue Dash for iOS , as maintaining it is no longer sustainable. Every year, Apple releases a new version of iOS, which requires updating Dash to support the new OS and work around any new bugs. Dash for iOS worked great on iOS 12, but is an unusable mess on iOS 13 and will only get worse. Dash for iOS also uses UIWebView extensively, which won’t be accepted on…
TL;DR: Download Dash 5 for macOS and try it out! Dash 5 is the latest version of Dash and includes a lot of improvements and a completely new, streamlined search interface. Dash 5 is a paid upgrade ( $19.99 + VAT ). To upgrade, download Dash 5 and add your existing Dash license in Preferences > Purchase and you’ll be prompted to upgrade. Anyone that purchased Dash after the 1st of September…
In case you like living on the edge, Dash 4 seems to work great with the macOS Catalina beta. The Apple API Reference docset was updated to work with the latest docs from the Xcode 11 beta. To use the Xcode 11 beta docs, make sure xcode-select -p (in Terminal) points to the location where you have Xcode 11 installed. Use xcode-select -s <path-to-xcode> (in Terminal) to change the active version of…
I’m happy to report Dash has had its best year to date. Revenue in 2017 was 30% higher than Dash’s previous best year, 2015. Revenue Sources Users from 128 countries have purchased Dash. The top regions and countries are shown below: Bandwidth Usage Dash used 520 TB of bandwidth in 2017, distributed over 7 servers: Server Costs Server costs were $4,835 in 2017. Docsets Dash currently…
TL;DR: Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and it’s completely free . Ever since I’ve open-sourced Dash for iOS there have been a lot of requests for Dash to get back on the App Store, as the process to install it from source isn’t exactly user-friendly. Quite a few “developers” have even added it to the App Store themselves, violating the GNU GPL license in the…
TL;DR: Download Dash 4 for macOS and try it out! Dash 4 is the latest and greatest Dash release. It incorporates the most popular feature requests in a new streamlined interface. Enjoy! Dash 4 is a paid upgrade ($14.99) for existing Dash users. To upgrade, download Dash 4 and add your Dash 2 or Dash 3 license in Preferences > Purchase and you’ll be prompted to upgrade. Anyone that purchased…
A lot of users have expressed concerns about the future of Dash after Apple removed it from the App Store. This post is meant to give some insight into how Dash is doing exactly, as well as some interesting tidbits. Revenue in 2016 All of Dash’s App Store revenue has migrated to direct sales, with a slight increase. The downhill from Q1 to Q3 is due to saturation of the Dash 3 paid upgrade.…
Dash for iOS 1.6.0 is now available. What’s New Added support for cheat sheets – #22 Added support for user contributed docsets – #20 Added state restoration support. Thanks to @zhongwuzw for the great work on this – #18 Fixed Unity 3D docset bug which caused it to not remember the selected language. Thanks to @hantengx for reporting the issue – #17 Fixed a crash in…
Dash for iOS can now be found on GitHub . Installation instructions can be found here .
Dash 3.4 is now available. What’s New Apple API Reference Improvements: The Apple API Reference docset now reads the docs from within Xcode 8. This reduces disk space usage while also allowing me to modify & improve the docs at display-time. Thanks a lot to the Xcode team at Apple for helping me understand the new documentation format! The doc pages of classes will now display full…
Dash 3.3 is now available. What’s New macOS Sierra Support . Dash should work fine with macOS Sierra. If you notice any bugs, let me know . Apple API Reference Support . Apple has new API docs . You can use them in Dash by installing the Apple API Reference docset. GitHub Docsets Repo . You can now generate docsets from any GitHub repo’s markdown files and wiki pages. Check out…
Apple released previews of Xcode 8 and macOS Sierra yesterday and some changes need to be made to get Dash up to speed: New Apple docs and new doc format . Xcode 8 doesn’t come with docsets anymore and that means Dash won’t automatically support the iOS 10, macOS 10.12, watchOS 3 and tvOS 10 docs. I’m working on a version of Dash that supports the new docs and will release an…
TL;DR: Download Dash 3 for macOS and try it out! Dash 3 for macOS is the biggest update I’ve ever worked on and I’m happy to announce it’s finally available. It comes with a lot of features that you, the users, have requested and some features which I’ve always wanted to add but never had the time until now. Dash 3 is a paid upgrade. To upgrade, download Dash 3 and follow…
What are you still doing here? Go get it .
For the past few months I’ve been working on bringing Dash to iOS. I’ve finally reached a point where I can share what Dash will and won’t be like on iOS. If all goes well, a beta of Dash for iOS will be released sometime in November, followed by an App Store release in December, hopefully 2014. The boring news It’s going to be an universal app and will support both iPhone…
At the beginning of 2014 I’ve started looking for other developers to bring Dash to other platforms. A few days ago, Velocity for Windows was released. Just like Dash on macOS, Velocity gives your PC instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets, so you can get to the programming docs you need as quickly as possible. Velocity is made by Jamie da Silva and not by me. I’ve just…
I’m getting lots of requests to add support for Swift. This post is to assure everyone that I’m working on it. The good news is that the macOS 10.10 and iOS 8 docsets already include Swift alongside Objective-C. For example, check out the NSString Class Reference in macOS 10.10 . The bad news is that Apple changed the look and feel of their docsets and there are a few changes required…