16 September 2026

A bar you can type into

The header is rebuilt around a search box: press ⌘K — Ctrl K away from a Mac — and every conversion and every page in the app is two letters away. The bar itself now sits under the page rather than on top of it, the conversion you are on is the first thing on it, and the trail saying where you are moved out of the page and into a line of its own underneath.

Ten conversions, a handful of destinations and every page the footer lists is more than a row of links can carry. The old bar carried them anyway, so getting anywhere meant opening a menu, reading it, and picking — reasonable the first time and slow every time after, once you already know where you are going.

The bar now holds four things

The wordmark, which goes home. A control naming the conversion you are on — not the word "Converter", but Markdown to HTML or Excel to a Markdown table — which opens the ten of them and the live preview. The search box. Then the destinations as glyphs with their names in the tooltip, and the account menu.

The control keeps the conversion's name everywhere in the app, including on pages that are not conversions, because that is the question it exists to answer: which one you are coming back to. All ten names are drawn into the same cell with nine of them invisible, so the control is as wide as the longest name in whatever language is on and stops resizing under your cursor as you switch between them.

The box is a button

Nothing is typed into the bar itself. Clicking it, or pressing ⌘K — Ctrl K away from a Mac — opens a box over the page with the whole app in one list: your recent documents, the ten conversions with the extensions each one takes, the destinations, and the static pages with their addresses. Two letters and Return is the shortest way through any of it. The hint on the right of the box shows ⌘ or Ctrl depending on the machine, read after the page loads, because the server has no keyboard.

The trail moved out of the page

Where you are — the crumbs from the blog down to an article, or from the documentation down to a section — used to be printed by each page inside its own content. It now sits in a strip of its own directly under the bar, in the same place on every page, and the pages still decide what it says.

What it is not

Not a command line. Every row in the box goes somewhere — a conversion, a page, a document — and nothing in it converts, saves, deletes or shares. It also does not search inside your documents; that lives in the history, which can show what it found.