What’s new

The home on a phone, and a page counter that stays off when your browser asks

Feature

• On a phone, plyvel.com’s home is its own design: five short screens, from the approved image and its change to the receipt and the plans. On a wider screen the home is as it was.
• plyvel.com counts its page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, with no cookie and nothing kept on your device. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, the site does not load the counter at all. The app has no page-view counter.

Quality

• With a screen reader, each stage of a render is said once, with its state, and after Create the focus moves to the new render. The app’s screens are now checked for accessibility in the dark theme too.
• The home names Plyvel for what it is: the render system for architects.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone who visits plyvel.com, and everyone in the beta who uses a screen reader.Privacy

Staying signed in, the refund rules before you pay, and a second copy of finished work

Feature

• Signing in keeps you signed in across tabs and reloads with one secure cookie the page cannot read. Signing out in one tab signs you out in the others.

Quality

• With a screen reader, the app says the title of each new page, the sign-in form’s name, a source image once it is added, and a render’s first stage right after Create. A render’s stage list no longer repeats its name.

Reliability

• Every finished render and every receipt file is also copied to a second storage location in another region. Each copy is checked against the file’s recorded fingerprint, looked at again every day, and deleted when the original is.

Pricing and billing

• Pricing and the app’s pay screen state the refund rules as the published Refunds page and Terms do: a render that fails, or that Vel still cannot pass after its one included correction, costs nothing.

Deprecation

• The earlier local app’s pages have left this site. Their old addresses lead to the current pages.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone in the beta, and anyone who used the earlier local app.Refunds and cancellation

The terms, published, and what the app says about your data

Feature

• The Terms, the Privacy policy, Acceptable use, Refunds and cancellation, Delivery, Subprocessors and the app’s accessibility statement are published on this site. The app links them, and asks you to accept the terms once, at your next sign-in.
• Cancelling a render stops the work already under way.
• An open incident or planned maintenance shows in the app’s banner.
• Contact support has a category for appealing a decision about free credits or a limit. A person answers it.

Quality

• Settings, under Privacy and data, shows every period as decided: what the clean-up deletes and when, and what is kept as a record.
• The last step of an account deletion, removing the sign-in account itself, is run by Plyvel within 30 days.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone in the beta, and anyone reading this site.Terms of service

Sharing a receipt with words hidden, and moving a project into a team

Feature

• Share a receipt with chosen words hidden: the request’s words, notes, Vel’s findings in words, who accepted it and the acceptance note. The copy says “Hidden by the sender” for each, and its signature still checks.
• Each new receipt carries a timestamp from an independent time-stamping authority, so anyone can check when it existed.
• A project can move from your personal workspace into a team where you are an owner or admin. The team then sees it, with its renders and receipts.
• Plyvel can be installed from the browser, and shows a page of its own when you are offline.

Quality

• The app’s browser tests run on every change to it in Chromium, at desktop and phone sizes and right to left, with an automatic accessibility check of its main screens, and every week in Edge, Firefox and WebKit (Safari’s engine) too.
• Invitations say whether their email was sent.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone in the beta who shares a receipt or works in a team.The Render Receipt

The v3 workspace, and Difference

Feature

• The v3 workspace: the image leads, the versions run beside it as a filmstrip, Ply’s request line sits under it, and one panel is on the right.
• Compare modes in the bar: Slider, Side by side, Blink, Difference and the result alone, against the approved source or another version.
• Difference shows the result in grey with every changed pixel in red, and says when no pixel changed. It is not a geometry check, and it is not Vel’s review.
• Commands (Ctrl K, or Cmd K on a Mac) finds any action by name, and Focus hides the panels. Single-key shortcuts can be turned off.

Quality

• Help is rewritten for the app as it is today, with articles on regions, teams and invitations, approval, and billing.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone in the beta.Compare and approve

Approval, and the v2 workspace

Feature

• Approve: your decision to keep a result, recorded as “Approved by you · date” beside the receipt. It is never a state, it never changes Vel’s state, and it can be undone.
• Download image and receipt: one ZIP with the final image, its signed receipt, the approval record and a README.
• The v2 workspace: the image first, the request docked under it and the versions beside it; a projects home; a dark theme.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Everyone in the beta who keeps or shares a result.Compare and approve

The Plyvel app, in your browser

Feature

• The Plyvel app opens in your browser, in private beta and by invitation, on Plyvel’s staging server: email sign-in, projects and views, uploads, render requests to Ply with references, and a signed Render Receipt for every completed render.
• On Verified and Portfolio Renders, Vel reviews the result against your approved source and answers PASS, FIX or UNCERTAIN.
• Regions can be marked on the approved source, as PROVISIONAL: they are recorded with the request and in the receipt, but not yet used by the render engine or checked by Vel.

Pricing and billing

• Pricing shows the app’s plans and the credits each render type costs. Buying is not open during the beta: Plyvel adds credits.

Deprecation

• The earlier local app is not offered to new users.

In the beta, renders still run on test doubles: a render returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer.

Who it affects: Architects who applied for the beta, and anyone reading this site.Product