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            <title><![CDATA[What's new in ZTools: tours, a phone app view and plans]]></title>
            <link>https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/whats-new-2026-10</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Page tours and a six-step walkthrough, an app view on phones, the Workbench design, and ZTools Pro and Growth Suite plans.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Useful tools. One workbench. This release brings the Workbench design to the web app, an app view on phones,
guided tours, and plans you can buy.</p>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="guided-tours-and-a-walkthrough">Guided tours and a walkthrough<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/whats-new-2026-10#guided-tours-and-a-walkthrough" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Guided tours and a walkthrough" title="Direct link to Guided tours and a walkthrough" translate="no">​</a></h2>
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<li class="">On the home page, Speak, Meeting notes, Plans, the dashboard and account settings, the tour button shows a short tour
of that page. The first time you visit one of these pages, a hint says: "Take a quick tour of this page".</li>
<li class=""><a href="https://ztools.zaions.com/walkthrough" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">How ZTools works</a>: six short screens show what ZTools does. Start anywhere.</li>
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<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="an-app-view-on-phones">An app view on phones<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/whats-new-2026-10#an-app-view-on-phones" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to An app view on phones" title="Direct link to An app view on phones" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<p>On a phone, home, the dashboard, account settings, sign-in and the first-run screens open as app screens, with a bottom
bar for Home, Dashboard, Speak, Plans and Account. Web and Android · Many tools work without signing in.</p>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="plans">Plans<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/whats-new-2026-10#plans" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Plans" title="Direct link to Plans" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<p>ZTools offers a free plan and paid plans. Each paid plan's price, billing period and allowances are shown on the
<a href="https://ztools.zaions.com/growth/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">Plans page</a> before you pay. Payments are processed by Polar. ZTools never
receives your card number.</p>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="shared-ai">Shared AI<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/whats-new-2026-10#shared-ai" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Shared AI" title="Direct link to Shared AI" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<p>If Anthropic's shared credit is unavailable, ZTools sends the same request from its server to OpenAI instead, within the
same allowance. If neither can answer, AI pauses.</p>
<p>The ZTools team</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the ZTools Blog]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the first post on the ZTools documentation blog. We'll use this space for:]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the first post on the ZTools documentation blog. We'll use this space for:</p>
<ul>
<li class=""><strong>Release notes</strong> — what's new in each ZTools update</li>
<li class=""><strong>Tool spotlights</strong> — deep-dives on individual tools and the problems they solve</li>
<li class=""><strong>Dev journal</strong> — design decisions, technical tradeoffs, occasional mistakes</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="whats-shipped-may-2026">What's shipped (May 2026)<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/welcome#whats-shipped-may-2026" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to What's shipped (May 2026)" title="Direct link to What's shipped (May 2026)" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<ul>
<li class=""><strong>Tools live</strong> at <a href="https://ztools.zaions.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">ztools.zaions.com</a> — all browser-only, no signup, no upload</li>
<li class=""><strong>First wave of docs</strong> — top 20 highest-demand tools documented with use cases, examples, and FAQs (<a class="" href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/docs/tools">browse them →</a>)</li>
<li class=""><strong>GitHub repo</strong> for this docs site is open-source: <a href="https://github.com/aoneahsan/ztools-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">github.com/aoneahsan/ztools-docs</a></li>
<li class=""><strong>Android app</strong> shipped on Play Store; iOS pending Apple developer account approval</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq" id="whats-next">What's next<a href="https://ztools-docs.zaions.com/blog/welcome#whats-next" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to What's next" title="Direct link to What's next" translate="no">​</a></h2>
<ul>
<li class="">15-20 tools per batch through batch 35+ until every documented tool from the app appears here</li>
<li class="">Long-form how-to guides covering common workflows (compress images, format JSON, generate strong passwords)</li>
<li class="">Algolia DocSearch integration for site-wide search</li>
</ul>
<p>If there's a tool you'd like documented sooner, <a href="https://github.com/aoneahsan/ztools-docs/issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">open an issue on GitHub</a> and we'll bump it up the queue.</p>
<p>— Ahsan</p>]]></content:encoded>
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