Transcript 1.0.87
LatestAug 17, 2026
- Stop the recording pulse animating behind a hidden overlay
- Stop Settings from re-laying out its window while idle
- Log when window layout saturates the main thread
Transcript updates
Changelog
See what changed in each Transcript release. Downloads only open for licensed macOS builds.
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Latest versions
Each release includes the version, date, and notes. Older DMGs are not linked from the changelog.
Transcript 1.0.86
Aug 15, 2026
Archived notes
- Make meeting alerts diagnosable and give them time to be answered
- Rebuild the capture chain when buffers stop reaching the file
Transcript 1.0.85
Aug 13, 2026
Archived notes
- Notarize with the App Store Connect API key instead of a keychain profile
- Recover a recording whose input tap never installed
Transcript 1.0.84
Aug 12, 2026
Archived notes
- Judge processing estimates in seconds rather than percentages
- Estimate recap regeneration for the settings that will run it
- Name meetings after what was said, and let the title be edited
- Stop asking to regenerate recaps that already know the people
- Tighten the welcome flow after seeing it run
- Introduce Transcript with a five-card welcome flow on first launch
- Make a new install work out of the box instead of recording into a void
Transcript 1.0.83
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Reduce recording overlay CPU usage
Transcript 1.0.82
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Make the free trial 7 recordings instead of 14 days
Transcript 1.0.81
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Add a 14-day free trial and keep licenses working through outages
Transcript 1.0.80
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Keep dictation audio when transcription fails and harden the dictation overlay
Transcript 1.0.79
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Offer Claude Code models from the CLI with the version each alias resolves to
- Offer Codex models from the CLI's live catalog instead of a hardcoded list
Transcript 1.0.78
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Validate the data folder before switching to it
- Retry failed Google Drive uploads and recover interrupted recordings automatically
- Upload to Google Drive before applying storage cleanup
Transcript 1.0.77
Aug 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Improve processing ETA accuracy for long recordings
- Show one end-to-end ETA for the whole recording from the start of processing
- Keep the original WAV until the converted M4A is verified playable
- Fix recording overlay appearing on the wrong display or staying hidden
Transcript 1.0.76
Aug 3, 2026
Archived notes
- Keep the call-detected alert from shrinking below its old width
- Match the people editor and setup card to the rest of the app
- Name the meeting in the call-detected alert
- Give the recording, meeting and dictation bars one appearance
- Stop the recording overlay from clipping away its own controls
- Keep every floating bar sized for the display it appears on
Transcript 1.0.75
Aug 1, 2026
Archived notes
- Stop asking to record a call that is already being recorded
- Make a paused recording look paused, and fold the setup away while capturing
- Stop truncating the microphone name in the overlay, and name its own styles
- Let the recap list be read from the keyboard
- Put the cursor and the emphasis where the delete dialog needs them
- Make the recap search clearable and reachable
- Raise the faint labels to a legible contrast
- Say when a recap action worked, wherever it was triggered
- Give the settings text a scale, and design the light theme
- Clear the requested settings tab once it has been applied
- Make the recorder sidebar read as a launcher
- Wrap the recap metadata instead of hiding it past the edge
- Stop stacking two titles on one card, and drop the translucent panels
- Draw every settings surface from the same definition
- Give the settings window a darker, layered look
Transcript 1.0.74
Jul 31, 2026
Archived notes
- Stop the release before it can publish a broken feed
- Refuse to run a second copy of Transcript
Transcript 1.0.73
Jul 31, 2026
Archived notes
- Start recording immediately instead of checking the recap model first
- Always show the recording overlay on the primary display
Transcript 1.0.72
Jul 31, 2026
Archived notes
- Bump CLI to 1.12.0
- Name the speaker in recaps instead of calling them Local
Transcript 1.0.71
Jul 31, 2026
Archived notes
- Merge people instead of replacing them, and let invitees be removed
- Attach and remove people from the overlay during a meeting
- Keep attendee names from Calendar instead of only addresses
- Suggest people from past sessions when attaching them
- Move the people control out of the metadata chip row
- Edit a session's people and regenerate its recap from the app
Transcript 1.0.70
Jul 30, 2026
Archived notes
- Attach people to a session without a calendar event
- Take meeting context through the pipeline instead of calendar events
- Unify the recap header on one format
- Render meeting context from one model in the app and the CLI
- Share meeting participant logic between the app and the CLI
- Document the meeting context design
- Catch CLI releases that skip the app bundle
Transcript 1.0.69
Jul 30, 2026
Archived notes
- Import existing audio files as sessions with the CLI
Transcript 1.0.68
Jul 14, 2026
Archived notes
- Improve recording microphone and notch overlay
Transcript 1.0.67
Jul 13, 2026
Archived notes
- Prevent Recaps from reloading Drive credentials while rendering
Transcript 1.0.66
Jul 13, 2026
Archived notes
- Validate recording dependencies and recover failed Drive uploads
- Add an editable recap glossary to AI settings
- Stop disabled shortcuts and benign update checks from failing
- Clear stale session errors after successful processing
- Guide users from AI errors to settings
- Make update checks recover from stuck Sparkle sessions
- Make dictation use Option D by default
- Keep the recording overlay visible after moving it
- Recover incomplete Whisper models before transcribing
Transcript 1.0.65
Jun 19, 2026
Archived notes
- Add dictation, menu bar settings, and sturdier overlays
Transcript 1.0.64
Jun 18, 2026
Archived notes
- Limit Google Calendar OAuth scopes to declared permissions
- Add recording folder picker to sidebar
Transcript 1.0.63
Jun 17, 2026
Archived notes
- Improve calendar matching when multiple meetings overlap
- Add AI-assisted meeting disambiguation before generating recaps
- Improve Google Calendar and OAuth account handling
- Make processing ETAs smarter in both the app and CLI by using comparable historical runs
- Refresh AI model defaults and custom model handling
Transcript 1.0.62
Jun 17, 2026
Archived notes
- Share WhisperKit models in CLI transcription
Transcript 1.0.61
Jun 10, 2026
Archived notes
- Add cloud sync automation improvements
Transcript 1.0.60
Jun 9, 2026
Archived notes
- Version app-managed CLI wrapper
Transcript 1.0.59
Jun 9, 2026
Archived notes
- Harden bundled Transcript CLI
Transcript 1.0.58
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Improve Drive sync and meeting alerts
Transcript 1.0.57
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Wire Google Drive cloud sync uploads
Transcript 1.0.56
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Fix settings tab navigation requests
Transcript 1.0.55
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Detect incomplete Whisper model downloads
Transcript 1.0.54
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Avoid Keychain prompts for secure credentials
Transcript 1.0.53
Jun 8, 2026
Archived notes
- Harden app config storage
- Add Drive sync routing and license cleanup
- Move recap deletion into actions menu
- Add safe recap deletion flow
Transcript 1.0.52
Jun 5, 2026
Archived notes
- Make system audio permission recovery retryable
- Harden release pipeline after notarized launch
- Avoid opening build folder during release
Transcript 1.0.51
Jun 5, 2026
Archived notes
- Fix notarized DMG packaging
- Require notarization for release builds
- Fix Developer ID Release signing settings
- Prepare Release signing for Developer ID
- Add license gate and harden release distribution
- Backfill release changelog history
- Publish release changelog feed
Transcript 1.0.50
Jun 4, 2026
Archived notes
- Clarify list date default
- Add local remote diarization hints
Transcript 1.0.49
Jun 2, 2026
Archived notes
- Stabilize recap copy feedback
- Improve recap copy responsiveness
- Move recap export into actions menu
- Match recap export filenames
- Validate CLI export support before exporting
- Add recap export menu
- Improve recap markdown hierarchy
- Remove provider logo from recaps list rows
- Experiment with compact recaps browser
Transcript 1.0.48
Jun 2, 2026
Archived notes
- Show provider logo in recorder sidebar
- Use provider logos in recap chips
- Simplify recaps action buttons
- Stop resizing settings window by tab
- Use compact default settings window size
- Make recaps view resize with settings window
- Add folder filter to recaps browser
- Give recaps detail more room
- Show copied state on recap buttons
- Optimize recaps browser loading
- Fix recap metadata chip layout
- Add recaps browser to settings
Transcript 1.0.47
Jun 1, 2026
Archived notes
- Add setup checklist to settings
- Open settings on AI tab by default
- Apply hybrid setup after Whisper download
- Guide users to hybrid transcription setup
- Unify overlay controls
- Polish settings content chrome
- Group advanced settings sections
- Observe recorder meter in settings sidebar
- Unify audio visualizer motion
- Use native settings sidebar
- Extract AI settings controller
- Extract shared settings chrome
Transcript 1.0.46
May 31, 2026
Archived notes
- Harden CLI agent recording status
- Polish CLI folder output
- Show duration in CLI list
- Add CLI list limit option
- Fix CLI partial date listing
Transcript 1.0.45
May 30, 2026
Archived notes
- Harden calendar sync and meeting joins
- Harden recording health warnings
- Add recap export command
Transcript 1.0.44
May 28, 2026
Archived notes
- Harden recording audio capture health
Transcript 1.0.43
May 28, 2026
Archived notes
- Keep recording overlay within screen bounds