Changelog

Keyboard and mouse stay responsive

Fixes a system-wide input freeze where typing stopped appearing and clicks barely worked until TypeWhisper was quit (#1513).

TypeWhisper watches the keyboard for its hotkeys before other apps receive the keys. Until now every keystroke waited for TypeWhisper's main thread, so when that thread stalled, input across the whole Mac stalled with it. macOS then switched the hotkey listener off, and TypeWhisper switched it straight back on into the same stall.

• Hotkey matching now runs on its own thread. If TypeWhisper does not pick up a keystroke within 100 ms, the keystroke goes straight to the app you are typing in. A hotkey check that has already started gets up to another half second.
• While TypeWhisper is unresponsive, keys reach your apps right away. Hotkeys pressed in that time take effect once TypeWhisper responds again.
• If macOS switches the listener off repeatedly for being too slow, TypeWhisper waits before turning it back on instead of re-enabling it right away.
• Diagnostic logs now record how long TypeWhisper stopped responding.

TypeWhisper 1.7.0 is the stable 1.7 macOS release. History and Inbox now sync through iCloud, shortcuts are set on a visual keyboard, and the last dictation can be undone.

Highlights

• History and Inbox sync through iCloud. The redesigned History groups entries by device and can be filtered and searched.
• Shortcuts are configured on a visual Mac keyboard. Key labels follow the active macOS input source, and the editor shows conflicts and unavailable keys.
• The dictation indicator comes in Classic, Glass, and Light, with a live preview on the new Appearance settings page.
• Undo Last Dictation and Restore Raw Transcript are available in the menu bar and as global hotkeys. Both replace the inserted text directly and leave the clipboard untouched. If the target field or caret has changed, TypeWhisper declines and says so.
• Dictation Recovery keeps the last three successful dictations for up to 24 hours, so an incomplete provider response can be retried even when it looked successful. The Immediately retention setting turns this off.
• Files can be transcribed from Finder, and the optional Web Link plugin transcribes web media.
• Local plugins can import compatible speech models from a Hugging Face repository or a local folder. The new Canary ASR plugin is one of them.

Dictation and shortcuts

• New ways to finish a dictation: spoken submit, submit with Enter for a single dictation, Inline Commands, and an action that pastes the last transcription.
• Cancellation can be set to double Escape, single Escape, immediate, or disabled.
• Escape used to cancel a dictation no longer reaches the target app. After cancellation it works normally again.
• Fixed layout crashes in the notch indicator, the command palette, Settings, and the recent-transcriptions menu. The Overlay and Minimal indicators now use the notch indicator's safeguard.
• Fixed lost Stop hotkeys. Modifier-only shortcuts recover after event-monitor interruptions without swallowing the next Stop press.
• Automatic Fallback has an opt-in hedge: if the primary engine has not answered within a configurable threshold, the same audio also goes to the recovery engine and the first result wins. A dispatched race costs one extra API call.
• The final-transcription phase has a deadline, and dictation starts when the recovery engine is the only ready engine.
• When dictation cannot start, TypeWhisper explains why and links to the fix.
• Dictation stays pinned to the field where the recording started. TypeWhisper restores the original app and field for the final insertion and falls back to Recent Transcriptions when it cannot.
• When a failed dictation's recording was saved, the indicator says so and offers Open Recovery.
• Short, quiet dictations are transcribed in aggressive mode.
• Media is paused before Bluetooth capture starts, and the Bluetooth input is released before media resumes.
• The opt-in input preparation now covers all Bluetooth microphones and reuses the running stream between dictations, which shortens recording startup.
• Fixed external headset microphones being treated as the unavailable internal microphone in clamshell mode.
• Fixed dictation insertion in Thunderbird.
• The setup wizard distinguishes selected, installed, loaded, and tested models. Setup completes only when the current engine can transcribe and both permissions are granted. Incomplete setup offers Finish Later.

Text handling and workflows

• Number formatting offers Always, 10 and above (the default), and 100 and above under Settings → Dictation → Output Formatting. Smaller spoken whole numbers and ordinals keep their wording; decimals and recognized digit sequences still become digits. The threshold also applies when a workflow enables number normalization, and settings backups preserve it.
• Dictionary corrections apply before workflow LLM processing, and workflows share vocabulary. Long dictations can be processed in segments.
• Vocabulary can be imported from Wispr Flow, Handy, and compatible CSV files. Unsupported formats are reported as such.
• Snippet triggers require word boundaries.
• German clock times are written with a colon, and English month and day phrases are normalized. Fixed the final-period cleanup for standalone dictated values.
• Auto-submit is skipped when raw text is inserted after an LLM failure.
• When LLM post-processing fails, the raw transcription is inserted with a short notice instead of being discarded.
• An empty LLM result that two or more providers return independently is treated as intentional, not as a failure.
• Correction learning works in Electron and Chromium apps.

History, data, and administration

• Windows dictation and Recorder entries appear as their own History sources.
• Recorder rows have a copy-transcript action, and recent transcriptions sit in a workflow palette submenu.
• All app data can be exported or deleted in Advanced settings.
• typewhisper export and typewhisper import move a settings backup from the command line, with matching endpoints in the local API.
• History loads in pages with endless scrolling instead of reading the whole archive at launch.
• Fixed a finalization race in the Recorder preview and incomplete WhisperKit transcripts of Recorder sessions.
• Mac users see a pointer to the iPhone and iPad app once. It can be opened again from Settings.
• Administrators can provision ManagedLicenseKey through a macOS configuration profile or user-context script. TypeWhisper activates it automatically, reuses the activation across launches, and shows organization-managed licensing controls. See the MDM deployment guide.
• Final-transcription diagnostics include audio duration, word counts, and segment timing. They do not log audio, prompt contents, or transcript text.
• Settings use the native macOS sidebar.

Models and integrations

• Groq no longer sends dictionary terms by default. In tests with German dictations, the term list made Whisper Large V3 skip most of some dictations, while the same audio without terms came back complete. Settings you changed yourself are kept, and dictionary corrections after transcription still apply. You can turn terms back on under Groq → Send dictionary terms. A prompt sent through the HTTP API still reaches Groq when terms are off.
• On HTTP 429, OpenAI, Cohere, and plugins built on the OpenAI-compatible helpers show the provider's own message when the response contains one. Otherwise they show a generic message that names both quota and rate limits. The dictation indicator shows long error messages in full.
• The new Vercel AI Gateway plugin covers transcription and LLM processing with one API key.
• OpenAI-Compatible profiles discover Ollama models natively.
• The Gemma 4 plugin is now called Local LLM and has a new plugin ID. It gains Qwen3.5 and LFM2.5 models.
• Confucius4-R2T2 is available as a community transcription plugin.
• New plugins for Meta (Muse Voice Transcribe and Muse Spark) and Microsoft MAI Transcribe.
• Gemini adds the Gemini 3.5 Transcribe models. ElevenLabs gets settings for clean transcripts, audio-event tagging, speaker count, and dictionary keyterms. OpenAI offers only the reasoning effort levels that the selected model supports. The authenticated CLI plugin adds the free OpenCode Zen models.
• Local models of engines that are not selected are no longer restored at launch.
• Plugin HTTP requests retry transient upstream failures such as HTTP 503.
• The Parakeet plugin adds the Parakeet Ultra model. Soniox gets a free-text Transcription Context setting that is sent along with the dictionary terms.
• Parakeet no longer overcorrects with unrelated dictionary terms.
• Discover can be filtered by Local or Cloud, and TypeWhisper checks free disk space before downloading a local model.
• Plugins can provide their own pages and use authenticated command-line tools as providers.
• Parakeet restores after an automatic model unload. Deepgram Nova-3 languages no longer fall back to auto detection. An edited OpenAI API key replaces the stored one. Soniox realtime dictation stays fast without a visible preview and keeps its live transcript continuous. Fixed Deepgram live dictation streaming, a hang when uninstalling plugins, and the first Cohere model download. OpenRouter retries long audio as chunks.
• Fixed HTTP API target-language translation and session ownership.

Performance

• TypeWhisper does less work during startup, History rendering and sync, statistics updates, sound playback, and between stop and text insertion.
• The audio input callback is realtime-safe.

Compatibility and distribution

• Requires macOS 14.0 or later and supports Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
• Every release includes the iCloud bridge.
• New plugin releases from the 1.7 source line require TypeWhisper 1.7.0 or later. Existing compatible plugin releases remain available to 1.6 hosts. This app release does not republish plugins.
• Stable 1.7.0 builds use the default Sparkle channel; release candidates and daily builds remain on their preview channels.
• Simplified Chinese wording was revised.
• Built with Xcode 26.6 and Swift 6.3, with updated Swift dependencies.

Release validation is tracked in the TypeWhisper 1.7.0 checklist.

Managed license activation

Administrators can now provide a commercial license through the ManagedLicenseKey preference in the com.typewhisper.mac domain. TypeWhisper activates it on launch and saves the activation in the signed-in user's Keychain, without requiring users to enter the key or administrators to script Polar API calls.

• Reuses existing activations across launches and supports administrator key changes.
• Shows a managed license status and hides conflicting manual license controls.
• Preserves an existing license if a replacement cannot be activated.
• Suppresses license selection and purchase prompts while a managed key is configured.
• Reports Keychain storage failures instead of marking an unsaved activation as successful.

See the deployment guide and example configuration profile. Configuration profiles are not secret stores. The app does not display the key, but this does not prevent a sufficiently privileged user from retrieving it.

Bundled integration fixes

• Fix OpenRouter audio uploads for providers that require WAV instead of compressed M4A.
• Restore ElevenLabs compatibility with the TypeWhisper 1.6 host.

Broader MDM configuration for providers/models, cloud usage, updates, launch at login, and onboarding is tracked separately in #1313.

Release validation is tracked in #1315.

TypeWhisper 1.0.9 makes the latest workflow-provider plugins available to the host and fixes several issues affecting dictation, long-running workflows, and plugin management.

Highlights

• Added a configurable Filler Words plugin for removing filler words from transcribed text while preserving surrounding whitespace and punctuation.
• Added configurable US, UK, Canadian, and Australian English spelling for automatic language detection.
• Added dynamic Gemini model discovery with model-specific reasoning options and a more responsive default model.
• Made the workflow-provider plugins that require TypeWhisper 1.0.9 available in Discover, including Groq 1.0.6.

Reliability improvements

• Kept dictation hotkeys responsive and fixed low-level hook initialization on their dedicated message-loop thread.
• Unloaded local transcription models when switching providers, so inactive models no longer retain their resources.
• Brought the existing TypeWhisper window to the foreground when the app is launched a second time.
• Handled unavailable clipboard bitmap and file-drop formats without blocking dictation.
• Prevented long online transcription previews from stalling while preserving rolling preview cadence, punctuation, and unspaced CJK text.
• Increased output budgets for long workflow prompts and rejected explicitly truncated provider responses instead of returning incomplete text.
• Filtered high-confidence terminal “Thank you” hallucinations from Groq transcripts while preserving genuine dictated content.

Plugins and packaging

• Fixed the manual plugin folder shown by Microsoft Store builds so the path is visible to Explorer and the Open folder button reaches the real MSIX data directory.
• Made plugin registry publishing resilient to overlapping releases and kept Filler Words versioning independent from app releases.
• Added automated Windows UI screenshot capture and expanded release metadata validation for workflow-provider plugins.

Validation notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -daily suffixes.
• Validate both published portable ZIPs and record the Authenticode status of the published installers.
• Publish Microsoft Store package 1.0.9.0 and WinGet package 1.0.9 separately from the GitHub release.

TypeWhisper 1.6.0 is the stable 1.6 macOS release. It brings a redesigned settings experience, privacy-friendly statistics and portable backups, faster and more resilient recording, calendar-aware meeting automation, expanded workflow integrations, and a broad reliability pass across dictation, Recorder, local models, and cloud providers.

Highlights

• Unified the visual language across Settings, including dashboards, forms, collections, workspaces, and advanced tool pages.
• Added a Statistics view for privacy-friendly aggregate usage insights.
• Added Backup & Restore for portable workflows, dictionary entries, snippets, profiles, prompt actions, hotkeys, installed community plugins, transcription history text, update-channel selection, and supported preferences.
• Improved recording startup performance in controlled hardware tests: median request-to-first-buffer time fell by 22.6% on the built-in MacBook microphone and 13.1% on a tested USB microphone, while opt-in AirPods recording readiness improved by about 45%.
• Added optional calendar-aware meeting automation with notifications, countdown controls, meeting activity checks, automatic Recorder sessions, sortable filenames, versioned transcript metadata, and Obsidian-ready Markdown transcript sidecars for the associated event.
• Added an MCP Client action add-on with stdio and Streamable HTTP support, expanded Obsidian with live sync and Markdown templates, and added bulk plugin updates with automatic restart.
• Added Simplified Chinese localization across the app and bundled integrations; two AirPods keep-alive descriptions remain in English.

Dictation and Recorder

• Added an ordered microphone priority list and improved recovery for AirPods, Bluetooth system-default input, clamshell changes, virtual inputs, and FaceTime built-in microphone capture.
• Moved recording startup work off the main actor and prewarmed eligible inputs to reduce the delay before audio capture begins.
• Improved Whisper Mode amplification with smoother gain changes, less amplification of low-level background noise, stable handling of brief pauses, and protection against clipping; standard recording mode remains unchanged.
• Added optional live transcript updates to active text fields while preserving the final insertion path.
• Fixed automatic meeting transcripts to use the finalized recording as their source of truth, with a captured-audio fallback when the saved file cannot be read.
• Improved long-meeting transcription completeness by aligning final Recorder transcription and retries with File Transcription's source-progress-aware path.
• Improved contextual insertion for Firefox, CJK text, trailing spaces, secure-input situations, auto-submit targets, and target-app correction learning.
• Improved indicator placement, dismissal, fullscreen visibility, feedback interaction, countdown progress, and optional screen-capture visibility.
• Added recovery-audio retention controls and improved direct Recorder retranscription when local models have unloaded.

Dictionary, Workflows, and Automation

• Added dictionary search, safe reset actions, grouped correction variants, clearer learned-correction visibility, and a guided microphone correction trainer.
• Applied dictionary corrections to file transcription and connected per-term CTC tuning to Parakeet.
• Added ordered global LLM provider and model fallbacks while keeping explicit workflow providers strict.
• Added explicit workflow dictation through the local API and a live-preview engine override so preview can stay local while final transcription uses the configured dictation engine.
• Regrouped the menu bar for faster access and now shows the active transcription provider alongside the selected model.

Models and Integrations

• Added Soniox live WebSocket transcription and the local Cohere Transcribe integration.
• Added context-aware OpenAI transcription and dynamic ChatGPT model discovery.
• Expanded OpenAI-Compatible profiles with optional API versions, deployment-scoped endpoints, realtime transcription, and Responses API support.
• Updated the separately distributed OpenRouter plugin to preserve segment timestamps for SRT and VTT exports on supported speech-to-text routes; Deepgram through OpenRouter remains text-only.
• Improved MLX model storage, lazy restore, stalled-download recovery, and lifecycle handling across Qwen3, Gemma 4, Granite, Voxtral, Parakeet, and WhisperKit.
• Fixed Qwen3 long-audio cutoff and loop-fallback behavior, and improved WhisperKit restore after unloads and for workflow-specific model overrides.
• Improved Soniox cleanup and quota reporting, Speechmatics US batch routing and language-pack handling, restricted ElevenLabs key validation, AssemblyAI file-transcription routing, Mistral language handling, and Deepgram custom-URL validation.

Platform and Distribution Notes

• Fixed calendar permission requests and the calendar entitlement used by distributed builds.
• Fixed the Settings sidebar scroll pocket on macOS 27 while preserving the existing layout on macOS 14 through 26.
• Stable 1.6.0 builds use the default Sparkle channel and require macOS 14.0 or later; release candidates and daily builds remain on their dedicated preview channels.
• The final stable tag publishes DMG and ZIP assets, updates the stable Sparkle appcast entry, triggers the website release update, and updates the Homebrew cask.
• Automatic private iCloud sync remains disabled while the production container and Developer ID provisioning profile are unavailable. Cloud Folder Sync through a user-selected iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Syncthing, or custom folder remains available.

Release validation is tracked in the TypeWhisper 1.6.0 checklist.

TypeWhisper 1.0.8 is a stable Windows feature and reliability release focused on more flexible workflows, safer authenticated provider integrations, and stronger state preservation across recording, updates, and clipboard use.

Highlights

• Added a first-party integration for authenticated provider CLI sessions used by LLM workflow processing, with executable discovery, authentication status, structured input and output, timeouts, cancellation, and process cleanup.
• Added configurable App or website and App and website matching for automatic workflow triggers while preserving the behavior of existing combined workflows.
• Added \s support for inserting literal spaces in dictionary replacements, with updated guidance in every supported app language.

Reliability Improvements

• Preserved explicitly disabled term packs, vocabulary boosting preferences, and pending industry presets across updates, catalog refreshes, licensing, and user-data migration.
• Fixed recorder overlays so finalizing is no longer shown as an active recording, with more reliable placement across monitors and DPI scales.
• Improved bitmap clipboard capture and restoration for delayed, unavailable, and OLE bitmap representations during temporary paste operations.
• Kept missing or unavailable provider selections visible and actionable instead of silently routing workflow processing to another provider.

Security and Compatibility

• Restricted provider processes to fixed arguments, a controlled environment and working directory, bounded output, disabled tools and project context, and process-tree termination on cancellation or timeout.
• Kept unsupported provider paths unavailable until equivalent per-invocation safety controls can be verified.
• Added stable UI Automation identifiers and clearer recorder overlay status descriptions for accessibility and runtime validation.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -daily suffixes.
• Validate both published portable ZIPs and record the Authenticode status of the published installers.
• Publish Microsoft Store package 1.0.8.0 and WinGet package 1.0.8 separately from the GitHub release.

TypeWhisper 1.0.7 is a stable Windows feature and reliability release focused on better transcription output, faster recovery, safer local models, and more capable integrations.

Highlights

• Added Smart Formatting, regular-expression dictionary rules, short-utterance punctuation, spoken-number normalization, and regional German output for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and neutral written German.
• Added interactive usage statistics with daily activity, language and app breakdowns, keyboard-accessible details, and retention-independent totals.
• Improved immediate dictation startup, automatic recovery after interrupted sessions, and clipboard restoration when text insertion fails.
• Added unified local-model download requirements, retry and removal controls, optional Hugging Face authentication, and revision-aware license acceptance.

Integrations and Models

• Added local Cohere Transcribe support and hardened the packaged Sherpa ONNX, cuDNN, Whisper.cpp, Granite Speech, and Supertonic TTS runtimes.
• Added recorder-specific transcription engine and model overrides for long recordings without changing the main dictation model.
• Added configurable request timeouts per OpenAI Compatible profile and safer Unicode, reasoning, and thinking-content handling.
• Redesigned Integrations around Installed, Discover, and Manual sources with trusted registry artifacts, community feeds, compatibility diagnostics, update-state details, and repair actions.
• Added provider-aware dictionary budgets and stronger workflow input and output boundaries for plugin integrations.

Windows Experience

• Added Simplified Chinese localization and expanded localized model, integration, and recorder controls.
• Added an About section with project, support, documentation, and license links.
• Displayed History timestamps in local time while preserving UTC storage.
• Reworked Script Runner editing and made mouse-based dictation hotkeys safer.
• Improved onboarding model update state and local-model acceleration details.

Reliability Improvements

• Serialized recorder start and stop transitions so concurrent API requests cannot overwrite active sessions or leak model scopes.
• Made local-model progress, cancellation, removal, selection persistence, and service disposal safe across concurrent operations.
• Hardened plugin discovery, compatibility checks, package verification, rollback, path validation, and broken-install reporting.
• Preserved existing text and selection state across workflow processing and insertion recovery paths.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -rc or -daily suffixes.
• Validate both published portable ZIPs and record the Authenticode status of the published installers.
• Publish Microsoft Store package 1.0.7.0 and WinGet package 1.0.7 separately from the GitHub release.

TypeWhisper 1.0.6 is a stable Windows performance and reliability release focused on faster startup, responsive settings, dependable microphone capture, and safer local transcription.

Highlights

• Rendered the tray, recording overlay, and settings shell before slower plugin, model, and audio-device initialization work.
• Replaced periodic audio-device polling with event-driven notifications and cached enumeration.
• Restored low-latency WASAPI recording with automatic WaveIn fallback while continuing to release capture resources between dictations.
• Added isolated CUDA runtime safety checks with automatic CPU fallback for local transcription.
• Increased the Individual license tier from two to three devices.

Integration Updates

• OpenAI plugin 1.1.1 adds gpt-transcribe and gpt-live-transcribe, dynamic account-specific model catalogs, ordered language hints, dictionary terms, and safer cached fallbacks.
• Soniox plugin 1.1.0 uses compressed M4A uploads when available and retries with the original WAV when compression is unavailable or rejected.
• Both integration updates are available through the TypeWhisper plugin marketplace and remain optional.

Reliability Improvements

• Deferred local model loading until first use to reduce startup work.
• Rolled back cancelled plugin initialization cleanly.
• Hardened microphone device changes, capture startup, and fallback paths.
• Preserved valid OpenAI model selections when remote catalogs are sparse or temporarily unavailable.
• Matched the three-device Individual entitlement exactly without misclassifying larger device counts.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -rc or -daily suffixes.
• Validate both published portable ZIPs and record the Authenticode status of the published installers.
• Publish Microsoft Store package 1.0.6.0 and WinGet package 1.0.6 separately from the GitHub release.

TypeWhisper 1.0.5 is a stable Windows maintenance release focused on reliable dictation sessions, safer portable upgrades, clearer plugin configuration, and better local integrations.

Highlights

• Released microphone capture between dictations so consecutive recordings use a fresh capture session.
• Added safe cross-volume migration for legacy portable user data.
• Added workflow-specific dictation through the local API while preserving existing bodyless start requests.
• Added configurable ElevenLabs transcription modes, audio-event handling, speaker options, and TypeWhisper dictionary support.

Improvements

• Moved plugin settings into accessible, resizable modal windows that open after installation and from installed plugin cards.
• Added staged Save and Cancel behavior to the Script Runner editor.
• Exposed active workflow details and workflow dictation capability through API status responses.
• Added x64 and ARM64 portable archive validation to package dry runs and release builds.

Fixes

• Fixed side-specific bare-modifier main dictation hotkeys such as Right Alt and Right Ctrl.
• Fixed microphone resources remaining open between recording sessions.
• Fixed portable startup when legacy user data resolves to another volume.
• Fixed Script Runner edits collapsing the selected script after each input.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -rc or -daily suffixes.
• Validate both published portable ZIPs and record the Authenticode status of the published installers.

New Features

• select data-residency region (US/EU/JP) with auto-detect

Bug Fixes

• disable API key box during region auto-detect probe
• bound region auto-detect probes and lock region UI during test

Other Changes

• Preserve chat helper binary compatibility
• Hide Groq Qwen reasoning output
• Update GraniteSpeech PyTorch dependency
• Enable autostart for new installations
• Harden file transcription test isolation
• Add file transcription regression coverage
• Bump Live Transcript plugin to 1.0.3
• Prevent duplicate transcript entrance animation
• Address correction trainer review feedback
• Stabilize live transcript and recording overlays
• Add guided correction trainer
• Address settings automation review feedback
• Fix dictionary pack state notifications
• Refine recording overlays and live transcript
• Add settings UI automation coverage
• Simplify dictionary reset actions
• Persist correction provenance and add safe dictionary resets
• Retry restored code quality service
• Retry transient code quality check
• Improve correction group accessibility
• Refine correction group layout
• Group dictionary corrections by replacement
• Handle invalid diagnostics roots consistently
• Recover missing correction learning target window
• Refresh localization resources on build
• Improve correction learning visibility
• Preserve external HTTP timeout behavior
• Handle stalled plugin downloads
• Add privacy-friendly purchase attribution (#287)
• Strengthen hybrid modifier regression test
• Fix hybrid modifier hold behavior
• Require double Escape to cancel dictation
• Address review feedback
• Add ordered language hints
• Address review feedback
• Preserve hotkey recorder clear action
• Preserve workflow provider during refresh
• Protect user data across release channels
• Refine Windows hotkey handling
• Allow workflows without post-processing
• Serve plugins from registry origin
• Publish plugin package hashes
• Unsubscribe wizard close handler
• Clarify Parakeet plugin updates
• Fix wizard lifetime when settings close
• Address Store packaging review feedback
• Add Microsoft Store packaging workflow
• Address microphone priority review feedback
• Stabilize microphone device priority selection
• Keep uninstall audio recovery non-interactive
• Address recording protection review feedback
• Protect user recordings during uninstall
• Address review: follow default-endpoint changes and honor explicit preview device
• Follow the system default capture device in automatic microphone mode
• await background cleanup in the two auto-language tests
• run best-effort cleanup off the transcription critical path
• use current stt-async-v5 model
• poll async status with adaptive backoff

TypeWhisper 1.0.1 is a stable Windows maintenance release. It focuses on local speech-engine reliability, cleaner plugin startup behavior, and development dashboard tooling for support and QA workflows.

Highlights

• Promoted the latest 1.0.1 maintenance fixes to the stable Velopack channel.
• Improved Sherpa-ONNX native runtime loading for local transcription setups.
• Kept optional plugins opt-in so a fresh app install starts with only bundled capabilities active.

Improvements

• Added development dashboard seed controls to make support, QA, and demo data scenarios easier to reproduce.
• Refined development seed busy-state handling and test cleanup.
• Stopped installing marketplace plugins by default during first-run setup.

Fixes

• Fixed Sherpa-ONNX native runtime probing so required runtime DLLs are resolved from the plugin package.
• Fixed Sherpa-ONNX CUDA runtime aliasing for systems that use accelerated local transcription.
• Addressed review feedback around Sherpa-ONNX runtime loading behavior.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -rc or -daily suffixes.
• Check installer Authenticode status explicitly before announcing release quality.

Other Changes

• Fix WhisperKit restore wait for long model loads

TypeWhisper 1.0.0 is the stable Windows 1.0 release. It brings the 1.0 release candidate work to the stable update channel with update reliability, plugin lifecycle fixes, target-app learning improvements, and the Windows 1.0 screenshot set.

Highlights

• Promoted the Windows 1.0 release line from release candidate to the stable Velopack channel.
• Kept the stable release focused on reliability, update behavior, plugin lifecycle, and release polish.
• Added the Windows 1.0 screenshot set for the current app surfaces.

Improvements

• Improved update-channel behavior for explicit stable, release candidate, and daily channel selections.
• Improved bundled plugin uninstall handling so app-bundled plugin directories are removed consistently.
• Improved target-app autocorrection learning for Electron-based apps.
• Included plugin script files in release packages and refreshed bundled plugin compatibility for the 1.0 line.

Fixes

• Fixed bundled plugins returning after restart after uninstall.
• Fixed daily release version-base resolution after RC/stable tags.
• Fixed Groq recorder transcription on systems without Media Foundation AAC by falling back to WAV upload.
• Resolved Granite Speech package audit issues for release packaging.

Validation Notes

• Verify stable Velopack channels win-x64 and win-arm64.
• Confirm x64 and ARM64 installers, portable ZIPs, full nupkg packages, RELEASES files, and JSON manifests are present without -rc or -daily suffixes.
• Check installer Authenticode status explicitly before announcing release quality.

TypeWhisper 1.5.0 is the stable 1.5 macOS release. It brings app-aware dictation insertion, virtual audio input support, broader number normalization, expanded bundled speech providers, local-model memory controls, dictionary-learning improvements, and a focused reliability pass across hotkeys, workflows, plugins, model handling, and release metadata.

Highlights

• Added app-aware smart insertion so dictated text better respects surrounding text, sentence position, trailing spaces, terminal paste behavior, and target-app context.
• Added virtual audio input device support and hardened media pause/resume behavior, recording start feedback, mouse-button shortcuts, and fullscreen indicator handling.
• Expanded number normalization across generic transcription output, multilingual number words, Dutch number words, English ordinals, English digit sequences, and French decimal phrases.
• Added and refreshed bundled speech and AI providers, including Gemini speech transcription, Cartesia speech transcription, Sber SaluteSpeech, OpenRouter speech-to-text, Reson8, Mistral AI, OpenAI-compatible profiles, Soniox regions and TTS, and updated cloud ASR providers.
• Added Japanese localization and dictation support, ordered language hints, recent transcriptions in the workflow palette, source progress for file transcription, recorder-specific engine overrides, and a short-dictation workflow AI-skip setting.
• Added local MLX memory-footprint controls, idle local-model auto-unload behavior, and recovery for stalled Gemma 4 model downloads.
• Added pro transcription fallback, auto-learned dictionary corrections, per-term dictionary CTC tuning plumbing, and tighter target-app correction learning.

Reliability and Fixes

• Fixed delayed Hybrid hotkey behavior, restored non-Control hybrid modifier taps, improved global push-to-talk capture, aligned Pages workflow hotkeys with palette behavior, added menu-based dictation pause, and required confirmation before Esc cancels dictation.
• Fixed fullscreen indicator menu-bar strip issues and the top overlay menu-bar strip.
• Fixed Groq and cloud ASR compressed M4A upload handling, including a WAV fallback for incomplete M4A finalization.
• Fixed Soniox async file transcription routing, region persistence, and realtime model selection.
• Fixed OpenAI Compatible GPT-5 token parameter handling, host SDK compatibility, and configurable request-timeout behavior.
• Fixed plugin host compatibility metadata, raised cloud ASR plugin host floors to TypeWhisper 1.5 where required, and prevented plugin releases from taking over the repository-level GitHub Latest marker.
• Fixed TaskForge preserve-clipboard insertion fallback, dictionary scroll crashes, event tap teardown, FaceTime built-in microphone capture, plugin uninstall keychain cleanup, and development build cleanup scope.
• Fixed Parakeet v2/v3 model setup by repairing missing vocabulary downloads before model loading.
• Improved Japanese dictation post-processing and settings localization, Latin word replacement boundaries, terminal clipboard restore verification, and recorder final transcription failure surfacing.

Developer and Distribution Notes

• Stable 1.5.0 builds use the default Sparkle channel and require macOS 14.0 or later.
• Release candidates and daily builds remain on their dedicated Sparkle channels and do not update Homebrew.
• The final stable tag publishes DMG and ZIP assets, updates the stable Sparkle appcast entry, triggers the website release dispatch, and updates the Homebrew cask.
• The 1.5 plugin line uses the community-capable registry feed and keeps host compatibility metadata aligned with the bundled plugin SDK.

Other Changes

• Add recorder system audio parity (#233)
• Fix Groq recorder long transcription
• Address plugin update review feedback
• Fix plugin update state handling
• Add Chinese spoken language option
• Fix CJK dictionary corrections
• Fix Python package audit for unresolved Torch advisory
• Fix overlay recovery after display changes
• Release Live Transcript plugin 1.0.2
• Handle stale provider profile selections
• Add OpenAI-compatible provider profiles
• Add number normalization parity
• Address static analysis review findings
• Address review feedback for translation storage flow
• Address review feedback for storage paths
• Address review feedback for asset paths
• Add quick translation mode and model storage controls
• Add file transcription queue clearing
• Document public production APIs
• Add multiple workflow hotkeys
• Release Soniox plugin 1.0.3
• Rework license management flows
• Group Soniox transcript tokens for subtitles
• Add Premium Cloud Folder Sync
• Add AMD acceleration for whisper.cpp
• Require restart after CUDA runtime installation

Other Changes

• Fix CUDA runtime delivery for local plugins
• Fix Soniox API key review issues
• Address Soniox review feedback
• Fix Soniox async transcription
• Add smart trailing space after dictation
• Add Reson8 to plugin release workflow (#178)
• Add Reson8 transcription plugin (#177)
• Marshal workflow fallback feedback to UI thread
• Fix workflow post-processing fallbacks
• Guard dictation audio history filenames
• Harden dictation persistence follow-ups
• Address dictation output persistence review
• Preserve preview fallback for long dictation
• Address writing focus review feedback
• Add acceleration restart prompt (#172)
• Fix writing focus localization
• Harden localization and live transcript tests
• Fix live transcript appearance settings
• Harden Live Transcript terminal event matching
• Fix Live Transcript no-speech cleanup
• Fix Windows-key hotkey focus handling
• Add SignPath application documentation
• Avoid blocking streaming audio callbacks
• Serialize streaming audio sends
• Fix online live transcription behavior
• Stabilize Granite Speech dependency audit
• Handle dispatcher shutdown safely
• Harden dispatcher fallback during tests
• Stabilize plugin system test run
• Address acceleration reload review feedback
• Address remaining review nits
• Tighten review follow-up handling
• Fix CUDA acceleration reload
• Stabilize review check follow-ups
• Address HTTP API review findings
• Stabilize settings dispatcher events
• Stabilize HTTP API parity checks
• Align Windows HTTP API with Mac contract
• Harden workflow prompt tests
• Frame workflow LLM input as data
• Remove issue Discord relay workflow (#153)
• Add Smallest AI plugin release mapping
• Add Smallest AI Pulse transcription plugin
• Fix onboarding completion for unready transcription engines (#148)
• Fix Groq API key setup in onboarding (#147)
• Add OpenAI model parity and default provider clarity

TypeWhisper 1.4.0 is the stable release for the new Integrations and community-plugin foundation. It brings the redesigned plugin hub, the 1.4 community registry feed, downloaded model management, new local automation APIs, and a broad reliability pass across workflows, live transcript, indicators, audio capture, and first-party plugins.

Highlights

• Added the plugins-community-v1.json registry feed for 1.4 builds while keeping the 1.3.x line on the existing official marketplace feed.
• Redesigned Integrations with Installed, Discover, and Manual tabs, grouped plugin lists, source and hosting metadata, and capability filtering for local, cloud, transcription, LLM, action, and memory plugins.
• Added support for community plugin registry publishing and mirrored first-party plugin releases into the community registry feed.
• Added downloaded model management for local model plugins, including host-version gating for the Qwen3, Granite, Voxtral, Gemma 4, WhisperKit, and Supertonic release line.
• Added the Smallest AI Pulse transcription plugin, the xAI Grok plugin, the experimental Supertonic TTS plugin, and refreshed OpenAI voice and Qwen3 ASR integrations for 1.4.
• Added local Recorder and Dictionary HTTP API endpoints so trusted local clients can inspect recorder state, start transcriptions, and manage dictionary terms through the app API.
• Added watch-folder file job automation, per-dictation STT engine/model overrides, workflow drag reordering, and multiple global hotkeys per action.
• Added Parakeet live transcription support and the WhisperKit Distil Large v3 Turbo model.
• Added licensed industry term packs and localized built-in term pack metadata.

Reliability and Fixes

• Tightened workflow input boundaries so dictated text and Apple Intelligence scaffold output are treated as source content instead of executable instructions.
• Improved live transcript stability, sentence accumulation, correction handling, preview latency, and maximized-window behavior.
• Kept recording indicators visible for active recorder sessions while hiding supported indicator windows from screen captures.
• Improved fullscreen, fixed-display, foreign-window, and maximized-window indicator handling.
• Reduced hotkey recording startup latency and fixed exact modifier-combination matching.
• Recovered failed dictation audio and added audio diagnostics export for troubleshooting capture failures.
• Improved selected USB microphone capture, multichannel input handling, and system-audio recorder sample handling.
• Deferred the recording start cue until input is ready and improved Parakeet onboarding/setup status.
• Made plugin settings windows scrollable and restored workflow action targets.
• Improved onboarding layout, transcription helper compatibility, memory extraction for normal dictations, and plugin registry release metadata.
• Hardened webhook sensitive header storage and local API token enforcement.

Developer and Distribution Notes

• The stable Sparkle appcast entry for 1.4.0 uses the default channel and requires macOS 14.0 or later.
• Homebrew updates are intentionally stable-only and are triggered by the final v1.4.0 tag.
• Release candidates and daily builds remain on their dedicated Sparkle channels and do not update Homebrew.
• Plugin SDK workflow snapshots expose read-only workflow metadata without handing plugins internal app model objects.

TypeWhisper 0.8.1 is a focused Windows release that expands cloud provider coverage, improves plugin marketplace reliability, and fixes several dictation and local transcription issues found after 0.8.0.

New Features

• Added OpenRouter model catalog support so compatible models can be discovered and selected more easily.
• Added OpenRouter transcription support for cloud dictation workflows.
• Added the xAI Grok provider plugin with streaming transcription, text generation, and TTS support.
• Added branded plugin logos for major bundled providers.

Improvements

• Hardened plugin registry category handling so marketplace entries stay compatible as categories expand.
• Made the Live Transcript window movable and improved its settings experience.
• Improved local GPU acceleration reload behavior for local transcription providers.

Fixes

• Fixed final decoding for cloud dictation responses.
• Fixed Live Transcript failure handling so provider errors are surfaced more reliably.
• Improved model acceleration layout coverage and related plugin system behavior.

TypeWhisper 0.8.0 is a major Windows release focused on faster local transcription, a broader plugin marketplace, richer speech and TTS provider support, and steadier everyday dictation behavior.

New Features

• Added GPU acceleration for local transcription so supported local models can run faster on capable Windows systems.
• Added multi-category plugin marketplace support, making discovery clearer as plugins expand across transcription, text generation, TTS, memory, and workflow integrations.
• Added the Supertonic TTS provider plugin and a dedicated TTS marketplace category.
• Added side-specific modifier hotkeys for workflows that need distinct left/right keyboard shortcuts.
• Added Russian localization for the Windows app.
• Added Windows indicator style variants for a more flexible recording status experience.
• Added licensed industry term packs for specialized vocabulary workflows.
• Expanded OpenAI and ChatGPT plugin capabilities.

Improvements

• Improved plugin marketplace behavior and polish, including category handling and uninstall state feedback.
• Improved whisper.cpp native runtime packaging so bundled local transcription dependencies are more reliable.
• Improved touch scrolling across ScrollViewer controls.
• Limited Supertonic TTS runtime packaging to keep bundled plugin output cleaner.

Fixes

• Fixed microphone reconnect handling.
• Reduced repeated short transcription phrases and improved dictation ellipsis cleanup.
• Fixed plaintext insertion for email clients.
• Fixed live preview font size updates.
• Fixed live transcript no-speech handling.
• Fixed dictionary usage count localization.
• Fixed marketplace plugin uninstall state handling.

TypeWhisper 1.3.3 is a stable hotfix release for the 1.3 line. It fixes selected USB audio interfaces still being marked as not compatible before preview or recording can start.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed USB microphones and audio interfaces, including RME Babyface-style devices, being blocked by selection-time compatibility checks.
• Kept non-Bluetooth input selection non-blocking so TypeWhisper can reach the input-only HAL preview and recording path added in 1.3.2.
• Preserved Bluetooth route activation, stabilization, and aggregate-route validation behavior.

Testing Focus

• If a USB interface still showed (Not compatible) in TypeWhisper 1.3.2, test selecting it again in 1.3.3.
• After selection, use Test Microphone to confirm the device now reaches preview capture.

TypeWhisper 1.3.2 is a stable hotfix release for the 1.3 line. It fixes selected USB audio interfaces being marked as not compatible when the selected input and current output device use different clocks or sample rates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed selected USB microphones and audio interfaces that could show (Not compatible) before preview or recording started.
• Routed explicit non-Bluetooth input devices through an input-only CoreAudio HAL capture path, avoiding stale AVAudioEngine full-duplex formats when input and output clocks differ.
• Kept the existing AVAudioEngine route for system default and Bluetooth inputs, preserving the established Bluetooth stabilization and recovery behavior.
• Downmixed multi-channel input buffers to mono before the existing 16 kHz transcription conversion path.

Testing Focus

• If a USB interface such as an RME Babyface, Elgato Wave XLR, or similar device showed (Not compatible) in TypeWhisper 1.3.1, test selecting it again in 1.3.2.
• If the device still fails, also test with the interface set as the macOS default input and with input/output sample rates aligned at 48 kHz.

TypeWhisper 0.7.2 is a stability and polish release for Windows. It improves dictation reliability, adds Japanese localization, makes the preview bubble easier to control, and hardens the newest workflow and paste behavior from the 0.7 line.

New Features

• Added Japanese localization for the Windows app.
• Added an auto-hide setting for the preview bubble.
• Added manual workflow controls and advanced workflow triggers on Windows.

Improvements

• Kept the preview bubble compact and scrolled so longer live transcription output stays easier to follow.
• Improved Parakeet transcription tail handling with optional tail padding, better final-result selection, and internal diagnostics for clipped endings.
• Added audio tail telemetry around recording stop so hard-to-reproduce tail clipping can be diagnosed more clearly.

Fixes

• Reduced repeated transcription phrases in final dictation output.
• Fixed paste handoff latency so inserted text is less likely to race with the target app.
• Preserved clean no-speech handling for short and quiet clips while improving final transcription padding.

Other Changes

• Fix mouse-mapped hotkeys on Windows (#84)
• Fix/escape cancel stuck state (#85)
• Fix Windows SendInput struct layout for auto-paste (#83)
• Fix Escape cancel hotkey registration (#82)

TypeWhisper 1.3.1 is a stable maintenance release for the 1.3 line. It brings the workflow improvements from the 1.3.1 release candidates to stable users, adds direct workflow text hotkeys and a spoken-language dictation template, improves plugin metadata, and includes reliability fixes for Deepgram code-switching, Bluetooth audio, indicators, local LLM cleanup, and large automation requests.

New Features

• Added an Apple Translate workflow processor for local translation workflows on supported macOS configurations.
• Added a manual workflow trigger so workflows can stay out of automatic dictation matching and run from the Workflow Palette instead.
• Added a recorder toggle in the menu bar for faster access to app audio recording.
• Added packaging support for the bundled Filler Words plugin.
• Added a workflow dictation template for spoken-language transformations.
• Added direct workflow text hotkeys so workflows can run on selected or supplied text without starting a dictation.

Bug Fixes

• Exposed Deepgram multilingual code-switching support so mixed-language dictation can use the provider capability correctly.
• Reduced workflow post-processing latency so prompt and processor workflows return results faster after transcription.
• Wrapped Apple Intelligence workflow input so dictated text is treated as source content instead of executable instructions.
• Stabilized Bluetooth dictation capture and guarded AirPods output volume during audio routing changes.
• Opted indicators out of fullscreen spaces to avoid unexpected overlay behavior when apps use fullscreen mode.
• Restored indicator visibility across macOS spaces.
• Disabled automatic Live Transcript opening by default.
• Auto-unloaded local LLM post-processing resources after use to reduce background memory pressure.
• Supported large CLI transcriptions without truncating or failing oversized requests.
• Kept the language list available before transcription plugins finish loading.
• Fixed a Parakeet live preview fallback race.

Other Changes

• Classified plugin hosting explicitly so local and cloud plugins appear with clearer metadata in plugin listings.
• Documented plugin hosting metadata in the SDK manifest guidance.
• Updated Parakeet vocabulary boosting capability detection for current local-model behavior.
• Expanded automated coverage for workflow text hotkeys, spoken-language workflow templates, plugin hosting compatibility, and Deepgram multilingual code-switching.

TypeWhisper 0.7.0 is a major workflow and automation release for Windows. It brings the workflow system into the main settings experience, expands file transcription automation, adds new provider capabilities, and tightens dictation reliability for everyday use.

New Features

• Added the unified Workflows surface for prompt actions, matching rules, workflow-specific hotkeys, language and model overrides, output formatting, and action routing.
• Added batch file transcription queues with per-file status tracking, export options, and improved model selection behavior.
• Added watch folder transcription so folders can be monitored and processed automatically with configurable export output.
• Added the recent transcriptions palette for quickly finding, editing, copying, and reusing recent dictation results.
• Added the ElevenLabs transcription plugin, including streaming support and localized settings.
• Added TTS provider plugin support, including host services, playback sessions, voice metadata, and a built-in Windows SAPI provider.
• Added stable, release-candidate, and daily update channel support in the app and release packaging.

Improvements

• Expanded the local HTTP API and bundled CLI with per-request engine and model overrides, language hints, translation targets, dictionary term management, and dictation controls.
• Improved automation compatibility for external tools through richer API parsing, status responses, and CLI installation support.
• Improved file transcription handling for larger queues, subtitle export, media formats, and watch folder output.
• Improved plugin marketplace and plugin host behavior so bundled and external plugins can expose more capabilities consistently.
• Improved short and quiet speech handling with configurable padding and gain behavior.
• Refined README, issue templates, PR templates, package dry runs, plugin smoke checks, and release workflow coverage.

Fixes

• Fixed dictation tail clipping so the end of short recordings is less likely to be cut off.
• Hardened automatic paste reliability after transcription completes.
• Fixed prompt provider selection and related history/prompt provider race conditions.
• Fixed autostart toggle handling.
• Hardened watch folder exception handling so background folder processing is more resilient.

TypeWhisper 1.3 is the stable macOS release centered on the new Workflows experience, more capable automation surfaces, and a broad round of dictation, UI, and local-model reliability work across the 1.3.0-rc* cycle.

Highlights

• Unified Workflows - TypeWhisper now brings prompt actions and matching rules into one dedicated Workflows surface, with a native editor, wizard flow, and a global Always fallback trigger.
• Better automation control - The local HTTP API and CLI now support per-request STT engine and model selection, while multilingual language hints make mixed-language dictation easier to steer.
• More polished dictation feedback - Spoken feedback, adjustable transcript sizing, faster recent-transcription recovery, and grouped menu bar actions make day-to-day use smoother.
• Stronger local-model path - The 1.3 cycle hardens local plugin downloads, Hugging Face token handling, model restore behavior, and Parakeet language filtering.

Workflows & Prompt Processing

• Replaced the old Prompt Actions and Rules settings surfaces with the new unified Workflows experience.
• Added a native macOS sidebar and wizard-style create/edit flow for workflows.
• Added a global Always workflow trigger that acts as the fallback after website and app-specific matches.
• Hardened workflow prompts so dictated text is always treated as source text to transform, not instructions to execute.
• Added per-workflow temperature controls for supported LLM providers.
• Preserved focus in the original target app during local prompt processing.

Dictation, Feedback & UI Polish

• Added spoken feedback through the bundled System Voice plugin, scoped to transcription readback only.
• Added multilingual language hints with multi-select search and selected-count feedback.
• Added shortcuts for reopening recent transcriptions and a recovery palette for recent results.
• Added adjustable live transcript preview sizing for dictation overlays.
• Improved the notch and overlay indicator behavior, including active-screen re-anchoring and timer layout fixes.
• Grouped menu bar actions into clearer sections for faster navigation.
• Fixed Fn hotkey handling so both press-and-release and press-and-hold strategies work reliably.

Local Models, Plugins & Reliability

• Upgraded the local model runtime and download flows for bundled on-device plugins.
• Added shared Hugging Face token handling for the bundled local-model plugins and clearer validation where required.
• Fixed Parakeet language filtering against the current FluidAudio upstream behavior.
• Improved WhisperKit restore and unload handling.
• Split the marketplace feeds by compatibility line and hardened plugin loading so incompatible external bundles are skipped instead of breaking launch.
• Made dictionary prompts engine-aware and kept streaming dictionary terms working across AssemblyAI, Soniox, and SpeechAnalyzer.
• Added subtitle exports for Watch Folder jobs.

Power Users & Automation

• Added per-request STT engine and model selection through the local HTTP API and the typewhisper CLI.
• Kept the documented /v1/* API and CLI command surface stable for the 1.x line.
• Improved plugin compatibility validation and diagnostics for marketplace and bundled plugins.

TypeWhisper 0.6.1 is a focused stability release that tightens dictation behavior, file transcription model selection, provider state handling, and release packaging.

Improvements

• Improved provider and model state handling so the app is less likely to lose the selected configuration while switching between engines and prompts.
• Refined the bundled Groq integration with better LLM model selection and refresh behavior.

Fixes

• Fixed recorder-compatible hotkey parsing so captured shortcuts round-trip correctly through the UI and runtime hotkey pipeline.
• Fixed file transcription to load the model the user actually selected instead of falling back unexpectedly.
• Fixed the silent-stop overlay reset path and closed a streaming session leak that could leave overlay state behind after recording ended.

Release Prep

• Hardened the release workflow so app tags prefer curated notes from docs/releases/ and fall back to commit-generated notes only when no curated file exists.
• Scoped previous-tag lookup to app tags only, preventing plugin tags from polluting app release note ranges.
• Prepared the Windows release metadata for 0.6.1, including CLI version reporting and Groq plugin metadata alignment for plugin-groq-v1.0.2.

TypeWhisper 1.2.2 is a stable maintenance release centered on the rebuilt OpenAI integration. The bundled OpenAI plugin is now presented as OpenAI / ChatGPT and can use either a traditional API key or a ChatGPT/Codex login for prompt processing.

Highlights

• OpenAI / ChatGPT login - the bundled OpenAI plugin now supports browser-based ChatGPT/Codex OAuth in addition to API-key auth.
• Better GPT-5 and Codex support - reasoning effort can be tuned directly in plugin settings, and the bundled model list now includes current GPT-5/Codex variants such as GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark.
• Fixed Codex response handling - the ChatGPT/Codex path now speaks the actual Codex Responses protocol, including the required request shape and SSE response parsing.

Fixes & Compatibility

• Fixed 400 failures from the ChatGPT/Codex endpoint caused by the old request format.
• Improved OpenAI OAuth compatibility for the browser login flow and Codex login import.
• Restored SDK compatibility for external plugins after extending the OpenAI chat helper, so older plugin builds keep loading correctly.
• The marketplace OpenAI / ChatGPT plugin now correctly requires TypeWhisper 1.2.2 or newer.

Bug Fixes

• guard incompatible transcription engines on Intel
• disable macOS 14 settings sidebar animation
• show script/region variants in language pickers
• use curated notes for GitHub releases

Other Changes

• cover script and region language display variants
• update stable release wording
• update stable release wording in README
• rename release readiness guide
• hide legacy 1.1 filename in README

New Features

• add whisper.cpp marketplace plugin

Bug Fixes

• add new plugins to marketplace registry workflow
• clear whisper model selection on unload

Other Changes

• harden CI and prepare v0.6.0 release
• Refine settings shell and localization
• Implement custom protocol handling and improve Discord claim integration
• Add supporter Discord claims and live profile context
• Refactor structured settings pages
• Polish settings, wizard, and snippets UX
• Overhaul Windows settings UI
• Fix Win hotkey modifier handling
• Add vocabulary boosting for local Parakeet transcription

TypeWhisper 1.2 is the new stable macOS release, focused on speed, reliability, and day-to-day polish. Dictation starts noticeably faster, background CPU use is lower while idle, and audio behavior is more resilient on real-world setups like AirPods, Bluetooth devices, and changing input routes.

Highlights

• Much faster dictation start – metadata capture and browser URL resolution no longer block the critical startup path.
• Lower idle CPU usage – background listeners were tightened up to reduce unnecessary CPU activity while TypeWhisper is idle.
• More reliable audio behavior – better recovery after AirPods, Bluetooth profile switches, and AVAudioEngine reconfiguration.
• Better day-to-day usability – a new Minimal indicator, transcript preview controls, and a more guided Rules workflow make TypeWhisper easier to use.

Speed & Efficiency

• Reduced dictation start latency by moving metadata capture and browser URL resolution off the critical path.
• Reduced unnecessary background CPU usage while TypeWhisper is idle.
• Improved handling for very short clips, especially when streaming preview is active or Parakeet is selected.
• Fixed streaming-preview and no-speech-guard behavior so brief speech is retained more reliably.

Reliability

• Hardened audio engine startup and teardown around AVAudioEngine race conditions.
• Improved recovery after AirPods and Bluetooth profile switches.
• Restored the selected Apple Speech model on app launch.
• Fixed engine startup so TypeWhisper auto-selects the configured engine more reliably.
• Fixed dictation start when no microphone is available, with a cleaner failure path.
• Fixed a hotkey event tap crash.
• Improved compatibility with remapped Hyperkey shortcuts and combo hotkeys, including Caps Lock edge cases.
• Fixed WhisperKit download progress so it stays attached to the selected model.
• Hardened bundled plugin installation and update flows so installed plugin bundles remain managed correctly.

Usability & Polish

• Added the new Minimal indicator style for a compact floating status view.
• Added a toggle to disable live transcript preview for Notch and Overlay indicators.
• Reframed Profiles as Rules with a guided editor for app- and website-based matching.
• Backported the modern settings sidebar so the updated navigation also works on macOS 14.
• Added an app visibility picker to choose between menu bar, Dock, or Dock-only-while-window-open behavior.
• Polished the notch indicator layout and matched its height more closely to the display safe area.
• Fixed multiple German localization issues and other small copy and layout regressions.
• Avoided unwanted clipboard history writes when clipboard preservation is enabled.

Add-ons & Platform Updates

• Added optional HuggingFace token support to the bundled Qwen3, Granite, and Voxtral MLX plugins for higher download limits and clearer download errors.
• Added the new Gemma 4 local LLM plugin via MLX for on-device prompt processing.
• Improved Gemma 4 prompt processing and bumped the bundled Gemma 4 plugin to 1.0.1.
• Localized built-in term pack metadata in English and German.
• Added the supporter Discord claim flow for eligible supporters.

Power Users & Developers

• Added dictation session IDs to API responses for local automation workflows.
• Added GPT-5 token parameter support to the OpenAI chat helper for SDK and plugin integrations.
• Improved plugin load diagnostics with structured OSLog logging.

Bug Fix

• Fixed marketplace not showing new plugins — RegistryPlugin deserialization failed when optional fields were missing from the registry JSON. Switched from positional record to init properties with defaults.

What's New in v0.5.0

Major Architecture Change

• Replaced SQLite with JSON file storage — All data (history, dictionary, snippets, profiles, prompts) is now stored as simple JSON files. No more database migrations. Faster startup, easier debugging, and human-readable data files.
• Removed Microsoft.Data.Sqlite dependency — Smaller application footprint.

New Features

• Error Log — Structured error logging with categories (transcription, recording, prompt, plugin). View errors and export diagnostics in Settings → About.
• App-aware Formatting — Transcribed text is automatically formatted based on the target app: Markdown for Obsidian/Notion, HTML for Outlook, plain for code editors.
• Audio History — Recordings are now saved as WAV files alongside transcription history. Play back past recordings directly from the history view.
• Watch Folder — Monitor a folder for audio files and automatically transcribe them with sidecar .txt output.
• Memory Service — Automatically extract lasting personal facts from transcriptions using LLM. Stored via memory storage plugins.
• Spoken Feedback — Text-to-speech readback of transcribed text after each dictation (Settings → Advanced).
• Accessibility Announcements — Screen reader support via UI Automation live region events for Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS.
• System Audio Capture — WASAPI loopback capture for recording system audio output.
• CLI Tool — typewhisper command-line tool with status, models, and transcribe commands.
• License & Supporter Tiers — Polar.sh license activation with Bronze/Silver/Gold supporter badges.
• Release Channels — Stable, Release Candidate, and Daily update channels.
• Audio Recorder — Standalone recording feature in Settings → Recorder with auto-transcription and recording history.

UI Improvements

• Redesigned Settings Sidebar — Restructured to match Mac app: Home, General, Recording, Models, Recorder, History, Dictionary, Snippets, Profiles, Prompts, Integrations, Advanced, License, About.
• Dashboard Enhancements — Trend indicators (↑↓%) on all stat cards, "All Time" period option, recent transcriptions section.
• Overlay Redesign — Centered text layout, subtle border, larger font, more padding. Matches the new preview in Settings.
• Overlay Preview — Live preview in General settings showing actual widgets, updates in real-time when changing widget selections.
• Marketplace Grouping — Plugins are now grouped by category (Transcription Engines, LLM Providers, Memory, Actions, Utilities) with count badges.

New Plugins (14)

LLM Providers: Claude (Anthropic), OpenRouter, Cerebras, Cohere, Fireworks Transcription Engines: Gladia, Speechmatics, Soniox, Cloudflare ASR, Google Cloud STT, Qwen3 STT, Voxtral (Mistral) Memory Storage: File Memory, OpenAI Vector Memory

Plugin SDK Enhancements

• ActionCompletedEvent for tracking action plugin results
• App context (process name, window title, URL) in transcription events
• IMemoryStoragePlugin interface for memory storage backends
• IPluginSettingsActivity for progress reporting in plugin settings
• SetStreamingDisplayActive() for plugins that handle their own streaming UI
• Category and IsLocal fields in plugin manifest for marketplace grouping

Bug Fixes

• #21 — Added option to disable saving transcriptions to history (Settings → Advanced)
• #22 — Fixed intermittent hotkey toggle failures with 300ms debounce
• #24 — Hotkey events are now swallowed to prevent triggering media playback in background apps
• Hotkeys can now be cleared with Escape, Delete, or Backspace
• Timer and other widgets show proper fallback values in overlay preview

New Features

• Add vocabulary boosting to ParakeetPlugin, closes #129 (#130)
• Add V2/V3 model version selection to ParakeetPlugin, fixes #137 (#146)
• Add dynamic model fetching to GeminiPlugin, fixes #136 (#145)
• Add Google Cloud Speech-to-Text plugin (#147)
• Add dictionary JSON import and export (#148)
• Non-blocking model downloads (#149)
• Add configurable sound feedback settings, fixes #139 (#150)
• Add post-processing transparency to history and indicators, fixes #134 (#151)
• Record app audio with separate tracks, refs #141 (#152)
• Add community term pack registry (#154)
• Add Prompts & AI wizard step and cross-tab navigation, fixes #135 (#155)
• Add drag-and-drop reordering for prompts, fixes #153 (#156)
• Add media pause during recording, fixes #159 (#160, #163)
• Add mouse button shortcuts, fixes #171 (#172)
• Add Auto Enter profile setting, fixes #167 (#169)
• Add toggle to disable history saving (#168)
• Show both STT and AI-processed text in history, fixes #176 (#183)
• Sort marketplace plugins by download count, closes #186 (#187)
• Add per-profile translation toggle, fixes #199 (#201)
• Add business licensing with Polar.sh integration (#195)
• Add lifetime licenses and supporter tiers for private users (#202)
• Suppress indicator streaming text when plugin provides own display (#203)

New Plugins

• OpenRouterPlugin with model search, pricing, and credits display (#173)
• Soniox cloud transcription plugin (#174)
• Cohere cloud transcription plugin, fixes #177 (#185)
• Speechmatics cloud transcription plugin, fixes #192

Bug Fixes

• Detect Fn hotkey on release to avoid Fn+key conflicts, fixes #132 (#144)
• Update FluidAudio for Swift 6 actor safety, fixes #129 (#131)
• Fix community term pack loading state
• Fix ultrashort push-to-talk dictation (#157)
• Fix prompt toggle opening edit screen instead of toggling (#158)
• Fix notch indicator not displaying on other virtual desktops, fixes #165 (#166)
• Embed MediaRemoteAdapter framework in app bundle, fixes #159
• Fix 'No model loaded' error when engine plugin is still loading, fixes #182 (#184)
• Fix prompt toggle not responding to clicks, fixes #186 (#188)
• Fix recording started sound not playing, fixes #189 (#194)
• Fix silent recording on multi-channel audio interfaces (#197)
• Fix clipboard preservation toggle not working, fixes #198 (#200)
• Add error checking and logging for audio device selection, fixes #181 (#196)

Other Changes

• Remove App Store build support (#161)
• Disable implicit build dependencies to fix Xcode memory crashes

New Features

• add local Gemma 4 LLM plugin (LLamaSharp/GGUF)

Bug Fixes

• include NuGet dependencies and native runtimes in plugin ZIP

Other Changes

• add gemma-local to plugin publish workflow

New Features

• Silence hallucination filter — Two-layer detection (client-side energy gate + server-side no_speech_prob) prevents cloud Whisper models from hallucinating random text on silent audio (#19)
• Visual hybrid hotkey indicators — Toggle mode now shows amber overlay border and mode-aware status text ("Recording (Toggle) - press hotkey to stop") so you always know recording is active (#7)
• Plugin localization — All 6 cloud plugins (OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI Compatible) now fully support English and German in their settings views (#14)
• IBM Granite Speech plugin — New local transcription engine available in the Marketplace

Bug Fixes

• App no longer freezes when no microphone is connected; shows feedback and auto-recovers when a mic is plugged in (#5)
• Groq plugin now has a 30-second HTTP timeout instead of infinite, preventing hangs on slow/unreachable API (#6)
• Prompt actions now show a clear warning when no LLM provider is configured, instead of silently doing nothing (#8)
• Translation is correctly skipped when the configured source language already matches the target language (#9)
• System language detection now uses the Win32 API directly, fixing incorrect language when launched via the Velopack installer (#15)
• Granite Speech plugin download now includes retry logic and validation (#4)

TypeWhisper 1.0 is the first stable release - a system-wide dictation app for macOS that lets you choose your own transcription engine.

Highlights

Your Engine, Your Choice Pick from local engines (WhisperKit, Parakeet, Qwen3, Granite, SpeechAnalyzer) or cloud services (Groq, OpenAI, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Cloudflare) - all as plugins you can install and swap freely.

System-Wide Dictation Four hotkey modes (hybrid, push-to-talk, toggle, prompt palette) with a notch-integrated recording indicator. Dictation works in any app - just press your hotkey and talk.

Prompt Processing Send transcriptions through LLM providers (Apple Intelligence, Groq, OpenAI, Gemini) with bundled presets for fixing grammar, summarizing, extracting structured data, and more. Create your own custom prompt actions.

Profiles App- and URL-based profiles that automatically switch language, engine, prompt, and output format depending on where you're typing.

Plugin System A full Plugin SDK with four extension points (transcription engines, LLM providers, post-processors, action plugins). Install plugins from the built-in marketplace or build your own.

New Features

• Option to preserve clipboard content after dictation (#127)
• Reorganize Settings tabs for cleaner UX (#111)
• VoiceOver support, spoken feedback, and read-back TTS (#105)
• Error display UI with notch banner and persistent error log (#109)
• Enhance hotkey handling to distinguish modifier releases from key releases
• Inline command detection per profile, fixes #84 (#87)
• Double-tap hotkey support, fixes #106 (#107)
• Audio recorder with mic and system audio capture (#98)
• Structured data prompt presets (#95)
• Watch folder for automatic audio transcription (#99)
• CGEventTap for hotkey event suppression, fixes #101
• App-aware auto-formatting with profile-based output format, fixes #55
• Category grouping and hosting filter in plugin marketplace
• Memory plugin system with LLM extraction and correction tracking
• Kimi K2 LLM model support

Bug Fixes

• Handle Space key and special characters in hotkey recorder, fixes #94
• Resolve Cmd+V/Cmd+C on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts, fixes #92
• Improve LiveTranscriptPlugin text handling and UI (v1.0.2)
• Add confirmation dialog before clearing all memories
• Thread safety, migration, and race condition fixes

Other Changes

• Prepare TypeWhisper for 1.0 readiness (#112)
• Granular key event states, improved suppression logic, key repeat handling
• FileMemoryPlugin and OpenAIVectorMemoryPlugin added to plugin CI workflow
• German translations for all memory plugin UI strings
• Simplified memory plugin system, eliminated duplication
• 30s extraction cooldown, skip memory injection for extraction calls

For Developers

• HTTP API (/v1/*) for local automation
• typewhisper CLI embedded in app bundle
• Plugin SDK with stable contracts for 1.x
• WidgetKit widgets for stats, activity, and history

System Requirements

• macOS 14.0 or later (SpeechAnalyzer plugin requires macOS 26)
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac

Bug Fixes

• Sparkle update detection with full git history, bump to 0.13.4

What's New

CloudflareASR Plugin

Community contribution by @yunluyl - new transcription plugin for OpenAI-compatible ASR servers behind Cloudflare tunnels.

• Supports CF-Access service token authentication and optional Bearer token
• Qwen3-ASR output parsing (<asr_text> tags)
• Model fetching and manual model selection

Audio Engine Resilience

• Recording now automatically recovers when macOS interrupts the audio engine (e.g. notification sounds, Bluetooth device changes)
• Previously buffered audio is preserved during engine restart

Menu Bar Fix

• Windows opened from the menu bar (Settings, History) now properly appear in front instead of behind other windows

Based in part on PR #88 by @yunluyl

What's New

• History Audio Playback: Optionally save and replay audio recordings from transcription history

Bug Fixes

• Cloud Transcription Reliability: Fixed cloud API requests (Groq, OpenAI, Deepgram, etc.) hanging after sleep/wake or network changes. All plugins now use ephemeral HTTP sessions with 30s timeouts instead of persistent connections that go stale
• Indicator Preview: Fixed color scheme not applying correctly in IndicatorPreviewView (#86)
• MLX Plugins: Fixed Qwen3 and Voxtral plugins failing to load on macOS 15 due to missing Swift compatibility libraries
• Plugin CI: All plugins now build with Xcode 26.2 for consistent package resolution

What's New in v0.4.1

Welcome Wizard Redesign

• Dark theme — Migrated to FluentWindow with Mica backdrop, matching the rest of the app. Previously rendered with invisible text on a white background
• Plugin-based setup — Step 1 now dynamically lists all available marketplace extensions with install/installed status and shows transcription models from installed engines. No more hardcoded model selection
• Streamlined flow — Reduced from 5 steps to 4: Extensions & Model → Microphone → Hotkeys → Done. The obsolete "Cloud Providers" step has been removed (now handled by the plugin system)
• Re-run anytime — Added "Open Wizard" shortcut on the Dashboard to re-run the setup at any time

Bug Fixes

• Fixed all Welcome Window elements being invisible on the dark theme (#3)

New Features

• Support modifier-combo hotkeys like CMD+OPT, Fn+CMD, etc. (#81)
• Expose selected text to post-processing plugins (#83)

Bug Fixes

• Fix Sparkle update detection not finding new versions (#85)
• Fix hidden history records staying selected when collapsing groups (#80)
• Fix missing plugins in registry and auto-register new plugins
• Fix plugin CI building with wrong Xcode version (#82)

What's New in v0.4.0

This is a major feature release bringing full feature parity with the Mac version.

Post-Processing Pipeline

• Refactored text processing into a priority-based pipeline architecture
• Plugin post-processors can now hook into the processing chain with custom priorities
• Action plugins (Linear, Obsidian) can receive processed text instead of inserting it

HTTP API (7 new endpoints)

• GET /v1/history — Search history with pagination
• DELETE /v1/history — Delete history entries
• GET /v1/profiles — List all profiles
• PUT /v1/profiles/toggle — Toggle profile on/off
• POST /v1/dictation/start / stop — Remote recording control
• GET /v1/dictation/status — Check recording state
• Extended /v1/status with streaming and translation capabilities

Model Auto-Unload

• Models are now automatically unloaded after a configurable idle timeout
• Saves memory when TypeWhisper is running but not actively used
• Configurable via ModelAutoUnloadSeconds setting (0 = disabled)

History Export

• Added Markdown (.md) and JSON (.json) export formats
• Export dialog now supports 4 formats: Text, CSV, Markdown, JSON

New Plugins (available in Marketplace)

• Google Gemini — LLM provider supporting Gemini 2.5 Flash, Pro, and Flash Lite
• Linear — Create Linear issues directly from transcriptions via GraphQL API
• Obsidian — Save transcriptions as Markdown notes in Obsidian vaults with YAML frontmatter
• Script Runner — Pipe transcriptions through custom shell scripts (cmd/PowerShell)
• Live Transcript — Floating semi-transparent window showing real-time transcription

Per-Profile Hotkeys

• Each profile can now have a dedicated hotkey for instant activation
• Bypasses automatic app/URL matching — press the hotkey to dictate with that specific profile
• Configure via the new hotkey recorder in the profile detail panel

Audio Device Preview

• Real-time microphone level meter in audio settings
• Visual feedback when selecting or testing microphone devices
• Preview automatically starts/stops when navigating to/from the Recording section

Database

• Schema upgraded to v6 with new columns for action plugin routing, profile hotkeys, and model tracking

New Plugins

• LiveTranscriptPlugin - Real-time live transcript overlay during recording (#77)

New Features

• Redesigned Home Dashboard as Bento Grid layout (#78)

Bug Fixes

• Fix iPhone Continuity mic causing recording to immediately stop (#76)
• Fix memory corruption crash in audio level update pipeline
• Fix WhisperKit auto-detect language detection (#75)
• Show guidance when no LLM provider plugins are installed

Updates

• WhisperKitPlugin 1.0.14

New Plugins

• ScriptPlugin - Post-process transcribed text via shell commands (e.g. tr, sed, custom scripts)
• ObsidianPlugin - Auto-export transcriptions to Obsidian vaults with daily notes support
• DeepgramPlugin - Real-time WebSocket streaming transcription via Deepgram
• AssemblyAIPlugin - WebSocket v3 streaming transcription via AssemblyAI

New Features

• Overlay indicator system with customizable styles and position presets
• Static indicator preview and style picker in General Settings
• Configurable notch display for multi-monitor setups (#65)
• Dynamic app group identifier for codesigning (PR #73)
• DEVELOPMENT_TEAM xcconfig for easier contributor setup (#67)

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on macOS 26 when starting recording - EXC_BAD_ACCESS in StreamingHandler (PR #74)
• Fix crash when saving history records after ScriptPlugin processing
• Fix API key persistence in cloud plugins (#72)
• Fix Prompt Palette text selection and replacement in Electron apps (#70)
• Fix auto-install of plugins - users now choose in setup wizard (#66)
• Fix mic preview not restarting when switching devices in setup wizard (#63)
• Fix MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET for all plugin targets (#64)
• Fix CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY overrides for automatic signing (#67)

What's New

Auto-Unload Models

• Configurable auto-unload - Local transcription models can now be automatically unloaded from memory after a configurable inactivity period. Choose from Immediate, 2/5/10/30/60 minutes, or Never.
• Automatic reload - When you start dictating after a model was auto-unloaded, it reloads automatically - no manual intervention needed.
• RAM savings - Frees up gigabytes of RAM when you're not actively transcribing, especially useful on 8 GB machines.

Settings: Recording > Engine > Auto-unload model

Fixes

• Bundled plugins - Fixed bundled plugins not being auto-enabled on first launch.

What's New

Instant Results with Streaming

When using Deepgram or AssemblyAI with live transcription enabled, the streaming result is now used as the final transcription. Previously, the app would discard the live result and run a redundant batch transcription after recording stopped — adding unnecessary delay. Now results appear instantly when you stop recording.

AssemblyAI Streaming Fixes

• Live transcription now works — fixed audio chunk sizing (AssemblyAI requires ≥50ms chunks)
• Multilingual support — automatically uses the multilingual streaming model for non-English languages
• No more duplicated text — fixed finality detection for the v3 streaming API

Bug Fix

• Fixed missing space in text stabilization when the transcription engine diverges mid-word

What's New

VoxtralPlugin

• Local Voxtral Mini 4B - New speech-to-text plugin for local transcription using Voxtral Mini 4B.

Setup Wizard

• Embedded Marketplace - Plugin marketplace is now embedded directly in Setup Wizard Step 2 with default engine and LLM pickers.

Homebrew

• Homebrew Tap support - Install TypeWhisper via brew install typewhisper/tap/typewhisper.

Fixes

• Control+Space hotkey - Fixed hotkey recorder not capturing modifier+key combinations like Control+Space.
• Processing spinner - Show a spinner in the notch indicator during transcription processing.
• Microphone permission - Auto-open Settings when microphone permission is missing.

What's New

Widgets

• Home Screen Widgets - 4 new WidgetKit widgets: Stats (small), Last Transcription (small), Activity Chart (medium), and History (large). Add them to your desktop for quick dictation insights.

Simulated Streaming

• Streaming for all engines - Non-streaming engines (Parakeet, Qwen3, cloud engines) now show simulated streaming text output, giving visual feedback while transcription completes.

macOS 14 Support

• macOS Sonoma compatibility - Deployment target lowered to macOS 14. All plugins now load on Sonoma as well.

Maintenance release v0.12.4

Other Changes

• Add UI localization with English default and German support

Maintenance release v0.12.1

Performance

• History section: Opens instantly — async cache loading off the UI thread and real UI virtualization (ListBox) replace the previous synchronous load that froze the UI
• Dashboard: No longer blocks app startup — history data loads asynchronously in the background
• Stats caching: TotalRecords/Words/Duration are cached and updated incrementally instead of recalculated via LINQ on every access

Other Changes

• Fix SupportedLanguages DIM test by enabling CallBase on mock
• Refresh profile transcription model list on plugin state changes
• Improve OpenAI Compatible plugin connection UX and remove inline styles
• Migrate all settings sections to WPF-UI controls
• Migrate PluginsSection to WPF-UI with CardExpander and fix expand state
• Add WPF-UI Fluent Design and migrate SettingsWindow to FluentWindow
• Add OpenAI Compatible plugin for local LLM servers
• Extract local models into SherpaOnnx plugin and unify Models UI
• Refresh plugin and model lists live after marketplace install/uninstall
• Add plugin system parity: IActionPlugin, streaming, marketplace, and localization
• Add prompt palette for AI-powered text processing via hotkey

What's New

Plugin Marketplace

Browse, install, update, and uninstall plugins directly from Settings > Integrations. Plugins are downloaded from GitHub Releases with progress feedback. Available/Installed tabs, update badges, and "Install from File" for local bundles.

Qwen3 ASR Engine

New local transcription engine powered by MLX on Apple Silicon. 30 languages, no API key required. Available as a plugin from the marketplace.

All Engines are Plugins

WhisperKit, Parakeet, SpeechAnalyzer, Groq, and OpenAI transcription engines have been migrated to the plugin system. The Models tab has been removed - each engine now manages its models in its own settings within the Integrations tab.

Hide Menu Bar Icon

New option in Settings > General > Appearance to hide the menu bar icon. When hidden, a Dock icon appears and the settings window opens on launch.

Plugin Localization

Plugins now support localized names and descriptions. German translations included for all bundled plugins and marketplace listings.

Improvements

• Engine and model picker moved to Recording settings for easier access
• History view redesigned with wider settings window and cached computed properties
• Plugins report supported languages for better profile matching
• Model download progress shown immediately for all engines
• Plugin auto-restores its model on app launch
• Settings window forwards plugin state changes for live UI updates

Fixes

• WhisperKit model download progress polling
• Prevent re-installing plugins after user uninstalls them
• SpeechAnalyzer settings view loads models on appear
• Plugin deactivation falls back to first ready engine
• WhisperKitConfig downloadBase set correctly to prevent Documents permission prompt

Simplification Release

This release focuses on removing complexity and cleaning up features that didn't carry their weight.

Removed

• Whisper mode (microphone gain boost) - removed for simplicity
• Silence detection - never worked reliably enough to ship
• Default prompt setting - unused, prompts are better managed per-profile
• Auto-submit in profiles - removed to reduce profile complexity
• Notch indicator extras - clock and battery removed, blue audio glow removed
• Preset labels from prompt actions list
• Dead code - toast overlay, hotkey migration, unused settings

Improved

• Settings reorganized - "Dictation" tab renamed to "Recording", audio sections regrouped
• Hotkey settings - more compact layout
• DictationViewModel - refactored with shared helpers, DRY event processing
• README - updated to reflect current feature set

Maintenance release v0.10.1

New Features

• Dynamic Island overlay: Configurable floating overlay with widgets (profile, model, audio level) and multi-monitor support
• Dictionary page redesign: Search bar with filtering, rich empty states with icons, segmented type selector, colored accent stripes on entry cards, polished add form and edit overlay

Improvements

• Profile widget: Show "Kein Profil" placeholder when no profile is active
• Profile settings: Hide detail panel when no profile is selected

What's New

History Overhaul

• Standalone History window - Access history directly from the tray menu, independent of Settings
• Timeline grouping - Entries grouped by Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days, etc.
• Filters - Filter by app and time range with native picker controls
• Bulk delete - Multi-select entries and delete via context menu
• "Delete All Visible" - Delete all entries matching current filters at once
• Auto-retention - Configure automatic cleanup (keep last 30/90/180/365 days) in Settings > Advanced
• Multi-select export - Export multiple entries as Markdown, Plain Text, or JSON

Profiles

• Per-profile hotkeys - Assign dedicated hotkeys to individual profiles
• Auto-submit option - Automatically submit text in chat apps (press Enter after insertion)

API & Integration

• HTTP API endpoints for history and profiles (#30)

Improvements

• Separate Dev and Production builds with different bundle IDs and data directories
• Disable streaming preview when cloud engine is selected
• Fix translation language normalization
• Windows no longer force-float above other apps

What's New

HTTP API for External Integrations

TypeWhisper now exposes a comprehensive HTTP API for controlling the app from external tools like Raycast, Alfred, or custom scripts.

New endpoints:

• GET /v1/history - Search and browse transcription history (with q, limit, offset params)
• DELETE /v1/history?id=<uuid> - Delete a history entry
• GET /v1/profiles - List all profiles
• PUT /v1/profiles/toggle?id=<uuid> - Enable/disable a profile
• POST /v1/dictation/start - Start voice recording
• POST /v1/dictation/stop - Stop voice recording
• GET /v1/dictation/status - Check if currently recording

All date fields now use ISO 8601 format. CORS headers support PUT and DELETE methods.

Separate Dev and Production Builds

Debug and Release builds now use different bundle IDs and data directories, so you can run both side-by-side without conflicts:

• Production: com.typewhisper.mac / ~/Library/Application Support/TypeWhisper/
• Development: com.typewhisper.mac.dev / ~/Library/Application Support/TypeWhisper-Dev/

Other

• Updated README with screenshots for all settings tabs
• Added screenshot automation script

What's New

ActionPlugin System

• New ActionPlugin protocol for routing LLM output to custom actions instead of text insertion
• Bundled LinearPlugin: Create Linear issues directly from voice dictation

Bug Fixes

• Fix auto-paste not working in some apps (#29) - Text insertion now works reliably in all apps (VS Code, Notes, etc.) by removing an overly restrictive accessibility check

Bug Fixes

• Fix SmartScreen warnings for plugin DLLs on startup: Remove "Mark of the Web" (Zone.Identifier) from plugin files before loading assemblies. Prevents Windows SmartScreen balloon notifications for built-in plugins (e.g. Groq) after install or update via Velopack.

Bug Fixes

• Fix built-in plugins missing after install/update: OpenAI, Groq, and Webhook plugins are now included in the Velopack installer package. Previously they were only present in build output but not in the publish directory.
• Fix settings lost on updates: Settings persistence is now resilient against corruption with atomic writes, automatic backup before each save, and recovery from backup if the primary file is corrupt.

Bugfixes

Auto-Update: Balloon-Klick funktioniert jetzt

• Klick auf die Tray-Notification "Update verfügbar" startet jetzt direkt den Download und die Installation
• Vorher wurde der Klick ignoriert, obwohl der Text "Klicken Sie hier zum Aktualisieren" anzeigte

Auto-Start: Funktioniert nach Updates zuverlässig

• --minimized Flag wird jetzt korrekt ausgewertet
• Nach Velopack-Updates wird der Auto-Start Registry-Eintrag automatisch mit dem neuen Exe-Pfad aktualisiert
• Onboarding-Fenster wird bei minimiertem Start übersprungen
• Logging in startup.log für einfacheres Debugging

What's New

Multi-Webhook System (Mac-Parität)

• Multiple Webhooks mit individueller Konfiguration (Name, URL, HTTP-Methode)
• Profil-Filter pro Webhook (nur bei bestimmten Profilen auslösen)
• Delivery Log mit den letzten 20 Zustellungen (Erfolg/Fehler)
• Automatischer Retry nach 5 Sekunden bei Fehlern
• Neuer Bearbeitungs-Dialog für Webhook-Konfiguration

Laufende Apps im Profil-Editor

• Apps-Feld zeigt jetzt laufende Anwendungen als klickbare Vorschläge
• Ein Klick fügt die App zum Profil-Filter hinzu
• Liste aktualisiert sich automatisch

SDK

• TranscriptionCompletedEvent enthält jetzt ProfileName

Bug Fixes

• Fix rapid back-to-back dictation hanging the app - When starting a new recording immediately after the previous one finished, the app could become unresponsive. The inserting-state reset timer now gets properly cancelled when a new recording begins.

Cleanup

• Removed unused "Always Paste" option from profiles

What's New in v0.9

Plugin System

TypeWhisper is now extensible through plugins. A new plugin SDK (TypeWhisperPluginSDK) enables developers to build custom integrations:

• Extension points: LLM providers, transcription engines, and post-processors can all be added via plugins
• Typed event bus: Plugins can observe dictation lifecycle events (recording start/stop, transcription complete, text inserted, etc.)
• Host services API: Plugins get scoped keychain access, UserDefaults, data directories, and profile name resolution
• Priority-based post-processing pipeline: Multiple post-processors run in defined order

Cloud Providers are now Plugins

Groq, OpenAI, and Gemini are now bundled as plugins instead of hardcoded providers. This makes them easier to update independently and serves as reference implementations for plugin developers.

• Gemini support - New! Use Google's Gemini models for prompt processing via OpenAI-compatible API
• Dual-purpose plugins - Groq and OpenAI plugins provide both transcription and LLM capabilities
• User-installed plugins in ~/Library/Application Support/TypeWhisper/Plugins/ take priority over built-in ones

Webhook Plugin

A new built-in webhook plugin lets you send transcription results to external services:

• Configurable webhook URLs with per-profile filtering
• Automatic retry logic and delivery log

Bug Fixes

• Fixed media pause launching Apple Music when nothing is playing (#25)
• Fixed WhisperKit model disappearing from picker after first transcription

What's Changed

• Prompt Palette redesigned: Moved from notch overlay to a standalone floating panel for better usability and more screen space
• Project roadmap added: Added a roadmap document outlining planned features and development direction

What's Changed

• Add global default prompt setting (#17)
• Fix audio end being cut off on quick stop
• Move WhisperKit model storage from Documents to Application Support
• Add silence-pause mode for continuous dictation
• Remove unused DictationOverlay files

Other Changes

• Fix Velopack update discovery with per-architecture channels

Other Changes

• Add version display and update check to Info settings section
• Remove unused XAML namespace and explicit DataType from DictionarySection

What's Changed

• Add Custom Prompts feature with LLM text processing by @SeoFood in #18

Notch Indicator

New recording indicator that visually extends the MacBook notch - inspired by boring.notch.

New Features

• Notch-extending overlay: Three-zone layout (left | notch | right) with smooth Bezier ear curves, centered over the hardware notch
• Audio-reactive blue glow: Blue shimmer emanates from the notch shape, intensity reacts to voice level
• Configurable content: Both left and right sides independently configurable with 6 options: Recording Indicator, Timer, Waveform, Clock, Battery, None
• Expandable streaming text: Panel expands downward to show live transcription text with auto-scroll
• Non-notch support: Falls back to a compact centered bar on external displays without a notch
• Full buffer streaming: Removed 28-second sliding window limit - streaming preview now covers the entire recording

Changes

• Classic overlay removed (replaced by notch indicator)
• Display mode setting removed (simplified to visibility + left/right content pickers)
• 65 missing German translations added

Defaults

• Visibility: During activity
• Left: Timer
• Right: Waveform

Other Changes

• Non-blocking transcription pipeline with Channel<T> job queue

Other Changes

• Add cloud transcription providers (Groq, OpenAI) with provider architecture

What's Changed

• feat: support modifier keys (Command, Shift, Option, Control) as single-key hotkeys by @jccrump in #14

New Contributors

• @jccrump made their first contribution in #14

Other Changes

• Fix release pipeline: apply RID only to publish step
• Build separate release artifacts for win-x64 and win-arm64

What's Changed

• Add project README with features, build instructions, architecture overview, and model recommendations
• Fix welcome wizard: replace outdated Whisper model list with Parakeet TDT 0.6B and Canary 180M Flash

Other Changes

• Add release pipeline with GitHub Actions and Velopack
• Redesign dashboard with activity chart and stats
• Fix dispose guards and missing connection opens
• Add DB migration for tags column and consume trailing punctuation in snippets
• Enhance snippets: tags, clipboard placeholder, import/export, editor dialog
• Add dictionary feature: cards UI, term packs, auto-learning
• Extend sound durations and remove stop sound
• Add sound feedback with NAudio and fix playback order
• Remove Whisper reference from info section
• Add audio ducking and media pause during recording
• Redesign history as timeline with inline-expandable cards
• Add .agents/ and .claude/ to gitignore
• Enhance overlay UI with partial transcription, badges, and timer
• Add live transcription with Silero VAD for real-time partial results
• Refactor hotkeys: support hybrid, toggle-only, and hold-only modes
• Remove Whisper engine, consolidate to Parakeet-only
• Add app icon for tray, taskbar, and exe from Mac icon set
• Add browser URL detection via Windows UI Automation for profile matching
• Initial commit: TypeWhisper Windows with local Opus-MT translation