Dictation now adapts to the app you're using. Per-app profiles let you set different transcription styles — casual for messaging apps, polished for documents — and automatically switch based on the active window, with browser URL matching for web apps like Google Docs or Slack. (#12)

Meeting overlays are now hidden from screen sharing by default, so your AI assistant stays private during Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls. (#25) A new set of quick-fill context templates lets you describe your meeting in one click, and you can now add or edit meeting context after recording has started. (#17) Meeting summaries support custom format instructions — configure once in settings to get the output style you prefer. (#13)

Other improvements:

• Inline speaker renaming in post-meeting transcripts with automatic profile saving (#19)
• Audio level overlay follows your active window across screens (#14)
• Meeting assistant overlay remembers its position between uses
• Replaced trial token system with a permanent free tier
• Added Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite model and thinking level selector
• Hold-to-talk no longer triggers from held keys (key repeat filtering)
• Human-readable dates in meeting assistant briefings

Bug fixes:

• Fixed meeting summary window appearing over full-screen apps (now bounces Dock icon instead of stealing focus) (#18)
• Fixed overlays showing on the wrong screen when the frontmost app is full-screen
• Fixed speaker label colors resetting after a rename

Meeting summaries now open in a proper macOS window with a title bar, traffic lights, and keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+W to close, Shift+Cmd+C to copy). The window auto-sizes to fit content — starting compact during processing stages, then growing when the summary arrives (KVO-based content fitting, capped at 80% screen height). You can ask follow-up questions directly in the summary window, with full conversation history preserved between questions.

The menu bar icon has been updated to the new bird logo, and the overlay system has been migrated to @Observable for per-property tracking, reducing unnecessary SwiftUI re-renders.

Other improvements:

• About You field now accepts longer text and includes writing style guidance
• Selection capture works in canvas-based editors like Google Docs (AX + clipboard fallback)
• Rich text paste no longer inserts spurious blank lines (block-aware markdown parser)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a crash when reusing the meeting summary window (Auto Layout constraint loop)
• Fixed meeting recording getting stuck in "stopping" state when no active worker
• Fixed the last few seconds of audio being lost when stopping a meeting (DTLN buffer not flushed before finalization)
• Fixed meeting summary window appearing off-screen on smaller displays
• Fixed meeting assistant panel appearing on the wrong screen in multi-monitor setups
• Fixed login item re-registering on every app launch (SMAppService persists across launches)
• Fixed onboarding window not behaving like a standard macOS window (activation policy)
• Fixed stale selection badges and synchronous database reads in the status panel
• Fixed phantom Q&A entries appearing in meeting history
• Fixed window drag gesture using wrong window reference

Stability release focused on fixing the crashes that made beta.2 unusable on first launch. The DTLN echo cancellation model now loads correctly from the app bundle (SPM Bundle.module bypass), and the loading overlay no longer blocks your first dictation after onboarding.

Onboarding also got visual polish: an accessibility settings mockup shows exactly which permissions to grant, and interactive keyboard visualizations on the hotkey pages let you preview each shortcut before committing to it.

Onboarding has been completely redesigned into a 4-page flow with per-shortcut setup, so each recording mode is introduced and configured on its own page. Privacy policy, terms of service, and opt-in analytics are now presented during setup rather than buried in settings.

A new Privacy settings panel lets you control what analytics and crash logs are sent to the developer. Dictation mode now rewrites more aggressively—cleaning up contradictions, long pauses, and restarts into clear, concise language. Meetings now queue for offline enrichment when there's no network connection, processing automatically when connectivity returns (persistent SQLite queue).

Other improvements:

• Launch at login enabled by default for new users (SMAppService)
• Meeting assistant default shortcut changed to Control+Space
• Monospaced font for keyboard shortcuts display
• Consistent spacing hierarchy in settings window
• Assistant usage hint added to meeting start panel

Bug fixes:

• Fixed event tap re-enable loop when accessibility permission is revoked
• Fixed database migration for missing enrichment columns (reused v10 migration)
• Fixed volume limiting default to 10% for new installs
• Fixed audio feedback sounds cutting off and engine lifecycle issues

First public beta of MimicScribe — a macOS menu bar app for speech-to-text. Transcription is powered by NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B model compiled to CoreML, so your audio never leaves your Mac. Text refinement, meeting summaries, and follow-up questions use Gemini.

Meeting mode (Cmd+Shift+Alt+Space) captures system audio and microphone simultaneously, producing a diarized transcript with speaker labels and an AI-powered summary. Speaker diarization uses pyannote community-1 models with a Gemini pass to fix attribution errors. DTLN neural echo cancellation separates your voice from system audio. A real-time meeting assistant lets you ask questions about the conversation while it's still happening.

Insert mode (Alt+Space) transcribes speech and pastes it at your cursor. Instruction mode (Shift+Alt+Space) sends voice commands to Gemini with your selected text as context, displaying results in a dark glass overlay.

Other improvements:

• Dark glass onboarding flow with card-based layout
• Sparkle auto-updates with EdDSA signing
• Custom CGEventTap hotkey system (replacing KeyboardShortcuts library)
• Redesigned status panel trial card with purchase and activate links

Bug fixes:

• Fixed 3-second hang on app quit (main-thread deadlock in audio teardown)
• Fixed DTLN model crash in .app bundles (SPM bundle resolution)
• Fixed onboarding accessibility setup not guiding users through permissions