Changelog

Every release, newest first. Updates are delivered automatically - Dictera checks for them in the background and installs signed, notarized builds.

0.8.1

New

• Quick Controls - one shortcut opens a compact panel in the middle of the screen for the things you change mid-flow: switch the speech model, change the spoken language, toggle cleanup. No trip to Settings.
• Screenshot viewer - open any screenshot you've sent to the assistant at full size, zoom and pan it, fit it to the window or view it actual-size, then copy or save it.
• Screenshots are kept with the session - reopening a saved conversation brings its pictures back. Storage is capped and the oldest are cleared automatically.
• Model updates - when a newer version of a model you have installed is published, Dictera offers it, verifies it before installing, and reclaims the space of the one it replaces.
• Downloads resume - an interrupted model download picks up where it stopped instead of starting over.
• Connectors, in detail - connector tools are discovered in the background, listed per server, and granted individually. Tools that can change things rather than only read them are marked as such.

Improvements

• Dictated text now fits its surroundings better - Dictera looks at what's immediately before the caret and joins on correctly instead of doubling a space or a full stop.
• Correcting selected text is context-aware: an unchanged result is left alone rather than pasted over itself, and switching apps mid-correction is handled cleanly.
• The translation indicator names the language it's translating into.
• The AI Assistant now needs a subscription once your trial ends, like the rest of the app. During the 14-day trial everything is unlimited. Saved sessions stay readable and exportable either way.

Removed

• Qwen3-ASR is no longer available - the framework Dictera uses for on-device speech removed the engine, so no version of the app can both keep it and take any further update. If you had it selected you'll be moved to Apple Speech Analyzer and offered its disk space back.

0.7.1

New

• Meeting Notes - a second mode for the AI Assistant: it listens to the call and writes it up. Summary, decisions and action items when you press Stop, or any time with the summarize button. The same session can also be produced as Full minutes, a cleaned-up Transcript in the language it was spoken, or Chapters - a timeline of what was discussed when.
• The notes take the shape of the session - a lecture has no decisions and no owners; a meeting does. Left on automatic, each session is read for what it is - meeting, lecture or talk, one-on-one, interview, sales call - and the notes say which shape they used, so a wrong guess is one change away.
• Meeting Setup - name the other participants, who you are, and any background, and an action item can say who owns it. The setup is kept between meetings.
• Chat - a third mode: a plain typed conversation with the model, with no audio captured at all.
• Session list - a sidebar of your conversations for the current mode, searchable and renameable. Reopening one brings its mode back, and the session that is still recording is marked as such.
• One-press rewrites - an answer can be made Shorter or Simpler, or given More detail or an Example. Notes can be cut down to Action items, reorganized By topic, or turned into a Recap email, Key terms or a Study guide.
• Answer and Listen hotkeys - ⌥⌘A answers the last question and ⌥⌘L starts or stops listening, from any app, so you never have to click into the panel - the thing most likely to give the assistant away on camera. In Meeting Notes, Answer writes the notes instead.
• Every panel shortcut is editable, grouped as Actions, Navigation and Display, with Restore Panel Defaults to undo your changes.
• Cancel speaker echo - the microphone pauses while the other side is coming out of your speakers, so they aren't transcribed a second time. On by default, and it arms itself only when you're on loudspeakers.
• Claude Code as an engine - the assistant can talk about your actual project: Claude reads the folder you choose before answering. Access is read-only - it can read and search the folder, never change it. Tick exactly which connector tools it may use, and run a Health Check to see what the folder can reach.
• A model and a language per mode - Assist, Meeting Notes and Chat each pick their own engine, switchable from the panel's toolbar too.
• Compact mode - a smaller panel for when it has to share the screen with a call.
• Save as Markdown… for notes, minutes, transcript and chapters, plus copy buttons for each of them and for a single answer.
• Context Window per remote model - Test Connection fills it in when the server reports it. Getting it right is what lets a long meeting be summarized in as few passes as possible.

Improvements

• A long meeting no longer stops at the model's limit - the transcript is read in passes, the panel says which pass it's on, and the result says when it covers only the most recent stretch.
• A conversation that outgrows the model's context window now says so, and points at where to set a larger one.
• Your microphone starts muted in every mode. Turn Mic on when your own voice should be part of the notes; the panel shows which state you're in.
• The panel says what the engine is doing while you wait - reading a file, searching the project, fetching a page, running a command.
• Screen-sharing visibility is now a button in the panel itself: one click to hide the window from capture or bring it back.
• Answer text can be made bigger or smaller and reset again.
• Pick which output device the other participants are captured from - the one you actually hear the call on (e.g. your AirPods), or System Default.
• All of the above is localized in every supported language.

Fixes

• Dictation into Dictera's own text fields - the assistant's chat box, Settings - now inserts the text there instead of sending it to whatever app sits behind the panel.

0.6.4

• An Open Settings global hotkey.
• A reworked onboarding flow, with live "try it" fields that confirm each step worked.
• Interface and localization updates throughout.

0.6.2

• Edit Selection - select text in any app, hold a key, and say the change you want. The rewrite lands in place, one undo away.
• History gained searchable Assistant Sessions.

0.6.1

• The first AI Assistant: a floating panel with a global hotkey, system audio capture, and reusable session templates.

0.5.1

• Correct Selection and Translate Selection - fix or translate text you've already written, in any app.

Earlier

• 0.4.x - bring your own AI: connect Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible server, per feature.
• 0.3.x - additional speech models, dictation reliability work, and the first tutorials.

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