Changelog

What's new, what's improved, what's fixed.

Major May 10, 2026
v1.0.0
First public release

Added

  • Local voice-to-text transcription with whisper.cpp, no audio leaves the machine
  • Floating pill with click-through, drag, and always-on-top
  • Tray app lifecycle: close hides the pill, quit only from the tray menu
  • Global shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Space by default, fully configurable)
  • Auto-paste to the active window with optional clipboard restoration
  • Settings window with seven panels: General, Shortcut, Audio, Appearance, Models, Advanced, About
  • Five pill themes (Matte, Onyx, Aurora, Sunset, Mint) with voice-reactive bars on the colored ones
  • Eight UI languages with system auto-detect (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, JA, ZH)
  • On-demand model download with progress and cancel: Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, Large-v3
  • GPU acceleration via CUDA for NVIDIA cards (CPU fallback works without one)
  • Welcome window on first launch to pick and download a Whisper model
  • Microphone selector, input gain, and Chromium noise suppression toggle
  • Pill position grid (corners and center top/bottom), per-display preference, remembers last drag position
  • Auto-recovery: if the active model is deleted while the app is running, the welcome reopens to redownload