Release notes

• The menu bar icon and the recording pill now show the Roundhand mark, the quotation mark from the app icon, instead of a microphone and a dot. In the menu bar the mark sits in a filled square while you dictate and gains a dot while a meeting records; in the pill it breathes, dims and takes the warning colour just as the dot did.
• Opening Roundhand from the Dock, Spotlight or Finder now shows the main window the same way Open Roundhand in the menu bar does, with the "Hold Fn and speak" hint, the tip card for each page and the dots on new tips. Before, a window opened that way showed none of them.
• Each page of the main window except Insights can show a short How it works card with an animated example. Press Got it to fold it away; the How it works button at the top brings it back.
• When a meeting cannot be processed, Roundhand now tells you: a card appears, and the meeting stays in Notetaker as "Not processed" with Try again and Delete recording. Its recording is kept for 7 days so you can try again. Before, the meeting disappeared without a message and its recording was deleted.
• Your history setting in Data and privacy now removes old meetings (with their kept recordings and screenshots) and old dictations even when you do not dictate: they are cleared when Roundhand starts and after each meeting finishes processing.
• The meeting cards ("Meeting over?", the note after a recording stops on its own, the microphone-only notice and the offer to record) are now hidden from screen shares and screenshots, like the live transcript window. You still see them on your screen.
• Meetings now use your dictionary: a dictionary word shows correctly in the live transcript, the saved transcript, Copy all, the Markdown export and find, and summaries spell your dictionary words, and the names from Name speakers when you choose Generate summary, your way. After you name speakers, close misspellings of those names in that meeting's transcript, summary and action items show the right spelling. The saved text is not changed, so removing a name or a dictionary entry brings back what was heard.
• An imported recording is now kept for your full history period counted from the day you import it, so importing an older recording no longer gets it deleted right away. The note still shows the date the recording was made.
• A meeting interrupted by a crash after its transcript was saved now finishes on the next launch instead of showing as failed, and Try again recovers one that already did.
• Meeting summaries now use Claude Haiku 5.5, and so does cleanup on a Free or Pro plan. If you use your own key and choose Claude Haiku 5.5, cleanup now skips the model's thinking step, so it comes back sooner.
• Dictation and meeting recording with a Bluetooth headset no longer crash or stop working without a word when the headset's microphone switches over: Roundhand waits for the switch to finish, keeps recording, and if the microphone still does not respond it says so. A microphone you choose in Settings now records even when your default microphone is a different kind of device, such as a Bluetooth headset. Unplugging the microphone you are recording with no longer pauses recording: Roundhand moves to your next microphone straight away.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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• The free trial of cloud cleanup now lasts 30 days instead of 15.
• "This is me" now learns your voice from any meeting note, not only the one just processed.
• A meeting with no speech no longer asks for a summary: it says no speech was found instead.
• Import an audio or video recording into the Notetaker to get a transcript, speakers and a summary. The audio is decoded and transcribed on your Mac; only the transcript text is sent, for the summary.

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• Meeting summaries with an Anthropic key now use a newer, larger-context model, so long meetings are summarized in one pass.
• When a meeting summary is written, the meeting now gets a short title from it instead of the app name and time.
• Cloud cleanup no longer inserts text that was already in your document in front of, or instead of, what you just said. When it tries, Roundhand inserts your own words with the offline cleanup, and History shows "LLM repeated the document".
• With no cleanup provider set, Notes now leaves a sentence like "We need to buy eggs, milk, bread and butter." as a sentence instead of turning its opening words into a heading.
• When a meeting recording stops on its own and no summary will be written (no API key, or Local-only mode on), the notice now says the transcript is being saved instead of promising a summary.
• A meeting summary that fails because your API key was rejected, your credits ran out or your free trial ended now says so, instead of saying the service could not be reached.
• You can record the next meeting as soon as you stop the last one. Meetings still being processed wait their turn, each with its own row in the Notetaker, and pick up where they left off if Roundhand quits.
• If you clicked "Don't ask again" on the record-this-meeting card, you can now turn the card back on: Settings > General > Meetings, or the Notetaker section, has an "Ask to record when a call starts" switch.
• The last word of a dictation is no longer cut off when you release the key: Roundhand keeps listening for a moment after you let go.
• Button labels no longer wrap onto two lines. In a meeting's Delete dialog, "Delete audio only" is now "Delete audio", and the dialog says what each choice removes.
• The message shown when an account reaches its device limit now counts devices rather than Macs.

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• When another app starts using your microphone, Roundhand offers to record the meeting, asks for your acknowledgement before the first recording, and tells you when only your microphone is being recorded.
• While a meeting records, a small floating window shows a live transcript. Expand it to scroll, search and copy, or shrink it to a pill.
• A new Notetaker section in the main window lists your recorded meetings. Open one to read its transcript, summary and action items grouped by person, search the transcript, copy it, export it as Markdown, or delete it.
• After a meeting is processed, Roundhand asks you to name its speakers, showing two lines from each. Names replace the speaker labels in the transcript, summary and action items, and "This is me" teaches Roundhand your voice for later meetings. Use Name speakers on a meeting to change them later.
• A recording you forgot to stop now asks "Meeting over?" after a known meeting app (Zoom, Teams, Meet in Chrome or Safari, and others) lets go of the microphone, after 2 minutes of silence (5 when only your microphone is recorded), or after 4 hours, and stops a minute later unless you keep recording. It also stops when the Mac goes to sleep. After an automatic stop, a card says "Recording stopped. Writing the summary..." for a few seconds, with Open to go to the meeting. The meeting notes why it stopped.
• A new "Keep audio for playback" setting in Data and privacy keeps a meeting's audio on this Mac as a small compressed file, so you can play it back in the meeting, scrub through it, and click a transcript line to jump there. Choose per meeting from the menu bar while recording, and delete a meeting's kept audio at any time. Kept audio is deleted with its meeting, by history retention, and by Clear history, which now clears meetings too.
• If System Audio Recording was refused, Roundhand now notices about 30 seconds into a meeting, once the meeting app has been playing sound that long, and says so in the status menu and the live window, with where to allow it. The recording carries on, and a meeting in which the other people were never heard is saved as microphone only.
• Meeting cards (the offer to record, the microphone-only notice and "Meeting over?") now open at the bottom centre of the screen, above where the dictation pill shows, so they never cover the live transcript window. They name the call app when one is known: "Your Zoom call just started." and "Looks like your Zoom call ended."
• The "Keep audio for playback" switch is now also on the Notetaker page, above your meetings. It is the same setting as the one in Settings > Privacy and diagnostics, so changing either one changes both.
• The compact live transcript window now scrolls through the whole meeting. It follows new lines while you are at the bottom; scroll up to read and it stays put, with a "Latest" button to jump back. In a meeting's note, the selected tab's icon is highlighted, and Name speakers, Export, Delete and Copy all are outlined buttons with icons.
• Every button now answers the pointer: it darkens a little on hover and a little more, with a slight shrink, when pressed (only the darkening under Reduce Motion). Copy all and History's Copy show a tick and "Copied" for a moment after copying. The setup window's Back, Continue, Finish and Retry download buttons now use Roundhand's own button look.
• A meeting now has one Delete, in its header. When the meeting kept its audio, it offers Delete audio only, which keeps the transcript, summary and action items, or Delete meeting, which removes everything. The live transcript window uses larger, more widely spaced type, and the back button in a meeting's note is an outlined "Notetaker" button.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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• Dictating an email into Mail no longer adds "Best," at the end. Your own sign-off, if you say one, still goes on its own line, and nothing is added when you do not.

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• Apps without a rule of their own, such as Outlook, Gmail in your browser, Teams, WhatsApp, Obsidian and Notion, now get dictation formatted the way that app is usually written: conversational in a chat app, paragraphs and your own lists in a notes app, your own greeting and sign-off on their own lines in email. Roundhand still adds nothing you did not say.
• Speaking to Claude Code, Amp or another coding agent in a terminal is now formatted as a message, with full sentences and punctuation, even when the window title does not name the agent. Roundhand also looks at the key hints an agent shows at the bottom of the terminal. A plain shell still gets single-line commands.
• If your Mac's language is not one Roundhand can transcribe, dictation now defaults to English instead of guessing the language, which often guessed wrong on short phrases. You can still turn on auto-detect in Settings.
• The sidebar's Help link, which did nothing, is now About: it shows the version you are running, a Check for Updates button and links to support, release notes and privacy.
• Roundhand now reminds you about Plans now and then when your trial has ended or your Pro credits run out, and at most three times ever if you use local-only mode. Choose "Don't show this again" in the menu bar menu to stop these reminders.
• Dictating an email into Mail now lays it out as one: your greeting on its own line, the message in paragraphs, and your own sign-off, or "Best," if you did not say one. A one-sentence reply is left as you said it. Dictating into Notes turns a spoken list of three or more items, such as "shopping list, eggs, milk and bread", into a heading with bullets.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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• Dictating into a password field no longer reads what the field contains.
• If cloud setup can't finish on this Mac, for example because your account has reached its device limit, Roundhand now says why and offers Retry setup instead of showing "setting up" indefinitely.
• A template that fails to save now shows a plain message instead of a technical error.
• A rewrite that can't be completed no longer tells every plan to add a key in Settings.
• The pill and menu bar now say "Cleaning via Roundhand" on Free and Pro.
• The Plans screen is wider, keeps the Monthly/Yearly switch beside Refresh, and fits smaller windows.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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Roundhand 0.2.2 (build 614). Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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Roundhand 0.2.1 (build 585). Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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Roundhand 0.2.0 (build 430). Ad-hoc test build to verify the Sparkle update path. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 14 or later.

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