Product updates

Features & Improvements

• Notetaker no longer carries a Beta badge.
• The live transcript in a note stays where you scrolled, rather than snapping to the newest line on every new sentence.
• Find in transcript (⌘F) opens instantly and keeps up as you type, even on long notes that used to stall for seconds per keystroke.

Fixes

• Downloading the Mac app now reliably starts a file save; it used to occasionally do nothing.
• The download page offers to copy the link on a phone or iPad, rather than handing over a file nothing on the device can open.
• Signing in from a phone now lands on the dashboard instead of the Mac install page.
• The web dashboard stops scrolling sideways on a phone.

New Features

• The on-device bundle is now called EP-1, and it covers all three jobs: transcription, cleanup, and meeting notes. Nothing is re-downloaded if you already have the local model.
• Meeting notes can be written on your Mac. On a 16GB+ Apple Silicon Mac, pick Local under Settings → Models. Neither the audio nor the transcript leaves your Mac, and it works offline. The cloud model stays the default.
• Find in transcript. Press Cmd-F in an open note to search its transcript, with every match highlighted and Enter stepping through them.
• In the dictation What changed view, click any edit Cleanup made to undo just that one, instead of reverting the whole passage.

Features & Improvements

• Epilude says plainly before you switch that on-device notes are weaker: about 6 in 10 come out ready to send, against about 9 in 10 from the cloud, and a 45 to 60 minute meeting takes about 20 minutes to write up.
• Choosing on-device notes starts that part of the EP-1 download straight away, about 4.3 GB, and each card in Settings → Models tracks only the pieces it needs.
• On a low battery, Epilude asks before starting an on-device write-up and offers the cloud model for that meeting instead.
• While an on-device note is being written, Local Mode dictation uses basic formatting for those minutes, then returns to full Cleanup on its own.
• A new pixel-art look across the app, and the indicator shown while Cleanup or Notetaker is working now counts the seconds so a long wait is never silent.

Fixes

• A meeting note written on your Mac that fails part-way stays a failure, with the transcript intact. It never falls back to the cloud without you choosing it.
• Dictating with the MacBook lid closed and an external microphone connected no longer silently records from the built-in microphone.
• Manage billing works again on your account dashboard for subscribed users; it had stopped responding to clicks.

Features & Improvements

• The free trial has no time limit. A new account gets 1,000 dictated words and 10 meeting notes, each running out on its own, and only asks you to pick a plan when both are gone.
• Meeting audio no longer counts against dictation words. A meeting costs one note.
• Local Mode dictation now counts toward your trial words, in both directions.
• If your trial ended on the old 14-day clock with words or notes left, it is live again.
• Notetaker switches microphone mid-recording when you change it in Settings, instead of carrying on with the old device.
• The recording chip and note now name the microphone in use, and warn when the Mac's built-in one is recording beside a headset you are wearing.
• The live transcript keeps up, around two seconds behind the conversation.
• Both trial allowances appear in the menu bar item and under Settings → Plan & Usage.

Fixes

• The dictation and Notetaker recording pills follow the display you are working on, instead of staying pinned to one monitor. Drag one and it remembers that spot per display.
• Stretches of speech that came back empty are kept rather than discarded, so a recording no longer finishes as a note that looks like nothing was said. The note offers to transcribe them again.
• The live transcript now tells you at the time if audio is going out but no words are coming back.

Features & Improvements

• Settings → Modes is now Settings → Models. Dictation, Actions, Notetaker transcription and meeting summaries each pick Cloud or Local on their own, and changing one leaves the others alone.
• Each row is a small selector with the detail on hover, including where your data goes. The comparison cards are gone.
• The Epilude Model is one download for speech and cleanup, manageable from either the Dictation or Notetaker row.
• A fresh install opens in dark mode, and Dark comes first in the appearance picker. An appearance you have already chosen stays as it is.

Fixes

• Bringing Epilude to the front opens the main window. It sometimes put a small empty panel on screen instead, after stopping a recording, opening settings from the menu bar, or running an Action.
• A held modifier hotkey stays push-to-talk. macOS could report a quick release and re-press while the key was still down, which Epilude read as the double-tap that starts hands-free mode.

Actions and meeting summaries stay on Cloud until they have an on-device model.

Features & Improvements

• Cloud and Local mode are no longer one choice for the whole app. Dictation covers dictation, cleanup and Actions; Notetaker has its own choice. Change one and the others stay put.
• Cloud assist for Actions and for Notetaker summaries are separate switches. Turning one off no longer pauses the other.
• Insights splits into Dictation and Notetaker tabs, with each number on its own card.
• Fixes made is a new stat: the words cleanup has added or removed for you, all time. It starts from the dictations still on your Mac rather than from zero.
• Epilude's colours are rebuilt for readability in light and dark. Cards sit above the page, borders are visible, and smaller grey text is dark enough to read.
• Home is now Dictations, showing your recent dictations and nothing else.
• Settings rows have icons, card titles sit above the card, and validation messages sit under the field that caused them.
• Delete confirmations use one compact layout everywhere. Reversible removals in Shortcuts and Vocabulary happen immediately with Undo instead of a confirmation.

Fixes

• Meeting summaries stay closer to the recording: long meetings get a real overview, one discussion stays under one heading, settled points show how they were settled, and action items go to the person who agreed to them. Tentative language stays tentative.
• Your hotkey survives an update. Installing one could leave the dictation hotkey dead until you quit and reopened Epilude. A second copy of the app is now refused, with a reason.
• A slow connection no longer signs you out when Epilude opens or your Mac wakes mid-reconnect.
• The Notetaker banner no longer flashes on launch if you already have meetings saved.

A meeting already in progress stays on the mode it started with.

New Features

• Hide from screen capture keeps Epilude's floating panels out of screenshots, screen recordings and shared screens, while leaving them visible on your Mac. Worth it if you present with Epilude running, since the dictation overlay and transcript peek both show live text. Off by default, in Settings → General.

Features & Improvements

• Stopping a meeting starts the write-up on its own, so the note is already filling in when you look at it. Short meetings, resumed meetings that already have notes, and accounts without a trial or subscription still wait for you to ask.
• Notetaker's setup walkthrough shows the product instead of three pages of bullets: it opens on a finished note, shows live permission state with a button to grant each one, and reads your own meeting hotkey.
• A new setup step covers where the work happens: recording and transcription can stay on your Mac, while the summary is a cloud call either way.

Fixes

• A quick tap of the dictation hotkey ends quietly instead of showing an error. Audio that genuinely cannot be transcribed now gets a plain sentence rather than raw error text.
• The meeting prompt moved from the top middle of the screen, where most Mac apps put their own controls, to the top right. The recording pill it becomes sits tight against the screen edge.
• The old setup copy named the wrong permission for system audio.

New Features

• Notetaker is on for every account, marked Beta while it settles. Epilude records from your Mac, so nothing joins the call: Zoom, a Meet tab, a Slack huddle and a conversation across a table all record the same way. Press ⌘⇧M to start.
• Type in a notepad during the call while the transcript builds beside it, split into You and Them. Point at the recording pill to read along without leaving the call.
• Summaries use your own headings, keep what you typed separate from what was said, name an owner or due date only where one was spoken, and link every line back to the moment it was said.
• The meetings list renames, exports and deletes without opening a note, and a delete offers Undo.

Features & Improvements

• Actions and Notetaker summaries now work in Local Mode by sending text to Epilude's cloud. Dictation, cleanup, meeting audio and its transcription still never leave your Mac. Actions send the selected text and spoken command; summaries send the finished transcript, never the audio.
• Turn Cloud assist off and Local Mode keeps everything on your Mac, with Actions and summaries unavailable as before.
• Notetaker's own engine and model pickers are gone, since Local or Cloud mode already decides where a meeting runs.
• Meeting detection shows each app's real icon and only the apps installed on your Mac. Microsoft Teams appeared twice, one per build, and is now one entry.

If you were in Cloud mode with local meeting transcription picked, that setting no longer exists and meetings now transcribe in the cloud. Switch to Local Mode to keep the audio on your Mac.

Epilude's content stopped short of the bottom of the window, leaving a blank strip along the edge. The sidebar hid it on the left only because its own bottom block was overflowing, which pushed your account row off the bottom on shorter windows.

Both are fixed together, since they were the same underlying problem. The sidebar's bottom block now fits at any window height, and the app's content reaches the window edge.

If a dictation was interrupted at the wrong moment, its finished text could be handed to the wrong recording and never reach you. You would speak, let go, and nothing would arrive. The risk was highest on the first dictation after launching in Local Mode, while the on-device model was still loading.

Your words now always go to the recording they came from, even when the text takes a while and you have already started the next dictation. Letting go of the hotkey also always releases the microphone, which could previously stay on until you quit the app.

If your microphone captured nothing at all, because it was muted or the device dropped out, Epilude used to finish quietly and insert no text, with nothing on screen to explain why. You held the hotkey, said your piece, and got silence back.

You now get the No Audio Detected notice, with a short checklist and a button through to your audio settings, so you can fix the microphone instead of guessing. A quick brush of the hotkey stays silent, so nothing pops up when you didn't mean to dictate.

There were two ways your hotkey could stop responding until you quit and reopened Epilude. Both are fixed.

The first showed up around update notices: the hotkey went dead while an update was waiting, and only installing the update brought it back. Epilude now checks that your keys are still being picked up every time you switch back to the app, and repairs the connection if they aren't.

The second came from recording a hotkey. The recorder pauses your hotkeys so the keys you press don't fire anything, and switching to another app with that screen still open left them paused. Leaving the recorder now always ends the pause.

Settings used to open in a panel floating over the app. It now takes over the window, with its sections listed down the left and a Back to app link at the top. Press Esc to leave, and whatever you were doing in Epilude is still there when you get back.

Two smaller changes came with it. Epilude reopens Settings on the section you were last looking at, and you can open Settings from the Epilude menu or with ⌘, without hunting for the button in the sidebar.

Say "three hundred forty three" and you now get 343. Until now, whether a number landed as digits or as words depended on which transcription happened to run, so the same sentence could come out either way.

One rule applies everywhere: zero through nine stay as words, ten and up become digits. Numbers you speak as a time or a year are left alone, so "seven thirty" stays as it is instead of arriving as 730.

This works in Cloud mode and in Local Mode, and in the other languages Epilude dictates in, using each language's own number words.

When setup hands you off to another app, Epilude now shrinks into a small card that stays on top instead of disappearing behind it, then grows back into the full window when you return.

This affects the two steps where it mattered most:

• Signing in: choosing "Continue with Google" opens your browser. The "Waiting for sign-in..." message used to be hidden behind it, so there was no sign anything was happening.
• Granting permissions: System Settings takes over the screen, and the instructions for the step you were on used to vanish with it. You can now see which toggle to flip while you are looking at the pane that has it.