Product updates

We tightened a range of protections across the Epilude backend and web pages: stricter limits on sign-in and support requests, hardened handling of the pages that manage your session, and tighter controls on how our servers make outbound requests. Nothing changes in how you use Epilude.

The Recent dictations card on the home screen now opens into a full list of your dictation history. Every entry supports the same actions as the card: copy the text, compare it with the raw transcript, undo or redo Cleanup, or report a result that missed the mark.

Dictation history stays on your Mac.

Your dictation hotkeys, including Caps Lock, are now handled by a small dedicated helper that runs alongside Epilude. Keyboard monitoring this way can no longer interfere with typing in other apps, even in the rare cases where the main app is busy or restarting.

The helper registers itself, keeps itself up to date after app updates, and if it is ever unavailable Epilude falls back to handling hotkeys itself, so dictation keeps working either way. No setup needed.

Holding a modifier-only push-to-talk hotkey, such as Right Command, could end the dictation on its own after about a second even though you were still holding the key. The hold is now tracked correctly for as long as you keep the key down.

Local Mode now shows the on-device model you are actually running — Epilude Model 3 — in Settings, onboarding, and the download details. As the on-device model improves, the name you see will keep up with the version on your Mac.

You can now sign in to Epilude with your Google account. Pick Continue with Google on the app's sign-in screen or on the web dashboard, approve it in your browser, and you are signed in — no email code to wait for.

Signing in with email still works exactly as before, and both options connect to the same account. If you have been using email sign-in with your Gmail address, Continue with Google signs you into that same account.

New to Epilude? The quick start walks you through setup after you sign in.

When a new version of Epilude is available, the app now shows it right in the sidebar and in Settings, so you always know when there is an update to install instead of finding out later.

Picking your dictation language is clearer now. The language list shows every language Epilude supports, and in Local Mode the ones that need Cloud Mode to transcribe are marked "Cloud only" rather than quietly disappearing from the list.

So if a language you use isn't available on-device, you can see exactly why and switch to Cloud Mode for it, instead of wondering where it went.

Not everyone wants a subscription. Pay Once is a single $59 purchase that unlocks Local Mode: Epilude's fully on-device dictation and Cleanup, where your audio is processed right on your Mac and never leaves it. It works offline (the app just checks in occasionally when you're online), and your purchase includes a full year of app updates.

Cloud Mode, with the fastest transcription and our largest Cleanup models, still runs on Pro or your free trial. Pay Once covers everything that happens on-device.

Compare the plans to see how Pay Once and Pro line up.

Two hotkey fixes make push-to-talk dependable:

• Releasing always stops: rarely, letting go of your hotkey didn't end the dictation — it kept listening until you pressed again. Epilude now double-checks the real key state and stops within a second, even when macOS drops the release event.
• Works on more keyboards: hotkeys bound to a specific side, like Left ⌘, could silently never trigger on keyboards that don't report which side was pressed. They now work everywhere, while still respecting the side on keyboards that do.

Learn more about setting up your hotkey.

The "Warming up local model" wait after a break is mostly gone.

• Stays ready between dictations: on Macs with 16GB+ of memory, the on-device model now stays loaded while Epilude runs, instead of unloading after a few quiet minutes.
• Warms up while you speak: if the model does need to load, that now starts the moment you press your hotkey — so it happens while you're talking, not after you stop.
• Kinder to your Mac: when your system is genuinely low on memory, Epilude still steps aside and frees what it's using.

Learn more about Local Mode.

Dictating in the first seconds after Epilude launched could show a "trial ended" alert, even with an active subscription or trial — the app simply hadn't finished loading your account yet. Dictation now works right away while your account details load in the background.

Fixes for back-to-back dictations and slow Cleanup moments:

• No more crossed wires: if you started a new dictation while the previous one was still being cleaned up, the earlier text could get typed into whatever you'd switched to. A superseded result is now safely kept in your history instead of being inserted late.
• "Send text" always sends: when Cleanup ran into trouble and Epilude fell back to inserting your words as spoken, a trailing send text command was ignored — the message was typed but never sent. It now submits as expected.
• Cleanup can't stall: a cloud Cleanup that takes too long now times out quickly and inserts your dictation with basic formatting, instead of leaving you waiting.

Local Mode ships with an upgraded on-device Cleanup model. It follows your words more faithfully — keeping your meaning, wording, and language intact while stripping filler and fixing punctuation — and we now test every release against a suite covering lists, self-corrections, contractions, multiple languages, tone, and more, in both Cloud and Local Mode.

If you use Local Mode, Epilude fetches the updated model with a quick one-time download; everything stays on your Mac as always.

Learn more about Local Mode and Cleanup levels.