Product updates

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.

Cmd-Tabbing to the Epilude window could hitch for a moment while the app checked system settings behind the scenes. Those checks now run in the background, so the window responds immediately every time you switch to it.

Tapping a suggested word chip in Vocabulary opened an empty editor on the first try — you had to tap it twice to get the word filled in. The editor now opens pre-filled every time.

If you pressed your dictation hotkey in another app before finishing onboarding, nothing happened and Epilude looked broken. Now a Finish setting up Epilude card appears to bring you back to setup, so a missed keypress no longer looks like a bug.

Alerts also show up where you're actually working. Messages like a downloading on-device model, an expired trial, or a missing microphone now appear over the app you're in, instead of waiting until you switch back to Epilude.

Follow the quick start to finish setup.

The Epilude menu bar menu now shows a Dictation hint with your current hotkey, like "Hold your hotkey (fn) to start dictating". It reflects whatever you've set, so it updates when you change your hotkey in Settings.

The account line is clearer too: when you're signed out it now reads You're not logged in, instead of a misleading "Trial: 0d left".

Cleanup is more faithful to your meaning and formatting across every mode.

• Keeps your hedges: phrases like "I think", "I feel", "maybe", and "probably" are no longer treated as filler, so a tentative note stays tentative instead of hardening into a flat statement.
• Better capitalization: sentence starts, the word "I", and weekday names are capitalized reliably, even in Local Mode.
• Matches your tone: with an excited tone, statements end with an exclamation mark.
• Preserves line breaks: the way you broke your dictation into lines is kept in the result.

Filler words like "um", "uh", "like", and "you know" are still removed as before.

Learn more about Cleanup levels.