What changed, and when.

New

• Your flower. Choose Sunrise, Peony, Meadow, Iris or Lavender in Settings, under Appearance, and the buttons and switches follow it. Record stays red whatever you choose, so it always means one thing.
• Light or dark. Recordist follows your system, or you can choose light or dark for it alone. Reduce motion stops the flower and the caret moving, and Recordist also follows the reduce motion setting of your system.
• The first screen greets you and says in one line how many people you gave your attention to this week, counted from the people named on your calls, each once. With nobody named it counts your conversations and says so. The sample call is never counted.

New in Beta

• Little stories. Three short true stories about words and remembering when you first open Recordist, then one now and then on the first screen, each with where it was checked. Turn them off in Settings, under General.
• Your margin. Write your own note beside any line of a call's transcript, as you would in the margin of a book. It stays on your own machine with the call, and Recordist never hands it to an AI.
• Your page. A page of your own for your words and the lines you pin from your calls, in the order you choose. Only you read it, and Recordist never hands it to an AI.

Fixed

• The welcome screen no longer promises a follow-up email on every plan, and the meeting detection hint names FaceTime only on a Mac.

Changed

• On the Fast built-in model, the summary is now a selection of lines, word for word, each with the time it was said, and nothing is rephrased. A line is listed when it contains a promise or a decision. It does not carry what was said after it unless shown beside it, so each task and decision now shows what was said right after it. A promise taken back in plain words such as “scratch that” is not listed, and anything else may be. Check any task against the end of the call. Quotes are word for word. Owners and due dates are worked out from them. The notes say that this is how they were written.
• On the larger built-in models and with your own key, notes are still written in full sentences. Each sentence is now checked against the transcript for a number, a name or an outcome that nobody said, and for a no turned into a yes. A sentence the check cannot confirm is left out, and the notes say how many were.
• With Pro or your trial, on the Fast built-in model no email is filled in for you. You see the lines, each with what was said next, and the draft is made from exactly the ones you tick, for you to edit. On the larger models and with your own key, a follow-up email is drafted only when the notes hold a task or a decision to follow up on. When there is nothing to follow up on, no email is drafted and the notes say why. Above any email draft, one line asks you to read it before you send it.
• Press Regenerate with nothing changed and, while Recordist stays open, you get the same notes and Recordist tells you that nothing has changed. On Free, that press does not use one of your month's notes.

Fixed

• A recording of one voice, such as a reading or a note to yourself, is no longer written up as a meeting, and no email is drafted when one voice is speaking to no one.
• When a model's answer cannot be read, Recordist asks it once more. If that answer cannot be read either, the notes quote the transcript word for word and say so.

New in Beta

• Each call can now belong to a client or a matter, on every plan and with no limit. Nothing is filed until you say so. Recordist may suggest a client from the people on the call, the series or the title, and one tap files it. Inside a client, Meetings, Promises, Ask, Today and the search box show only that client. Outside one, search reads the calls you have not filed, and Search every client too reaches across them for that one search. A whole client exports as Markdown, plain text or JSON on every plan. An assistant you connected can still read every call, filed or not, and the Clients page says so. Turning Clients off in Settings, under General, Beta, asks first.
• With Pro or your trial, each client's page shows where things stand across every call with them, what was decided, You owe and You're owed, and you can ask a question about that client alone. On Free, the calls stay filed and apart.
• With Pro or your trial, a few minutes before a calendar call with someone you have met, a small card opens with only the time of the call, so a shared screen shows nothing of it. Press Show for what was decided last time, You owe, You're owed and what is still open, from your notes and each one press from the moment it was said. It reads only what is already on your record, it sends nothing anywhere, and it opens only while your microphone is free. On Mondays, one card shows what falls due that week in both directions. You can turn both off in Settings, under General, Beta.
• When you want the AI you use to read a call, Copy for AI shows you the exact words first and one press puts them on your clipboard. Recordist sends nothing, and that AI reads what you paste under its own terms. One call's transcript can be copied on every plan. Pro and your trial add the notes, decisions and promises, and a whole client, and anything cut for length is said at the top. You can mark a client never to be copied.

Changed

• On new installs, Prep Briefs, PDF and Word copies, SRT and VTT subtitles, one tap from a note to its moment, our most accurate speech model and the names filled in for you are now part of Pro and your trial. If you were already here on Free, you keep all of them until 31 December. Your recordings, transcripts, search, playback from the transcript while the audio is kept, and export of everything as Markdown, plain text or JSON stay free for good.
• A JSON export now carries everything on the record, every speaker, time, note, decision, action, promise, marker and capture.
• Near the end of your week with Pro, a card tells you how long you have left, what Pro did with your own calls, what stays free for good and what stops. Close it once and nothing about your trial comes up again that day, and none of it comes up during a call.
• Everything you can click now feels like it. The hand shows wherever a click works, even on the record card while your call has the focus, buttons give a small press, a call's title fills itself in once the meeting app names it (on Windows and Linux, after you turn on reading meeting window titles in Settings, or from the Chrome extension), and error messages say what happened in plain words.

New

• When you buy Pro from the app, it switches on by itself, usually within a minute while Recordist is open, or when you next open it within a day. There is no key to copy, and your key still comes by email for your records. The Pro page the app opens carries a one-way code of a random number the app made, with nothing about you in it, and the app asks our licence server for the key bought with it until the key arrives or a day has passed. Each ask is listed in the Privacy Ledger. If it isn't on after a few minutes, press Open in Recordist in the key email.
• The email with your key has an Open in Recordist button, so there is nothing to copy. Recordist shows you the key and switches Pro on only when you press Activate.
• Updates now arrive on their own. Each new version downloads in the background, as the same signed package from the same place as before. On a Mac and with an AppImage it installs between calls with the window closed, when you quit Recordist or as it starts at login. On Windows it installs when you quit Recordist or as it starts at login, and the installer shows its progress for a moment. It always waits for a quiet moment, never during a recording, while notes are being written or while the record card is up. The next time you open Recordist, a short card tells you what the update brought. If you'd rather be asked first, turn off Install updates automatically in Settings, under General. A .deb install still asks, because installing needs your password, and so does a copy in a folder only an administrator can change.

Windows

• Transcripts and notes arrive much sooner: the speech engine now runs at full speed, and it always leaves a core free so your call stays smooth.
• The app itself is now signed by us through Microsoft, not only its installer, so Windows can see it comes from us.
• Claude finds your meetings: the setup in Settings, under Integrations, now gives Claude Desktop and Claude Code the newest Recordist tools.

Linux

• Sound plays on the .deb and the AppImage alike: the player on every meeting, Hear it said, the recap card and the sample call, while the audio is kept. The last update said the AppImage had sound; this is the update that brings it.

Every platform

• When there is more than one thing to transcribe, Recordist takes them in turn, and a call you are recording always goes first.
• The sample call puts each line under the person who said it, so each promise lands in the right list, You owe or You're owed. A sample kept from an earlier version is put right once, soon after this update, without sending anything to a cloud AI provider.

Windows and Linux

• Windows and Linux move from 0.3.15 to this release, the same one as the Mac, built from the same code. They are no longer labelled a preview.
• Everything 1.0 brought comes with it: the recap card when a call ends, Promises with You owe and You're owed, and Who was this?, which names the other side from the meeting's invite in one tap.
• Save any meeting as a Word file note, or as a PDF through the print window.
• After a crash, a forced quit or a full disk, an interrupted recording gets its end, its length and its audio back.
• The two looks, Daylight and Studio, the new home, the command box and the sample call.
• Prep Briefs and meeting names come from a calendar feed you add under Settings → Detection. A meeting can also be named from the meeting app's window title once you turn that on (on Linux, under X11).
• The marker shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+M, because Ctrl+Shift+M mutes Teams. A shortcut you chose yourself stays.
• A recording starts without waiting for the speech model, and one that stalls while it is transcribed picks itself up again.
• Start at login now opens Recordist after a restart, and Settings → License names its button Deactivate on this machine.
• On the Mac only, for now: Instant Replay, Share, saving a PDF straight to a file, the Stream Deck key, the managed settings for IT with the organisation archive, FaceTime detection and Apple Calendar.

Every platform

• Repeating meetings from a Google or Outlook calendar address are named on the record card and get their Prep Brief, at the right hour wherever they were set and across the clock change. A calendar block with no meeting in it, such as focus time or an all-day entry, no longer brings up the card.
• Near the end of your week with Pro, the trial card shows what Pro did for you, counted from your own calls on your own machine: calls written up, follow-ups drafted, promises found and questions answered. Nothing is counted anywhere else.
• New and off until you turn it on: Capture. During a call, press Capture on the recording strip to open your system's own screenshot tool, then attach what you took. Recordist keeps its copy with the record, beside what was being said at that moment, and sends it nowhere. Recordist never captures the screen by itself. Turn it on in Settings, under General.
• New and off until you turn it on: hand a call to Recordist from the Chrome extension, and the call's caption transcript becomes a meeting in Recordist, with notes. Turn it on in Settings, under General.
• Three anonymous first steps, sent once each with the update check and with no identifier: a first call of a minute or more recorded, the Pro trial started, the License screen opened. They tell us where people stop so we can fix that step. Turn them off in Settings, under General, "Count first steps anonymously". The Privacy Ledger lists them.
• Choose Pro by 8 January and your launch price stays as long as you stay on Pro.
• On Windows, a saved or exported file's toast shows its name, not the whole path. The tray icon reads on a dark taskbar. "Writing notes, about N minutes" now shows off the Mac too, once this machine has measured its own pace.
• On Linux, the AppImage has sound: Hear it said, the recap card and the sample call play again while the audio is kept.

New

• Two looks. Daylight, white and airy, is the default; Studio is deep ink with the Record button glowing. Choose in Settings, under Appearance. Your choice is kept with your settings, so it stays through updates, the record card and the recording strip follow it, and the window opens in it with no flash of the other.
• A new home for your calls. Record sits at the top right and becomes the live recording, with its time, Pause and Stop. A slim rail with names takes you to Meetings, Promises, Ask and Settings.
• One box for everything. One shortcut opens a box that finds every page, each part of Settings, every meeting and every action, switches the look, and asks your meetings a question. In the search box at the top, type a page or command by name and press Return to go there.
• Today, beside your meetings. On a wide window the right side of Meetings shows the prep brief for your next calendar call, the promises due today or overdue with Done one click away, and your most recent meeting. On a narrower window it sits under the list.
• Hear how it works. A short sample call that comes with Recordist runs on your machine, and you watch the transcript, the notes, the promises and the follow-up email appear. It never counts toward the Free plan's notes, and Remove sample takes it away in one click.
• A welcome from the Recordist team after setup, with the sample call and an optional Say hello: tell us what you will use Recordist for, and a person replies within a day. Your message, your email and the app version are sent only when you press Send, and the request is listed in the Privacy Ledger.
• A few small cards, each shown until you close it and never again after: Get more from Free about a week in, a calm look from day 6 of the Pro trial at what Recordist did for you and when Pro ends, with Keep Pro, 14 more days free or Stay on Free, and How did that go? after your first call. Never more than one at a time, and a card about your plan ending is never hidden behind another. 14 more days free opens recordist.app with a random number this app made, so the days come once per install, and the Privacy Ledger lists it.
• What's new after an update, once for each version, with a button to try each change.
• Suggest an idea from the command box or from Settings, under Help. It opens the ideas board on recordist.app, where you confirm your email once to see ideas in full, suggest or vote.

Changed

• One spacing, size and corner scale on every screen. A heading the app moves to when the screen changes shows no outline, and keyboard focus rings stay.

New

• Pro renews by itself. Once a renewal payment goes through, the new key arrives in Recordist with the update check, with nothing to paste. For this, Recordist sends our licence service the key once, with a one-way code of a random secret kept in your keychain, and after that only the key's licence id and that secret. Both requests are in the Privacy Ledger, turning update checks off turns renewal off too, and the renewal email still brings each key. If a payment did not go through, Settings → License says so in one calm line, with Update your card.

Changed

• A recording starts the moment you choose Record, even while the speech model is still downloading or loading. The audio is kept on your machine, and the transcript follows once the model is ready.
• Long calls get full notes. A part of a long call that does not condense is tried again, and if any stretch is still missing, the notes say which minutes they leave out.
• Updates wait until a call's transcript and notes are finished. Quit asks first while either is being written, and says which.
• Clear messages instead of silent failures. A recording that does not start by itself or from the shortcut sends a notification, a library that cannot open says what to do, a meeting or a search that fails to load says so with Try again, and a memory or notes engine problem comes as one plain sentence with the next step.
• Every screen works from the keyboard, screen readers such as VoiceOver hear a recording start, pause, stop and finish, and text, buttons and fields are easy to read in both themes and every accent. Transcripts, notes and answers can be selected and copied again.
• A press on the Stream Deck key or the extension's Record now always brings up the record card, even after Not this one or while detection is snoozed.

Fixed

• A call whose transcript or notes stall after it ends is picked up again by itself. If a step is still waiting after two minutes, Recordist says what it is waiting for.
• Transcribe again, Try again and recovery after a crash keep who said what. Lines keep “You” and the other person's name, including names you typed, and echo hiding still works.
• On a Mac, the Recordist window can be dragged to a new place again.
• Delete all my data, and Remove everything and quit, wait for your answer, so Cancel stops them.
• On the record card, Enter records only from the title field or the card itself. On Not this one, Snooze or Stop asking about this one, Enter presses that button and never records.

New

• When the notes miss a promise said on the call with a date, such as “I'll send you the revised statement of work by Thursday”, Recordist adds it to the action items in the words said, says above the notes how many it added, and leaves it out of the follow-up email. Only a firm promise the speaker made themselves, and still stands, is added; one read out, hedged or taken back is not.
• Finish getting Pro. If you open the Pro checkout from Recordist and have no Pro key a day later, one quiet card says you started, that anyone who chooses Pro by 30 November keeps the launch price for as long as they stay on Pro, that you can cancel any time and keep everything you recorded, and where your key goes if you did subscribe, with Continue with Pro. It shows at most twice, a week apart, never during setup or a recording and never once a Pro key is entered. Only the times are kept, on your machine; nothing is sent.

Changed

• Who asked for something, and who decided it, is read from the lines where it was asked or decided, not from the first line that mentions it, so the summary no longer says the client asked for what you asked for.
• A decision keeps its place when only its name is unsupported: the name goes and the decision stays, when a line says it was taken or the reply agrees. Nothing is written up as decided where the call says it was not, such as “Nothing is decided today” or “I need to talk to the board first”.
• The follow-up email writes each task once, as its fuller version says it and with its owner, keeps a label that names the thing, such as “Option B: I'll book the three cutover weekends.”, and never repeats a name the notes put in front of a task.
• When Recordist writes the notes from the transcript itself, because the notes model's answer could not be read, its action items are things to do, not questions or reported words, and each “I'll” belongs to whoever said it.
• “First on the 11th of January” is read as the 11th, so a true date is no longer taken out of the notes.
• Where your recordings, transcripts and notes stay is now said one way on every screen and in every message and export: on this machine. “This Mac” stays only where a sentence is about macOS itself, such as its settings.

New

• Save as PDF and Save as Word, at the top of the More menu on a meeting. The document has the title, date and people, the reminder that notes can be wrong and what the check against the transcript removed, the notes with each item's time, the follow-up email on Pro, the notice to the others, the audio's SHA-256 fingerprint, and the transcript, with the lines you changed marked (edited).
• Share, beside the star on a meeting, opens the Mac share menu with the Word document attached: Mail, Outlook, Messages, AirDrop. The app you pick sends it.
• One first-launch mark. The first update check after you install Recordist also asks once for one fixed address that names only the app's version and the platform, such as a Mac with Apple silicon, so we can count new installs. No identifier, never sent again, and not at all while update checks are off; it is in the Privacy Ledger.

Changed

• Never untitled. When nothing named the call, the record card's title already reads a plain name, such as “Zoom call · 10:30”, which you can type over.
• Copy all notes, and the Copy on each section of the notes, now paste as formatted text in Outlook, Mail, Word and Pages, with headings and lists and no Markdown marks, and as clean text everywhere else, with an email's paragraph breaks and a list's numbers kept.
• The trial cards say what Pro did, in your own counts: how many calls Recordist wrote up and how many follow-up emails it drafted. Until 30 November they also say that anyone who chooses Pro by then keeps the launch price for as long as they stay on Pro.
• Keep Pro, Continue with Pro and Get Pro open the checkout on recordist.app at once.
• Before your 7 days of Pro begin, Ask says what starts them: your first recorded call of 10 minutes or more, or 14 days after you installed Recordist, whichever comes first.
• The menu bar menu shows the days left in your Pro trial. It and the trial card say the trial ends today only on the day it ends, and tomorrow the day before.
• After the trial, on the Free plan, a call with notes shows where the follow-up email would be, with Continue with Pro.

New

• Opened from the disk image, Recordist asks to be moved to Applications first, so it can update itself and open when you log in.

Changed

• Start at login, on from the start, now takes effect when setup finishes. A Mac set up on an earlier version turns it on once, at the first launch of 1.0.2, if the switch is still on. If you later remove Recordist from Login Items in System Settings, it stays removed.
• The first time you close the window after setup, Recordist says where it went: it keeps waiting in the menu bar and asks before recording when your next call starts. Close window, or Quit Recordist. It is said once.
• Calendar access is asked during setup, after one sentence about what Recordist reads, and only when Name meetings from my calendar is on. It is no longer asked before Welcome.
• The setup test is a short paragraph to read aloud, long enough for real notes. Its notes are not counted among the Free plan's monthly notes.
• The first download of the built-in notes engine shows how much has arrived, for the engine and then for the notes model, under the meeting and in the sidebar.
• Quit during setup and Recordist opens on the speech model step, with its download carrying on. Until setup is finished, the menu bar says so.

New

• More time with Pro. If money is tight, a quiet line on the Free plan under Settings → License, and a link on the trial's last-day and ended cards, open recordist.app/more-time, where anyone can ask for more time. If you don't subscribe, you can ask for Pro at no cost for one, three or six months. A person reads each request and writes back. The line shows only while the programme is open. A key from More time with Pro says when your time ends and, in its last two weeks, that you can ask again.

New

• Everything in this version runs on your computer. The Promise Ledger, Instant Replay and the Consent Passport are off until you turn them on, and on a Mac an organisation can keep each one off through its device management profile.
• Promise Ledger, under Settings → AI notes. When a later call says a promise of yours was kept ("I sent you the revised scope"), Promises offers Done with the words that said it, and you confirm; nothing closes by itself. Only a promise whose line the transcript holds, and whose owner is you, counts. Remind me the day before sends one notification on this computer, between 8 am and 8 pm, once per promise. The Integrity Ledger shows your own promises this quarter: made, kept, kept late, and still open past their date, from your Done marks and the dates said; a percentage appears only once ten are decided. It is shown only to you, on this computer, and nothing of the ledger reaches the local API, the MCP gateway or an export. You owe and You're owed stay as they are with the ledger off.
• Instant Replay, on the Mac, under Settings → Audio. During a call, one key (⇧⌘L, also in the menu bar and on the recording strip) replays the last 15 seconds to you while the recording carries on; press it again to stop. Choose anything from 5 to 60 seconds. The replay comes from the recording itself: nothing is lost from the file and nothing is added to it. With speakers instead of headphones your microphone picks the replay up, and the setting says so. On Windows and Linux the replay is not available yet, and the app says so.
• Consent Passport, under Settings → Record prompt. Once the transcript is ready, each recording carries how the notice reached the others (copied, or shown to read out) and when you marked it as given; whether a plain yes in English was heard from the other side in the first minutes, with the time and the line it points at; and a one-line note about the rule where your computer's region is set, linking recordist.app/legal/recording as general information, not legal advice. It never says agreement was given: a hedge, a condition, a question, another language or a reply to something else is "not detected", and a possible objection is pointed out. It sits under the transcript, in the Markdown and JSON exports and in the local API's record.
• Who was this? When a finished call's other side is still "Speaker", a row above the transcript offers this meeting's attendees. One tap names every line under that label and gives this meeting's promises under the old label to that name; with two or more attendees the row asks first, and a combined label leaves the owners alone. Undo puts everything back for eight seconds. When the last meeting of the same series named its other side, the row leads with that name and a Yes, and a name you said yourself ("Thanks, Grace") moves its chip first. Names come from the invite or your tap, never from a voice. The notes are not rewritten; the page offers to write them again.
• The record card remembers the series. A meeting from the same calendar event as an earlier one takes the title you kept and says "last time on Monday", the day only. Stop asking about this one keeps the card away from that series without ever recording it; the list is under Settings → Detection, with Remove.
• Titles a person would type: the subject a person would write in their own calendar, kept only when it is short, in sentence case and made of words from the call or the invite. Otherwise the first title stays.
• The menu bar's one line: "Today · 3 calls · 2 h 10 · 2 promises due tomorrow". Only promises You owe are counted, and with no calls and nothing due there is no line.
• A person filter on Promises, so you see what stands between you and one person.
• Land on the meeting. When the notes-ready notification arrives and you bring Recordist forward within a minute, it opens that meeting; if you were already in the app, it leaves you where you were.
• Marked, with the words. A marker you set during the call takes the last live line within eight seconds as its label.
• Hear it said on the Prep Brief's open items and in the markers list: each one plays the few seconds it came from while the audio is kept.
• Repair library, under Settings → General. After a crash, a forced quit or a full disk, an interrupted recording gets its end, its duration and its audio back from the files the recording left, the search index is rebuilt, and paths to audio no longer on disk are cleared. Nothing is deleted, and the report is counts and file names. The same repair runs at launch.
• Settings → About has a Help card, Support and Security, with the response times this site publishes: a reply from support within one business day, and every security report acknowledged within three business days.
• The recap. Once no other app is using your microphone, a small card opens where the record card sat: the first decision, what You owe and what You're owed, each with a button that plays the few seconds it came from while the audio is kept, and one sentence from the Privacy Ledger about the call. It never opens over another recording, and it waits at most 15 minutes. Turn it off under Settings → Detection → Show the recap card; the notification stays.
• Promises. The Actions view is now Promises, in two lists: You owe and You're owed. Each promise shows the words it was made in and plays them while the audio is kept. Tick one done and Recordist offers a short note to tell the other person ("Tell Grace?"); a promise made to you that is due offers a gentle reminder ("Ask Grace"). Both open as a draft in your own mail, and Recordist sends nothing. The closing line is under Settings → AI notes → Sign off as.
• A record card that already knows the meeting. When your calendar, the app's window or the Chrome extension finds the meeting, the card leads with its name and says where it came from ("from your calendar"). An invite called only "Meeting" or "1:1" becomes "With Grace Thompson". Your name on invites, under Settings → Detection, keeps you out of the other side everywhere.
• Hear it said. Each decision and action item in the notes has a play button for the few seconds it came from, while the audio is kept.
• Names spelled right. Under Settings → Transcription, add the clients and products you want spelled correctly; the people on each invite are added for that call. They now hold for the whole call, and the same list is used when you import a file or transcribe again.
• Writing notes, about 6 minutes. When notes take a while with the built-in engine, the Library, the meeting page and the menu bar say about how many minutes.
• Setup asks how long to keep the audio of your calls, until you delete them or for 30 days, with neither chosen for you. An install that never chose is asked once in the Library. Setup also offers your own Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible key for faster notes.
• When your free notes for the month are used and a call of 10 minutes or more ended without notes, the Library says so, with your own counts and a way to continue with Pro.

On Windows and Linux, now level with the Mac in these ways

• Calendar feeds name your meetings and build Prep Briefs, with Your name on invites under Settings → Detection. This works on the Mac too, beside its calendar.
• Reading the meeting app's window title, off until you turn it on under Settings → Detection, names a Teams or Meet call on Windows and on Linux under X11. Only the windows of the program that has the microphone are read, and a browser's only when its title is a meeting page. It is never read on Wayland.
• On Linux, system audio follows your headset when you plug one in or switch to one during a call, and Recordist says so on screen. The .deb brings the sound plugins the audio bar needs.
• The marker shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+M, because Ctrl+Shift+M mutes Teams. A shortcut you chose yourself stays.
• Programs that open the microphone without a call, such as NVIDIA Broadcast and Voice Access, never bring up the card, and the menu says "Waiting for a meeting".
• The About line says whether anyone outside Recordist has recorded a real call on that platform yet, from the update feed.

Changed

• The follow-up email always states what was agreed, so a polite line such as "Thank you for the meeting" never stands in for it, and a task you took on is never handed to the other side.
• In the follow-up email, "I" and "we" become You, a sentence said twice is kept once, and a request is not turned round into a promise.
• The notification that your notes are ready names no meeting and quotes nothing while another app is using your microphone, so a shared screen shows nothing of the call. When the microphone is free, the title and summary line show if you have them switched on.
• The record card's consent line now reads in full.
• Long stretches of speech without a pause lose fewer words.
• The six-hourly check for updates waits while a recording runs.
• Export diagnostics lists the programs that used the microphone, by name, and shows how many names and which sign-off you set, never the names or the words.
• Settings → License says you can subscribe at any time, including during your 7 days. Keep Pro opens the plan cards.

For organisations

• On a managed Mac, DisablePromiseLedger, DisableInstantReplay and DisableConsentPassport keep those three off. The managed settings guide lists them with the rest.
• Keep a record log, under Settings → Privacy, off until turned on: an append-only, hash-chained, signed log of what happened to each recording, holding ids and hashes only, never a word of a meeting, with Verify and Export beside it. An organisation can turn it on, or off, through its profile.
• The organisation archive runs only when an organisation's profile names its own S3 bucket: every finished meeting's record goes there from this computer, signed with the organisation's own key, and each upload is written to the Privacy Ledger first. Recordist's servers are never involved, and nothing runs without such a profile.

Changed

• Before the follow-up email draft is saved, it is checked against the transcript, like the summary. A sentence that claims a decision the call did not reach, gives a task to someone other than the person who took it on, or is made of words nobody said is taken out and listed with the other removed items. The greeting, the thanks and the sign-off stay as written.
• The summary and the decisions lose a sentence that gives a task to the wrong person, and an action item loses an owner the call did not give it. When only the last part of a sentence is wrong, only that part goes.
• The follow-up email keeps to what was said, with each next step given to the person who said they would do it.
• Windows and Linux move to this version with the Mac.

New

• Free keys. Confirm your email at recordist.app/free and paste the key under Settings → License: Free then includes 10 AI notes a month, with no end date. The key waits behind the trial or a Pro key and applies when they end.
• Invite a colleague. When your key carries an invite link, Settings → License shows it with a Copy button. Whoever opens it can confirm their email and get Pro for 30 days, with no card; there is nothing in it for you, and Recordist never contacts anyone on your behalf.
• After three calls of at least ten minutes, a card invites you to answer one question at recordist.app/founding-testers; the first 100 answers get Pro until 31 March 2027.

Changed

• Pro now drafts the follow-up email with the notes of every call, on every built-in template except Lecture, with nothing to set.
• The Windows and Linux preview moves from 0.3.12 to this version, with everything in 0.3.13 as well.
• On Pro, the follow-up email comes with the notes on General meeting, Daily standup, 1:1, Interview and Brainstorm, as it already did on Sales call and Customer call. Lecture stays without one, since a talk has nobody to write to. Open the meeting, copy the draft or open it in your mail app; Recordist sends nothing. Free is unchanged.

New

• Two days before your 7 days of Pro end, on the last day and once after, a card on the meetings list says how many calls you recorded and how many got notes, what stays free, and how to keep Pro. The counts come from this computer and nothing leaves it.
• Settings → License accepts Free and programme keys and names each one with its end date. A key never shortens a running trial, and a shorter key never replaces a longer one; Recordist says so when you paste it.

Changed

• The 7 days of Pro start with your first recorded call of 10 minutes or more, or 14 days after you install Recordist, whichever comes first. If you installed 0.3.12, your trial is unchanged.
• A key that was refunded or disputed is withdrawn. With each update check Recordist reads one fixed list of withdrawn keys from the licence server, with nothing about you in the request; a listed key moves this computer to the Free plan with one notice, and nothing is deleted.
• On macOS, a copy of Recordist that was changed after we signed it runs on the Free plan, and says so.
• The Free plan's monthly AI notes are counted from the notes written, and the count stays when a meeting is deleted.
• The JSON export and the local API's meeting record carry the lines hidden as a probable echo, and the Transcribe again confirmation says they go with the transcript.
• The Terms changed on 12 October 2026, so Recordist asks once more to accept them.

New

• Lines hidden as a probable echo are listed under the transcript, and Restore puts one back; nothing is deleted.
• Put a meeting on hold from its Record card; while it is on hold Recordist will not delete it or its audio, or transcribe it again. Organisations can set a legal hold through their device management profile (LegalHold).
• Edit a transcript line from the meeting window; Recordist keeps the words first transcribed and marks the line as edited in every export.
• Writing the notes again keeps the earlier ones under Earlier notes; Mark as reviewed records the date you checked them; each set of notes records which engine and model wrote it.
• When a recording stops, Recordist records the SHA-256 of each audio file; Check audio says whether each one still matches.
• Copy notice on the record card copies a short notice for the other people on the call; while a call records, a second click marks it as given, with the time and the words, shown under the transcript and in the Markdown export.
• Client work, in Settings → Privacy and in setup, sets Recordist up for calls about clients, cases or candidates: notes on this Mac, every call asks first, no agent can start a recording, no notification names a meeting.
• Each program connected to Recordist has a token of its own with only what it needs; Settings → Integrations lists them with Revoke, Rotate gateway token and New token for another program.
• Security notices: a banner names a published notice about the version you run, from the same file as the update check.
• Organisations can turn update checks off through their device management profile (DisableUpdateCheck).
• Settings → Privacy shows whether FileVault encrypts this Mac's disk.

Changed

• Recordist is signed with our Apple Developer ID (Team ID JNC57WQK69) and notarised by Apple: the first launch is a double-click, and the Microphone and Screen & System Audio Recording permissions survive updates. This version asks for them once more, because the signature changed.
• Recordist does not send a request that carries meeting content when it cannot write that request's Privacy Ledger entry first; the notes quote the transcript instead, and Recordist says why.
• Recordist only ever uses the built-in notes engine it started itself.
• Meetings go to an Ollama or OpenAI-compatible server on another computer only over https, and a redirect from such a server is not followed; the managed setting AllowPlainHTTPAIServer allows plain http.
• Deleting a meeting overwrites its words in the database file and the search index forgets them at once; shortly after the first launch of this version, once nothing is recording and the disk has room, Recordist rewrites the database once; the copy saved before the update keeps the old words until it goes 7 days later.
• The database copies kept before an update go 7 days after it, or sooner if Delete meetings after is shorter.
• The diagnostics file names no meetings or calendar events, and the app's log no longer records their titles.
• The Claude Desktop and Claude Code configurations run the MCP gateway at an exact version, @recordist/gateway@0.1.6.
• The Pro trial for a new install is 7 days; it was 14.
• The app states no price. Where it mentions Pro it points to recordist.app/pricing, which shows the current price.

Fixed

• Your own reply is no longer deleted as an echo when it repeats what the other person said; only a line that says nearly the same words at the same moment is hidden, and short answers are never hidden.
• The check against the transcript removes a decision or action item when its line says the opposite, in English, French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic, and a "no" about something else in the line no longer removes a correct item.
• Stopping the built-in notes engine also stops the program it runs the model in.
• Test connection in Settings → AI notes says when the managed settings or the https rule refuse the provider you chose.

New

• AI notes are checked against the transcript before they are saved. Each decision, action item and open question has to be said in the line of the transcript the notes give for it, or in the lines beside it, and a quotation has to be the transcript's own words. An item the transcript does not support is removed, an owner or due date it does not state is left blank, and a quotation that differs slightly is corrected to the words that were said. The meeting says how many items were removed or changed, and the Markdown export repeats it.
• The check compares words with the transcript, so notes can still be wrong. In the summary, quotations and sentences that say something was decided are checked, and any other sentence is removed only when it repeats a decision the transcript does not support. The follow-up email is not checked, and an item that leaves out a "not" can still pass. Check anything that matters against the transcript.
• Each decision, action item and open question ends with the time it was said. Choose the time to scroll the transcript to that line.
• Setup downloads a small speech model first, Base (English, 142 MB) when your transcripts will be in English and Small (466 MB) otherwise, and moves on as soon as the download starts. You can record once it has finished. The larger model (Large v3 Turbo unless you pick another) follows in the background unless you untick it, and new recordings switch to it once it has downloaded. A recording that is running keeps its model.
• Setup, the sidebar and Settings → Transcription show how much of each speech model has downloaded. A download cut off by quitting continues after the next launch. The built-in notes engine starts its own download only once the first speech model is on this Mac, so the two do not share the connection.
• Setup ends with a Try it step. Record a test starts a short recording and opens it, so you can see your words appear as you speak. Skip for now finishes setup without recording.
• When macOS has not let Recordist use the microphone, the main window says so, with a button that opens the Microphone pane of System Settings or shows the macOS prompt.
• On a Mac set up with this version, the first recording asks once whether it worked. If something is wrong, it lists what to check and can open an email draft to hello@recordist.app in your own mail app. Recordist sends nothing itself.
• Downloads of speech models, the voice activity model and the notes engine are checked against a size and SHA-256 built into Recordist, and a file that does not match is deleted and the next source is tried.

Changed

• A notes model that stopped downloading early no longer counts as downloaded.
• Every speech model download is written to the Privacy Ledger before it is sent, so one that fails, cannot be saved or is cut off by quitting keeps its entry, marked failed.
• The notes engine download continues where it stopped, and tries a second source when the first does not start or its file does not match.
• A second copy of a built-in template is named "(copy 2)", so two copies no longer share a name.

Fixed

• Voice activity detection works. It was on by default but did nothing. The speech model now hears only the parts where someone speaks, so long silences are skipped. Its 1 MB model downloads again when it is missing.
• Transcribe again, imports and recovery after a crash use the Translate to English and voice activity detection settings, like a live recording.
• The record card's Snooze menu offers your Snooze for setting next to 1 hour and until tomorrow. It used to offer 10 minutes whatever the setting said.
• On the Free plan, Ask says that it is part of Pro and opens Settings → License. It used to say Ask counted toward the free notes, and its refusal pointed to a Settings tab that does not exist.
• The hint for Wait for my answer says the card stays up for up to 3 hours, or for 30 minutes once you shrink it to the strip. It used to say the card stays until you choose.
• Due dates such as "Friday" are worked out from the day of the meeting, also when you regenerate notes later. "Friday the sixteenth" and "the 14th" now count as dates.
• Regenerate notes and Save as image on the privacy receipt stay disabled while they run, so a second press does not start them again.

New

• Managed settings for IT. An organisation can set Recordist's policy on the Macs it manages with a configuration profile from its MDM, for example notes written only on the Mac, no cloud AI keys, or a cap on how long audio and meetings are kept. Managed controls are locked with a "Managed by" note, and Recordist reports nothing back. The managed settings page has a sample profile and every key.
• Markdown export for Obsidian and other notes apps. Each meeting becomes one file with properties at the top, the notes, the action items as a checklist and the transcript. Export to folder saves it wherever you pick, and Auto-export Markdown after each meeting, off by default, writes one after every meeting. An export never replaces a file that is already there.
• The privacy receipt, in Settings → Privacy, adds up the last 30 days or all time: meetings, words transcribed, notes, internet requests, and how many bytes of meeting content left your Mac and where they went. Copy it as text or save it as an image.
• The Privacy Ledger marks each request This Mac, Local network or Internet, and lists local-network destinations on their own.

Changed

• Each request that can carry meeting content is written to the Privacy Ledger before it is sent, so a request that fails or is cut off keeps its row, and one under way shows as sending. Status checks and model lists sent to an Ollama on another computer are recorded too.
• AI notes refuse Ollama cloud models, which run on Ollama's servers. Settings lists them as unavailable for notes, and if one is chosen, Recordist sends it nothing and the built-in engine writes the notes, with a sentence that says why.
• The Interview template asks the notes to quote short passages exactly, so you can check each one against the recording, and for hiring to note what was said about each competency without rating, ranking or recommending anyone. The 1:1 template no longer asks for mood signals and tells the notes not to describe anyone's mood, health or personal life. Copies of templates you made keep their own wording.
• Action items name an owner only when the transcript says who, and an owner the transcript doesn't name is removed. Open questions hold only questions, and placeholder lines such as "None" are left out.
• The update check is described as it is in Settings and in the Privacy Ledger: one fixed file, with no app version, operating system or architecture. Older ledger rows are relabelled.
• The record card says "Audio stays on this Mac." The floating recording strip and the recording dot in the meeting window are amber, like the dot in the menu bar.
• Delete all my data also removes the database copies the app set aside before upgrades or after a repair, and rebuilds the search index and the database file so the deleted meetings' words don't stay behind in them. Remove everything also removes your own templates, the copies of the settings file the app set aside when it could not read them, and the log, whatever the case of its file name.

Fixed

• Export diagnostics hides secrets: calendar feeds show only their host, and passwords, tokens, keys and your home folder's name are replaced, in the log lines too.
• A calendar feed that answers with an error, or with something that isn't a calendar, counts as a failed fetch: it keeps the events it gave last time, and its ledger row is marked failed. Feeds that start with webcal://, the form iCloud shares, now work.
• Entries the Privacy Ledger recorded in earlier versions no longer keep a user name, token or query that was part of an address.
• Duplicating a built-in template a second time no longer overwrites the first copy.

Fixed

• Since 0.3.3, most of the live transcript could go missing during a recording. A flaw in a speech library we use made the engine stop itself at random. Recordings made since then still have their audio: open one and choose Transcribe again to get the full transcript.
• Notes are no longer written by the AI from just a few words.
• When nothing was playing, system-audio capture kept restarting and showed "System audio device changed" every few seconds. It now waits quietly.
• Speech recorded just before you press Pause is transcribed instead of dropped.

Changed

• When part of a recording could not be transcribed live, no notes are written until you choose Transcribe again.

Fixed

• About a month after your first recording (with the default keep-audio setting), Recordist could freeze as soon as it opened. The clean-up of old audio waited on itself. It now removes old audio as intended and stays responsive.
• Two places with the same weakness, on quit and while importing, were made safe before they could cause trouble.

Changed

• The warning about not hearing the other side of a call now waits until your microphone has picked up sound for a while, so joining early or sitting quietly in a waiting room no longer sets it off.
• A recording with no transcript now says whether transcription failed (choose Try again) or the audio was silent (check the permissions), instead of always pointing at the permissions.

New

• Pause recording and Resume recording in the menu bar.
• If a full disk stops a recording while Recordist's window is hidden, you get a notification.

Fixed

• Paused time no longer counts towards marking a recording as having no speech.
• Changing or unplugging the microphone no longer triggers a false "only silence" warning.
• Stopping a recording just as system audio was being added (after it could not start at first) could leave the meeting stuck on Transcribing.
• Permission names for macOS 14, no notes job for an empty recording, the audio is kept when transcription failed, and the meeting length shows the time actually recorded.

Fixed

• Noise reduction could stop working partway through a meeting and record silence for the rest of it, with no warning. One invalid audio sample from the device was enough. Invalid samples are now treated as silence, and noise reduction restarts itself.
• With live transcription turned off, notes are now written after the transcript instead of before it.

New

• If the microphone gives only silence for twenty seconds while recording, Recordist warns at once, with a notification when its window is hidden.
• In a detected call, if Recordist has heard nothing at all from the other side after a minute, it says which permission to check.

Changed

• A recording longer than a minute with no speech at all is marked Failed, says why, and offers Try again, instead of looking finished with an empty transcript. The same applies after a crash and to imports.
• The menu bar says Paused while a recording is paused, with a reminder after two minutes.
• The app keeps a longer log on your Mac for troubleshooting (five files of 2 MB), and Remove everything deletes it.

Fixed

• The app's signature now covers all of its files, so a copy downloaded through a browser is no longer reported as damaged.

Changed

• Every version before 1.0 is a beta under the terms (section 8); the app asks once to accept the updated terms.
• The minimum is macOS 14.6, which system-audio capture needs.

Changed

• Recording from the menu bar or the shortcut now shows the record card first, like a detected meeting, with the notice reminder. Press Record on the card or press the shortcut again. Settings → Record prompt has a switch if you prefer an instant start.

New

• Transcribe again: in a meeting's menu, run transcription once more from the audio on disk, for example after switching to a larger model. The current transcript is replaced only if the new one succeeds.
• The recording strip shows how far transcription is behind when it is more than fifteen seconds.
• The local API lists action items with the title of their meeting, and can ask for a re-transcription.

Fixed

• System audio that was not ready in the first seconds is retried in the background and joined with silence where it was missing, so a docked or multi-display setup no longer loses the other side.

New

• Appearance and Record prompt preferences, keyboard shortcuts (⌘1 to ⌘4, ⌘F, ⌘,), copy buttons on every notes section, grouped action items, and every control reachable by keyboard.

Fixed

• A crash or quit mid-recording is recovered from the full audio. Changing microphones, a full disk and a pause are handled properly.
• Transcription runs at a lower priority so the rest of your Mac stays quick. One menu bar icon instead of two.

Changed

• Action items come from a second pass that asks only who promised what, and dates like "Friday" or "the 14th of October" are worked out by the app rather than the model.

Fixed

• The window no longer reloads itself while the screen is locked or the window is covered.

Fixed

• The black window on first launch, the first-run screen reloading every 30 seconds, and the microphone prompt on the first recording.
• The terms acceptance now survives the first run. Error messages say what happened and what to do.

New

• Privacy Ledger (Settings → Privacy): the network requests the app makes, with host and bytes (a few kinds are not recorded yet; see the ledger help article), recorded on your machine. Audio never appears because audio never leaves the device.
• Prep Brief on the Meetings screen when a calendar event with attendees starts within 45 minutes: last meeting's summary and decisions with those people, and every open action item.
• First-run acceptance of the Terms and of recording-consent responsibility, stored on your machine with version and time; a consent reminder on the record card; an About tab with disclaimers and third-party licences.
• Delete all my data (Settings → Privacy). Help & feedback in the menu bar or system tray and About, pointing at the Help Center and support, with a one-business-day human reply.
• Also in this release: auto-export folder, tags and stars, the global start/stop hotkey (Cmd or Ctrl+Shift+R), a 45-second auto-dismiss on the record prompt, and optional remote start, off by default.

Changed

• Every new install starts as a Pro trial with no card and no account (7 days from 0.3.12). After it, Free keeps unlimited recording, transcription, search and Prep Briefs with 3 AI notes a month; Ask and follow-up emails are Pro.
• Plans are Free and Pro; the current prices are on the pricing page. There is no lifetime plan.

Fixed

• Licence keys are always checked against the public key built into the app.
• Local notes no longer run out of memory.

New

• The local connections refuse requests that do not come from your own machine, and imported audio files are checked.
• Export diagnostics (Settings → General): one file with versions, settings (keys removed), permissions, database counts and recent log lines. No audio, no transcripts.
• Signed automatic updates. Security advisories in the website's and app's dependencies resolved.

Fixed

• Meeting detection never fired on macOS. It now names the app that actually opened the microphone and tells Meet, Teams, Zoom and Webex apart in a browser.
• Auto-stop never fired because Recordist counted its own capture as the microphone being in use.
• System stalls during notes; the speech model is unloaded first and the local model releases memory three minutes after use.
• Meetings left "summarising" after a crash or restart are recovered at startup. Siri and dictation no longer trigger a prompt. A crash on quit.

New

• Automatic meeting titles and attendees from the macOS Calendar (read-only) and from the meeting app's window title.
• The record prompt can be moved, minimised to a pill, and snoozed for 10 minutes, an hour or the rest of the day. It pauses its countdown while you hover.
• Per-app "record without asking", a prompt sound, a "notes ready" notification, and menu-bar or tray-only mode.
• Import an existing audio file for transcription. Speaker-bleed suppression and transcription noise filters.

Everything

• Background meeting detection with a confirm-to-record prompt; two-channel capture (your mic and the other participants) on macOS.
• On-device transcription with voice-activity detection and automatic language detection.
• AI notes from a local model or your own Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible key, with templates for standups, sales calls, 1:1s and interviews.
• Full-text search, action items, Ask, markers, and exports to Markdown, SRT, VTT and JSON.
• A local API, an MCP server and an A2A agent for your assistants; a Chrome extension for browser calls; offline licence keys.