Changelog
Every release of Transcriber for macOS, newest first. The app checks for these once a day and can install them itself.
Transcriber 0.3.7
The close button of the Settings and What's New windows sits on the left, like the traffic lights.
Transcriber 0.3.6
System audio capture now works when the output device is a USB audio interface with its own inputs (e.g. Focusrite Scarlett): the tap's stream is read instead of the interface's silent input channels.
Transcriber 0.3.5
New What's New window (Settings → General → Show Changes) listing every version and its changes.
Transcriber 0.3.4
Settings → General gains an About section with links to the GitHub repository, issue reporting and GitHub Sponsors.
Transcriber 0.3.3
Fixes a recording start failure (coreaudio error -10868) after Apple voice processing falls back to plain capture, and removes the dark rectangle that could linger behind the floating bar after the save prompt.
Transcriber 0.3.2
Copy Prompt no longer resizes the template field and shows a short “Prompt copied” pill instead.
Transcriber 0.3.1
Adds a Copy Prompt button below the prompt template in Settings → AI.
Transcriber 0.3.0
Redesigned Settings window with light and dark mode (new Theme setting under General). The recording title is now entered directly in the floating bar, which morphs into a save prompt after stopping; all bar buttons are pill-shaped.
Transcriber 0.2.4
Security hardening release.
- Verified updates: the built-in updater now checks that a downloaded update is signed by the same identity as the installed app before installing it, and no longer removes the quarantine flag. Ad-hoc signed builds cannot self-update; sign with a stable identity (see README).
- Private clipboard hand-off: when a transcript is handed to your AI tool, it is marked as concealed/transient on the clipboard (skipped by clipboard managers and Universal Clipboard) and cleared shortly after the automatic paste.
- Hardened runtime: the app is signed with the hardened runtime and the unused library-validation bypass entitlement is gone.
- Logs no longer contain transcript fragments or guessed speaker names.
- Relaunch after an update no longer goes through a shell.
No changes to recording, transcription or output formats.
Transcriber 0.2.3
On first launch Transcriber now offers to download the speech models right away instead of at the start of the first recording. The automatic update check interval is configurable in Settings: never, every launch, daily, weekly or monthly.
Transcriber 0.2.2
New update window in the style of the Settings window: app icon, installed and available version, full release notes and an Install and Relaunch button, replacing the small popup. Checking, up-to-date and error states use the same window.
Transcriber 0.2.1
Fixes: the Name-this-recording dialog could get stuck when a recording was started while the previous one was still being saved. The floating bar no longer shows a faint rectangular backing on some Macs. The menu bar icon is white on a dark menu bar. Quitting during a recording no longer hangs for 15 seconds.
Transcriber 0.2.0
Transcriber 0.2.0
The app is now called Transcriber (repository renamed from AnyRecord; existing installs keep updating).
Live transcript bar
- Calm, stable text: words never jump lines or repeat, speaker names only when the speaker really changes
- Echo of the far end no longer shows up under your name; wrongly shown words are taken back
- The bar morphs: compact pill while loading / paused, full width with text, and it turns into the "Stop recording?" confirmation when you click the menu bar icon
Faster start
- Speech and VAD models are loaded once at launch and kept in memory – recording starts immediately instead of after "Loading models…"
Menu bar
- New glyph after the app icon; pulses red while recording
- Smoother expand / collapse animation
- Stop confirmation instead of stopping on a stray click
AI hand-off
- transcript.md is attached as a file, the prompt is pasted as text
- New default prompt: meeting type, summary, to-dos by person and urgency, open questions
Other
- "Open Last Transcript" reveals the file in Finder and opens Quick Look
- Experimental: guess remote speakers' names from the conversation ("[Anna]")
- Redesigned Settings; options for Dock icon and app-wide sound effects
- Title dialog focuses its text field
AnyRecord 0.1.1
First tagged release: local call transcription with echo gate, pause button and in-app updates.