StenoAI v0.3.2

chore(release): prepare v0.3.2 — non-English summary fix

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

StenoAI v0.3.1

chore(release): prepare v0.3.1 — recording stop + draft cleanup fix

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

Steno v0.3.0 — Native system audio, cross-note Chat, Steno display name

System audio, properly

• Native Core Audio Tap capture on macOS 14.4+ replaces the previous shell-out pipeline, with an automatic fallback for older macOS versions.
• System audio is on by default for new recordings — no extra virtual device, no bots joining the call.
• Real speaker diarisation: transcripts label [You] vs [Others] and the labels are exported into your saved Markdown notes.

Chat across all your notes

• New Chat tab for asking natural-language questions over your entire note library (summary, key topics, full transcript) — not just one note at a time.
• The inline ask bar from any individual note still works as before.

App rename: Steno

• The Mac app display name is now Steno (was "StenoAI"). The deep-link scheme stenoai://, the GitHub repo, and your existing data are all unchanged.
• Existing users: auto-update keeps the app at /Applications/StenoAI.app on disk (Finder/Dock will display "Steno"). Fresh installs from the new DMG go to /Applications/Steno.app.

UX polish

• Auto-update toast in the top right when an update is ready to install.
• Whisper model picker in Settings — choose small / base / medium to trade accuracy for speed.
• Paper + ink brand refresh — cream paper, ink-black text, single neutral palette.

Under the hood

• Renderer fully migrated to React + Vite; legacy HTML renderer removed.
• New documentation site, refreshed marketing site.
• Hero demo GIF added to the README.

Fixes

• System-audio short-clip and lifecycle race conditions resolved.
• Diarisation reliability and review feedback applied across the system-audio path.

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First-time setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging Steno to Applications
3. Launch the app — the setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone (and Screen Recording, for system audio) permissions when prompted
5. Start recording

Requirements

• macOS 12.3 or later (macOS 14.4+ for native Core Audio Tap; older versions use the fallback)
• Internet connection for initial model download
• Microphone access (and Screen Recording for system audio)

StenoAI v0.2.13

quitAndInstall's internal BrowserWindow.close() was being intercepted
by the mainWindow 'close' handler, which preventDefaults and hides the
window unless isQuitting is true. Set isQuitting=true before calling
quitAndInstall so the close proceeds and Squirrel gets to apply the
update.

Users on 0.2.11/0.2.12 can still upgrade via a normal Cmd+Q quit (the
update applies on next launch via autoInstallOnAppQuit). This fix only
affects the in-app 'Restart to update' button.

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

StenoAI v0.2.12

chore: bump version to 0.2.12

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

StenoAI v0.2.11

What's New

• In-app auto-updates — Updates download in the background and install on next quit; no more manual DMG downloads
• In-app note-taking — Jot notes during a recording and they're folded into the AI summary
• Granola-style bottom ask bar — Floating pill with inline transcript panel, live mic waveform, and a focused query input
• Streaming summaries — Watch the summary appear as it's generated instead of waiting for a finished block
• Ask your saved notes — The ask bar now reads saved .md notes directly (summary, key topics, full transcript)
• Diarised markdown export — Saved transcripts include [You] / [Others] speaker labels

Improvements

• Warm light-mode palette, serif meeting titles, pill-shaped search bar
• Reprocess picks up user notes and uses streaming
• Meetings list loads faster; stereo language detection more accurate
• Query preserves the meeting's original output language for .md files
• Participants removed from summaries (fewer LLM hallucinations)

Fixes

• Recording duration correct when ffprobe can't read WebM containers
• Folder dropdown no longer closes when clicking inside it
• Mini-waveform starts reliably at the start of a recording

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

What's New in v0.2.10

Speaker Diarisation

• Stereo channel diarisation for system audio recordings — when recording with system audio enabled, the transcript now shows [You] and [Others] speaker labels. Your mic captures you, system audio captures remote participants (#82) — @ruzin

Language Improvements

• Auto-detect language — new "Auto (detect)" option in Settings lets Whisper automatically identify the spoken language. Supports 99 languages out of the box (#79) — @JeroenR123
• Dutch language support added to the curated language dropdown (#78) — @JeroenR123
• Fixed autodetect language not being passed through to the summarizer (#81) — @ruzin
• Stereo recordings now correctly propagate detected language (#84) — @ruzin

UI & Polish

• Real sound capture waveform — the recording indicator now shows a live waveform driven by actual microphone input instead of a canned animation (#54) — @rojanthomas
• Faster meeting list loading — meetings render instantly from cache on startup; backend list command reads each file once instead of twice (#84) — @ruzin
• Fixed recording indicator getting stuck after stop due to a waveform animation race condition (#80) — @ruzin

Stability

• Detect incompatible macOS version (pre-Sonoma) before attempting to start Ollama, with a clear error message (#67) — @ruzin
• Handle storage path permission failures gracefully instead of crashing (#68) — @sammargolis

What's New

• Auto-generated meeting titles — AI generates a short title from the transcript so you never see "Recording 2026-03-04" again (#60) — @c9482
• macOS Shortcuts deep-link support — Start and stop recordings via macOS Shortcuts app (#30, #61) — @filippohronsky
• Updated model lineup — Added Qwen 3.5 9B, DeepSeek-R1 14B, and GPT-OSS 20B; deprecated older Qwen 3 8B and DeepSeek-R1 8B (#66) — @ruzin
• Ollama cleanup on quit — Ollama server is reliably stopped when the app quits, freeing ~1GB of memory (#63) — @ruzin
• Hide dock icon — New setting to run StenoAI in menu-bar-only mode (#57) — @ruzin
• Dynamic remote model list — Remote Ollama connections now fetch available models automatically (#64) — @ruzin
• Fixed model pull error reporting — Reprocess errors now surface correctly in the UI instead of showing false success — @ruzin
• XSS fix in model select — Sanitized model names in the settings dropdown (#66) — @ruzin
• Privacy policy update — Added Google-required user data sections (#65) — @ruzin
• Shortcut stop fix — Fixed shortcut stop not working for system audio recordings (#62) — @ruzin

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

StenoAI v0.2.8

What's New

chore: bump version to 0.2.8

• Fix Intel Mac EBADEXEC error (#50)
• Improved Ollama setup diagnostics
• Check bundled ffmpeg first in setup wizard (#52)
• Add multiprocessing freeze_support (#52)

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

StenoAI v0.2.7

What's New

• Multi-language support for transcription and summaries (10 languages)
• Remote Ollama server support (run AI on another machine on your network)
• Cloud AI provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic) gated behind Advanced toggle
• Secure API key storage with Electron safeStorage encryption
• Privacy ghost indicator when data leaves your device
• Bundled Ollama bumped to v0.16.3 for Apple M5 Metal support
• Settings reorganization (analytics moved to Advanced tab)
• Multilingual model prompt when switching from English on Llama
• Model benchmark comparison table in README

Bug Fixes

• Fix ffmpeg/ffprobe audio duration detection
• Fix cloud API key not passed to reprocess/query operations
• Ask Steno now uses configured model instead of hardcoded default

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg
• Intel Macs: stenoAI-macos-x64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the appropriate DMG for your Mac
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!