New features
- Compose
Beta: Use your voice to write or edit text with Compose, available when Beta Mode is enabled. - When you start a note manually during a detected meeting, Monologue now reminds you when the meeting ends, so you can stop and save or keep recording.
- You can now attach diagnostic logs when sending feedback to help us investigate issues.
- You can now remove the default push-to-talk shortcut and use only your preferred shortcuts, including hands-free recording.
- Search Notes by text or tags, including notes beyond the ones already loaded in the list.
- Choose, remove, or reset the shortcut that opens the mode picker while recording.
Improvements
- Added 4-hour and 6-hour maximum recording length options for Notes.
- Sign-in now opens securely in your browser and returns you to Monologue when complete.
- Dictation now finishes and pastes faster after you stop recording.
- For longer smart dictations, Monologue now prepares screen context and mode instructions before you stop speaking.
- Voice vs keyboard insights now appear by default, with an option to turn them off in Privacy settings.
- Made the menu bar recording indicator easier to see at different display scales.
- The Dot is now visible during onboarding, so new users can see it before completing setup.
- Clearer labels across the app and small layout improvements in Notes.
- History now loads and scrolls more efficiently, with improved search highlighting.
- Onboarding and shortcut hints now follow your configured dictation shortcuts.
Fixes
- Copied note transcripts now use your assigned speaker names, including when copied from Notes or the menu bar.
- Fixed an issue that could cut off the end of a dictation when you stopped recording.
- Mode choices made from the Dot or recording controls now stay assigned to the current app or website.
- Pressing Escape to cancel dictation no longer also dismisses dialogs or other controls in the app you are using.
- Improved Dot placement so it avoids hidden input fields, does not pin to a window too eagerly, and resets correctly after your Mac wakes from sleep.
- The Dot now hides during Apple Pay authorization to avoid interfering with payment controls.
- Note uploads now retry temporary network and server failures automatically, including after your connection returns. Recordings stay on your Mac if the upload fails.
- Improved recovery of interrupted note uploads to avoid creating duplicate notes or preparing the same audio again.
- Fixed repeated Keychain permission prompts when opening an updated version of Monologue.
- Prevented multiple copies of Monologue from running at the same time. Opening another copy brings the running app forward.
- Fixed meeting detection for FaceTime and Phone calls.
- Made meeting-end detection more reliable when a meeting app closes.
- Improved reliability when stopping audio playback or deleting and retrying dictations in history.