Changelog

Meet Dot

Dot is a new recorder that stays close to where you’re writing and moves with you as you work.

• See where your text will appear: Dot sits beside the active writing field and shows when Monologue is listening and turning your speech into text.
• Move between apps: Switch apps while you record and Dot follows your pointer. Monologue remembers where you started and inserts the finished text there.
• Keep working without interruption: When you’re not recording, Dot stays out of the way.
• Choose what works for you: Hide Dot, turn it off in individual apps, or switch back to Classic at any time.
• Report placement issues: If Dot appears in the wrong place, click it and select “Report” so we can investigate and fix it.

To try Dot, update to Monologue for Mac v1.5.0 and go to Settings → Dictation → Indicator → Dot.

Improvements

• Save the original audio from a completed Note using the More menu.
• Choose a 30-minute, one-hour, two-hour, or three-hour recording limit for Notes. Monologue warns you before saving automatically.
• Home is now called Dictations, with clearer instructions.
• Recording starts more smoothly, and typing in the feedback form is faster.

Fixes

• Fixed Notes recording with multichannel microphones and audio interfaces, including Focusrite Vocaster devices.
• Fixed pasting and shortcuts across keyboard layouts and input methods.
• Removed unwanted spaces before dictated text.
• Fixed meeting detection for Google Meet Chrome apps.
• Fixed menu bar actions that open Settings, Help, microphone settings, and onboarding.
• Fixed Notes jumping in the list after returning from or deleting a note.

New features

• Try the Mini indicator in Settings → General → Indicator → Mini.
• Choose whether each audio output—speakers, headphones, or AirPods—mutes, pauses, or leaves media alone during dictation.
• Rename speakers, mark yourself, and preview voice samples in Notes.
• Play and pause directly from transcript history cards.

Improvements

• Dictation is faster, referral links use your current share URL, and in-app updates are more reliable.

Fixes

• Fixed distorted system audio, two-channel microphone capture, timestamps, ordering, and speaker colors in Notes.
• Fixed indicator visibility settings, leading spaces after Shift+Enter in Slack, and long tags pushing dates off-screen.

Notes

• Record back-to-back Notes while earlier recordings upload and process in the background.
• Create, assign, rename, and remove tags directly from a note.
• Scroll more smoothly through long and older Notes.

Dictation and updates

• Fixed shortcuts activating from the wrong modifier key or after incomplete setup.
• Improved local transcription setup, model download status, and automatically updating language support.
• Choose Stable or Beta updates in Settings → Help.

A major Notes update

• Improved the Notes recording and processing experience, with clearer progress and more reliable recovery.
• Made summaries, transcripts, speaker information, timestamps, and copying easier to read and use.
• Reorganized Notes settings and integrations so recording shortcuts, meeting detection, and connected tools are easier to find.
• Added broad interface, performance, and stability improvements across the Mac app.

Notes improvements

• Improved capture and processing reliability for newly recorded Notes.
• Made summaries and transcripts easier to browse, copy, and share.
• Refined speaker and timestamp presentation throughout a Note.
• Added performance and interface improvements across Notes and dictation.

Following Cursor

• Added Following Cursor mode and improved the indicator near screen edges, multiple displays, the Dock, and the menu bar.
• Choose whether the idle indicator is hidden when you are not dictating.
• Improved placement in single-line fields and stopped it appearing in read-only fields and web checkboxes.
• Reduced idle CPU use from cursor tracking.

More improvements

• Fixed paste routing around popups and helper-owned focus, plus Chrome Meet web app detection.
• Added an iPhone awareness card, full Whisper language support, Notes processing status, and new summary copy formats.
• Improved short recordings, blocked-audio handling, and update feed reliability.

What’s new

• Added the first version of Following Cursor mode for a more direct dictation experience.
• Improved placement and interaction around different apps, displays, and text fields.
• Added reliability and interface refinements across dictation and Notes.

Improvements

• Improved Notes recording, processing, and status updates.
• Refined summary and transcript presentation and copying.
• Added interface polish and reliability improvements across the Mac app.

Improvements

• Notes summaries now render formatted Markdown.
• Copying transcripts and summaries handles speakers, timestamps, and titles more cleanly.
• In-progress Notes update toward transcript and summary completion without a manual refresh.
• Notes settings are organized more clearly, with interface polish across the app.

Improvements

• Notes summaries now use formatted Markdown.
• Transcript and summary copying is cleaner, including speaker and timestamp formatting.
• In-progress Notes update automatically as processing finishes.
• Improved hotkey timing around quick release, hands-free double tap, and very short recordings.

Fixes

• Fixed feedback popover rendering and selection, including first-click behavior and Command-Enter to send.

Hotfix

• Fixed menu bar item slowness.

Notes

• Record long-form Notes, capture system audio, browse summaries and transcripts with speaker separation, search, share, and connect Notes to MCP, CLI, or API workflows.

What’s new

• Press Control-M to start a Note and press it again to stop. The shortcut is customizable.
• Connect Monologue Notes to supported IDEs and AI agents through Monologue MCP.
• Reset custom modes to Monologue’s defaults from Instructions settings.

Improvements

• Meeting prompts work more reliably across Spaces and fullscreen apps, with clearer actions.
• Switch between Dictation and Notes in the open menu bar popover without closing it.
• Added confirmations before pausing or saving a Note recording.

Monologue Notes

• Record long-form Notes from the sidebar or menu bar, with pause, resume, cancel, and system-audio capture.
• Recover interrupted recordings and receive summaries and transcripts with speaker separation.
• Search, share, and delete past Notes.
• Connect Notes to MCP, CLI, or API workflows.

Fixes

• Fixed a Mac interface freeze caused by slow browser AppleScript responses.

Improvements

• Reduced hallucinated text in transcriptions.
• Fixed silent recordings producing unwanted phrases such as “thank you.”
• Improved silence detection and focused the recording pipeline more closely on speech.
• Added general interface polish and cleanup.

Hotfix

• Fixed a crash affecting Intel Macs.
• Includes the v1.0.71 improvements for silence handling and transcription accuracy.

Hotfix

• Fixed a crash that could happen from the menu bar item after the Mac redesign.

What’s new

• Redesigned the sidebar and overall app layout.
• Auto-detect your microphone or choose and reorder preferred microphones.
• Eligible Beta users can create and revoke personal API keys for Notes directly from the app.

What’s new

• Added Blazing Fast mode for places where speed matters most, including ChatGPT and other AI apps.
• Choose apps or websites in Instructions and Monologue automatically uses a faster raw transcript there.
• Improved shortcut setup with live verification and clearer settings.
• Made paste behavior more reliable in browsers and difficult text fields.
• Added a sidebar card when an update is available.

Improvements

• Added performance improvements and bug fixes across dictation and the Mac app.

What’s new

• Change your account email directly from the Mac app.
• Tap Right Shift while recording, then use arrow keys or 1–9 to switch modes.
• Improved hands-free double-tap behavior and moved app and URL detection away from the critical recording path.
• Expanded text-context support in Firefox, Zen Browser, and Citrix.

Improvements

• Improved stability on macOS 26.2 around the floating transcript panel and helper overlays.
• Fullscreen OCR now captures the correct active window more reliably.
• Added a Beta Mode toggle for eligible users.
• Improved feedback submissions from transcript history with better context.

Hotfix

• Fixed a crash affecting some devices on macOS 26.2 and later.

Improvements

• Improved sync reliability.

Hotfix

• Fixed a notarization issue.
• Fixed a crash affecting some users during sync.

Hotfix

• Fixed a crash affecting some users during recent transcription and sync workflows.
• Added defensive handling around the affected path to keep recording sessions stable.

What’s new

• Added settings sync for custom dictionaries and modes across signed-in Macs.
• Added Sign in with Apple.
• Added a 30-day and lifetime stats toggle on Home and remembered the selected view.
• Improved subscription status updates after upgrades.
• Made hotkey recording start faster and improved detection of quieter speech.

What’s new

• Sign in with Google or an Every account.
• Import custom vocabulary from SuperWhisper, Aqua Voice, or WhisperFlow.
• Added ChatGPT Atlas browser support.
• Smart spacing now responds to the cursor context where you dictate.

Fixes and improvements

• Fixed extra spaces at the beginning of transcriptions and paste issues in Zed and WezTerm.
• Reduced end-to-end latency and improved streaming reliability.

Parakeet v3

• Added faster, more efficient on-device transcription across 25 languages.
• Redesigned local model management with clearer progress, model status, language support, and switching.

Privacy and data

• Choose whether to share dictations to help improve transcription quality.
• Delete all local transcripts from Settings → Privacy.
• Improved the monthly activity view and payment error handling.

What’s new

• Redesigned plan selection and billing with clearer Free, Pro, and Every choices.
• Added lifetime usage, remaining quota, and direct upgrade access for free accounts.
• Added contextual onboarding help with animations and live shortcut hints.
• Centralized feature requests and bug reports in a new Help section.

Improvements

• Very short recordings are discarded, and voice activity detection better recognizes quiet speech.
• Fixed a persistent Dock help overlay and refined onboarding instructions.

What’s new

• Paste your latest transcript into the active app with a configurable shortcut, without changing the clipboard.
• Set a dedicated Cancel Recording shortcut.
• Choose the system default or a specific microphone from the menu bar or Settings.
• Improved voice activity detection and prepares the model when the app starts.

Fixes

• Improved hotkey recovery, left/right modifier handling, retry behavior, and context-aware spacing.

What’s new

• Moved dictation to a faster processing endpoint and optimized the complete pipeline.
• Hold Right Shift while recording to switch modes or temporarily change auto-enter behavior.
• Retry failed transcriptions directly from history.
• Redesigned onboarding with clearer permissions, account setup, and tutorials.

Fixes

• Improved permission refresh, screen-capture error handling, mode overrides, and raw-text recovery.

What’s new

• Redesigned welcome, model selection, tutorial, demo, sign-in, and permission steps.
• Added background downloads for local models and yearly billing.

Fixes

• Fixed text pasting and improved hotkey reliability, diagnostics, and stability.

What’s new

• Added monologue://record-dictation for starting a recording from external apps.
• Improved the recording waveform, processing states, and monthly activity interactions.

Fixes

• Fixed text selection overflow in collapsed transcripts, empty activity states, spacing, and interface polish.