Every version, and what
each one changed.

Patch

1.6.1 · 8 September 2026

The ⌥ stack no longer shifts sideways when a box arrives that is wider than the ones already up, or when the widest one leaves. The stack is as wide as its widest box, so its edge moves at those moments; what moved with it, for a tenth of a second, was every box in it. The stack now follows the live box by its centre, and each box is placed from that centre, so the stack's width can change under them without a box moving by a point.

Minor

1.5.0 · 7 September 2026

The app updates itself. Check for Updates… sits at the top of the menu, under Pause. It asks this site for a newer version and installs it in place, same location and same signature, so the audio permission survives an update the way it survives a rebuild. Copies older than this one have no updater; they are updated by downloading again, once.

• It asks first. On the second launch, once, whether it may check on its own once a day. The request carries the app's version and nothing else, no audio, no captions, nothing about you, and the answer is a checkbox in the menu afterwards. Until it is yes, the app makes no request at all.
• Never over a call. A check that finds something opens the update window at launch, or once nothing has been playing for a couple of minutes. While something is playing it does not: a red badge with a 1 appears on the icon, the menu offers Update to …, and the window comes when you choose it. A critical fix opens the window regardless, and cannot be skipped.
• One window of the app's own. The notes set as text, one bar for the download, Install and Relaunch when it is ready, in the style of the About and Welcome windows rather than the updater's stock dialogs.

Patch

1.4.2 · 6 September 2026

The welcome window's demo searches the ⌥ stack, as the app does. A vendored copy without the search had nothing to attach it to, and stopped on load.

• The settings preview's screen is the demo's again. Its coloured desktop, a menu bar with this app's glyph and the clock in it, and a call in front with the ring handed round whoever is talking. The ⌥ stack stops at the menu bar, as on a real screen, and the preview is a little taller.

Minor

1.4.0 · 6 September 2026

The ⌥ stack can be searched. A small field sits at the edge of the stack, against the live box, drawn as one more box. Click it, or press ⌥F while the stack is up, and type: the stack narrows to the boxes that contain the text, ignoring case and accents, lights the matches and scrolls to the newest one. While the field has the keyboard the stack stays up with ⌥ released. Escape, or a click anywhere outside it, lets it go again.

• It keeps every box by default. The Keep slider in Settings runs one stop further, to ∞, and that is where a fresh install now sits: the stack holds every box that closes, up to two thousand, in place of the last fifteen. How long a silence takes to forget the stack is the setting it always was, and the two are separate.
• The stack follows the live box on a spring. The box grows a line at a time as a sentence wraps, and the stack used to jump the line with it. Now it catches up over a tenth of a second, while the box itself stays exactly where it was.
• Deep stacks no longer hitch. Every box was measured again each time the stack was rebuilt, which became a pause at the depths the slider now allows. The sizes are kept between rebuilds.

Patch

1.3.4 · 3 September 2026

The welcome window's demo caught up with the site's. It plays the same three scenes the home page does, now under the same menu bar: the Apple mark, the app in front, the first menus, and a desktop with some colour in it. The podcast scene's waveform fills its row again too, which the app's copy of the demo had been missing.

• The screen's corners are tighter in the welcome window than on the site, so they no longer clip the Apple mark at one end of the menu bar and the clock at the other.

Patch

1.3.2 · 3 September 2026

Text stops coming back after a pause. A box would fade, the next one opened with words said before it, and from then on it filled without ever turning over. Three faults, all of them the same mistake in different places: treating words still being spoken as though they had settled. Whatever a faded box was still owed is now dropped along with it.

• A sentence nobody finishes no longer fills the box for ever. Text that has not settled cannot be paged at all: it is retranslated whole on every update, so its words move each time and a break put inside them does not stay where it was put. It now settles on length as well as on age, after which the box turns over like any other.
• Pages break at the edge of the unsettled text. A break made inside it came undone on the next update, which is what put the same few words in three boxes in a row while nothing new was being said.

Minor

1.3.0 · 31 August 2026

Captions can be translated as they are spoken. Pick a target in Translate To and any of the sixteen languages arrives in any other, through Apple's own translator, on the machine. Nothing is uploaded, which is the property the whole app is built around. How it works.

• Every pair, not only the ones with English in them. All 240 orderings of the sixteen. Speech models that translate as they transcribe go to or from English only, which would have left most of these unreachable.
• Two timings, because the question is what to show mid-sentence. Live, Then Settle dims text that may still change and leaves it alone once it has stopped. Always Live retranslates everything on every update: no lag, and nothing on screen is final.
• Hold ⌃ to see the original. The language being spoken, live box and ⌥ stack together, for as long as the key is down. Translation carries on underneath, so letting go shows current text rather than a snapshot.
• A ghost mode for screen sharing. Show Overlay In Screen Share / Capture is on by default. Uncheck it and the overlay leaves anything capturing through macOS: calls, recordings and screenshots alike.
• Interrupted model downloads repair themselves. A download that stopped partway used to leave a bundle CoreML refuses, and nothing ever retried it, so every launch after that failed with nothing on screen to say why. Those are now spotted and refetched, only the broken ones, and a recogniser that cannot load says so in the menu.
• Translation needs macOS 15, which is where Apple's translator arrives. The rest of the app still runs on 14.2, where those two rows are simply not in the menu.

Patch

1.1.4 · 22 August 2026

A settings window that previews itself. Half of what the sliders govern describes something not currently on screen: boxes that have already finished, the hole that follows the pointer. So the pane got a small overlay of its own to demonstrate on. Touch a control and the preview says what that control does, with your current value in the sentence.

• Windows that fit. Settings and the welcome screen scroll on a short display instead of running off the bottom of it, where there is no title bar to drag them back by.
• The overlay follows a resolution change rather than waiting for the next word to notice one.

Patch

1.1.2 · 19 August 2026

The welcome screen now says what ⇧ and ⌥ do and what the pointer does, one line each, with the right key lighting up for each one.

Minor

1.1.0 · 19 August 2026

Hold ⌥ to bring the last few boxes back. The overlay pages like broadcast subtitles. It fills, clears and starts again, so a sentence you glanced away from was simply gone. The closed pages now stack above the live box, and scroll when there are more of them than there is room for.

• A settings window behind ⌘,: lines per box, opacity, how long the history lives, and how far ⌥ reaches back.

Patch

1.0.2 · 16 August 2026

A welcome screen for the first run. First launch fetches about 600 MB before a single caption can appear, and until now the whole first impression was a menu bar icon with a dot on it. There is also an About window saying what version you have and where it came from.

Major

1.0 · 15 August 2026

The first release. Live captions for anything your Mac plays, drawn as an always-on-top overlay that stays put while you switch apps, with the transcription running on the Apple Neural Engine and nothing leaving the machine.

• A streaming model, not a 30-second window. Captions arrive as the sentence is being said rather than after it.
• Music never reaches the recogniser, so a backing track does not become invented lyrics.
• Language first, model second. The menu bar leads with the language and says what each choice costs in megabytes before you click it.

What you get with an update

Every version above is included in the one purchase. Since 1.5 the app updates itself: once a day, if you let it, it asks this site for a newer version and installs it in place, so the audio permission stays. Nothing about an update changes the deal on this page: no account, no subscription, no telemetry, and no audio leaving your Mac. The setup guide covers installing over an older copy.