Changelog

A running list of everything new, improved, and fixed in Walkie.

v1.14.0
September 2026
  • •Dictation pastes sooner. Walkie stops listening the moment you finish speaking instead of waiting a fixed beat after you let go of the key, and the stop sound plays as your finger lifts.
  • •Short replies like “Okay” and “Thanks” are typed. They used to be dropped as background noise.
  • •When your weekly cloud allowance is used up, Walkie transcribes on this computer for the rest of the week right away, instead of asking the cloud first on every dictation. Those extra requests were slowing every paste.
  • •Dictations that end in a time, a price, or a number, like “nine thirty” or “two hundred dollars”, keep their clean-up. Before, the clean-up was thrown away and the raw words were pasted.
  • •If Walkie hears you but can’t make out any words, it now tells you instead of quietly typing nothing.
  • •You can add more than one Google Calendar in Settings → Meetings. Quick calendar answers read every calendar you’ve added, plus the calendars already on this computer.
  • •Record a meeting from the Walkie icon in the menu bar, even when no call was detected.
  • •Riverside calls are recognized as meetings.
  • •Moving a meeting to a personal folder stops sharing it with your team.
  • •Your dictated words no longer appear in Walkie’s log or in a support bundle. When you send a bundle, you can choose to remove your words from it first.
  • •In On-Device Mode, Walkie no longer contacts the internet at all: no account check, no analytics, no hosted Ask Agent. Turn off Wi-Fi and it works the same.
  • •Walkie no longer sends analytics to Amplitude.
v1.13.1
September 2026
  • •Switching accounts from the sidebar menu now asks you first and then reopens Walkie as that account, instead of the prompt appearing and vanishing. Each account shows its plan (Free, Pro, Team) next to the name, and a Team account shows the organization underneath rather than a raw plan name.
  • •Invite in the account menu is only for owners and admins, and it opens Team admin.
v1.13.0
September 2026
  • •You can keep more than one Walkie account on this computer. Settings → Account lists them; switching reopens Walkie as that account in a few seconds. Meetings and history stay in that account's own folder, so they don't mix.
  • •Setup now shows you the microphone light on your computer, and lights the real one while it explains. Walkie only records while you hold the key. The light means the microphone is connected, not that a recording is being saved — it stays on for about a minute after you let go so your next words aren't clipped, and nothing is stored or sent in that minute.
  • •AI tools that connect to Walkie over the internet (Claude, Cursor, Glama and others) can sign in even when they still use the older registration method. Walkie meetings stay behind your account either way.
v1.12.2
September 2026
  • •A team’s owner can now hand the team to a teammate: open the ⋯ menu on your own row in Settings → Team admin and choose Transfer ownership. Either your teammate adds their own card, and nothing is charged until your plan renews, or you hand over your card and billing as they are. You stay on as an admin.
  • •When someone leaves a team, is removed, or deletes their account, the meetings they shared with the team now stay with it. The team finds them, read-only, under From former teammates in the Team section, and only the owner can delete them. Leaving a team now asks you first.
  • •Meetings shared by a teammate on a paid seat were hidden from the rest of the team, and those teammates couldn’t share a folder at all. Both work now.
  • •The upgrade screen no longer offers Pro or Work to a Team account, where picking one would have taken the seats away from everyone on the team.
  • •Read Aloud is louder, closer to the level of music and podcasts, without clipping.
  • •In Cloud Mode, Read Aloud has voices made for Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Czech and Chinese. Czech and Chinese used to be read in an English voice.
  • •During setup, the narrator starts each screen straight away, never repeats a line, and speaks those languages in a native voice. You can change the language from the top left of every setup screen, the meetings step fits on a laptop screen, and the Read Aloud step works even if you picked On-Device mode.
  • •On Omarchy, Ask Agent answers your questions again. With coding sessions open, it went straight to asking which session to send your question to, waited in silence, and closed. Quick calendar answers can be turned on there now too.
  • •Pressing Read Aloud while an Ask Agent answer is still on screen now closes that conversation and reads your text on its own, instead of showing it under your last question with the top cut off.
  • •The shadow around the reading and Ask Agent panels is no longer cut off at the sides.
  • •The ⋯ menu next to a teammate opens as a proper menu, and Remove works on the first click.
  • •The top of the Home button in Settings responds to the pointer again, instead of dragging the window.
  • •After an update on Linux, Walkie reopens with its window showing instead of staying hidden.
  • •Settings in languages other than English no longer mention a Mac when you’re on Windows or Linux.
v1.12.0
September 2026
  • •Ask Agent can hand your request straight to a coding session you already have open. Pick the session and Walkie brings its Terminal window to the front, types your words in and presses Return, then tells you it did. If it can’t be sure it has the right window, it copies the request and says so, rather than typing somewhere it shouldn’t.
  • •Ask Agent now works out what you’re asking before it offers your sessions. A question simply gets answered, something like your calendar or an email gets a fresh agent, and only work on one of your projects asks which session to send it to.
  • •New in Settings → Agent: quick calendar answers. Ask what’s on your calendar and Walkie answers in a few seconds from the Google Calendar you connected for Meetings, instead of waiting on your agent. It stays off until you turn it on.
  • •The agent Walkie starts is locked down. It can’t read saved passwords, keys, browser logins or Walkie’s own sign-in, and before it fetches a page or opens a link, Walkie asks you to Allow it — so text slipped into a calendar invite or a web page can’t quietly talk it into either.
  • •Dictation can no longer end up in Walkie’s own window when another app is in front, which could happen when you dictated into Terminal.
  • •Read Aloud during setup works on Linux: pressing the key while Walkie is talking now reads the text you highlighted, and the highlighted text is picked up directly.
  • •The word-by-word highlight now follows Walkie’s own short replies too, not only your agent’s answers.
  • •The note asking for Full Disk Access no longer keeps coming back on the newest macOS after you’ve granted it.
  • •On small tiling screens, Walkie’s compact card keeps its round grill round instead of squashing it.
  • •Agent now carries a Beta label in the sidebar.
v1.11.5
September 2026
  • •Saying “Hey Walkie” is something you do while you are already dictating — and the app now says so. The setup screens and the Agent setting all described it as an alternative to pressing your key, which would have had you talking to a computer that was not listening. Walkie only hears you while you hold a key down; it is never waiting for its name.
  • •A question you asked your agent now carries that agent’s own mark in your history — Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, OpenCode — instead of a generic robot for all of them.
  • •A tidy-up of the app icons Walkie shows beside your dictations: two dozen were saved in the wrong format and a handful were not pictures at all, so those apps showed a blank square in your history.
v1.11.4
September 2026
  • •Turning other apps down while Walkie reads works properly now, and is back on. If you use an audio enhancer like FxSound, Voicemeeter, SteelSeries Sonar or Wave Link, every app on your computer plays THROUGH it — so Walkie was quietly turning that down too, which lowered everything at once, Walkie's own voice included. Those are left alone now. Walkie also turns apps down by a share of where you already had them instead of to a fixed level, and puts them back exactly where they were.
  • •You can choose how far other apps drop, in Settings → Read Aloud. A third of their volume suits most setups; pick quieter if Walkie still has to compete, or gentler if the drop is jarring.
  • •Read Aloud can read your selection on Linux. Walkie copies the highlighted text behind the scenes to find out what you selected, and on Wayland desktops that copy silently did nothing — so it always said it could not find a selection, whatever you had highlighted. It now uses the same tools the rest of Walkie uses for this, and says which one is missing if you do not have any of them.
  • •Walkie finishes the setup tour by actually saying goodbye. The last line was being cut off the instant it started, so the app said it was speaking and nothing came out.
  • •Setting up Walkie again after an update is no longer possible by accident. If Walkie could not read its own record of what you had already done, it assumed you were new and started from scratch — and could not save that you had finished either, so it happened again on every launch.
  • •Small things in the setup screens: the language picker had two different sets of rounded corners, and the cassette sat too close to the Walkie logo. In your history, a question you asked your agent now names the agent that answered it, and its icon is the size of every other icon in the list rather than towering over them.
v1.11.3
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud is back to full volume, and your music comes back where you left it. Yesterday's release could leave Walkie reading at the same lowered volume it had just put everything else at, and when the reading stopped it turned other apps up to full instead of back to where you had them. Turning other apps down is switched off on Windows and Linux while we get it right on those machines; on a Mac it works as before.
  • •“Mute while recording” has moved to Dictation, and Read Aloud has its own: “Silence other apps while reading”. They sound like the same setting and are opposites — one stops your speakers feeding the microphone while you dictate, the other gets everything else out of the way so you can hear Walkie. Each one is now on the page it belongs to and can be turned on without the other.
  • •You can delete all your history now, rather than waiting for a schedule. Settings → General → History has a button that removes every dictation and read-aloud on this computer immediately, starred ones included, and tells you how many went. Meetings are not touched.
  • •A shortcut can be left blank. Until now the only way out of a shortcut you did not want was Reset, which puts the default back — so there was no way to say “I don't want this one” and get your key back. Clearing one now sticks, including after a restart.
  • •Every earlier version is a click away. About has a link to a page with every previous build for macOS, Windows and Linux, so if a new version breaks something for you, you can go back to the one before it and carry on while we fix it — instead of editing a download link by hand.
v1.11.2
September 2026
  • •Walkie no longer quits on its own a moment after opening. If you had used up the week’s dictation allowance, the notice about it was being put on screen from the wrong place inside Walkie, and recent versions of macOS stop an app that does that — so the people it happened to were the people who had been using Walkie the most. It had been happening since 1.9.1.
  • •Music, podcasts and videos get out of the way while Walkie is speaking or listening. Read Aloud used to talk over whatever was already playing, so you had to pause it yourself every time. On Windows and Linux other apps are turned down and come back up; on a Mac the players Walkie can control are paused and resumed.
  • •Walkie no longer writes down what you dictate. Older versions recorded every dictation, and every question and answer from Ask, into the log file — the same file the Report a problem button asks you to send. They are not written any more.
  • •Settings → Support can take your words back out of logs you already have. “Remove my words” rewrites the log files on this computer, replacing anything you dictated, asked or read with a placeholder, and tells you how many lines it changed. What Walkie was doing at the time is kept, so a problem can still be looked into.
v1.11.1
September 2026
  • •Holding your dictation key on Windows now records for as long as you hold it. About half a second into any hold, Windows sends a second key press — that is how a held key types repeated letters — and Walkie read it as you letting go. Every dictation stopped before you had finished the first word and came back as “Nothing heard from your microphone”, and changing microphones never helped, because the microphone was never the problem.
  • •Settings has a Support section. The help centre, the problem report and the log export used to sit at the bottom of About, under a heading that promises version numbers and credits — the last place anyone looks when something has gone wrong. They are in one place now, in the order you need them: read the guide, tell us, send us the logs.
  • •The ⋯ menu on a meeting opens in full. The ask box at the bottom of the list was painting over it, so “Add to folder” and “Delete” were half there or missing altogether. The same menu on an upcoming meeting was being clipped by the edge of the calendar strip.
  • •A meeting with no notes now offers the button that writes them, instead of telling you where to find it. The button appears on the meeting’s Notes tab whenever there is a transcript to work from.
v1.11.0
September 2026
  • •Snippets and your custom dictionary are yours to build on any plan. Setting up a snippet, or teaching Walkie a name it keeps getting wrong, no longer waits on paying — the free plan runs them until the weekly allowance is spent, and everything you have built is still there when the allowance resets on Monday.
  • •The weekly allowance counts every word you dictate, not only the words that went to the cloud. Dictating on your own computer used to count as nothing, so the same week of work could cost one person their whole allowance and another person none of it, decided by a setting that has nothing to do with it.
  • •The recording bar shows what is left of the week. It counts down near the end and says so when the allowance is spent, which makes the pause something you watch coming instead of something you find out about when a snippet does not fire.
  • •When the allowance runs out, Walkie says what paused and what did not. Dictation keeps working — on your computer or in the cloud, as much as you like — and the message no longer lists features that were never affected.
  • •Team accounts show their plan name again. The September rename made "team" the internal name for the top plan and the label for it was never added, so the Account screen printed a raw setting name where "Team" belongs.
  • •A meeting's notes tab no longer claims your transcript stayed on your computer when the meeting was recorded in the cloud. It now says what is actually true, and when there is a transcript it points at Regenerate notes.
  • •Meeting notes are no longer withheld because you dictated a lot. Meetings and dictation had come to share one weekly allowance, so using up your words could quietly cost you the AI notes on a meeting you were entitled to record.
v1.10.1
September 2026
  • •Walkie says when it cannot hear your microphone because Windows is blocking it. A blocked microphone on Windows is not an error — the recording starts and every moment of it is silent — so Walkie used to report it as a dead microphone and send you to the device list, where nothing could help, because the block is on the app and not on any one device. It now names the real cause and the Windows page that fixes it.
  • •Choosing "System default" follows your actual default microphone. Walkie remembered the device it first found and kept using it after you changed your default in Windows, until you restarted the app.
  • •Saving a Read Aloud in on-device mode gives you the whole thing. A reading longer than one chunk saved as a file where only the first part played.
  • •Audio Walkie speaks and you then save is marked, in the file itself, as speech generated by text-to-speech rather than a recording of a person.
  • •Meeting notes say they were written by AI — in the app, in every file you export, and on the page you share with the people who were in the room.
  • •Walkie will not guess how anyone felt, or judge how anyone did. It reports what was said and who said it. The interview note template records what you covered instead of rating the person.
  • •Ask Walkie whether it is a person and it tells you it is not. Ask Agent and meeting chat say they are AI before you ask anything, and on every answer.
  • •Settings has a Support section: the help centre, and a problem report that already has your version, platform and mode filled in.
  • •The first-run Fn key stays inside its keycap, the meetings step's checklist lines up, and Walkie says goodbye instead of going silent the moment setup finishes.
  • •The things you can ask your agent are everyday questions now, not developer ones — and two of the old ones could never have worked, since they pointed at files and errors that were not there.
v1.9.2
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud finds your selection in Firefox on Windows. Walkie copies the text behind the scenes and used to give the browser a fixed moment to hand it over, which Chrome met and Firefox did not, so a page with a selection came back as "no text selected". It now waits for the copy to actually arrive, and stops the instant it does.
  • •Reading sounds continuous. A sentence is no longer cut in half to fit a chunk size, so it is spoken in one breath with one intonation instead of two pieces with a seam in the middle.
  • •The first run shows the Fn key as a key, the same one the website's demo uses, and it presses while you talk. Keyboard shortcuts are spelled out — "Control + Command + R" — before the keys themselves, everywhere they are named.
  • •The meetings step shows the cassette and the real logos of the apps Walkie notices, and its "ask me" switch is Walkie's own.
  • •Walkie's voice appears in the pill while it talks you through the first run, with the waveform following the words. The Read Aloud demo there uses the premium cloud voice whichever mode you are in, without touching your listening time.
  • •Dictation's first-run step introduces commands alongside custom words and snippets, and offers a list to try, since a spoken list is the thing worth seeing formatted.
v1.9.1
September 2026
  • •A new first run. Walkie introduces itself out loud and talks you through each step, in its own voice: it downloads that voice first, asks where it should work and in which languages on one screen, then shows you the four things it does — dictation with three prompts to try, meetings, Read Aloud on a real paragraph, and your coding agent. Nine screens became five, and the narration can be muted at any point.
  • •Permissions are still required — dictation cannot work without them — but they behave now: Walkie notices the moment one is granted, comes back to the front on its own, and re-registers your keys, so granting Input Monitoring late works without a restart. The instructions also describe what newer macOS actually shows, a page titled "Device Control and Data Access" that never says Accessibility.
  • •The app's language can be changed on the first screen, and Walkie then narrates in that language with a voice that speaks it.
  • •A meeting prompt can no longer appear during the first run, which used to resize the window into a sidebar mid-setup.
  • •Answer the agent with a click. When it ends on a choice — a list of options, or a yes-or-no question — the panel shows the choices as buttons. Click one, or just say it ("the second one", "yes"), and that becomes your next turn.
  • •Go back to an earlier conversation. Say "go back to my last conversation" and the panel lists your recent ones to pick from, by voice or by click. With Claude Code or Codex, Walkie brings back the agent's own session too, so it remembers what it did, not only what was said.
  • •Open the whole conversation. The panel's "Open in Claude Code" (or "Open in Codex") button opens it in a terminal, resumed on the agent's own session, when you want to see everything the panel summarised.
  • •Follow-ups continue the same agent session by id instead of "the most recent conversation", so a second Walkie conversation started elsewhere can no longer cross wires with the first.
  • •Onboarding: the Accessibility step describes what System Settings actually shows (newer macOS titles the page "Device Control and Data Access" and never says Accessibility), and Walkie comes back to the front the moment a permission is granted.
v1.8.1
September 2026
  • •The on-device voice on Windows and Linux PCs was downloading the wrong model file: an export without word timings, which is why every read on those computers ended with "no output named durations" since 1.6.8, whether on the graphics card or the processor. Walkie now fetches the right files (the Mac's file was correct all along).
  • •The on-device voice runs on a newer speech engine (ONNX Runtime 1.28, up from 1.22). The old engine produced a shader that some graphics cards refused, so Walkie fell back to the processor for the voice; the new one is what lets the graphics-card path work on those cards, such as the RTX 3060 a Windows user reported. If a card still cannot run it, Walkie keeps using the processor, as before.
  • •The same engine runs the on-device transcription models (Parakeet, Moonshine, SenseVoice) and voice detection, so they pick up six releases of fixes and speedups too.
  • •On Apple Silicon Macs the on-device voice switches to a faster model file: about twice the speed of the previous one on the same machine. It is a one-time 169 MB download that replaces the old file.
v1.7.5
September 2026
  • •Ask Agent talks like a person now. Ask a question and the answer starts within a couple of seconds, spoken sentence by sentence as it is written instead of after the whole reply. Ask for something to be done on your computer and Walkie says "On it" right away, then hands the job to your agent. Replies are shaped for speech: short, plain, no headings or bullet points read aloud.
  • •A new panel above the pill shows what you asked, what the agent is doing and thinking while it works — the files it reads, the commands it runs — and the words it says with the reading highlight. It stays on screen while Walkie listens for your follow-up; ✕ or Esc stops the agent and the voice together.
  • •With Claude Code as the answerer, quick questions go to its fastest model with no tools, on your own plan; only requests that need the computer run the full agent. On a computer with many connectors set up, Walkie retries without them when Claude refuses the request as too large.
  • •When Walkie asks "Anything else?" and you say "No, I'm good" (or "that's all", "thanks", "bye"), the conversation closes: a short sign-off, the panel comes down, and Walkie stops listening instead of sending your goodbye to the agent as a new question.
  • •On a Mac, file access for the agent now lives in Walkie's own settings: Settings → Agent → Files and folders shows whether Walkie has Full Disk Access and opens the right pane to grant it once, and the panel offers the same when a task first needs your files — instead of macOS asking folder by folder (Downloads, Documents, Music) in the middle of a task.
  • •The agent speaks at 1.25× by default, and starts on the first clause of a long opening sentence instead of waiting for the full stop. Its answers are read at the pace of a person, and the panel's speed chip still changes it live.
  • •Esc, the panel's ✕, or holding the dictation key all stop the agent and its voice at once; the dictation key then records as usual. Say nothing after an answer and the conversation simply ends — Walkie no longer asks you to repeat yourself and keeps listening.
  • •Settings → Agent gathers everything Ask Agent may touch in one Access card: the apps Walkie's assistant may open, and on a Mac the files an outside agent may read. Agent conversations in your history now sit in the same rounded tile as your other entries.
  • •The agent panel no longer cuts off the right edge of long answers. The text now wraps inside the panel on every screen.
  • •On-device voice keeps working when your graphics card can't run it. If the voice fails on the GPU mid-sentence, Walkie switches to the processor for the rest of that read and remembers the choice for this version, instead of showing "On-device synthesis failed" on every preview. A Windows laptop with an RTX 3060 hit this.
  • •Grok Build is found where its installer puts it, so it shows as installed under Settings → Agent.
v1.7.4
September 2026
  • •Windows: running out of Read Aloud listening time no longer freezes Walkie. The upgrade notice that appears at that moment was opened in a way that locks up the app on Windows — history stayed on "Loading", the Account page lost its usage numbers, the voice list vanished, and only a force quit helped. Fixed, and the same fix covers the meeting prompt.
  • •A read that has already started now finishes even if it crosses this month's listening allowance — the same rule a meeting already recording gets. The extra minutes count against the meter, which resets on the 1st. A new read still waits for the next month or a paid plan, in Cloud Mode and On-Device Mode alike.
  • •The overlay no longer flashes "Polish failed — raw text used" after an unrelated message; that text now appears only when a polish actually failed.
  • •On-device voice previews say why when they can't play, instead of the play button silently flipping back, and Walkie keeps more of its log (5 MB and the two previous files) so a support bundle sent after a crash still contains the crash.
  • •Ask Agent can talk to Grok too — xAI's Grok Build command-line agent. Pick it under Settings → Agent → "Answers come from"; it answers quietly and Walkie reads the reply aloud, or opens in its own window if you prefer.
v1.7.3
September 2026
  • •Ask Agent now finds Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Hermes and OpenClaw wherever they're installed — Homebrew, nvm, fnm, Volta, bun or npm — by asking your login shell where it looks. "Answers come from" lists them on every computer, not only Omarchy; agents that aren't installed stay in the list greyed out, and the line under the choice shows where the one you picked was found.
  • •"Open the agent's window instead" now works with every agent on every computer, not only Omarchy's designated one: your words open the agent in its own terminal window, launched the way Omarchy launches its agents, instead of a quiet answer read aloud. Handy when you'd rather watch it work.
  • •On Omarchy, when the agent the system designates is one Walkie can run quietly — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes or OpenClaw — Ask Agent now runs it in the background and reads the answer aloud instead of opening its terminal. The terminal hand-off remains for agents that only work interactively. Prefer watching the agent work? Settings → Agent has "Open the agent's window instead".
  • •Ask Agent's spoken answer now follows your voice setting: the on-device voice in On-Device Mode, so the answer never leaves your computer and no listening minutes are spent, and the cloud voice otherwise. It always used the cloud voice before. Long answers from an agent are read in full instead of being cut off.
  • •Omarchy bar: the Walkie mark and label now paint with the bar's own contrast colour, so they stay readable on a transparent bar over a light wallpaper instead of the theme's light grey.
v1.7.2
September 2026
  • •Ask Agent can also talk to Hermes and OpenClaw, and to any harness of your own: choose "Custom command…" under Settings → Agent → "Answers come from" and enter the command that takes your words and prints the answer, with {prompt} standing in for the words. It runs in your home folder with no window, and Walkie reads the answer aloud.
  • •The Codex and Gemini CLI recipes follow those tools' current flags — Codex's sandbox setting instead of the retired "--full-auto", Gemini's approval mode instead of "--yolo", with the older spellings as fallbacks — and a follow-up resumes Gemini's last session.
v1.7.1
September 2026
  • •Ask Agent can now talk to the coding agent you already use. Pick Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or OpenCode under Settings → Agent → "Answers come from", then press the Ask Agent shortcut and say what you want done (or start an ordinary dictation with "Hey Walkie" — Walkie only listens while you hold a key, never on its own) — "make the terminal font bigger", "summarize what changed in this project today". The agent runs quietly in the background, no window, and Walkie reads its answer aloud; a follow-up continues the same conversation. On Omarchy, the agent the machine designates with "omarchy default agent" opens with your words instead. First run explains it on any computer that has an agent installed.
  • •On Omarchy, "Set up my keys" now also binds Ask Agent: press F8 (or Super+Alt+M on laptops whose F-keys are media keys), speak, and let go of nothing — it stops by itself when you finish. Scripts and other compositors can use "walkie --quick-ask".
  • •Read Aloud: the voice service now allows many requests at once, so a click ahead while the next part is loading no longer ends the read. Walkie also keeps its requests in an orderly queue and retries a busy answer.
v1.7.0
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud can read a web page from its address. Copy a link, then click the new Link tile on the Read page — or click Paste with a link on the clipboard. Articles, PDFs and plain-text pages all work. The page is fetched on your computer; the address never reaches Walkie's servers.
  • •Clicking ahead in Read Aloud now goes straight to the spot you clicked, even while the previous part is still loading, and the player says "Getting that part ready…" instead of looking stuck. With nothing playing, click any word to start reading from there.
  • •Reads that ended with "Couldn't read that aloud" after clicking ahead are fixed. Walkie was sending overlapping requests to the voice service; they now go in an orderly queue, and a busy answer is retried.
  • •Meetings: Walkie now offers to take notes for a Google Meet call in Brave even while you're muted. It was only noticing the call while your microphone was live.
  • •Your dictionary, snippets and custom words can no longer be lost to a settings write that lands mid-save. Settings are written atomically now, and the previous copy is kept beside them as a backup.
  • •Notifications inside Walkie are a proper card with a shadow. They used to blend into the page.
  • •The Dictation, Read Aloud and Ask Agent pages show their keyboard shortcuts in the header again.
  • •The menu bar's next-meeting label reads "in 4m" instead of "coming up in 4m", so narrow bars keep the number.
  • •Linux: number-pad keys in a hotkey were mapped wrong (5 became the decimal point). Omarchy bar widget: sized from your theme's type scale, follows a theme switch, and the meeting timer sits level with the pause control.
  • •Team settings: a doubled divider under the workspace header is a single line again.
v1.6.9
September 2026
  • •Windows: 1.6.8 couldn't start — it stopped at "webgpu_dawn.dll was not found". The graphics library the on-device voice uses was left out of the installer; it's included now. If you're on 1.6.8, download 1.6.9 and run the installer once; automatic updates work again from there.
  • •The first-run screen now explains the choice between Cloud Mode and On-Device Mode in terms of what each one is — premium quality on Walkie's servers, or complete privacy on your computer — with the plan details left to the account page.
  • •Read Aloud's monthly listening allowance now applies with the on-device voice too, as it always did with cloud voices, and listening while offline is counted once you're back online.
v1.6.8
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud's on-device voice now reads numbers. Decimals, prices, percentages, times and dates — 3.14159, $47,892.36, 12.5%, 8:05 a.m., the 21st — were skipped over in silence. They're spoken in full now, and the highlight still lands on the figure as written.
  • •On Windows, the on-device voice now runs on your graphics card — NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, including the built-in graphics in most laptops — which makes it many times faster than real time. Computers without a usable graphics card get a version of the voice built for Intel and AMD processors instead; the old one was made for Apple chips and ran slower than real time on a PC, which left long pauses between sentences. Either way it's a one-time download offered the next time you read: 326 MB for the graphics-card version, 169 MB otherwise.
  • •Changing a keyboard shortcut on Windows now works. The old shortcut wasn't being released, so the old key and the new one both kept firing.
  • •When Read Aloud can't start because this month's cloud listening time is used up, the overlay now says so and points to the on-device voice in Settings → Read Aloud, instead of doing nothing.
  • •When your microphone isn't picking up anything — for example when the computer's default input is a virtual audio cable — Walkie now names the device it listened to and where to choose another one (Settings → General), instead of quietly discarding the dictation.
  • •The App mode override's confirmation dialog showed raw code names instead of words when switching a feature to the cloud. It reads properly now.
v1.6.7
September 2026
  • •Faster cloud dictation — Walkie now carries a short-lived signed session ticket, so the server can skip two account checks on every dictation.
v1.6.6
September 2026
  • •Walkie installs into Claude Desktop in one click. Settings offers it as a bundled extension and tells you once it's installed, so you don't have to edit a config file by hand.
  • •The Dictation tab has a clearer name. What was called “Transcribe” in the sidebar is now “Dictation” — the same place, where every dictation you’ve made lives.
  • •Every keyboard shortcut in one place. Settings has a Shortcuts page listing all of them; click any one to change it.
  • •Meeting usage now reads the same in the footer and in Settings, instead of the two showing it in different units.
  • •Meeting notifications read better. An upcoming meeting shows its name on the first line and the time underneath, the card is a little wider, and the menu for keeping a meeting private is reachable there too — it was only ever offered on detected calls, never on ones from your calendar.
  • •On Omarchy, hold F10 to dictate. It replaces Super+Ctrl+M for holding, which could leave the microphone stuck on. Super+Ctrl+M still works as a start/stop toggle. Click “Set up my keys” once after updating.
  • •If a dictation ever does get stuck recording, pressing your shortcut again now stops it immediately instead of needing a second full press and release.
  • •The Walkie mark in the Omarchy bar is sized to sit alongside the other icons rather than looming over them.
v1.6.5
September 2026
  • •Your next meeting now shows in the Omarchy bar, the same way it does in the Mac menu bar — with a countdown and one click to join. Turn it on in Settings under Meetings; it needs Google Calendar connected.
  • •The Omarchy bar shows a blinking orange dot while a meeting is recording, so it's clear at a glance that audio is being kept.
  • •On Omarchy, finishing a meeting opens Walkie full screen again.
  • •In the live meeting view, the Back button lines up with everything else instead of sitting hard against the left edge.
v1.6.4
September 2026
  • •On Omarchy, meetings use the screen properly again. Starting one moves Walkie to a narrow tile beside your call with the live transcript in it, and finishing one opens it full screen so you can read the finished notes.
  • •The Walkie icon in the Omarchy bar updates itself again. Adding it to the bar used to quietly stop it receiving updates, so fixes never reached it.
  • •When Walkie was installed by your package manager, the update command now appears as its own block rather than running on from a sentence, so it reads as something to paste into a terminal.
v1.6.2
September 2026
  • •On Omarchy, the Walkie icon in the bar is fixed. It could come up as an empty gap where the mark should be. It now shows again, sits on the same line as the icons beside it, takes its colour from your Omarchy theme so it matches them, and shows the hand cursor when you point at it.
v1.6.0
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud now works without the internet: set Walkie to On-device and it reads with a voice that runs entirely on your computer. One-time 87 MB download in Settings — it sounds flatter than the cloud voices, and that's the trade for privacy. The word-by-word highlight works just the same.
  • •Meetings you keep private stay private everywhere. A meeting recorded on this computer is never sent to the cloud afterwards — not for AI notes, chat, "Ask your meetings", or follow-up drafts — even if you switch the app to cloud mode later.
  • •Reading sounds smoother: line breaks from PDFs and emails no longer read as pauses, and words split across lines are repaired.
  • •Selecting text inside Walkie itself and pressing Read Aloud works now.
  • •The cloud/on-device switch lives in two places only — the home screen and Settings.
  • •On Omarchy, the meeting sidebar docks correctly again, and the floating meeting notch no longer duplicates the bar widget's live readout.
v1.5.8
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud sounds right at every speed — speeding up to 1.25x or 2x no longer lifts the voice's pitch along with the pace.
  • •Read Aloud has a new shortcut, Control-Command-R. The old one opened your browser's downloads instead, and the browser is where Read Aloud gets used most.
  • •Your shortcuts keep working when another app locks the keyboard. Browsers and chat apps sometimes hold onto it after a password box and forget to let go, which quietly killed Read Aloud's shortcut.
  • •The Read Aloud panel fits what you're reading — no more tall empty box on a short passage, a scrollbar to show your place, and paragraph breaks that keep their spacing.
  • •Switch between cloud and on-device right from the home screen, without going into Settings.
  • •Choose how each meeting is recorded. Meetings follow your app setting, and you can keep any single meeting private — recorded only on your computer — from the menu beside it in Upcoming, or when Walkie offers to take notes.
  • •Your next meeting shows in the menu bar, with a countdown and one click to join the call.
  • •On Linux tiling desktops, a wide, short Walkie tile now shows the full-size audio analyzer instead of the compact one — the larger view appears whenever the tile has room, and scales to fit instead of clipping.
  • •On the Omarchy bar, the Walkie mark matches the other bar items — it stays at full strength like the clock beside it, and dims only when Walkie isn't running.
  • •Walkie's connector shows the Walkie logo instead of a plain "W" in apps that display MCP server icons, like Claude and Cursor.
v1.5.7
September 2026
  • •On Linux tiling desktops, a small Walkie tile now shows a live audio meter — the hardware-style analyzer with a moving waveform — instead of just the logo, and grows into an expanded view on a larger tile. While a meeting records, it shows the spinning cassette.
  • •On Omarchy, Walkie now lives in your top bar: the Walkie mark opens Walkie full screen with a click, a blinking dot shows while you're dictating, and while a meeting records you get a live waveform, a running timer, and a play/pause button — built into the bar itself, adapting to a side bar too.
v1.5.5
September 2026
  • •Read Aloud plays through a speaker you can actually hear — the output-device picker always applies now, and Walkie tells you clearly if a device can't play so you can pick another.
  • •The Walkie logo no longer stretches out of shape in a narrow window on Linux tiling desktops.
  • •On Omarchy, the recording overlay's corners now match every other platform exactly.
v1.5.4
September 2026
  • •Walkie feels noticeably smoother on Linux: the frosted-glass blur behind panels is a solid surface there now (Mac and Windows keep the glass), and Walkie respects your system's "reduce motion" setting.
  • •On the Walkie theme for Omarchy, the recording overlay and sidebar keep Walkie's rounded corners.
v1.5.3
September 2026
  • •Updates apply reliably again on Mac and Windows — a packaging issue was pointing the updater at a link that could 404, so "Update now" did nothing. Fixed, and future updates won't hit it.
  • •Asking a meeting a question now renders tables properly instead of raw text and pipes.
  • •The thinking indicator (the animated Walkie mark) is bigger and clearer.
  • •The "Meeting detected" notification's drop shadow is no longer cut off at the edge.
  • •On Omarchy, Walkie's corners follow your system theme's window rounding, and the recording overlay no longer sits flush against the bottom edge.
v1.5.2
September 2026
  • •The Omarchy bar widget's pop-up panel now installs correctly — clicking the bar icon opens the live panel with timers, your last dictation, and quick actions.
  • •Fixed a crash on Omarchy when clicking the small status tile to go full screen.
  • •Fixed the Update button on Mac and Windows silently doing nothing when an update couldn't be applied — it now tells you what went wrong.
v1.5.1
September 2026
  • •The Walkie bar widget on Omarchy grew a panel. Click the icon for a live card: recording and meeting timers, your last dictation with a one-click Copy, start and stop buttons — and a heads-up when your metered meeting hours run low.
  • •Matching your Omarchy theme now shapes Walkie too: corners follow your system's window rounding, so Walkie squares off on a square theme and rounds out on a round one.
  • •Your screen stays awake during meeting recordings on Linux — no more lock screen at minute five of a call.
  • •Feedback sounds now play through your actual speakers on Linux. On some systems they were sent to a device nobody could hear (often an HDMI port).
  • •Fixed: "Update now" on Mac and Windows could silently do nothing. This is the update that fixes updating.
v1.5.0
September 2026
  • •Meet the Team section. If you're on a team plan, your workspace gets its own home in the sidebar: your company's name and logo, the people on your team, and every meeting anyone has shared — in one place.
  • •Ask your team's meetings anything. The new Ask box on the Team page answers from all the meetings your teammates have shared — "what did we promise the client last week?" now has somewhere to go.
  • •Put your logo on it. Team owners can upload a company logo in Settings → Team admin, and everyone on the team sees it.
  • •On Omarchy, Walkie can now dress to match. Pick "Omarchy theme" under Settings → Appearance and Walkie recolors itself from your system theme — and follows along, live, whenever you switch themes. New installs are offered the choice during setup.
  • •Walkie joined the Omarchy menu. After "Set up my keys", the system menu gets Walkie entries: open the app or start dictation without touching the keyboard shortcuts.
  • •Walkie's Linux packages are now signed. Your computer checks every update really came from us before installing it — the installer sets this up automatically, existing installs included.
  • •Buttons, labels and chips got a quiet polish pass: consistent text sizes across controls, tidier badges, and the footer shows a microphone while dictating instead of a lightning bolt.
v1.4.9
September 2026
  • •Walkie now notices your calls on Linux. Join a Zoom, Slack, Discord, Teams or Webex call — or a Meet call in your browser on Omarchy — and the record prompt appears, just like on Mac and Windows. Recordings capture both sides of the call.
  • •Squeezed into a small tile on Omarchy, Walkie shows a simple status card — the logo, and whether it's recording or in a meeting — and one click takes it full screen. Escape shrinks it back.
  • •Updates finish themselves on Linux: after an update, the next time you open Walkie it switches to the new version on its own.
  • •If the bar widget isn't installed, the home screen offers it — one click adds it to your Omarchy bar.
  • •Create a meeting folder from the sidebar: hover over Meetings, click the ⋯ menu, and choose New folder. Folders can start empty now.
  • •People on your meetings show their real names: a handle like “jlewis” now finds John Lewis in your contacts, and a speaker name you confirm inside a meeting is used in the list too.
  • •Walkie notices the end of a call faster — a long-standing bug kept its quick-check mode from engaging while a meeting was recording, on every platform.
v1.4.8
September 2026
  • •Fixed: on some Linux systems, recording switched itself on every few minutes and typed whatever the microphone heard. A background script on those systems was sending Walkie an old remote-control signal by accident — that signal is now ignored unless you deliberately turn it on.
  • •The start chime now plays only when the microphone is truly listening. On Linux, words spoken right after pressing the key were being lost — wait for the chime and everything you say is captured.
  • •Hold to talk on Omarchy: Super+Ctrl+M now records while you hold it and stops when you let go, following the push-to-talk setting (on by default). Click “Set up my keys” once after updating so the new key behavior is installed.
  • •Every item on the home screen shows an icon again. When Walkie can't tell which app a dictation went to (all Linux systems today), it shows the Walkie mark instead of an empty gap.
  • •Fixed labels on the home screen that showed internal names like “settings.dashboard.wayfinding.meetings” instead of words — with a new automated check so it can't ship again.
v1.4.7
September 2026
  • •Your meetings now follow you to every computer. Sign in on a new machine in Cloud Mode and your whole meeting library appears — notes, transcripts and folders included. (Recordings stay on the computer that made them.)
  • •Meetings shared by teammates moved out of your own list. They now live in a “Shared with you” spot in the left sidebar, which only appears when someone has actually shared something.
  • •The pop-ups that offer to record a call no longer disappear on a timer. They stay until you answer, and quietly leave on their own when the call ends or the moment passes.
  • •You can use dictation while a meeting is being recorded on your Mac — starting a recording no longer blocks the microphone check.
  • •The dictation overlay at the bottom of the screen is about a fifth narrower, and the recording timer reads 0:47 instead of 00:00:47.
  • •Meetings start and stop faster: Walkie notices a call beginning or ending in about two seconds, and no longer waits a minute after a Chrome call ends.
  • •On new Windows computers, Walkie now starts on the very first install. Fresh machines were missing a Microsoft component Walkie needed — it now comes included.
  • •On Omarchy, the Walkie window can be dragged with the mouse like any other window, old leftover copies of Walkie are cleaned up after updates, and the bar icon got a denser dot pattern (update the plugin with “omarchy plugin update”).
  • •The folder menu on the meetings list now matches the one inside a meeting: suggested folders first, and a clear note when filing into a folder shares it with your team.
v1.4.6
September 2026
  • •Long dictations now land instantly. Text past a few hundred characters is pasted in one go instead of typed out key by key — a three-minute dictation used to take ten extra seconds to appear.
  • •The update button now knows how Walkie was installed. On Linux package installs it hands you the right command (like 'omarchy update') instead of downloading an update it can't apply.
  • •On Linux, the dictation overlay switches itself on for everyone who installed before 1.4.5 — no button pressing needed.
  • •On Omarchy and other Hyprland desktops, the Walkie window is now chromeless like every window around it — close with Super+Q, move with Super+drag.
  • •The menu bar icon is redrawn with fewer, larger dots — crisp instead of gray blur. On Linux, the tray's recording states now show Walkie's red recording dot instead of leftover ear and brain icons.
  • •Fixed: on Mac, in meetings past the one-hour mark, the notch readout's recording dot was pushed against the edge of the pill.
v1.4.5
September 2026
  • •On Linux, the dictation overlay now appears while you record, like on Mac and Windows. Set it up before? Press “Set up my keys” once on the home screen, or turn the overlay on in Settings.
v1.4.4
September 2026
  • •On Omarchy Linux, Walkie now sets up your dictation key for you. During setup (and on the home screen), press one button and SUPER+CTRL+M starts dictation anywhere — hold F10 to talk, let go to type.
  • •On Omarchy, the Walkie window now opens front and center at a comfortable size, instead of being squeezed into a small tile.
  • •The Walkie icon in the Omarchy bar is redrawn — sharp at every size, and it no longer gets clipped while recording.
  • •The Omarchy bar widget now updates itself when Walkie updates, and if adding it failed in an earlier version, Walkie offers again — with a notification you can't miss.
  • •Announcements on the home screen now hold still while your mouse is over them.
  • •Fixed: in the account card at the bottom of the sidebar, your team's name sat oddly indented instead of lining up under your name.
v1.4.3
September 2026
  • •Fixed: on some Windows computers, pressing the dictation shortcut crashed Walkie instantly. The build contained processor instructions older CPUs don't have — every build now runs on any 64-bit processor.
  • •Fixed: signing in on Linux never finished. Sign-in now completes through Walkie itself.
  • •Fixed: on tiling window managers like Omarchy, a small Walkie tile couldn't be clicked. The window now shrinks to fit any tile — and the smaller minimum window size applies on Mac and Windows too.
  • •Fixed: the one-click "Add to bar" for the Omarchy widget said it couldn't add. It works now, and the widget picks the right logo density for its size.
  • •The Walkie logo now adapts at small sizes — fewer, larger dots where the full mark would blur — and the sidebar emblem follows light and dark mode.
  • •Checking for updates now downloads a fraction of what it used to.
v1.4.2
September 2026
  • •Fixed: on Linux, Walkie crashed the moment it opened. This is the first Linux build that starts properly — thanks to the first person who tried it and told us.
  • •Your dictionary is now one list. Words you teach Walkie and corrections you set live together under Tools → Dictionary — and everything you bring over from Wispr Flow lands right there.
  • •Meetings started without a calendar invite now show the other person's name instead of their email address — and once you confirm a speaker's name, it's used everywhere in that meeting.
  • •Walkie no longer suggests filing a meeting into a folder that doesn't exist, and filing a meeting now updates on screen the moment you save.
  • •A cleaner meetings list: tidier titles, smaller photos with a fine border, and Granola and Otter logos in the import window.
  • •Your Cloud or On device choice for meetings now always sticks once you pick it.
  • •On Omarchy Linux, Walkie offers to add its bar widget for you — one click, no commands. The widget wears the Walkie logo and follows your system theme.
  • •Fixed: buttons on some notifications were squashed together and hard to press.
v1.4.1
September 2026
  • •Fixed: clicking Connect for Google Calendar or Slack opened the permission page, but Walkie never finished connecting. Connecting now completes properly.
  • •A new look for Coming up: your meetings are grouped by day, calendar-style, with the date on the left and that day's meetings beside it.
  • •Coming up now shows the whole week ahead instead of just today — use the arrows above the list to look through the next few days.
v1.4.0
September 2026
  • •Share a meeting with anyone. Send a link and choose what they see — the summary, the action items, the full transcript, or only the parts you pick. Revoke a link any time and it stops working straight away.
  • •Ask questions about a meeting. Open any meeting and use the chat to ask what was decided, what you agreed to, or who said what.
  • •Bring your old meetings with you. Settings → Meetings → Import reads exports from Granola and Otter, and shows you a preview before anything is saved.
  • •Export your meetings, one at a time or all at once, and sort them into folders.
  • •Connect Walkie to Claude and Cursor in one click, from the new Settings → MCP page, so you can ask them about your own meetings.
  • •Settings is reorganised into one page per feature, with a search that jumps straight to any option.
  • •Walkie now speaks all 17 of its languages fully — every screen in this release is translated.
  • •Faces on your meetings now come from your whole Google address book, so people you've emailed but never saved as a contact show their photo instead of a plain initial.
  • •Slack huddles and other calls made outside a calendar invite now show the other person's name instead of “Speaker 1”.
  • •Fixed: Discord asked whether to take notes every time it played a notification sound. It now asks only when you are really in a call.
v1.3.5
August 2026
  • •Dictation starts talking to the cloud the moment you start speaking instead of after you stop, so the pause before your text appears is much shorter — especially the first dictation after a break, which was the slowest.
  • •Save audio and copy are back when you open a dropped PDF or text file — they went missing in 1.3.3. Every read now shows its buttons at the top of the page, lined up with Back.
v1.3.3
August 2026
  • •Read Aloud now highlights along with the voice: words light up as they're spoken, click any word — even chapters ahead — to jump there, and Focus Mode dims everything except the line being read.
  • •Reading is much faster to start. Walkie pre-loads a document the moment you open it and remembers what it has already spoken, so playing and jumping around are near-instant — and it never re-fetches the same passage twice.
  • •Drop in a PDF or text file and it's cleaned up automatically: no more ragged half-lines, stray indentation, or double spacing. Older saved reads get the same treatment.
  • •New: search your settings from the Settings sidebar.
  • •A refreshed look — subtly textured surfaces, softer panel edges, and a deeper dark mode.
  • •Music now pauses while you dictate, and resumes when you're done.
  • •Fixes: Copy now actually reaches your clipboard, dropping a file works while something is playing, changing the voice mid-read picks up where you left off, and reading no longer slows the app down.
v1.3.2
August 2026
  • •Search your settings — a search field in Settings finds any option and jumps straight to it, highlighted so you can't miss it.
  • •Dark mode refresh: deeper surfaces, clearer cards, better contrast — and the home-screen waveform now shows up in the dark.
  • •Fixes a crash when grabbing the window by its top edge to move it.
v1.3.1
August 2026
  • •Fixes a crash on macOS when clicking the green traffic-light button — and better: the window now properly supports fullscreen instead of showing a broken blank button.
v1.3.0
August 2026
  • •A brand-new layout: sidebar navigation with Home, Transcribe, Read, Tools, and Agent, plus full-page Settings with everything grouped into cards. On macOS the window is rounded with the sidebar running edge to edge.
  • •New Read section — everything Walkie has read aloud, each read on its own page with a player: play it right there, switch voices, change the speed, save the audio.
  • •New Transcribe section — every dictation in one place.
  • •Drop a PDF or text file anywhere on the window: Walkie darkens to catch it, extracts the text, and lands you on its Read page ready to play.
  • •Dictation now detects the language you speak — Spanish in, Spanish out. Cleanup stays in your language too instead of drifting into English.
  • •The mini walkie lives in the sidebar with a live waveform; a toggle shrinks it into a compact player, and Walkie remembers which one you prefer.
  • •Sturdier settings: your dictionary, snippets, and preferences can no longer be reset by an update, even if something goes wrong reading them.
v1.2.1
July 2026
  • •Read Aloud levels up: save any read as an MP3, a playback speed control (1× to 2×) on the reading panel, and Focus Mode — dim everything except the line being read.
  • •Your reads now appear in History with a READ badge and a "Read again" button that replays them with the full reading panel.
  • •PDFs read cleaner: page numbers and repeated headers/footers are skipped instead of spoken.
  • •The word-by-word highlight is much more accurate: timing stays locked through dashes, hyphens, URLs, and decimal numbers, the panel fades only where text actually continues, and clicking any word — even far ahead — jumps playback there.
  • •Fixes: reading speed no longer affects voice previews or Ask Agent answers, seeking while paused stays silent, and a rare conflict where starting a read could trigger a phantom recording is resolved.
v1.2.0
July 2026
  • •Read Aloud: Walkie now speaks. Highlight text in any app and press ⌥⌘L (Ctrl+Alt+L on Windows/Linux) — Walkie reads it out loud in a natural voice with a karaoke-style panel that highlights every word as it's spoken. On macOS you can also right-click selected text and choose "Read Aloud with Walkie".
  • •Drop a PDF, TXT, or Markdown file on the Walkie window — or just paste — and it starts reading immediately. Pause, jump back 10 seconds, click any word to hear it from there, and scroll ahead through everything still coming.
  • •50+ natural voices across 20+ languages, with instant previews in Settings → General. On the Free plan you get 10 minutes a month; Pro includes 2 hours.
  • •Esc or your shortcut stops reading at any time, and starting a dictation automatically stops playback so the mic never records the voice.
v1.1.13
July 2026
  • •Emergency fix for Windows: the 1.1.12 Windows build shipped corrupted — pressing your shortcut to dictate could crash Walkie, switching to Whisper Turbo could hang, and switching on-device models could crash. This build is compiled clean. macOS was not affected, and nothing else changes.
  • •So this can't happen again: every Windows release is now built from scratch (no reused build caches — a stale cache is what corrupted 1.1.12 and, earlier, 1.1.7), and the release pipeline now transcribes real audio through the local engines and must produce a correct transcript before a build can ship.
  • •If Walkie crashes before it can auto-update, download this version directly from trywalkie.com.
v1.1.12
July 2026
  • •Onboarding now shows your actual recording shortcut. If you're on Windows or Linux (Ctrl + Space) or you've rebound the shortcut, the tutorial and demo now display the keys you really press instead of always showing the Mac Fn (Globe) key.
v1.1.11
July 2026
  • •Long dictations no longer get lost. Cloud Mode's network limit was a fixed 30 seconds — fine for a quick sentence, but an 8-minute recording ran out of time mid-upload and the whole thing failed. The limit now scales with the length of the recording.
  • •And if a transcription still fails for any reason, your recording survives: dictations over 10 seconds are kept on disk until the text safely lands. A toast in the main window offers Retry (the text goes to your clipboard and history) or Discard — even after restarting the app.
  • •When Cloud Mode can't reach the cloud, the local fallback now actually loads your downloaded model instead of giving up instantly.
  • •Very long recordings (over ~13 minutes) exceed the cloud size limit and now route straight to local transcription instead of failing after a doomed upload.
v1.1.10
July 2026
  • •Fixed local Whisper models (Turbo, Small) failing silently on Windows — every dictation ran through the motions but produced no text. The mid-flight cancel support added in 1.1.9 passed a corrupted cancel flag into the transcription engine, which aborted every local Whisper run on the Vulkan (Windows) path. Parakeet and Cloud Mode were unaffected.
  • •When a transcription does fail, Walkie now tells you: the overlay briefly shows an error instead of quietly disappearing, so a lost dictation is never a silent mystery.
v1.1.9
July 2026
  • •The "Add to dictionary?" toast now works in Electron apps like Claude Desktop, Slack, and Discord. These apps keep their macOS accessibility layer asleep until someone asks for it, so Walkie could never see the text field to watch for your corrections. Walkie now wakes it up — and this also restores app-aware context (smarter formatting) when dictating into those apps.
  • •Fixed the footer download progress bar sitting below the centerline of the status row while a model downloads.
  • •Dictation is significantly faster. We found and fixed several stacked delays between releasing the shortcut and your text landing: accessibility probes that re-ran on every dictation in apps like Terminal (up to 2 seconds each), server-side bookkeeping that blocked the transcript, and a broken cloud call that silently retried on every Smart Sentence Rewrite. Typical stop-to-paste is now around one second in Cloud Mode.
  • •Smart Sentence Rewrite (Beta) works again — a cloud regression had been silently breaking it since late June. Rewrites now apply in well under a second, and spoken times inside a rewrite are formatted properly ("three thirty pm" → 3:30pm).
  • •Fixed weekly word usage counting some dictations twice. If you hit the weekly limit sooner than expected recently, this was why — counts are accurate again for everyone, no update required.
  • •Cancelling a dictation mid-transcription now reliably discards it — the result no longer pastes late into whatever you typed next.
v1.1.8
July 2026
  • •Emergency fix for Windows: 1.1.7 could crash on launch, when starting or stopping a recording, or when switching transcription models — and switching to Whisper Turbo could hang. This build fixes that. macOS was not affected. If Walkie crashes before it can auto-update, download this version directly from trywalkie.com.
v1.1.7
July 2026
  • •Fixed the "Add to dictionary?" toast not appearing in some apps: when you fixed a misheard word by typing over it, apps like Slack, Discord, or other Chromium-based editors sometimes never told Walkie the text had changed, so the suggestion never showed. Walkie now also double-checks your last dictation for corrections when you start your next recording, so the toast reliably appears even in those apps.
  • •Faster, cheaper cloud transcription: dictation now runs on Whisper large-v3-turbo, which returns results noticeably quicker with the same accuracy.
v1.1.6
July 2026
  • •Under-the-hood fix: the app's usage analytics weren't being delivered due to a security policy misconfiguration. Nothing changes in how Walkie works for you — this just restores the signal we use to understand which features matter and where to focus.
v1.1.5
July 2026
  • •The word "one" now stays spelled out when you dictate it ("I only need one"), instead of turning into the digit "1". Numbers still become digits when it's clearly a count — "one dollar" → $1, "one hundred" → 100, "twenty one" → 21 — but a plain "one" reads as a word, the way you'd actually write it.
v1.1.4
June 2026
  • •You can now delete your Walkie account — and all its data (history, usage, devices, and profile) — right from Settings → Account. It asks you to type your email to confirm, then removes everything immediately. (Account deletion was previously only available in the mobile app.)
v1.1.3
June 2026
  • •Emails now lay out properly end-to-end: dictate into an email and the greeting lands on its own line with the body and sign-off below — even when what you said was already clean and punctuated. (1.1.2 detected you were in an email; 1.1.3 makes the layout actually stick.)
  • •Added a short setup step explaining the macOS Automation permission Walkie uses to tell which site you're typing in (Gmail, Slack, etc.), so browser-aware formatting works without surprises.
v1.1.2
June 2026
  • •Fixed browser email formatting for real: 1.1.1 announced that dictating into Gmail or Outlook on the web would come out as a proper email, but a missing macOS permission meant Walkie could never read which site you were on — so it quietly fell back to one casual line. Now Walkie asks for permission to read the active tab and webmail dictation formats as an email again. (Approve the “Walkie wants to control [your browser]” prompt the first time, or enable it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.)
  • •Longer dictations no longer get cut off mid-thought when polishing — the cleanup step now scales to however much you said.
v1.1.1
June 2026
  • •App-aware formatting now works in your browser, not just native apps: dictate into Gmail or Outlook on the web and it comes out as a proper email; Slack, Discord, or Messages on the web stay casual on one line. (macOS — Walkie asks for permission to read the active tab's address the first time, so it knows which site you're on.)
  • •Cleaner numbers and times: “four pm” now becomes 4pm instead of sometimes guessing 4:30pm, and leading filler words like “so, basically” get trimmed.
v1.1.0
June 2026
  • •Walkie now formats your dictation for the app you're in: an email gets a real email layout (greeting, body, sign-off), Slack and Messages stay casual on one line, and terminals and code editors stay literal — no stray capitalization or periods. (macOS for now.)
  • •Fixed dictation being treated as a question: if you dictated something like “what's the weather” or “summarize this,” Walkie sometimes tried to answer it instead of just cleaning it up. Now it always just polishes what you said.
  • •More consistent, faster cleanup overall — less over-editing of your wording, and short messages like “hi, what's up?” get punctuated correctly instead of being left as-is.
v1.0.1
June 2026
  • •Fixed a bug where pressing your shortcut to record could hang on Windows with some audio setups (like Voicemeeter) — recording now starts reliably, and if your microphone can't be opened, Walkie tells you what to do instead of freezing.
  • •Fixed pasting the wrong text: under load, Walkie could paste whatever was previously on your clipboard instead of what you just dictated. Your dictation now lands correctly, and your clipboard is still put back right after.
  • •Fixed the Ask Agent shortcut not registering on Windows and Linux.
v1.0.0
June 2026
  • •Walkie 1.0 — our first stable release. Thank you for being here early.
  • •Fixed a Windows crash where pressing and holding your shortcut to record could close all of Walkie. Recording now starts reliably, and if your microphone can't be opened, Walkie stays running instead of crashing.
  • •Fixed: on Windows, the “Upgrade to Pro” button now opens checkout correctly.
  • •Upgrading is now one consistent flow everywhere — every “Upgrade to Pro” button opens the same screen where you can choose Monthly or Annual before going to checkout.
  • •New one-click “Send to Support” in Settings → About: sends your logs (and an optional note) straight to us with a reference code — no email attachment dance required.
  • •Agent can now be turned on or off with a single master toggle, which also controls Ask Agent.
  • •Smarter number formatting in transcriptions: dictated years stay clean (“twenty twenty five” → 2025, no comma), spoken ranges become dashes (“2025 to 2026” → 2025 - 2026), and idiomatic “one” stays spelled out while counted numbers convert to digits.
v0.9.8
May 2026
  • •Settings → Account now has a Devices section — see every device signed in to your Walkie account, with last-active time. Up to 4 devices per account; remove any you're not using to free up a slot.
  • •Signing in on a 5th device shows a friendly screen listing your existing devices so you can pick one to remove first, instead of just refusing the sign-in.
  • •Behind the scenes: groundwork for one-active-user-per-account enforcement (see the email we sent you in late May). Nothing changes for you until later in June.
v0.9.7
May 2026
  • •Free tier is now broader — Voice Commands, Snippets, Dictionary corrections, Ask Agent, and Agent now work for free during your weekly Cloud Mode quota. When you hit the 2,000-word cap, the bundle locks together until Monday (or until you upgrade). Previously these were Pro-only by tier.
  • •Behind the scenes: signup events now report correctly to our analytics — every new account is properly tracked from the first session, whether you sign up with Google or email. No change to anything you'll see in the app.
v0.9.6
May 2026
  • •Fixed a macOS crash that could happen while Walkie was watching for corrections after a paste — most often in Chrome, Slack, VS Code, and other Chromium-based apps.
  • •Fixed: the live correction toast now works for single-word dictations. Dictate a name like 'Walkie,' fix it in place if Walkie mishears it, and you'll get the offer to add it to your dictionary — previously the toast only fired for multi-word pastes.
  • •Fixed: the correction toast no longer silently misses corrections when focus moves between fields during your edit.
  • •Fixed: dictating into a field whose placeholder ends in '…' (Search…, Write a tweet…, Type a message…) no longer prepends a phantom space to your first word.
v0.9.5
May 2026
  • •Sentence Rewrite (experimental, opt-in) — when you dictate mid-sentence, Walkie can rewrite the surrounding sentence to flow naturally with your new words. Turn it on in Settings → General → Transcription. macOS only for now.
  • •Live correction toast — when you fix a word after pasting a transcription, a toast appears in the top-right offering to add the correction to your dictionary. One tap to remember, ✕ to dismiss. Nothing is learned without your OK.
  • •Snippet editor now opens in a roomier modal with more room to edit. Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to save.
  • •Fixed: Gmail and other browser-based composers no longer freeze dictation while Walkie reads surrounding text — the read times out fast and falls back to a normal paste.
  • •Fixed: a rare crash that could leave the recording overlay stuck during sentence-rewrite plan-building.
v0.9.3
May 2026
  • •Cloud sync now follows your transcription mode — your history, snippets, dictionary, and custom words sync across your devices only in Cloud Mode. On-Device Mode keeps everything on-device.
  • •Fixed: syncing in On-Device Mode no longer overwrites your cloud snippets and dictionary
v0.9.2
May 2026
  • •Cloud Mode is now the default transcription mode for new installs and any case where settings fall back to defaults — previously users could end up on On-Device Mode unexpectedly after an update
v0.9.1
May 2026
  • •Three overlay styles — choose Full (the classic pill), Compact (a slim bar), or Square (a small icon with a cancel button) in Settings → Advanced
  • •System language default — new installs now use your system locale instead of "auto", improving out-of-the-box accuracy for accented speech
  • •Free tier is now 2,000 words/week for both Cloud Mode transcription and AI polish
v0.8.9
May 2026
  • •Fixed a crash on macOS 26.3.1 (developer beta) where the app icon lookup could receive an unexpected numeric type from AppKit instead of image data, causing an unrecognized selector crash on launch
v0.8.8
April 2026
  • •Fixed a rare macOS crash after pasting into certain apps — the history icon lookup now uses the target app's process ID instead of a LaunchServices bundle-ID query that could segfault inside Apple's frameworks
v0.8.7
April 2026
  • •History entries now show the icon of the app you dictated into, making it easy to skim what you said where
  • •Fixed a macOS freeze when Walkie itself was the paste target — dictation into Walkie's own windows now routes in-app instead of through synthetic keypresses, reducing paste time from ~216ms to ~1ms
  • •New "Export Logs for Support" button in About: bundles your logs + basic system info into a single file on your Desktop and opens a pre-drafted email to support@b150.ai
  • •Fixed an Agent settings page bug that could leave dropdowns unrendered
v0.8.6
April 2026
  • •Removed live dictation mode — transcription now runs once after you release the key, for more reliable results across all apps
  • •Recording overlay now shows the target app's real system icon, matching what you see in the Dock
  • •Smoother overlay entrance and exit animations — the app icon sweeps in from the left and retreats when you release
  • •Append trailing space is now enabled by default for everyone
  • •Smarter capitalization when resuming dictation: if you pause mid-sentence and click back into a text field to keep going, Walkie now flows your next words in lowercase instead of starting a new sentence
  • •Fixed a macOS 26 crash when the main window was activated from a background thread
v0.8.5
April 2026
  • •Added a settings backup safety net: if Walkie ever can't fully read your settings file, it now snapshots the prior version to a recovery file before falling back to defaults — so things like custom dictionary entries can be recovered if a future bug ever wipes them
v0.8.4
April 2026
  • •Fixed settings being silently wiped on app restart — transcription mode (Fast/Local) and audio feedback now persist correctly across updates
  • •Audio feedback now defaults to enabled for new users
v0.8.3
April 2026
  • •Push-to-talk button: press and hold the orange side button on the ticket to record without a keyboard shortcut
  • •Improved empty state: history now shows your configured shortcut key to help you get started
v0.8.2
April 2026
  • •Fixed dictionary and snippet expansions not applying to cloud (Cloud Mode) transcriptions
  • •Fixed missing connector icons for Jira and File System
  • •File System connector now shows the correct platform icon (Apple on Mac, Windows on PC)
v0.8.0
April 2026
  • •Smarter dictionary: auto-learned corrections now use Apple Intelligence (on Apple Silicon) to reject false positives — a name like "Rina" will never be learned as "I"
  • •Less aggressive word matching: reduced false positives where common words were incorrectly replaced by custom vocabulary entries
  • •App-aware formatting: the AI polisher now applies concrete rules per app — no vocative commas in emails, no trailing periods in Slack, minimal changes in code editors and terminals
  • •Email greeting fix: "Hey Paul," no longer becomes "Hey, Paul," — the extra vocative comma is now explicitly prohibited
  • •Proper noun protection: the AI polisher will no longer replace a person's name with a pronoun when applying self-correction logic
v0.7.99
April 2026
  • •Ask Agent retry: if Walkie misses what you said during a session, it asks you to repeat instead of closing
  • •Ask Agent paste: Walkie now checks for a focused text field before pasting — no more text going nowhere
  • •New voice: Valeria — plus voices renamed to Lydia, HAL, Charlotte, and Valeria
  • •Connector logos now load reliably in all environments
  • •Removed accidental shortcut: Shift+Option+Space no longer triggers post-processing (Cloud Mode handles it automatically)
v0.7.98
April 2026
  • •Ask Agent: hold a shortcut, ask anything out loud, and Walkie speaks the answer back — live weather, top news by topic, and instant web search, all hands-free
  • •Gmail connector: connect your Gmail account once via OAuth and send emails directly by voice — no browser required
  • •10+ app connectors: Asana, Linear, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Jira, HubSpot, Airtable, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Spotify — ask Walkie to create tasks, send messages, and manage your workflow
  • •Cancel TTS mid-speech with Escape or the overlay X button
  • •Visualizer accuracy improved: TTS waveform now reflects actual speech dynamics instead of peaking at max volume
  • •Email client setting: choose Gmail, Outlook, or system default for compose actions
  • •Ask Agent and connectors are Pro-only — visible to all, unlocked with a subscription
  • •Updated app icon grill to use the Walkie favicon dot pattern
v0.7.97
April 2026
  • •Analytics: track transcription usage, word counts, engine, and polish in Amplitude
v0.7.96
April 2026
  • •Keep microphone stream warm for 60s after recording — eliminates AirPods (and other Bluetooth) reconnect delay on back-to-back recordings
v0.7.95
April 2026
  • •Faster recording start: waveform appears immediately when you press the shortcut instead of after a ~500ms delay
v0.7.91
April 2026
  • •Auto-learn corrections: fix a word after transcription and Walkie remembers it for next time
  • •Auto-learned words show a sparkle icon in Dictionary settings
  • •Removed regex-based list formatting — no more false-positive bullets
  • •Cmd+, opens settings
v0.7.81
March 2026
  • •Fixed phantom 'Thank you' transcription when no speech is detected
v0.7.80
March 2026
  • •Auto-detect formatting from active app: email formatting in Gmail/Outlook/Mail, note formatting in Notes/Notion/Obsidian, casual inline for Slack and others
v0.7.79
March 2026
  • •Fixed onboarding email/note formatting — polish now correctly adds line breaks in Email and Note modes
v0.7.78
March 2026
  • •Fixed onboarding email and note placeholders not showing line breaks
v0.7.77
March 2026
  • •Cloud Mode: cloud transcription with built-in AI polish in a single call — much faster than local
  • •Onboarding polish demo now formats emails and notes correctly
  • •Custom start/stop recording sounds
  • •Fixed crash when signing in with Google in dev mode
  • •Transcription mode selector: choose between Cloud (Fast) and Local in onboarding and settings
  • •Cloud transcription usage tracking for free-tier limits
v0.7.75
March 2026
  • •Pre-roll audio buffer captures the moment before you press record — no more lost first words
  • •AI polish now falls back to raw transcript gracefully when the LLM returns empty or fails
  • •New amber error indicator in the recording overlay when AI polish fails
v0.7.73
March 2026
  • •Fixed AI polish truncating long voice messages
v0.7.72
March 2026
  • •Fixed window not coming to the front on app launch (macOS)
  • •Improved self-correction handling in AI polish (e.g. 'Monday, actually Tuesday' correctly becomes 'Tuesday')
  • •Onboarding state now persists reliably across app restarts
v0.7.71
March 2026
  • •New Polish Level setting: choose between Light (minimal cleanup) and Full (formatting and structure)
  • •Light polish keeps your words as-is — only removes filler words, fixes capitalization, and adds end-of-sentence punctuation
  • •Updated default prompt to be less aggressive with comma insertion
v0.7.70
March 2026
  • •Voice commands are now a Pro-only feature
  • •Manage subscription and upgrade to Pro directly from the app
  • •Profile automatically refreshes when switching back to the app
  • •Account page on trywalkie.com with profile, tier, and billing management
  • •Downgrade to Free option on account page
v0.7.67
March 2026
  • •Fixed AI polish limit banner not rendering correctly
  • •Super admin and Pro users now have unlimited AI polish with no word limit
  • •AI polish upgrade prompt now shows every time free users attempt polish after hitting the limit
  • •Fixed super_admin tier label display
v0.7.64
March 2026
  • •Per-app text style: automatically adjust formatting based on which app you're typing into
  • •App-aware AI polish: the LLM now knows which app and window you're in for smarter formatting
v0.7.63
March 2026
  • •Fixed missing spaces between sentences in transcription output
  • •Added OpenClaw agent integration
v0.7.50
March 2026
  • •Fixed Windows release packaging so Walkie bundles the Vulkan runtime correctly
  • •Fixed Google sign-in callback handling on Windows
  • •Increased the default app window size for a roomier first-run experience
v0.7.32
March 2026
  • •Fixed crash on Windows when loading account settings
v0.7.31
March 2026
  • •You can now add your full name to your profile
  • •Language selector now correctly shows your current language
  • •Improved model management and stability
v0.7.30
March 2026
  • •New Smart Commands — say "Hey Claude, I have an idea" and Walkie routes your message to the right app
  • •MCP Servers section added to settings (coming soon)
v0.7.28
March 2026
  • •Google profile image now shows on your account page
  • •Added analytics to help us improve Walkie
v0.7.27
March 2026
  • •Better spacing for the footer bar
v0.7.26
March 2026
  • •Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working after signing out and back in
  • •Update available indicator is now more prominent with a pulsing dot
  • •Improved update checker pill styling and spacing
v0.7.25
March 2026
  • •Check for updates pill in the footer
  • •Auto-update toggle moved to General settings
v0.7.24
March 2026
  • •Added a welcome screen after signing in for the first time
  • •Fixed Google sign-in sometimes getting stuck loading
  • •Keyboard shortcuts now restore properly after signing out and back in
  • •Updated the look of the update checker notification
v0.7.23
March 2026
  • •Smoother permission setup during first launch
  • •Improved visual feedback while recording and processing
  • •Fixed an issue where models wouldn't unload properly
  • •Added error boundary for more graceful crash recovery
v0.7.22
February 2026
  • •Fixed buttons being hard to see in light mode
  • •Improved settings reliability
v0.7.21
February 2026
  • •Text style, snippets, and dictionary settings now save properly between sessions
  • •Walkie checks for updates automatically every 4 hours in the background
v0.7.20
February 2026
  • •New Style tab — choose between formal, casual, or very casual text output
  • •New Snippets — define trigger phrases that expand into full text
  • •Reorganized settings for easier navigation
v0.7.19
January 2026
  • •Added text style setting with three formatting modes
  • •Merged Models and Advanced settings into General for a simpler layout
v0.7.18
January 2026
  • •Moved always-on microphone toggle to General settings for quicker access
  • •Walkie now skips permission setup if permissions are already granted
  • •Smoother sign-in experience
v0.7.17
January 2026
  • •Fixed sign-out issues on some systems
  • •Enabled auto-update support on macOS
v0.7.11
December 2025
  • •Improved onboarding flow
  • •Added email confirmation screen
  • •Fixed tutorial recording during first-run setup
v0.7.10
December 2025
  • •Cross-platform release improvements
  • •Better Windows compatibility
v0.7.9
November 2025
  • •Added account creation and sign-up flow
  • •New system tray icon
  • •Rebranded from Handy to Walkie