• A new welcome. Setup walks you through permissions, your shortcuts, your languages and a first dictation.
• Your own shortcuts. Choose what starts Dictate and what starts Command.
• History by app. Filter history by app and see how many words you dictate in each.
• Help in Settings. A quick guide to Echo, right in Settings.
• Deep dark. A new, darker appearance style.

Improved

• Written as. Choose Native script, Mixed, Roman letters or Translate, all in one place.
• Numbers in Hindi and Marathi. In Native script, spoken numbers, times and durations come out as digits, and rupees as ₹.
• Faster. Echo starts at login without holding things up, and switching sections and themes is quicker.
• Settings, reorganised. Settings is its own section, and Appearance is now called General.
• Remember This. Shows Saved right away and reads your screen in the background.
• Cards wait for you. An answer card stays open until Echo finishes speaking.
• Clearer privacy wording. Delete, Forget and Reset now say exactly what they remove and how long a copy is kept.
• Cleaner look. Flatter dark surfaces, plan badges and Load more in lists.

Fixed

• Script. Dictation no longer sometimes pastes in a different script from the one you chose.
• First launch. Echo matches your Mac's light or dark appearance from the start.
• Act timer. A stray hands-free timer no longer shows during Act.
• Deleting your account. Clearer messages if something goes wrong, and other accounts on the same Mac keep their setup.

Listen (read-aloud on the Left Option key) has been removed. Talk-back, voice and speed settings are unchanged.

New

• Redesigned Memory page. See everything you've asked Echo to remember, fix a summary, or forget it for good.
• Reorganised Style page. Clearer groups, and your vocabulary and dictionary can now be edited in every mode.
• Tidier History. Shorter app names and cleaner day grouping.
• Smarter name spelling. Echo now corrects near-misses of names and terms in your custom vocabulary.
• Hands-free stops on its own. A session ends after a long silence, and after 60 minutes.
• Pick the right contact. When a name matches more than one person, choose from a list.
• Notes to yourself. Say "send a note to myself" and it lands in your own chat, or in Notes.

Faster

• Instant dictation. The pill appears the moment you press the key, and your text pastes sooner.
• Faster app opening. Apps open quicker, with other Act improvements.

Fixed

• Esc cancels hands-free dictation. It now discards the take instead of pasting it.
• Start sound restored. It is no longer cut off the first time you dictate after a quiet spell.
• Your messaging app, everywhere. Messages go through your default messaging app, including routines.

• Your dictionary works again. Custom word replacements saved in Style were being silently ignored on every dictation. They now apply as intended.
• Interrupted dictations recover more reliably. If Echo is quit or crashes mid-dictation, more of your audio is now recoverable, and an unexpected stop tells you what was saved instead of failing quietly.
• Memory, in Settings. A new pane showing what Echo remembers about you, editable in place, with one button to forget everything.
• Plus groundwork for features arriving shortly.

• Your clipboard is no longer destroyed by dictation. Whatever you had copied is restored after the text is inserted, including images and files.
• Dictating into Terminal no longer risks running what you said. Line breaks are collapsed to spaces.
• Fixed a bug where choosing "Professional" without picking a profession made Echo expect medical dictation, corrupting ordinary transcriptions.
• Echo no longer uses CPU while idle. It was using a sixth of a core continuously, even with the window closed.
• A dictation interrupted by a network drop now appears in History with a Retry button instead of disappearing silently.
• If Accessibility permission is off, Echo now tells you it couldn't type and that your words were saved, instead of failing silently.
• Echo now tells you when it recovered a dictation that was interrupted by a crash.
• Echo warns you when it can't hear your microphone, without stopping the recording.

Privacy

• Transcripts are now encrypted on disk. They were previously stored in plain text, readable by other software on your Mac and copied into backups.
• Transcripts, message contents and other personal text are no longer written to system logs.
• New: export your full history to Markdown or JSON from Settings, Privacy and data.

Improvements

• Click a long transcription in History to expand it.
• Dictation starts faster; the app no longer refreshes your session at the moment you press the key.

Echo now gets Latin-script output in a single request instead of two. Hindi, Marathi and other Indic dictation is about a second quicker from the moment you stop speaking.

Filler sounds removed

Natural mode now drops "um", "uh" and similar sounds that carry no meaning. Everything else is left exactly as spoken. You can turn this off in Style if you want them back.

Long dictation fixes

Long dictations now get the same processing as short ones. Script conversion, your dictionary and tone settings were being skipped on recordings that ran past a minute. A silence at the end of a recording no longer shows a false error.

Help, with a reply within 24 hours

Settings now has a Help section. Ask a question, pick how urgent it is, and send. Your app version and diagnostics attach automatically, and you get a reply within 24 hours.

Fixes

Fixed a crash when searching Google Drive for files with brackets in their names.

Echo's window is now translucent, with a single unified surface across the sidebar and content rather than two panels bolted together. Cards sit on glass instead of on a solid slab. Light and dark both supported, and Reduce Transparency is honoured.

Feedback, rebuilt

The Feedback pane has been rebuilt from scratch to match the rest of Settings. Fewer boxes, clearer alignment, and it no longer buries the thing you came to write.

Notifications you can actually dismiss

Clearing a notification now clears it, permanently and across reinstalls. Previously a dismissed notification would reappear on the next launch.

A calmer Home

Copy and delete now appear only when you hover a transcript, instead of shouting from every row. Clear All has moved to Settings › Privacy & data, where it belongs, and now asks before wiping your history.

Fixes

• Sign In and Sign Up buttons now respond across their whole surface, not just the text.
• The sign-in screen has window controls again, so you can close or minimise Echo before signing in.
• New accounts on a Mac where Echo was already used now see the welcome flow instead of skipping it.
• Stats in the header no longer break across lines when the window is narrow.

Echo now asks where your transcripts live. Keep them on this Mac and they are never uploaded. Sync them through Echo Cloud across your devices. Or send them to your own Nucleus vault. A new Privacy and Data section explains, in plain language, exactly what leaves your machine and what does not.

Delete means delete

Deleting a transcript now removes it from our servers, not just from this Mac. And you can delete your entire account from Settings, which removes everything we hold and closes your account for good.

Refer a friend

Every account now has a referral code. Share it, and see who signs up.

Milestones

Echo now marks the moments worth marking. Your first hour saved, your hundred thousandth word. A bell on the Home screen keeps them.

Fixes

• Signing in no longer fails on the first attempt.
• Disconnecting a Nucleus vault no longer silently starts uploading your transcripts.
• Your lifetime word count now counts your words wherever they are stored.
• Hours saved was showing a number sixty times too large. It is now correct.

• Routines now stop when a step fails, instead of carrying on and reporting success. The failed step can be retried.
• Fixed Echo announcing events you don't have when your Google account needs reconnecting.
• Notion now tells you what actually happened — whether it couldn't reach Notion, isn't connected, or simply found nothing.
• "Create a routine" and "plan my tasks" now work as single spoken commands.

Listen

• The read-along highlight no longer strands itself over other apps when you switch away mid-sentence. Audio keeps playing, and the highlight returns when you come back.

Google

• Drive search now opens Google Drive directly in your browser, giving you full search rather than a short list.
• Connecting Google now uses PKCE, and the connection page has been redesigned.
• When your Google session expires, every feature now says so clearly instead of failing quietly.

Under the hood

• Faster launch.
• Fixed a bug that could give a device a new identity on every launch.

Commands run in about half a second, down from three. "Open WhatsApp" and similar now skip the AI round-trip entirely.

Listen

Fixed reading selected text in Chrome, which wasn't working at all. Echo now uses the highest quality voice installed on your Mac, and you can get Apple's premium voices from Settings, Listen.

Act

Failed commands now say so instead of silently doing nothing. Task lists update live as you add to them. You can say "I need to call Arpit" without the word "add". Results name where they went, like "Added to Google Tasks".

Free plan

Dictation is now free forever, with no trial to expire. Listen and Realtime are Pro features.

Also

Usage is now visible in Settings. Confirmation before disconnecting an integration or clearing history. A new About page. Various fixes.

Translation shortcuts in Listen are temporarily unavailable while we rebuild them.

• Nucleus storage — store your transcriptions locally in your own Nucleus vault instead of the cloud. Pair once, migrate your history, and keep everything on your Mac.
• Plan Card — turn messy on-screen text or a quick "plan this" into a structured, runnable task list.
• Sharper capture — screen captures no longer pick up Echo's own UI, so plans and summaries stay clean.
• Indic numerals — spoken numbers now render as digits across all Indic scripts.
• Refreshed look — brighter, cleaner accent and icon colors throughout.
• Reliability fixes to history sync, transcription retries, and lifetime word count.

• Fixed: square corner artifact on the speaking pill and Echo Card
• Fixed: mic conflict when recording WhatsApp voice notes
• Faster: context capture moved off the main thread — smoother dictation and Act commands
• More reliable: network paths now auto-recover from token expiry instead of failing silently
• Security: OAuth tokens no longer written to logs; template/translation content hardened; added crash-safety guards
• Full internal code audit — dead code removed, duplicate logic unified, large files restructured

• Redesigned result cards — calendar, tasks, memories, Drive files, maps, and web answers now render as clean, tappable cards with better layout and hierarchy.
• Send files & documents on WhatsApp — "send that screenshot to Mom", "send this file to Arpit", or send a recalled memory as a file, all by voice.
• Voice messages on WhatsApp — "send an audio message to X" records and sends a native WhatsApp voice note.
• Maps & directions — "directions to X" and "map of Y" open Google Maps.
• Calendar events open directly in Google Calendar; tasks can be checked and unchecked.
• More reliable — fixed mid-session logouts, empty-email sends, phone-sent compound commands, and onboarding showing for signed-in users.

• Contacts now sync across your devices — your saved contacts follow your account instead of living on one Mac.
• Say "work" or "personal" when messaging or emailing a contact and Echo uses the right number or address — across WhatsApp, email, and meetings.
• Meetings actually invite people — "book a meeting with <name>" now resolves their email and sends the invite, and tells you the truth if it can't.
• Accurate lifetime word count — the words total is now a real, stable number that matches across devices.
• Faster, calmer syncing — no more re-syncing every time you focus the window.
• Redesigned Echo command card — cleaner frosted-glass look, consistent with the rest of the app.
• Romanized output by default — speak Hindi and get clean Latin-script text out of the box.
• Fixes: faster launch (no startup hang), the stuck "Didn't catch that" pill now clears itself, Settings sections start tidy/collapsed, and a thinking indicator while Echo works.

• More reliable sign-in. Fixed an issue that could unexpectedly log you out during a session.
• Smarter, steadier actions. Gmail, Calendar, Tasks, Drive and WhatsApp are more reliable, with fixes that prevent duplicate sends.
• "Email this" now works on what you're looking at. Asking Echo to email a recalled note now includes that content — and Echo won't send a blank message if there's nothing to send.
• Stability & performance. Numerous crash fixes and under-the-hood reliability improvements across the app.

Echo got a complete visual refresh. Same Echo underneath, now cleaner, calmer, and consistent everywhere.

• Redesigned throughout — a new design language with a frosted-glass sidebar, colorful section icons, and refined typography across every screen.
• Deeper dark mode — a calmer near-black theme that matches Echo on iPhone.
• Crisper light mode — better contrast so text is always sharp.
• Fixed: instant theme switching — light/dark now updates immediately, with no leftover unreadable text.
• Polished everywhere — cleaner Memory, Act, Style, Settings, Feedback and onboarding; tidier tabs, buttons and lists; a slimmer scrollbar.

Thanks for using Echo — send a note anytime from the in-app Feedback page.

New — Listen

• Read anything aloud. Press Left Option with nothing selected and Echo reads the whole page — or select text first to read just that.
• Follow along. The current sentence highlights as it's read in Notes, TextEdit, and Safari.
• Click to jump. Click any sentence while reading (Notes, TextEdit) to start from there.
• Read in your language. Left Option + H / E / M / K reads in Hindi, Indian English, Marathi, or Kannada.

Changes

• Realtime voice is temporarily hidden while we improve it — back in a future update.
• Under-the-hood reliability improvements to dictation and voice.

• Fixed install crash on macOS 15 (Sequoia). Earlier builds were inadvertently linked against macOS 26 SDK only; the app now correctly supports macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later.
• Fixed duplicate transcriptions appearing in history after auto-sync.

Sync

• Cross-device deletion now works. Deleting a transcription on Mac soft-deletes it on Supabase, so other devices learn about the deletion on their next sync.

Updates

• When a new version is available, an "Update available" indicator now appears in the Echo sidebar. Click it to see the changes and update on the spot.

Other

• Transcriptions are now tagged with the platform they came from (macOS or iOS).
• Improved language routing for non-English BCP-47 codes.

• Subscription badge no longer shows "Free" for Pro users. Echo was silently failing to fetch subscription status when the access token was stale. Now retries with a fresh token on auth failure, preserves cached state on network errors, and de-duplicates parallel fetches.

Includes everything from v3.2.4

• Faster transcriptions, no cold-start delay, Natural mode default, hardened auth, dictionary fixes.

• Faster transcriptions. Removed post-processing in Natural mode — Sarvam already gives you well-formatted output. Most recordings now feel instant.
• No more cold-start delay. API key prefetched on launch, eliminating the ~1.5s first-recording tax.
• Natural mode is now the default. Cleaner, faster. Switch to Custom in Settings if you prefer the old behavior.
• Hardened auth. Better recovery on flaky networks, smarter handling of suspended accounts.
• Dictionary fixes. Word-boundary aware substitutions — no more mid-word mangling.

Window management fixes, new How to Use guide, and polish across the app.

• How to Use page — Guided tour of Echo, Act, and Listen modes with shortcuts and tips, accessible from the sidebar.
• Faster reliability for short voice holds — Fixed a race condition that caused brief Right Option presses to hang and produce no transcript.
• Dock and Spotlight launch fixed — Cold launches now show the window immediately instead of requiring a second click.
• Quit Echo from the menu bar — Right-click the Echo icon to access Open and Quit options.
• Permissions popup on every sign-in — Echo now reliably checks for missing permissions when you sign in.
• Toggles always render in Echo blue — No longer affected by your macOS accent color setting.
• Style cards fully clickable — Click anywhere on a style card to select it.
• Pretty installer — DMG opens to a polished window with drag-to-Applications experience.
• Cleanup — Removed System theme option and dead Language picker from Settings. Natural mode is now a toggle for visual consistency.

Major UX polish and security hardening. First signed and notarized release.

• Dark mode — Full dark theme with system theme picker in Settings → Preferences.
• In-app toasts — Non-blocking success/error feedback replaces most system alerts.
• How-to-use guide — First-launch modal explains Echo's core features.
• WPM statistic — See your speaking pace (words per minute) in History detail view.
• Pause audio toggle — Control whether recording pauses when other apps play audio (Settings → Preferences).
• Empty state feedback — Clear messaging when transcription is empty or silent.
• Pill UI redesign — Cleaner visual states with improved icons and animations.
• Security hardening — Billing flow now uses server-side session validation (no tokens in URLs).
• Code signing — Properly signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. No more Gatekeeper warnings.

Stability release with internal architecture improvements.

• Improved stability — Refactored internal architecture for better reliability.
• Performance optimizations — Cleaner code organization and better resource management.

Cleaner release. Added microphone selection, improved edit profile fields, removed notification bell.

• Microphone selection — Choose your preferred input device in Settings → Preferences.
• Improved profile editing — Better contrast and visibility for edit fields.
• Cleaner UI — Removed notification bell for a more focused interface.
• Bug fixes — Vision responses now speak aloud, Escape key cancels Act operations, confirmation timeouts improved.

Act — your voice, your machine
Hold Right Command and speak. Echo understands what you want and makes it happen.

• Ask questions — Hold Right Command, ask anything. Echo searches the web and speaks the answer aloud.
• See your screen — Hold Right Command, ask what's on your screen. Echo describes it.
• Open anything — Say 'open Safari', 'open google.com', or 'open my resume'. It opens.
• Routines — Create voice-triggered routines in the Act tab. Say the trigger phrase and Echo runs all the actions in sequence.
• Smarter transcription — Long recordings now chunk automatically. Translation warmup bug fixed.
• New UI — Act tab with command history and routines. Style and Listen tabs with feature descriptions. Natural mode replaces Just Clean.