Changelog

Resonant now learns from you: correct a word once and it adapts, learns your formatting preferences from how you edit, and recognizes the names it sees on your screen — all on this Mac, all governed by your privacy settings.

This release also makes Resonant genuinely usable with VoiceOver and keyboard-only setups, and first-time setup is more resilient: the speech-model download shows honest progress, recovers from network hiccups on its own, and never leaves the app stuck.

Pasting feels noticeably faster, especially in webmail like Gmail and Outlook, and your clipboard is preserved when you paste there. Cleaned transcripts also repair fragmented words and trim abandoned half-phrases more reliably.

Meeting transcripts now capture speech reliably.

Meetings now appear alongside your dictations in the daily journal — merged chronologically with dedicated icons, a teal accent, and duration stats. Your meeting history, notes, and summaries stay in sync across devices.

This release also brings Zen browser support, smarter paste spacing that understands sentence boundaries, and RTF clipboard support so links paste correctly in rich-text editors like Apple Mail and Pages.

Meeting recordings are now more reliable. A stop button in the scratchpad gives you direct control, and if your mic drops out mid-meeting the recording auto-recovers.

Resonant now supports 30 languages including Swedish, Italian, French, German, and more. Pick your language in Settings or leave it on auto-detect.

Meeting recording is now manual-only — start it from Settings or the notch menu, never automatically. Auto-detect and meeting app toggles are gone in favor of a simpler, more predictable experience.

Meeting recording defaults to manual, with a reworked Meetings settings panel. No more surprise recordings.

Your workspace is now queryable. A one-click setup in Settings lets AI agents and CLI tools search your dictations, memos, meetings, and journal. A new CLI tool also lets you query from the terminal.

Meeting recording arrives with a dedicated Meetings tab in Settings. Onboarding now highlights key features, Smart Links are free for everyone, and the new branded DMG installer makes a better first impression.

Auto-paste now detects when macOS silently revokes accessibility permissions after an update, and shows clear instructions to re-grant access instead of failing silently.

Dictated emails now paste with proper line breaks in Gmail and Outlook, and text transformations no longer leak context from previous dictations.

Transform selected text now works with any spoken instruction, not just specific keywords. This release also fixes subscription sync issues that could block Pro features and improves streak and feed reliability.

Dictation no longer suppressed in apps where the native accessibility check incorrectly reported no text input — now falls back to the legacy check for any ambiguous result.

Selection capture now reads selected text directly via the Accessibility API instead of touching the clipboard. Long recordings with leading or trailing silence now retry on the trimmed speech window, and the dictation pipeline runs 50–200ms faster.

Fixes for dictation output being contaminated by VSCode identifiers, the trigger key getting overwritten on fresh install, and a false positive in the launch integrity check.

Notch hover-to-open now works reliably — replaced the SwiftUI .onHover handler (broken at the system window level) with a global mouse monitor that fires unconditionally, using the exact notch hit area instead of the full window frame.

The biggest update since launch. Resonant's entire interface has moved into your Mac's notch — a native overlay that lives at the top of your screen and gets out of the way completely when you're not using it.

Every interaction now happens in that strip of hardware: the waveform while you speak, the processing pulse as your words are formatted, the result landing with a snap. Celebrations for milestones. Audio cues for every state. It's the same dictation engine — it just feels like part of the OS now.

A cleaner layout across settings and the feed, with search, filtering, and keyboard navigation. Agent controls are now gated until an LLM is connected so the interface stays clean for everyone else.

A cleaner settings experience, a smoother onboarding flow, and a fix for the overlay stealing focus from your active app during dictation.

Resonant now handles long dictations up to 5 minutes. Audio is decoded in the background while you speak, so the wait after you stop is the same whether you dictated for 10 seconds or 5 minutes.

Resonant is now completely free — a private alternative to big tech dictation with zero data retention. Your voice is processed entirely on your Mac. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. Not to us, not to anyone.

This release is also noticeably snappier. A rewritten text engine, smarter memory management, and faster startup across the board make dictation feel instant.

Reliability improvements to keep Resonant rock-solid, even when you start dictating the instant the app launches.

Make Resonant yours. Name your assistant, choose your transcription style during setup, and enjoy faster repeated phrases thanks to smart tone caching.

A redesigned onboarding experience, built-in support, and under-the-hood reliability improvements — plus the start of our beta rollout.

The first release of Resonant. A private voice dictation app that runs entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no data leaving your machine.

Resonant processes your voice locally using on-device models, then types the result directly into whatever app you're using. It works across your entire system — notes, code editors, browsers, messages.