What's new

An optional Local API lets other apps on your Mac use clide for transcription and follow its recording state.

• Settings has a new Local API section, off by default. It listens on 127.0.0.1 only, so nothing on your network can reach it, and every request needs a token you can copy or regenerate.
• Transcribe audio files (wav, m4a, mp3, flac, caf, aiff) with your current engine and mode. The API never types anything.
• A live event stream reports when you start and stop recording, a mic level, partial text with Apple Speech, and each finished transcript.
• Choose the port, allow specific web origins, and switch the transcription and event endpoints on or off separately.

clide goes fully local, gets a flat monochrome redesign, and learns to type as you speak and to take corrections.

• Removes the cloud engines, API keys and cloud rewrite. Everything now runs on your Mac, and Apple Speech is the default engine on a fresh install.
• Live typing: with Apple Speech, words appear in the app as you say them.
• Spoken corrections: say "scratch that" or "strike that" to delete back to the previous comma or sentence, and immediate stutters are collapsed.
• Developer dictation: technical vocabulary for Whisper in editors, terminals and browsers, with optional spoken file paths written as code.
• A local Rewrite engine for Ollama (loopback only) alongside Apple Intelligence.
• Six Parakeet models, including compressed builds, for 39 local models in total.
• A flat monochrome interface with a sidebar, and a small pill that appears near the bottom of the screen. If something fails it becomes a card with your transcript on a draggable chip.
• Rejects silence before transcribing and drops phantom transcripts such as a lone "Thank you."
• Signed in-app updates that download and install only when you press Update, verified against a key built into the app.
• Developer ID signed and notarized builds, a new dark icon, and a DMG that stays dark when resized.

Repairs the Accessibility state where System Settings shows clide enabled but the grant belongs to an older build.

• Adds a Repair access action to the dashboard, onboarding, and Settings.
• Resets only clide's own stale Accessibility record, never any other app's.
• Asks macOS to register the running build immediately afterwards.
• Keeps status checks tied to the live Accessibility state rather than a stale switch.

Makes dictation lossless and insertion considerably more reliable.

• Copies the exact final transcript to the clipboard before insertion is attempted, so a failure can never lose your words.
• Rejects rewrite output that summarises or truncates, keeping the full transcript instead.
• Verifies Accessibility targeting and paces the paste fallback.
• Grows the catalogue of local models across eight engines.
• Checks for updates at most once a day and reports them in About.
• Adds a delayed Test insertion control for checking against a real editor.

The first version worth using every day: hold a shortcut, speak, and the text lands where you were typing.

• System-wide dictation with one shortcut, in hold-to-talk or press-to-toggle.
• Eight engines: Apple Speech, local Whisper, local Parakeet, and five cloud providers on your own key.
• A model manager that ranks local models against your actual chip and memory.
• Verbatim, Polished, and Rewrite via Apple Intelligence, all on device.
• Searchable local history in SQLite. Text only, and recordings are deleted once transcription resolves.
• A recording HUD that never steals keyboard focus.