The app is now fully multi-window capable on OS 26: it remembers the state of every conversation in every window, and will automatically rejoin a conversation if the window was closed accidentally or while the app was in the background.

This version introduces one new feature and one cosmetic change. New feature: There is a new Whisperer setting called "Status Bar on top". When you turn this on, it removes the "Share Listener Link" (and all touch sensitivity) from the mid-screen status bar, so that assistive keyboards do not accidentally trigger these controls. Instead, a "Status" button (showing a person with a question mark) appears at the left of the top bar of controls: clicking this status button will pop up the detailed status view (which now contains the Share Listener Link and other buttons that would be on the status bar). Cosmetic change: Because this app is now published by the non-profit Whisper Project (a project of Software in the Public Interest), rather than by ClickOneTwo Consulting LLC, the web pages for instructional and support content have changed locations.

This release has two new features: - You can now have the app play a typing sound while the whisperer is typing. This sound has proved very helpful in getting Listeners to pay attention to their screen rather than talking while the Whisperer is typing. - There is now a Clear button in the Whisperer controls, for clearing the live text area. There are also two cosmetic changes: - The "Stop" button when whispering and listening is now a stop-sign icon rather than a word. - When you open the app instructions, they open in a separate browser app so you can go back and forth between the instructions and the app easily. There are some bug fixes as well:  - The pop-up status detail view now scrolls if needed. - Profile Sharing is disabled until you enter your name. Finally, the instructions have been expanded and updated to cover all app functionality. Many thanks to guest editor Lucy M.

This is a bug fix release: the "How To Use" button led to a broken link. In addition, the online instructions have been updated to cover all the functionality available in the app.

This release introduces quite a few long-requested features for both Whisperers and Listeners. - Whisperers can now create named favorites with pre-saved text that can be inserted into a conversation just by tapping on the name of the favorite. If you use a shared profile, all your devices will have the same favorites. - There is a Favorites button on the home screen which brings up an Edit Favorites window that allows creating and editing favorites and groups and putting favorites into groups. - Press the Favorites (star) button in the Whisperer's controls to bring up a Use Favorites window with buttons for each named favorite. Pressing one of the buttons inserts the favorite into the conversation just as if you had typed it, without disturbing any text you are already typing. - Long press the Favorites button to see a menu that allows choosing which group of favorites you want shown in the Favorites list. There is also an Edit Favorites item on that menu which brings up the Edit Favorites window. - Whisperers now see buttons next to each of their (non-empty) past lines that allow them to quickly repeat, interject, or make a favorite out of that line's content. If you don't want all three buttons, you can choose the ones you want in your Settings. - If you use ElevenLabs to generate your speech, each favorite now remembers the generated speech so inserting the favorite starts speaking immediately. - Listeners can now hear an old-fashioned typing-on-a-typewriter sound whenever the Whisperer starts to type, notifying them to look at what's being typed (and filling the silence so they're not tempted to talk over the Whisperer). The button to turn these sounds on and off is at the left end of the Listener controls. Long pressing on that button allows you to adjust the volume of the typing sound. - Listeners can now share conversation links with other listeners. - Listeners can now copy/paste conversation links into the Whisper app. In the list of past conversations, there is now a + button to add a new link. If there is a conversation link on the clipboard when the plus button is pressed, the app will try to join that conversation. Otherwise, it will open a window where the user can type in (or paste in) the desired conversation link. - Whisperers who use transcripts can now share those transcripts with Listeners directly from within a conversation session. Once one or more Listeners have joined a conversation, the Whisperer is shown an eyeglass button on the status line as well as an eyeglass button on each listed Listener in the detailed status view. Pressing the eyeglass button on the status line sends a transcript link to every currently connected listener. Pressing the eyeglass button on a specific Listener line sends a transcript link just to that specific listener. - When a Listener is sent a transcript link by the Whisperer, a show-transcript button appears in the status line (and again at the end of the conversation). Pressing that button opens the transcript in a web browser. - There is now a "Large Type" control that affects the home screen and the various profile views. This setting is independent of the font size choice when Whispering or Listening.

This build incorporates several new features and changes requested by users: - There is now a "repeat" button just to the right of the "speak/don't speak" button. Pressing this button will repeat the last, non-blank, full line entered by the Whisperer (speaking it if speech was on). Repeat leaves any current live text undisturbed, so the last line can be repeated even after the Whisperer has started to type something else. - There is now an "interject" button just to the right of the "repeat" button. Pressing this button will save and clear the in-progress live text, allowing the Whisperer to quickly type an interjection and then, when they press the button again (or hit return), restoring the text they were typing before. While an interjection is in progress, the live text type-in area is very heavily outlined, and the "interject" button shows a different icon indicating that the interjection is in progress. - There are two new Settings that control the behavior of the "interject" button. The first allows the Whisperer to provide an automatic prefix for each interjection (e.g., "Please wait"), and the second allows playing one of the alert sounds automatically when the interject button is pressed. - The buttons for "Whisper" and "Listen" that are next to the conversation names in the profile windows are now larger and easier to press. - When a Whisper or Listen session is in progress, the screen of your device will not go to black. - The status line in the Listen session makes it clear when you are waiting for the Whisperer to accept you into a conversation. - Errors generating speech with ElevenLabs are now reported to the user, so they can see if they have issues in their settings. And if there is an ElevenLabs problem, the app falls back to generating the speech with Apple's technology.

This version allows Whisperers to keep transcripts of their Whisper sessions, which then appear in the details of the Whisper conversation. Transcripts - which are web pages with links that can be shared with others - are kept for one week. If you want to keep a transcript for longer than that, you have to save the web page to your local device (or copy/paste the text into a document of your own). This version also contains cosmetic improvements to the Whisper and Listen profile views.

This version adds the ability to use pronunciation dictionaries with ElevenLabs speech generation. It also improves the reliability of establishing connections between Whisperers and Listeners, especially when a new Listener joins a conversation for the first time.