- Choose your microphone. Select your preferred audio input in Recording settings, or follow your Mac’s default microphone. - Start dictating sooner. Your dictation shortcut now responds as soon as you press it. - Know when to speak. A new preparation indicator shows when your microphone is getting ready and when recording has started. - Smoother windows and settings. Improved window handling and toolbar visibility make Dictop easier to navigate. - More consistent activity charts. Daily charts now use the same transcription statistics as the rest of the app. - Fewer distractions. The What’s New button hides once you’ve read all the updates.

- Easier-to-navigate settings: A redesigned layout groups related options so you can find what you need faster. - Start editing right away: When you review a transcript before inserting it, the editor now focuses automatically. - More reliable sound effects: Updated app sounds address playback issues some users experienced.

Performance improvements.

Better Feature Discovery with Guided Tips New contextual tips now help users discover important controls faster: • A one-time tip highlights the toolbar update button, including its unread badge • A follow-up one-time tip points users to Settings to explore new models, options, and configurations • Tips are shown only when the app is unlocked and stay out of the way after being seen

Edit Before Pasting - Review & Refine Your Transcriptions A new optional text editor window lets you review and edit your transcribed text before it's pasted into the target app. • A familiar macOS text editor appears after transcription, so you can tweak, rearrange, or correct the text with full editing comfort • Especially helpful when dictating into terminal UIs, chat apps, or other places where editing after pasting is difficult • Avoid accidental submissions — no more worrying about Enter sending a message too early in chat or AI apps • Click Send to paste the final text, or Cancel to discard — you're always in control Enable it in Settings > Insertion > Edit text before pasting.

Apple Intelligence Integration - Free On-Device AI Processing Refine your transcriptions with Apple Intelligence, completely free and private: • Process transcriptions on your device with Apple's 3B parameter on-device model • No cloud credits required - unlimited usage • Works with any speech-to-text model (cloud or on-device) • Complete privacy - nothing leaves your device • Automatic availability on macOS 15.1+ and iOS 18.1+ devices Simply enable AI Post-Processing in settings and select Apple Intelligence. The app will automatically use on-device processing when available, with seamless fallback to cloud models when needed. Perfect for users who want AI-powered transcription refinement without consuming cloud credits.

Parakeet V2 and V3 models are added as on-device models. - Parakeet V2 supports only English - Parakeet V3 supports 24 languages and automatic language detection

New Speech-to-Text Models: • Scribe by ElevenLabs - Industry-leading accuracy with 96.7% English transcription • Voxtral Mini by Mistral - Fast, multilingual transcription powered by AI Experience next-generation speech recognition with two powerful new models. Scribe delivers the world's most accurate transcription with support for 99+ languages and 96.7% accuracy in English. Voxtral Mini offers lightning-fast multilingual transcription across 8 major languages. Both models feature automatic language detection, making dictation seamless whether you're working in English, Spanish, French, German, or other supported languages. Choose the model that best fits your accuracy needs and workflow.

Automatically press keyboard shortcuts after dictation - Dictop can now automatically press Enter or other keys after inserting your transcribed text. - Send messages instantly, submit search queries, or complete forms without touching the keyboard. Just speak, and it's done!

- Free 1-hour cloud transcription for new users to try out our powerful dictation features risk-free. - Pre-defined replacement rules for punctuation commands - perfect for users migrating from traditional dictation apps. Say "comma," "period," or "new line" and they'll automatically convert to punctuation marks. - Searchable replacement rules - type a search term to instantly filter and find exactly what you need. - Improved onboarding for Intel Mac users with a smoother setup experience. - Retranscribe: Process your last recording again via keyboard shortcut or status bar menu, perfect for trying different models or fixing failed attempts. - New LLM models added: GPT-4.1 mini, Gemini 2.5, Mistral Small 3.2, and Grok 3 mini for even more accurate and faster transcript corrections.

Improvements in the onboarding flow.

Updated some information about the app.

Improvements to Automatic Speaker Mute/Unmute • When enabled, the speakers are muted automatically at the start of a recording and restored when the recording stops. • If you have already muted the speakers manually, the app will respect your setting and keep them muted. New "Launch at Login" Setting • You can now configure the app to start automatically whenever you log into your Mac. • Simply navigate to Settings > Appearance and enable the “Launch at Login” option.

Translation improvement

New OpenAI models are available as cloud models: - gpt-4o-transcribe - gpt-4o-mini-transcribe

- Continuous dictation mode. Start dictating once, and the app handles the rest. After detecting silence that can configured here, it automatically starts transcribing—while you keep speaking. - File transcriptions Right click on a file or drag and drop a file into the app to transcribe it. Both audio and video files are supported. To enable the Services menu, go to System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Text > Services > Text - Many more Speech to Text models We now support Assembly AI, AWS Transcribe, Azure, Deepgram, Gladia, Google, IBM Watson, Rev AI - More Context for LLM Enhancements You can now extract the text on the screen and automatically put to the LLM prompt. This will give the LLM more context and improve the quality of the transcription. You can select for which apps you want to apply this. - Hide Dock Icon You can now hide the Dock icon and use the app in the menu bar or only by the keyboard shortcuts. Go to Settings > Appearance > Hide Dock Icon

- Whisper Large v3 Turbo is now available as an on-device model. - Introduced a new setting to mute speakers automatically while recording. The speakers will be muted as soon as you start recording and unmuted when the recording stops. This will prevent the sound coming from the computer from getting mixed up with your dictation. - You can now create a new note by pressing the plus button in the toolbar without having to go through a dictation. - You can now manage your account in the Settings window. You will see your anonymous user ID. When you contact us, please include that ID. Otherwise, since we do not collect any email or similar information, we will not be able to link your account to the transactions you make.

Authentication improvements.

Introducing Cloud-Based Speech-to-Text with AI Enhancement - Cloud-Based Transcription: Faster, more accurate speech-to-text. You can choose between OpenAI, Deepgram, and AssemblyAI. - AI Text Enhancement: Context-aware corrections and improvements by GPT-4o before the text is inserted into your document. Write your prompt and it will be applied automatically for every transcription. - Privacy-Focused: Anonymized processing of your audio with no storage. - Flexible Pricing: Pay only for what you use. No subscription is required.

- If the user is dictating into the search field, or when the user is dictating to edit an existing transcript, should this new dictated text create a new note on the sidebar? - Users can choose to create a new note or disable creating a new note, when the search bar is focused or when the editor of an existing transcript is active.

- In [Settings > Insertion] you can configure prepending and appending characters to the transcript like space, and new line - You can right-click on any text to add it quickly to the replacement rules. Simply follow the right-click menu [Services > Add to dictop replacements]. If you don't see it, please enable it on [System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Text > Services > Text]

- Sound improvements - Better statistics

Performance improvements.

Performance improvements.

No Subscription. One-time purchase. - We made changes in the copy text to make it more clear that the app is not subscription-based. - After the free trial ends, you will be prompted to purchase. You will not be charged automatically. - The free trial is 30 days long. - All the on-device models and replacements are included in the one-time purchase.