Transcripts are ready up to 12 times faster, thanks to a new on-device speech engine for 25 European languages. On the Mac, Basil can now record your Zoom, Teams, Webex, Slack and Discord calls automatically. It asks first. Rename any recording from the title, the menu, or ⌘R on the Mac. Fixes for Mac onboarding, generated titles and a slow window during processing.

Bug fixes and improvements • Long recordings now finish processing while your iPhone is locked or you use other apps. They no longer stop with "Task failed". Basil writes the summary when you open it again. • The progress bar keeps moving while Basil writes a summary, so long meetings no longer look stuck. • Several recordings in a row now process without stopping partway. • New: Email Support with Debug Log, in Settings › Support. The log holds no recordings, transcripts, summaries or names. • Turning off Live Activities for Basil now also hides the processing activity. • The summary of the welcome recording is no longer locked.

Bug fixes • Recordings stay in their folders after you close or refresh the app. • Meeting summaries are written as notes, not as lines copied from the transcript.

Highlights • iCloud Sync switch: choose on each device whether your library syncs through your own iCloud account. • Transcripts stay in the language you speak, even when Basil is set to a different language. Bug fixes • A recording with no speech now says “No speech found”, and Basil no longer writes notes for it. • Text exports include action items and decisions. • Faster, more reliable start-up and onboarding. • Fixes for privilege attestations, number formatting in transcripts, Shortcuts, and several screens.

Processing continues after you leave Basil. Transcription and speaker labels keep running in the background, and a Live Activity shows the progress. Basil tells you when the transcript is ready, and the summary finishes when you open the app. While you record, the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the timer and a Stop button. Tap Stop to save the meeting without opening Basil. Better meeting notes. Each summary starts with a one-line overview, then topics that say who said what. Action items name the person who will do each one.

Fixed a crash at launch on iPhone. Basil could close a few seconds after opening when your library had long meetings. It now opens normally. Recordings that survive a crash. If Basil is closed unexpectedly while it records, your recording is kept in full and processed the next time you open the app. Recordings that were cut off before this update can now be recovered too. Processing picks up where it stopped. If processing is interrupted, Basil continues from that point instead of starting again. Progress bars no longer freeze, and the screen stays on while Basil works. Lighter iCloud sync. Audio now syncs through iCloud Drive and downloads to another device only when you play it. New recordings also use half the storage.

What’s New in 2.2.3 • Recover and reprocess recordings interrupted by an app closure. • See clearer error messages when processing cannot start. • Enjoy improved layouts for landscape, larger text, and iPhone Duo. • Keep your recording timer running correctly when the screen layout changes.

2.2.1 - bug fixes related to language detection

What's New since 2.1.6 Transcription reliability, and a processing screen that tells you what is happening. FIXED — imported files could stick at "Transcribing audio 10%" and never finish. On a device missing Apple's on-device speech assets, the older recogniser accepted the file and then answered with nothing at all: no result, no error. Basil now gives it 15 seconds to prove it is working and moves to the next engine if it does not. This affected a fresh install on iPhone and iPad, and any Mac that had not downloaded the speech model. FIXED — on Mac, the speech model could never download, so transcription was stuck on an engine that could not always do the job. Imported files now transcribe on the Mac the same way they do on iPhone. FIXED — Computer mode on Mac fell back to microphone-only even when Screen Recording was switched on, so the other people in a call were not recorded. Basil now lets the capture itself decide, and says something useful if it really cannot start. NEW — processing tells you where it is. Transcription shows how far through the file it has reached ("2:10 of 4:28") instead of a percentage that sat still. The one-time speech model download shows how much has arrived, and says it happens once. Both show elapsed time, and a long recording warns you it takes a few minutes. All processing still runs entirely on your device. No audio and no transcript ever leaves it. Preparation for iOS 27.

2.1.6 - bug fixes

2.1.5 - bug fixes

Basil 2.1 — Speakers Basil now tells you who said what. • Speaker labels — after a meeting ends, Basil works out who spoke when and labels the transcript. Runs entirely on your device, like everything else. • Voice prints — name a speaker once and Basil recognizes their voice in future meetings and fills the name in automatically. Voice data never leaves your devices, syncs only through your own iCloud, and is never created for recordings marked Privileged & Confidential. • Speakers settings — see every saved voice; rename, merge, or delete any of them (or all of them) anytime. • Speaker names now included in Markdown and CSV exports. Also new: • Auto-stop for forgotten recordings — if nothing has been said for 10 minutes, Basil stops and saves the recording, exactly as if you'd tapped Stop. • Choose your pipeline — Settings toggles let you turn off summaries or action-item extraction and keep just the transcript. • Origin badges — see at a glance whether a recording came from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, or was imported. • Live dead-air warning — if a recording is capturing pure silence (a broken audio route, not a quiet room), Basil warns you during the meeting, not after it. Polish and fixes: • Long recordings transcribe more faithfully — fixed a bug that could repeat or shuffle passages in the final transcript of longer recordings. • Computer-mode recordings on Mac no longer come out blank when one audio source stalls (a known issue on Google Meet calls) — Basil restarts the stream or falls back to the microphone and keeps recording. • Switching to a Bluetooth headset mid-recording no longer interrupts the capture. • Recordings are found again after reinstalling or moving to a new device, and reprocessing fetches the audio from your iCloud when needed. • Opening a recording no longer pauses your music. As always: everything happens on your device. No cloud, no uploads. Your words are yours.

Basil for Law A legal edition for attorneys who need meeting notes without handing client conversations to someone else's server. • Privilege attestation — generate an on-device provenance record for a recording, documenting that it was captured and processed locally. • Consent log — record a timestamped attestation that consent was obtained, built to the strictest all-party-consent standard so one workflow works in every state. • Matters and clients — organize recordings by matter instead of by date. • Privileged & Confidential labeling on recordings, transcripts and exports. Turning on Lawyer Mode is free, so you can see how the workflow fits before deciding. The legal features unlock with Basil for Law, or during any free trial. Also in this release • A clearer live-transcript experience. Basil now explains that the live transcript is a fast preview, and that a refined, higher-accuracy version is generated right after your session. • Settings on Mac opens as a proper window. • Deleting a recording now asks for confirmation in both list views. • Fixes and refinements throughout. Everything still runs on your device. No uploads, no account, no server.

1.9.1 Two bug fixes: - onboarding screens hid continue buttons on small screen phones - deleting a recording now stays deleted even with icloud sync

What's New in Basil AI 1.9.0 Record meetings straight from your calendar Basil can now remind you to hit record the moment a meeting starts. Tap the notification and recording begins instantly — already filled in with the meeting's title, attendees, and location. You'll also see today's meetings right above your recordings list for one-tap capture, and any recording you start during a scheduled meeting gets named automatically. Calendar access is optional, and you can switch it on or off anytime in Settings. Trash with 30-day restore Deleted a recording by mistake? Recordings now move to Trash and can be restored for 30 days before they're automatically removed. Smarter, more complete summaries Action-item extraction now reads your entire transcript, so long meetings capture far more of their to-dos — and we fixed a bug that occasionally invented a stray task that was never discussed. Cleaner recordings Accidental taps that produce a too-short recording are now discarded automatically instead of cluttering your list. Smaller and faster Basil is now powered entirely by on-device Apple Intelligence, making the app significantly smaller to download. This release requires iOS 26 / macOS 26. Plus stability fixes, including the meeting-reminder tap and the log-export sheet.

What's New in Basil AI 1.8.6 This update makes transcription more reliable and gives you more control over your recordings. • More reliable long recordings — Long meetings and lectures now transcribe all the way through, start to finish. • Reprocess any recording — Not happy with a transcript or summary? Tap the menu on any recording and choose "Reprocess Recording" to run it again — anytime. • Export your audio — You can now share or save the original audio file straight from the share menu, alongside text, data, and spreadsheet exports. • Smarter offline setup — Basil's high-accuracy on-device transcription model now downloads during setup (and quietly finishes in the background), so it's ready for your very first recording. • Clearer status — If a transcription doesn't fully complete, Basil now tells you and lets you retry with a tap, instead of leaving you with a partial result. As always, everything runs entirely on your device — your audio and transcripts never leave your phone.

What's New in 1.8.5 • Stay in the loop — you can now subscribe to the Basil newsletter right from Settings for privacy tips, on-device AI insights, and product updates. No spam, ever. • Smoother, better-timed in-app prompts so Basil only asks for feedback at the right moments. • Stability and polish across the app. As always, everything stays 100% on your device. No cloud, no tracking.

What's New in 1.8.4 We've streamlined Basil to do what matters most, beautifully: a clean transcript and a clear summary. • Simpler, more accurate transcription — it just works, with a higher-quality on-device model for sharper results. • New export options — share any recording as a TXT, JSON, or CSV file, with timestamps included. • A cleaner, less cluttered Settings screen. • Faster, more reliable processing and a more focused recording experience. As always, everything stays 100% on your device. No cloud, no tracking.

1.8.3 includes: - improvements to action item extraction - cleaned up summaries - clearer permissions onboarding - bug fixes.

-More resilient post-recording and upload processing, with a wake lock to keep the screen awake while active processing runs. -Interrupted or incomplete processing is now detected and shown on recording cards/detail. -Processing restart is user-controlled from the recording detail instead of automatically kicking off old jobs on app launch. -Older existing recordings are treated as already handled so installs with lots of history do not churn through old files. -WhisperKit final transcription support added, including Settings download status, model size, and a download button. -Settings reorganized: speech recognition controls consolidated, Legal & Data combined, and debug options moved into the Debug section. -On-device recognition and live transcription settings now clearly show their mutually exclusive state. -UI hang cleanup from the session log: reduced noisy SwiftUI logging and debounced CloudKit change handling. -Share/import plumbing added for uploaded media processing. -App version bumped to 1.8.2.

1.8.0 - Now upload DRM free video files or audio files to get transcribed. - bug fix: no more extra spaces in transcriptions.

1.7.9 - status bar now show post-meeting (or upload) processing. - improved background processing so no chance of loss if phone freezes or gets turned off while meeting is processing

1.7.8 -- bug fix on summaries of very short meetings.

1.7.7 - minor fixes - improved app description and meta data

Fully GDPR Compliant! Smarter Meeting Summaries - Summaries now preserve names, dates, numbers, and commitments exactly as spoken — no more paraphrased or fabricated details - Improved topic organization with thorough, detailed coverage of each discussion point Better Speaker Detection - More accurate speaker identification in multi-person meetings - Fixed over-splitting that incorrectly detected too many speakers Under the Hood - Optimized progressive summarization for long recordings - Improved entity extraction reliability