Changelog

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A New Look, Easier to Use

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• Pick the model that transcribes your recordings. Settings → Recording puts your language and one Model choice on a page of their own. Stay on Whisper Base, which is built in, or download Whisper Small for better everyday transcripts or Whisper Large v3 for difficult audio. Cleft lists only the models your device can run, and a line under your choice names the model that transcribed your last recording, and why, if Whisper Base stepped in.
• Use Apple Speech on iOS 26 and macOS 26. Choose Apple Speech, download your language once, and transcribe on device. If Apple Speech cannot run, Whisper Base takes over.
• Model downloads keep going when you leave. On iPhone and iPad, a Whisper Small or Whisper Large v3 download continues while you use another app or lock your phone, and picks up where it stopped after a dropped connection. If a download fails, Settings tells you why and offers Retry.
• Switch languages in the middle of a recording. Tick the languages you use in Settings → Recording → Languages I speak. With two or more ticked, the recording screen shows a language button that lists only those, with every other language under More Languages. On iPhone and iPad the button sits beside Stop, on the far side from Pause. On Mac, it is at the top of the recording screen. What you said before stays in the first language, the note keeps both, and your language in Settings stays as it was.
• Start a text note or a voice note in one tap. On iPhone and iPad, New Note is two buttons: the pencil for a text note and the voice mark for a voice note. Touch and hold the voice mark to continue your last note. On Mac, the pencil sits beside the record button at the bottom of the sidebar.
• Start and stop recording from Control Center. One control starts a recording and stops it with a second tap. A New Text Note control beside it opens a blank note on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Control Center controls need iOS 18 or macOS 26.
• Write or record from more places. New widgets start a text note from your Home Screen or Lock Screen, a medium widget lets you pick voice or text, and Mac widgets bring the same quick capture to your desktop. Set the Action Button to start a text note, a voice note, or ask each time.
• Start every capture in the right style. Choose a writing style when you start from Siri, Shortcuts, the Action Button, or an Apple Watch complication.
• See recording and saving progress at a glance. The Recording Status widget follows your recording on the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy, then opens the finished note.
• Save the filters you use as Views. A View collects your working notes by the tags you pick. Save a temporary View to keep it. Choose Inbox, All, Favorites, Archived, Shared, or a saved View from the menu above your notes, and use Manage Views… to create, rename, or reorder them on every device. On iPhone with iOS 26 and on iPad, a strip steps through Inbox and your Views. On Mac, hold Option and scroll over the view name.
• Keep untagged notes in Inbox. Inbox holds every working note until you save a View, then your untagged working notes. Views collect notes by tags, and All still has every note. On iPad, find Views above the list. View names replace the extra row of tags.
• Find your favorites in one place. Favorites is now a library of its own, beside Inbox, All, Archived, and Shared. Archive a favorite and it moves to Archived.
• Pin the notes you keep coming back to. Pin Note keeps a note at the top of your list on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and your pins follow you between devices. Unpin it and it returns to its place by date. On iOS 27 and macOS 27, Siri knows which notes you pinned.
• Tag a note as you write. Type a hashtag such as #project in your Notes or Transcript and Cleft adds the tag, keeping your text as written. Choose # above the keyboard on iPhone or iPad, or Tags in the Mac toolbar, to start one at the cursor.
• Find notes by their tags. A note tagged Work turns up when you search “work”, even if the note never says it. Type #work to search tags alone.
• Go back to the notes you were just reading. Back and Forward step through the notes you viewed this session, from the Mac toolbar and Note menu, the ••• menu on iPhone and iPad, or ⌘[ and ⌘].
• Spotlight finds what is attached. On iOS 27 and macOS 27, a note’s audio and attachments appear in Spotlight beneath the note they belong to.
• Read your library offline without planning ahead. Every note you open or scroll past stays readable offline, and on Wi-Fi Cleft saves more of your library by itself. Cleft opens on the notes saved on this device, then checks for changes, and a short line under search tells you when you are offline.
• Choose where your recordings live. New recordings stay on this device. Turn on Keep audio on this device to play them offline, or with Cleft Plus turn on Upload audio to play them on your other devices and in shared notes. Stored audio shows the space you use, and Reclaim Space frees it.
• Delete a note’s audio and keep the note. Choose Delete Audio on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The title, transcript, notes, tags, attachments, and sharing stay as they are.
• See what a note contains. Note Details in the ••• menu shows the note’s tags, dates, word count, language, and how long its recording is. It also says whether the audio is Included, On this device only, or Deleted. Open File metadata, then What the export will write, to see the exact Markdown file Local Export writes, without writing anything. On iPhone with iOS 26, Note Details sits at the top of the note, beside Back. On Mac and iPad, you can add Details to the note toolbar.
• See how much you have captured. Settings → Account shows your active notes, words captured, and time recorded on this device. The totals never leave it.
• Get each new note in your inbox. With Cleft Plus, turn on Email me my notes in Settings → Sharing on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Each note you record after that arrives at your account address with its title as the subject, and you can stop it in Cleft or with your mail app’s Unsubscribe button.
• Send a note straight to Drafts or Bear. Send the whole note to Drafts or Bear on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with its title and tags.
• Send each new note to the services you use. Webhooks, a Plus feature in preview, sends each new note to a URL you save, so Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own automation can pick it up. Save and test your webhook in Settings → Sharing → Webhooks, then turn on Send New Notes Automatically.
• Send one note to your webhook. With Cleft Plus and a saved webhook, choose Send → Webhook on a note, even with Send New Notes Automatically off. Cleft says Sent to Webhook once your service accepts it.
• Let your AI app read your notes. On Mac, Settings → Agent Access connects Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and other AI apps so they can read and search your notes, never change or share them. Pick your app and Cleft gives you its setup. Read from your Local Export folder, or with Cleft Plus from your account library, and Cleft shows the exact steps to disconnect.
• Paste notes with their formatting. Copy Rich Text keeps headings, lists, links, and emphasis in apps that support them. With Cleft Plus, make Rich Text your automatic copy format.
• Drag a note into another app. On iPad and Mac, drag a finished note’s title into another app and the note’s text goes with it.
• Choose the name on your shared links. The first time you publish a link, Cleft asks for an optional public name and shows you what readers will see. Leave it empty to show no name, or change it later with Edit public name.
• Keep a title you like. Choose Rewrite Notes Only to refresh the note and leave its title alone.
• Export only the notes you choose. Set Export mode to Manual export, then choose Send to Folder from a note’s Send menu. Turn on Archive after send to clear each note from your list once it lands.
• Shape exported Markdown for the app that reads it. Start from Everything, Obsidian, NotePlan, Logseq, or Drafts, then pick, rename, and add the fields Cleft writes and preview the finished file. New exports follow your choice; existing files change only when you ask.
• Update older exported files in one pass. Settings → Local Export → Rewrite exported files brings files from earlier versions up to date. Cleft lists every file it would change and leaves alone before you confirm, and never touches files it did not write.
• Put your buttons under the right thumb. Choose Left hand or Right hand in Settings → General → Handedness. The bars under your notes and under an open note move to that side. On iPad the New Note buttons move to that edge, and Pause, Select, Settings, Cancel, and Restart follow. On Mac, Handedness moves the sidebar’s capture buttons.
• Cleft fits iPhone Duo, folded and open. Folded, the controls you use most sit under your thumb in either hand. Open, your notes sit in a sidebar beside the note you are reading, and a note with a summary and a transcript shows them as two pages, one on each side of the fold. Fold or unfold while you record and the recording carries on.
• Make Cleft fit your Focus. When a Focus turns on, Cleft can hide notes with chosen tags, show only favorites, quiet sounds and haptics, set recording quality, or start a voice note.
• Do more with Shortcuts. Search notes, get your latest summary, export a note in the format you pick, and add or remove tags without opening Cleft. They work on every plan.
• See what you can ask Siri. Settings → Siri & Shortcuts lists the phrases Siri knows for Cleft. On iPhone and iPad, a button opens Cleft’s actions in the Shortcuts app.
• Find the right shortcut without guessing. Hold Command on Mac or iPad to see the shortcuts that work where you are. With Cleft Plus, change most shortcuts and keep them in sync across devices.
• Format Mac notes without hunting for the option. Bold, italic, headings, links, lists, and code sit above the editor and in the Format menu, the context menu, and on the keyboard. Each shows what your selection already uses, and one undo takes the whole change back.
• Siri shows your note. On iOS 26 and macOS 26, ask Siri for your last note, its summary, or a search, and you see a card with the title, date, and summary.
• Choose what diagnostics Cleft sends. Settings → Privacy keeps Share how you use Cleft and Add crash and error reports off until you turn them on. Neither ever sends your notes, transcripts, audio, or email address.
• Close your account with a copy of your notes. Before you close your account, Cleft offers a readable copy of your notes and waits until you save it or skip it. The review explains what closing removes, and that your App Store subscription is canceled separately.
• Read the guide inside Cleft, even offline. Open Settings → Help & Support → User Guide on iPhone and iPad, or the Help menu on Mac. Pages open at the topic you asked about, and search covers every page.

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Changed

• Continue in Zapier stays available. Choose it after creating an API key or when you return to Zapier settings. Newly issued keys remain available to copy.
• You decide whether Cleft keeps a copy of your audio. After this update, Upload audio starts off on each of your devices, even where it was on before, and it is now part of Cleft Plus. With Plus, turn it back on in Settings → Recording → Audio Storage to play your recordings on your other devices and in shared notes, and Cleft keeps that choice. Transcripts and notes still sync on every plan, and recordings already on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac keep the setting they were made with.
• A fresh welcome. Cleft opens with one line about what it does and two choices: Get started or I have an account. Get started explains Cleft in three short pages before it asks for your email: what it does, what stays on your device, and what your account is for. You can skip them. Setup explains why Cleft needs the microphone before the system asks, starts from the language your device already uses, no longer insists on a name, and ends by offering to record or type your first note. If another transcription option may suit your language better, setup says so and points you to Settings. Quit part way through and Cleft picks up where you stopped.
• Your first note gets a proper welcome. When it is ready, a small banner beside the note says First note saved and offers See it another way or Record another. Record it offline and Cleft tells you the summary arrives when you are back online.
• Every export carries the whole note. Drafts, Bear, the share sheet, Copy Markdown, Copy Rich Text, Copy Plain Text, and the Export Cleft Note shortcut all put the summary first and the transcript after it, whichever tab you had open. Copy Transcript still copies the transcript alone. Local Export files also record the note’s language and style when Cleft knows them, and keep attachments in a visible folder beside the note.
• Local Export is careful with your data plan. When a recording is not on this device, Local Export downloads it only on Wi-Fi unless you turn on Download audio on cellular, and never downloads one over 100 MB. The note is still saved without that audio, and Save existing notes tells you how many recordings each rule left out.
• Languages you speak come first. Language lists in setup and Settings start with the languages from your device’s Language & Region, in your own order. Settings → Recording is now the one place in Settings to choose your language, and Apple Watch records in every language you can choose on iPhone.
• Notion tells you what happened. Coming back from Notion’s sign-in ends with “Notion connected” or the reason it did not connect. Send remembers the database you last used, Open in Notion takes you to the page it made, and when Notion refuses a note, Cleft tells you why and what to do next.
• Capture looks the same everywhere. Widgets and Control Center use the app’s pencil and voice mark, and the Apple Watch complication uses the same voice mark. On iPad, the capture buttons sit in a bar at the bottom of your notes instead of floating over them.
• See when Cleft can hear you. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the recording sphere is clear glass with a fine edge. It grows with your voice and warms as you speak, then settles within half a second of silence. Steady room noise, such as a fan, leaves it neutral. It moves smoothly through pause and resume. If Cleft hears nothing for a few seconds, a short caption below the sphere says what to check. CarPlay shows a still sphere, and on Apple Watch the sphere responds to your voice and holds still while paused or with Reduce Motion on.
• The recording screen says Recording once. On iPhone and iPad, the top shows Recording, the timer and your microphone, and names the note when you add to one. The style dial, Pause and Stop stay at the bottom, under your thumb.
• Save files exactly where you choose. With Cleft Plus, Local Export saves straight into the folder you pick and gives files cleaner, date-first names. Folders you chose before keep working where they are.
• Keep note controls clear at any size. The Notes and Transcript switcher shows Icons only by default. Choose Icons + labels in Settings → General → Note view labels to add its labels. Cleft still simplifies the toolbar when space is tight, so every action stays within reach.
• Use Cleft comfortably in smaller windows and at larger text sizes. On iPad, controls adapt before they clip and stay clear of Stage Manager’s window controls. On iPhone and iPad, text and controls stay readable at larger text sizes, and Back stays easy to tap at every size.
• Choose a note style while recording in CarPlay. Change the style without stopping your recording.
• Filter by tag on iPhone and iPad the way you do on Mac. Tap or click a tag in a note to see your working notes with that tag as a temporary View. Choose Save as View… to keep it. There is no separate row of tag filters taking up space.
• Your keyboard shortcuts apply everywhere. With Cleft Plus, the shortcuts you change also work in menus, recording controls, editor formatting, Send to Notion, the sidebar toggle, and Done.
• Make the note toolbar yours. Choose which actions sit on the note toolbar on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, on every plan. On iPhone and iPad, tap More, then Customize Toolbar…, or touch and hold a button and choose Remove from Toolbar. Anything you take off stays in More under Toolbar. If you take Share off the iPhone toolbar, Send lists the share sheet. On iPhone with iOS 26, Tags and Note Details can also sit at the top of the note. Your iPhone toolbar follows you to your other iPhones. On Mac, open the toolbar’s shortcut menu and choose Customize Toolbar…. More, Edit, and the Notes and Transcript switch always stay. Toolbar icons share one size and weight, and on Mac, Edit shows a pencil.
• Find and capture with your thumb. On iPhone with iOS 26, the bar under your notes is two Liquid Glass capsules: search in one, and the pencil and voice mark together on your thumb’s side in the other. When you have saved Views, a strip just above steps through Inbox and those Views. Tap search and the field fills the bar while you type. Left-handed? Choose Left hand in Settings → General → Handedness and the bar flips to your other thumb. With Reduce Transparency on, the bars stay solid, and on earlier iOS versions your controls stay where they were.
• A note’s actions sit under your thumb too. Open a note on iPhone with iOS 26 and its actions sit below it: play, Share, Copy, and Send in one capsule, and Continue and Edit together in the other at your thumb. Tags and Note Details sit at the top, beside Back, and “Preparing your note” shows there while Cleft works. While you edit, the bar holds Find in text, which can also replace words, and Save. Back stays at the top, where every other iOS app puts it.
• Merge notes knowing which one stays. On iPhone and iPad, tap Select at the top of your library. Pick two notes and they are numbered in the order you chose: the second merges into the first, and Cleft keeps the first. On iPhone with iOS 26, the button says so: Merge 2 into 1.
• Your exported files know what is archived. Local Export records whether each note is archived, so your folder mirrors your library instead of restoring everything as active. Archive after send updates the file to match. The NotePlan and Drafts starting points leave this field out.
• Apple Watch focuses on capture. Cleft on Apple Watch opens to one recording screen with your style, your microphone, and whether your iPhone has received your last recording. At standard text sizes, turn the Digital Crown to change the style, and your choice carries into the next recording. Read, edit, and continue notes on iPhone or Mac. An existing Continue complication now starts a fresh recording.
• Copy has its own button. On Mac and iPad, Copy is its own button in the note toolbar, and on iPhone with iOS 26 it sits in the bar under the note. In those places the Send menu no longer repeats it. On iPhone with an earlier iOS, or when the bar has no room, Copy stays in the Send menu.
• Sharing shows how notes leave Cleft. Settings → Sharing groups your tools by when they send: After every recording, Automatically or with Send, When you choose Send, and Saved to a folder. Local Export opens from its card there. Note apps you install, such as Bear or Drafts, appear there and in a note’s Send menu on their own. Choose Add under Add an Integration to set up another tool, or Remove beside one you are not using, and it stays removed. Every tool you already use stays in place after you update.
• Settings shows what applies. A setting appears only when it can apply. With Local Export off, its other settings stay hidden until you turn it on.
• Settings is one list. Settings shows the same pages in the same order on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and search still finds every page. The page for your language and model is now Recording, and it holds Audio Storage. Integrations is now Sharing, and it holds Copy Format and the Cleft signature. Local Export and About have their own rows again.
• Note menus open where you tap. On iPhone, Send, Tags, and More in the bar under a note open as menus instead of sheets, and on Mac the Tags button opens the same menu. Manage Tags… opens one searchable list on every device. On Mac, press ⌘L to open it.
• One header for your iPad and Mac library. Settings, the Notes menu, and Hide Sidebar share the header above your notes. When the header is crowded, the title moves below the controls so your notes stay in view.
• Messages are easier to read. Short messages at the top of the screen, such as Note copied or No internet, sit on glass that follows light and dark mode on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They fit their text, wrap when it is long, and only the icon carries a colour. On Mac, a button dismisses them.
• Find every Mac command in the menu bar. A new Note menu holds the actions for the open note, and a Format menu holds formatting. Items grey out when they can’t act. Shortcuts that clashed with other Mac apps moved, so Search Notes is ⌥⌘F and Writing Style is ⌥⌘,. A shortcut you changed keeps your choice.
• Continue a note from a widget or Shortcuts. Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action Button cannot show which note a tap would open, so the Continue Last Note control is gone from them. Use the Continue Last or Pinned Note widget, which shows the note, or run the Continue Last Note shortcut, including from the Action Button.
• Family Sharing comes with both Plus plans. Monthly and annual Plus both include Apple Family Sharing, so up to five family members get Plus too.

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Fixed

• Find stays usable with the keyboard open. Back remains reachable, Command-F opens Find on iPad, and typing in the title after Find returns input to the title. Save and formatting controls stay reachable in the iPad editor, including at larger text sizes.
• Widgets and Continue show the current artwork. Widget and Watch branding uses the stacked-note artwork in monochrome and tinted appearances too. Continue shows its voice bars and continuation arrow again.
• Read your note while Cleft finishes it. Your note opens as soon as you stop recording and stays on screen while Cleft transcribes, rewrites, or adds to it. You can open another note in the meantime, and edits you make while it works are kept.
• Long recordings stay complete and in order. Cleft keeps every part in the order you spoke it and retries a part that stalls instead of saving an incomplete note. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac running version 26 or later, constant background noise no longer fills quiet stretches with words you never said. If you leave Cleft while you record, it transcribes only the stretch it missed and slots it back in, so long notes finish sooner.
• Recordings without text get another try. If the audio is still on your device, Cleft transcribes it again on its own, without a connection, including notes already stuck without text. If it truly cannot, the note tells you why and stops retrying.
• Recording is ready for your next thought. If on-device transcription gets stuck, Cleft keeps your recording, lets you start a new one, and tells you when to restart the app.
• A recording that runs into trouble is kept. A paused recording is saved as a note when you pause, so its audio is still there if iOS closes Cleft while your phone is locked. If transcription fails while the recording screen is open, the recording stays in your notes with Retry. If Cleft cannot join the parts of a recording, it keeps every part on your iPhone for 30 days and tells you Part of this recording is missing.
• Recording stays responsive. Starting, stopping, and switching microphones no longer freeze the screen, and a call during a switch pauses your recording with its time intact. A recording you resume after a call hears the microphone straight away. If Cleft can’t hear the microphone, it pauses and tells you why. On iPhone or iPad, if it’s in the background, it stops and keeps what you recorded.
• Every recording starts in your chosen style. A style you change in Settings applies to your very next recording.
• Transcripts leave out sound markers. Tags such as [BLANK_AUDIO] and [Music] no longer appear among your words.
• Notes no longer stall while AI sets up. “Setting up AI (first time only)” now finishes instead of stopping at 99%.
• Your transcript is there when the summary is not. If a summary cannot arrive, open the saved transcript and see when to try again.
• Your notes are safe through an update. If Cleft cannot upgrade the notes stored on your device, it keeps them intact, pauses new recordings, and offers to retry, save a recovery copy, or contact support.
• Unsynced notes survive an unexpected sign-out. If Cleft has to sign you out on its own, notes still waiting to sync keep their audio and finish syncing when you sign back in. When you sign out yourself, Cleft says plainly that unsynced notes are deleted.
• Your notes stay in the language you chose. New notes, rewrites, additions, and retries keep the language you recorded in, even if you change your setting later.
• Capture starts when you ask. Siri, the Action Button, widgets, Control Center, CarPlay, and keyboard shortcuts start, pause, and stop the right recording, even while Cleft is in the background. Their controls switch off as soon as your recording ends, and a late or repeated tap cannot reach a recording that already stopped.
• Live Activities show what is really happening. The Dynamic Island shows Saving while Cleft is still transcribing, recovers if Cleft closes part way, and reports a failure instead of claiming Saved.
• Squeeze your Apple Pencil to stop any recording. It works whether the recording started in the app, from a widget, or with the Action Button, and repeated squeezes cannot start a second one.
• Rotate or resize your iPad without stopping a recording. Recordings keep going through rotation, Split View, and Stage Manager, and your note stays open afterward.
• A Focus that starts recording does it once. Auto-Start Recording fires when the Focus turns on, and only then. Opening Cleft while that Focus is already on takes you to your notes, not the microphone.
• Continue widgets follow your Focus. On iPhone and iPad, the Continue Last and Pinned Note widgets follow your Cleft Focus filter. A note the Focus hides, or one that is not a favorite while the filter shows favorites only, stays off your Home Screen.
• Copy exactly what you mean. Press ⌘C on Mac or iPad to copy selected text while you type or search. Otherwise, Cleft copies the current note in your chosen format and keeps any shared link intact.
• Editing stays focused. ⌘Return saves only the editor you can see. Starting a voice note while you write a text note lets you save, keep, or discard the draft first.
• Cleft tells you why something did not save. When a new note or a recording you add to a note cannot sync, Cleft gives the real reason. It asks you to reconnect only when you are offline, and tells you when an addition became a new note. If a recording stops and its audio cannot be saved, Cleft says so instead of telling you it was saved.
• Note lists respond reliably. Note cards open wherever you tap, archived and shared notes stay visible while they load, and a note you create while filtering keeps that tag. Bulk actions touch only the notes in the list you can see. Archiving a note while Notion or Local Export is still archiving it after a send no longer brings the note back.
• Note cards are easier to scan. Long titles get more room, and Today, Yesterday, and weekday sections show the time instead of repeating the day. Times follow your 12-hour or 24-hour clock, and an untagged note no longer says Not Tagged.
• Writing Style works the first time. Editing one of your own note styles opens it with the name and instructions you saved. Save, Saved, and Cleared appear in your language, one at a time.
• Send Note works on Mac. Press ⌘⇧D, or choose Send Note in File → Share, to send the open note to your default Send destination.
• Save Audio works from everywhere. The player, the note menu, the share sheet, Siri, and Shortcuts all save the same complete file, including offline recordings, and tell you when audio is still processing. On Mac, it saves to any folder you pick, even with long file names in any language.
• Attachments finish uploading and leave your text alone. Uploads retry for a set time, and adding several files at once no longer drops any. A finished upload lands on its own “Uploading” line instead of over your text, and adding one after an emoji no longer splits it.
• Playback that fails stops retrying. Press Play to reload the recording and bring its controls back.
• Shared links keep your choices. Share settings keep the password and audio choices you made, and changing a link’s password keeps the link working.
• Your display name saves again. Changing your name in Settings → Account saves on iPhone, iPad, and Mac without touching your transcription language.
• Spotlight opens the note you picked. Synced and offline notes open correctly, and results keep up with your latest edits and deletions. On Mac, a note shows the right favorite and Focus state straight away.
• Cleft recovers when your connection does. Work resumes as soon as Wi-Fi or mobile data returns, and repeated retry and offline messages collapse into one accurate status.
• Notion is more dependable. Going offline no longer makes Send ask you to reconnect, and skipping the optional archive no longer looks like a canceled send. When Notion is busy, Send says how long to wait, and on Mac a send with several databases and no default opens the list, as on iPhone and iPad.
• Save your whole library with Local Export. Save existing notes includes archived notes and available attachments, keeps Cleft’s attachments apart from folders you already use, and explains any folder problem.
• Watch and CarPlay notes stay in your list. A note recorded on Apple Watch or through CarPlay no longer disappears from your iPhone list after it syncs. New ones show their length in Note Details.
• Apple Watch connects on its own. While your iPhone is locked or out of reach, the watch says it is waiting and keeps trying, then opens when the phone answers. A language you choose on iPhone is ready the next time you open Cleft on the watch.
• Apple Watch recordings keep moving. Pending recordings resume after a restart or reconnect, and a locked iPhone no longer makes them fail. Tapping Retry never starts a second pass. If recording cannot start or save, the watch tells you and offers Retry save. If a call interrupts a recording, the watch tries to carry on, and pauses and says why if it cannot. If the system closes the recording, Cleft saves what you recorded so far.
• CarPlay recordings make it back to your notes. Interrupted or damaged recordings get another recovery attempt without duplicates, including ones from older versions, and the timer stops when recording does. Controls wait for your iPhone before they change, and if you record before choosing a language, CarPlay tells you where to set one.
• Plus shows up correctly. A Mac that starts offline still knows you have Plus, and signing back in shows your own plan straight away. The upgrade sheet always shows the feature you tapped.
• Mac windows behave. Cleft keeps one Notes window and brings it back after ⌘W from the Dock, ⌘Tab, or Window → Notes. A note shortcut acts only on the note in the window you are using, and Escape no longer freezes a new note.
• Cleft on Mac stays open and steady. Resizing a window, starting a recording, or quitting during transcription no longer closes Cleft, and recording controls hold still while models load. Note titles no longer appear upside down on macOS 27.
• Mac controls move the way you expect. Note styles, the Views chooser, and the Notes/Transcript switch follow your Natural Scrolling setting. The Notes/Transcript switch keeps clear contrast in light and dark mode.
• Siri and Shortcuts find notes in any device language. On a device set to Turkish, a search for a note titled INVOICE finds it, and Turkish words match in either case.
• Apple Watch and CarPlay recording is calmer. Stop is the one colored button, and the timer reads “0:08 of 5:00” on every device. On Apple Watch, cancel from the top corner. Once a recording passes five seconds, Cleft asks before discarding it. Ask Siri on your watch to stop recording in Cleft.
• Cleft asks before it throws a recording away. On iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Cancel and Restart ask first once a recording runs past about five seconds. On Mac, Esc keeps your recording.
• Copied notes say Assisted with Cleft. The line at the end of a copied note now reads “Assisted with Cleft”. Turn it off with Cleft Signature in Settings → Sharing.
• Notes and recording look the same everywhere. The recording screen names each step the way the processing screen does. Mac note cards show pin and favorite marks, and a note that failed to sync offers Retry. Messages such as being offline look like information instead of errors.
• The New Voice Note control is back. A Lock Screen or Control Center slot you set up in 1.14 keeps it. The control and the Live Activity no longer show Stop when nothing is recording.
• Share opens from the button you tapped. On Mac, Share opens under the Send button. On iPad, sharing a note, reporting a problem, and saving your account copy open from the button you tapped.

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Security

• Your sign-in stays on your device. Your sign-in, and any AI key you added yourself, now live in the Keychain, the protected store your device already uses for passwords. They no longer travel through iCloud settings or a backup, so after you restore a backup onto a new device, you sign in again.
• Your subscription provider learns less about you. Cleft no longer sends your name or email address to the service that checks your Plus subscription, and uses a random billing reference instead of your account number wherever Cleft’s servers provide one. Plus and Restore Purchase work as before.
• Your Zapier key is shown once. A new key stays on screen with a copy button until you confirm you saved it, and Cleft then keeps only a fingerprint that cannot be turned back into the key. If a device cannot show your key, Replace key swaps it for a new one after you confirm.
• Exported files no longer hint at how many notes you have. New Local Export files use random references instead of database numbers. Folders that hold both kinds keep working in Cleft and in connected AI apps.
• Connecting Notion keeps your account number out of the link. Cleft asks its server for the sign-in link instead of building one on your device.
• Diagnostics leave your notes out. If you turn on crash reports, they carry no note identifiers, account details, or private file paths, and full crash details go only to the crash-reporting service. System logs hide recording locations and error details, and Cleft deletes a device ID that versions before opt-in diagnostics left behind.

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Accessibility

• Read Cleft at any text size. Recording, playback, and recovery controls, note previews, confirmations, onboarding and sign-in, plan comparisons, and the writing-style editor all follow your text size. Plan comparisons reflow into labeled rows at the largest sizes, and the recording timer stays put.
• Widgets and Apple Watch stay readable. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, the Apple Watch app, and its complications keep their labels legible at the largest size each supports. Apple Watch shows status in words, never placeholder codes.
• Password managers fill Mac sign-in. Email fields on the Mac sign-in and sign-up screens are clearer to password managers and accessibility tools.
• Buttons and selections are easier to read. Switches, buttons and selections use a deeper Cleft red, so white text on them stays clear in light and dark mode. Links use the link colour.

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Capture You Can Count On

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Changed

• Account details stay private on screen. Your name, email, and App User ID stay hidden until you reveal them. When you need help, copy your App User ID so we can find your account without showing your email.
• Settings stay in the right place. Your preferences keep following you through iCloud, while device-specific choices stay on the device they belong to.

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Fixed

• Recent-note widgets show the right note. Your widget keeps showing your latest note instead of going back to an older one.
• Unfinished notes are clearer to retry. If Cleft saves your recording but cannot finish writing the note, it keeps the recording ready to retry instead of showing or exporting a note that looks done.
• Widget starts respect your choice. If you back out of a Lock Screen or widget recording launch, Cleft does not start that recording later by surprise.
• Apple Watch shows the right note details. Recent notes on your Watch show the correct summary, date, archived status, tags, and account.
• Apple Watch recordings finish more reliably. A recording that already reached your iPhone can finish after you reopen Cleft or reconnect.
• Apple Watch keeps your selected style. Watch recordings use the style you chose on your Watch when they first sync. Later rewrites on iPhone, iPad, and Mac use your current style setting.

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Clearer Writing, Calmer Controls

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Fixed

• Your recording stays with your note. Voice notes keep their audio after they sync, so playback and audio export stay available instead of leaving you with the transcript alone.
• Background recordings finish processing. A recording that starts in the background now picks back up and completes instead of getting stranded when you return to Cleft.
• Typed notes are ready when you are. Long-press New Note to start writing right away. Save stays legible on iPhone, and your text stays editable until you save or discard it.
• Notes and Transcript follow your tap. Switching between Notes and Transcript stays reliable on iPhone and iPad, so the view you pick is the view you see.
• Playback tells you when audio is loading. Play now shows when your recording is getting ready on Mac, so you are not left guessing.
• Send and More stay reliable on Mac. Toolbar menus open at full size on the first click with native menu labels, plus cleaner dismissal and tooltips, so copy, share, delete, and your other note actions are always reachable.
• Cleft keeps its own warm accent. Settings and What’s New stay on Cleft’s color instead of falling back to system blue.

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Notes and Automations Stay Reliable

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Added

• Your Zapier automations get richer note data. Note Created, Note Updated, Note Published, Note Unpublished, and Comment Added triggers now receive more complete fields with more reliable delivery, and you do not need to reconnect Cleft.
• Your backups identify where they came from. Portable backup folders now show the Cleft version that created them, so exported folders are easier to trace later.

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Fixed

• Custom note styles work on iPhone and iPad. Create a style from Writing Style settings, then long-press Edit to reopen it pre-filled and ready to change.
• Toolbar actions stay reachable on iPad and Mac. Send and More open reliably again, so copy, share, delete, and the rest of your note actions remain available from the toolbar.
• Mac shortcuts keep working after toolbar menus. Opening Send or More no longer gets in the way of keyboard shortcuts.

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Make Cleft yours

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Added

• Pick how Cleft writes each note, right from the recording screen. A style selector sits just above the record button. Tap, swipe, scroll, or use the arrow keys on Mac to move between Structured, Structured Prose, Clean Transcript, and any style you have made, then record. Your choice shapes that note and any note you regenerate later, and it lives in Settings too, under Note Style.
• Make your own note styles. With Plus, create named styles with their own instructions, then drag the whole list, built-in and custom together, into the order you like. That order follows you across your devices.

• Set a writing rule Cleft follows every time. Your Rules lets Plus members add a standing instruction like “no adverbs” or “keep it brief”. You get up to 500 characters. Saved rules stay visible but paused if Plus is no longer active, and you can clear them whenever you choose.

• Choose your note style on Apple Watch and in CarPlay. Dial through your styles with the Digital Crown as you record on your wrist, or tap one on the CarPlay home screen before you set off. Plus members see their own styles in both places.
• Cancel a CarPlay recording you didn’t mean to start. Stop and Pause now have a Cancel control beside them, so a recording you started by mistake is no longer one you have to finish.

• Pick your settings once, see them everywhere. Theme, note style, copy format, note language, your writing rules, Notion auto-send, and your save-to-device choices stay in sync across every iPhone, iPad, and Mac signed into the same iCloud account.
• Every note saves to your device automatically. Saving notes as files on your device is free on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. With Plus, pick the folder yourself: your Obsidian vault, a NotePlan project, a Logseq graph, a Drafts folder, or anywhere you like.
• Keep the voice memo next to the note. Turn on the audio toggle in Settings and the original recording saves right beside the written note. Tap to replay anytime.

• Find your Cleft notes alongside everything else you’ve written. Title, tags, and dates travel with every note, so Obsidian, NotePlan, and Drafts can sort and search them the same way they handle your other notes. A small “made by Cleft” tag inside each file shows where it came from.
• See where Cleft is saving on your Mac. Settings can reveal your active save folder in Finder or show the exact path. Works whether you’re on Free or Plus, and whether you stuck with the default folder or picked your own.
• See how much space your voice memos are using. Turn on the audio toggle and Settings shows the number of files and total size at a glance.
• Start recording from anywhere on your Mac with one keystroke. Press ⌥⌘N and Cleft starts recording, even when the app is hidden or in the background. Rebind it or turn it off in Settings → Shortcuts.
• Jump straight to a note on Mac. Press Command-1 through Command-9 to open the matching note in the current list, filter, or search result. Cleft scrolls it into view when needed.
• Know the moment a new version is ready. When a newer Cleft is available, a gentle reminder appears on your Home screen and takes you straight to the update. It never blocks recording, and you can wave it away for now.

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Changed

• The recording style selector feels more tactile. Drag through note styles like a camera dial, with each style tilting into place and a small haptic tick as you pass it.
• The note styles have clear, plain names. Three built-in styles, Structured, Structured Prose, and Clean Transcript, each with a one-line description so you know what you’re picking before you pick it.
• Writing settings are easier to tell apart. Your Rules holds the instructions Cleft follows every time; Note Style picks the shape of the note. The two no longer blur together.
• Upgrade prompts for custom styles are clearer. Creating your own style now opens a dedicated Plus screen, and Mac no longer shows a second upgrade card in the same settings panel.
• Cleaner previews in your notes list. Each card shows a short, plain-text gist of the summary at a steady height, so the list scans at a glance. The full summary is still on the note itself.
• Spot your notes at a glance in your folder. Files are now named with the date and a few words from the note, like 2026-05-06-meeting-with-jonny, instead of a long ID number. Older notes get their new name the next time you edit them.
• Already saving to a folder? You get a heads-up first. The next time you open Cleft on Mac, iPhone, or iPad, a one-time screen walks you through what’s about to change and offers to open your folder so you can back it up.
• Set up Local Sync right from your iPhone or iPad. Settings on iPhone and iPad now has the same Local Sync controls as Mac. Turn save-to-device on or off, pick your folder, flip the audio companion, and check your storage, all without reaching for your Mac.
• Find your way around Mac Settings at a glance. The sidebar now shows an icon, name, and one-line description for every section. Press ⌘1 through ⌘6 to jump straight to one. About opens from the Cleft Notes menu where Mac users expect it, and a new Help & Support section gathers bug reports, feature requests, What’s New, the roadmap, changelog, Terms, Privacy, Accessibility, and your version info in one place.
• See every keyboard shortcut Cleft responds to in one searchable list. A new Shortcuts section in Mac Settings (⌘4) lists every shortcut, with the global recording shortcut right at the top.
• Local Sync has its own place in Settings. Save-to-device controls are grouped together instead of sharing space with automation integrations.
• Cleaner Sync Folder buttons in Settings. One “Choose Custom Folder…” button replaces the two confusing options, and the confirmation screens drop the internal folder name so it’s clearer what’s about to happen.
• Roadmap and feature-request links open the Cleft roadmap. In-app links now point to cleftnotes.com/roadmap instead of the old Canny board.

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Fixed

• Delete confirmations stay open until you choose. The Delete Note alert no longer flashes away before you can confirm or cancel.
• Recording style controls behave reliably. Haptics fire on iPhone, long custom style names shrink to fit, styles deleted on one device fall back cleanly on the others, and the Mac selector only responds to scrolling while your pointer is on it.
• Local Sync setup finishes what you ask. Default iPhone and iPad exports now appear in Files under On My iPhone → Cleft, Save Existing Notes starts right away, and Cleft tells you clearly when an export or backup could not finish.
• Mac controls match the current system. The sidebar toggle, toolbar menus, Play button, selected note cards, window zooming, and keep-running-after-close behavior now line up with modern macOS.
• Apple Watch notes that got stuck now sync reliably. A recording whose transfer froze used to wait forever. Now it recovers on its own once your iPhone is in reach, a tap on Sync re-sends it, and long memos come across too. The watch tells you what’s really happening instead of leaving you on an endless spinner, and a duplicated or interrupted transfer still lands as exactly one note.
• Mac recording shortcuts keep working after you reopen the recorder. The global shortcut stays reliable even after the recording view has appeared more than once.
• Your edits stay on the right note. Switch to another note while a save is still finishing and your text, images, tags, and Notion actions stay with the note you actually edited, instead of landing on the one you just opened.
• Editing a note no longer drops keystrokes. Your typing stays put when an autosave lands while your cursor is still in the note.
• Text notes survive interruptions. Cleft keeps a draft as you write, so a note you’re typing isn’t lost if something cuts in.
• Rewrite follows the note style you selected. Clean Transcript, Structured Prose, and your custom styles are honored when you rewrite an existing note.
• Open a brand-new note and see the real title right away. Tap into a note you just recorded and the title and transcript show up immediately, instead of flashing placeholder text first.
• New note cards fill in as soon as their content arrives. The home list, filters, search results, and note detail view now agree as the title, body, and tags come in.
• Cancel a recording instantly on iPhone. Tap Cancel and you’re back to your notes right away, no half-second wait.
• Continue Note preserves your recording on iPhone. If the recording screen is dismissed unexpectedly, Cleft no longer leaves a stuck recording indicator or loses the audio you already captured.
• Background dictation fills in the missing words. Words spoken while Cleft is in another app, or while your device is hot enough that live transcription pauses, are recovered into the saved note.
• Silence stays silent. A near-silent recording no longer turns into invented text. You get the Blank Audio note instead.
• A borrowed microphone comes back cleanly. If another app briefly takes the mic, Cleft resumes your recording and lets you know; if it can’t, it ends the recording with a clear reason.
• The first time you open Cleft, granting mic permission won’t slow it down. Step out to Settings, allow the microphone, come back. Cleft picks up where it left off.
• Grant mic permission on Mac and land straight in the recording view. The first time you say yes to the microphone on Mac, Cleft now opens the recording screen right away instead of starting a silent recording with no UI.
• Search snippets read right in emoji-rich notes. Note cards show accurate previews even when your match comes after an emoji.
• The sync icon only shows when a note is actually waiting. Notes that are simply processing no longer wear the same warning as offline or stuck ones.
• Archive, tag, and search lists stay consistent. They no longer show duplicate notes or the wrong empty state while Cleft is still loading.
• Queued notes no longer turn into duplicates. A note you saved offline collapses back to one once it finishes syncing, even after a retry or a weak connection.
• New notes finish syncing cleanly. Notes saved on a weak connection no longer show transcript errors while they finish syncing.
• Your sync folder shows its real name on iPhone and iPad. Settings now displays the folder you picked in Files, like “Obsidian Vault”, instead of a long internal path that looked broken.
• Cleft tells you if saving to your folder keeps failing. A clear warning in Settings, instead of leaving you to assume your files are landing.
• Your notes look right in any language. Whether you use Cleft in German, Japanese, English, or anything else, Obsidian shows your title and tags correctly.
• Your voice memo saves alongside every new note, right away. Turn on the audio toggle and the recording lands beside the written note the moment you save, not later.
• Notion errors point you straight to the fix. Every Notion error message now names the exact place to go, Settings → Integrations, instead of just saying “check Settings”.
• Plus on Watch and widgets the second you open them. Apple Watch recording and your Home and Lock Screen widgets know you’re a Plus subscriber right away, no brief flicker of the Free experience first.
• Upgrade links wait for subscription status. Upgrade screens no longer flash a false “subscription active” message during the brief window before your plan has loaded.
• Your theme follows you across devices, too. Pick light or dark mode on one device and every iPhone, iPad, and Mac signed into the same iCloud account matches, alongside the rest of your settings.
• Symbols like < and > stay readable when you share a note. Send a note through Shortcuts or the Share Sheet and angle brackets now arrive intact, instead of turning into a garbled < in the receiving app.
• Links into Cleft open the right place. App destinations, note styles, Writing Style, and Custom Instructions links take you to the screen you expected, and only explicit upgrade links can show Plus.
• Failed saves leave note timestamps alone. If a note or tag edit rolls back, the visible modified time no longer changes as if the save had worked.
• Connection problems are clearer. Dropped or timed-out requests no longer appear as offline mode.
• Logout cleanup is safer. Interrupted prior-account recordings no longer linger after the next app launch.
• One Save shortcut on Mac, doing the right thing. ⌘Return now saves whatever you’re working on, an open note, a text recording, or your writing style, instead of showing two rows in the File menu.
• Your password manager fills your email at sign-in. iCloud Keychain and other password managers now offer the address you saved instead of making you retype it.
• Entering your sign-in code is more forgiving. Delete from or paste a code into any of the six boxes without focus getting stuck in the wrong place.
• Cancelling a recording leaves your other notes alone. Discarding or restarting a recording now clears only that recording, so the voice memos on your saved notes stay exactly where they are.
• Your recordings stay put after an update. When Cleft tidies up audio behind the scenes after an update, it no longer mistakes a recording it just moved for a missing one, so nothing gets cleaned up by accident.
• Big images no longer crash the editor on Mac. Drop in a large screenshot or photo and Cleft resizes it before upload, so an oversized file can’t take the editor down.
• The Mac window always comes back. Reopen Cleft from the Dock, Command-Tab, or the Window menu and your notes window returns reliably, even moments after launch.
• Background work stays in the background. Cleft no longer flashes a “trouble reaching our servers” message for things you didn’t start, like a quiet background sync, saving existing notes to a folder, or retrying an offline note. Those recover on their own, and the message is saved for actions you’re actually waiting on.
• Subscription screens tell you when they can’t load. If your plan details can’t be reached on the way into Manage or Cancel Subscription, Cleft now says so and lets you try again, instead of the tap doing nothing.
• Changing your mind about a purchase stays quiet. Close the App Store payment sheet or cancel a restore and Cleft treats it as a cancellation, with no error flashing on Mac.
• Terms, Privacy, and subscription links open the right page. Wherever you tap them, at sign-up, in Account, About, or Help, they now go straight to the correct page.

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Removed

• Old mobile Settings shortcuts are gone. iPhone and iPad no longer show Roadmap, Default Send Shortcut, or Keyboard Shortcuts rows for features that are available on Mac or the web.

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Smoother note lists

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Fixed

• Your full note list loads reliably, however long it gets. Scrolling back through a large library no longer hits an error while older notes load in.

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Service Reliability

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Fixed

• Voice notes save more reliably when storage is tight. Failed audio saves now clean up temporary files before retrying, so one bad attempt no longer blocks later recordings from saving.
• Fewer false offline errors. Long-running saves and syncs are less likely to fail while your device is still online.
• Zapier comment automations get the reply text again. Comment webhooks now include the reply content your Zap expects, so follow-up automations have the data they need.

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Think While You Drive

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Added

• CarPlay recording. Tap the New Note button on your car screen, speak your thought, and your note is waiting on your phone when you arrive.
• Pause and resume CarPlay recordings. Tap Pause if you need a moment, then Resume when you are ready. The timer freezes while paused.
• Stop and start the next note right away. When you tap Stop in CarPlay, the screen saves immediately. You can record the next note without waiting for the previous one to finish processing.
• Smaller CarPlay recordings. CarPlay notes upload as compact files about a fifth the size of before, so they sync faster on patchy signal.
• Spot CarPlay notes at a glance. A small steering wheel mark on each note shows it came from your car. A pulsing dot means it is still processing. A warning icon means you can tap to retry.

• Send a note in one tap. A new Send button on the note toolbar puts Notion and three Copy options (Markdown, Plain Text, Transcript) one tap away.

• Every recording lands in Notion automatically. Plus users pick a Notion database once in Settings → Integrations → Notion, and finished recordings push there with no per-note tap. Manual Send reuses the same destination so taps and recordings always go to the same place.
• Tidy your library after a manual Send. A new Plus toggle in Settings → Integrations → Notion moves a note to your Archived filter the moment Notion confirms a manual Send. Off by default, and the note stays recoverable from Archived.

• Pin any note to your home screen. Long-press a note in your list, or tap Pin to Widget from the more (•••) menu of an open note. The pinned note stays front and center on the widget until you pin a different one.
• Continue your last note from anywhere. A new Continue Last widget refreshes to your most recent note. Control Center adds a Continue Last Note button that picks up where you left off.

• Siri and Shortcuts work end to end. Search Notes, Get Last Transcript, Export Note, Get Note Summary, and more all return real results from your account. Build a Shortcut, ask Siri, or run an action from the Share sheet.

• See how long you’ve been recording at a glance. Elapsed time appears in the Dynamic Island, on your Lock Screen, and in the Mac Menu Bar while a recording is in progress.
• A guided tour inside the app. Settings now has a Widgets section that walks through every place Cleft shows up. Pinned Note, Continue Last, Dynamic Island, Control Center, CarPlay, and the Action Button.
• Bigger text, still sharp. Note text and toolbar icons scale with your Dynamic Type setting, so larger text stays readable on every iPhone.

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Changed

• Press record and go. Bluetooth headsets and AirPods are ready the moment you tap record, and switching devices mid-recording no longer stalls the waveform.
• Hear the full save tone. The chime after you stop a recording plays through to the end instead of cutting off short.
• A cleaner note toolbar. Pin to Widget moved into the note’s ••• menu next to Archive and Manage, freeing toolbar space for the new Send button.
• Mac commands where you’d expect them. Zoom and Show / Hide now live under the standard View menu instead of a duplicate.
• The Window menu is always available on Mac. A new “Notes” entry stays visible even when no windows are open, so you can reopen your notes from the menu bar anytime.
• Close the window without closing the app on Mac. Cmd+W or the red close button now keeps Cleft running in your Dock. Cmd+Q still quits cleanly.
• Cmd+Tab back to Cleft on Mac behaves. Coming back to Cleft no longer pops it above the app you were just using, and clicking the Dock icon reliably restores the right window.
• Pin and Edit feel like one control now. The pin toggle moved from the floating button into the header toolbar.
• Pick photos faster. Adding a photo to a note uses the latest iOS photo picker instead of the older camera roll.
• Faster scrolling. Tag filtering and note loading are noticeably snappier when you have a lot of notes.
• Less visual noise while notes transcribe. Cleft shows one shared progress bar instead of one per note.

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Fixed

• Your music picks back up on its own. Apple Music, Audible, Pocket Casts, and any other app you were listening to start playing again within a couple of seconds of saving a note.
• Upgrade to Plus mid-drive. Tap upgrade while you are recording in CarPlay and your longer recording time is available right away.
• Continue waits for slow saves. On a patchy connection, the Continue recorder now stays open until your save confirms, instead of closing early.
• Recording stop is crash-safe. Stop a recording while another app or a call interrupts the audio session and your note is preserved instead of crashing the app.
• Transcription handles low memory. When the device runs short on memory, the transcript step shows a retry option instead of ending the app.
• Subscription status loads cleanly at launch. Pro features no longer flicker off on slow networks or during a fresh start.
• Connect to Zapier from Settings. Open Settings → Integrations → Zapier and link your account in one tap.
• Second recording always captures sound. Pressing record straight after another note hears your microphone every time.
• Pause and resume capture audio. Resume after a pause and your recording continues with sound, not silence.
• Sync badge clears properly. Phantom notes no longer inflate the number on your sync indicator.
• Photo export works again. Saving a note image no longer fails on newer iOS versions.
• Notes display correctly behind the Dynamic Island. Content no longer hides behind the status bar on newer iPhones.
• Recording stays on screen until done. You will not be sent back, even if you tap back, while your note is still processing.
• Watch and CarPlay notes arrive reliably. Recordings made offline or on a flaky connection now sync to your phone the moment you are back online.
• Empty recordings clean themselves up. Leftover empty notes from a previous bug no longer clutter your list or sync count, and notes with real content are always safe.
• Recordings take less storage. Cleft no longer keeps the intermediate audio file around once your note has finished saving, and old leftover files are tidied up the first time you open this version.
• Unfinished notes go to the right screen. Partially synced notes no longer show a blank view.

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Quieter Under the Hood

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Changed

• Your edits are safe. Close the app, lose power, switch screens. Your changes are waiting when you come back.
• See why a note failed. One clear reason, one tap to try again.
• Uploads that fix themselves. If something goes wrong with your audio, the app sorts it out in the background.
• Apple Watch recordings get through. Walk away from your phone and your recording still arrives when you reconnect.

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Fixed

• Mac recordings save before closing. The app waits until your work is safe before dismissing.
• Retry works on every failed note. Some previously stuck notes can now be retried with a single tap.
• Smoother audio recovery. Upload issues resolve automatically so your notes come through complete.
• Watch sync is more reliable. Recordings transfer consistently, even after being out of range.

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Never Miss a Word

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Changed

• Your full recording, every time. Connect AirPods, plug in a mic, switch devices. Your recording keeps going without missing a word.
• More accurate transcripts. Long recordings come through clean. Every section in the right order, nothing repeated or skipped.
• Record through anything. USB mics, Bluetooth headsets, external displays. Nothing interrupts your flow.

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Fixed

• Recordings survive device changes. AirPods, USB mics, Bluetooth speakers. Switch mid-recording and nothing is lost.
• Transcript accuracy improved for longer recordings.
• iPad split view navigation crash resolved.

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Built to Last

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Changed

• Better transcription. Catches phantom words that aren’t in your audio.
• Quiet recordings come through. Low-volume audio sounds right before transcription.
• Titles keep up. Progress indicator while longer titles generate.
• Code blocks look the part. Monospace font and proper styling in your notes.
• Back means back. Navigating away cleans up properly.
• iPad and Mac split view. Your selected note stays put when you refresh.

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Fixed

• Way more stable. Fewer crashes across iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch.
• Quieter in the background. Reduced unnecessary background activity so your battery lasts longer.
• Deep links work with paywall. Tapping a link no longer gets stuck.
• Your audio is protected. Upload interruptions can’t delete your recording.

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Polish Edition

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Added

• Choose your date format. Pick the format that makes sense to you in Settings.
• Cmd+/ for search. Quick access to search from anywhere on Mac.
• Keyboard shortcuts in Settings. Cmd+1 through Cmd+5 to switch tabs on Mac.
• Better first experience. Smoother onboarding with instruction templates to get you started.

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Changed

• Cleaner note list. Redesigned cards with better spacing.
• Simpler toolbar on iPhone. Consolidated into one tidy sheet.
• Tags. Unified picker, bigger tap targets, and bulk management across multiple notes.
• Sharing. More reliable across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Spotlight search. Finds tags, works offline.
• Mac Settings. Redesigned with native styling.
• Smoother transitions. Less jank when processing notes.
• AirPods mic on Mac. Detected properly on first recording.

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Fixed

• Way more stable. Eliminated dozens of crash causes across the app.
• Faster. Removed hangs that caused momentary freezes.
• Offline notes work. No more getting stuck without a connection.
• Mac polish. Settings window behaves, logout works, delete alerts are consistent.
• Watch sync. Notes don’t duplicate, transcription is more reliable, offline recordings sync when you’re back online.

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Liquid Fast Edition

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Added

• Your note is ready when you are. No more waiting after you stop recording.
• Synced notes auto-export (Mac). iPhone & Watch notes land in your local folder automatically.
• Restart a note while recording. Changed your mind? Discard and start fresh without leaving the recording screen.

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Changed

• Record, stop, 3 seconds. Down from 20 seconds. Upgraded transcription engine.
• Only changed notes sync. No more full reloads. Way faster on large libraries.
• Smarter notebook engine. Handles tricky recordings without crashing.
• No more phantom “Thank you”. Silence filtering catches hallucinations.
• Local Sync works better. More reliable syncing between devices.

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Fixed

• Way more stable. 10+ crash causes eliminated.
• Quality checks don’t repeat every 60 seconds anymore.
• Cancel a recording, Live Activity goes away.
• Recordings save the moment you hit stop.
• GPU issues handled gracefully. Falls back to CPU if needed.
• Switch apps mid-recording. Transcription picks up where you left off.
• Recording view looks right on Mac.
• No more background crashes on Mac.
• Copy buttons work reliably on Mac. Toolbar copy actions no longer fail silently.

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Rock-Solid Reliability

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Fixed

• Your recordings are safe. Even if something goes wrong, audio is protected.
• App stays rock-solid. No more unexpected crashes.

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Better Audio, Smoother Sync

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Changed

• Quiet recordings come through clearer. Better transcription accuracy.
• See your recording without unlocking. Timer on your lock screen.
• Feel when things happen. Tactile feedback throughout.
• Know what buttons do. Hover or long-press any icon.
• Reopen the sidebar easily. Collapsed it on iPad? Bring it back.
• Login codes fill themselves in. One-tap verification.
• Widgets update instantly. Changes reflect right away.
• iPad looks sharper. Tighter spacing, cleaner forms.
• Play unfinished notes. Listen while still processing.
• Cleaner clipboard paste. Strips formatting automatically.
• Record on your watch with AirPods. Or Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
• See where each recording starts. Dividers between sessions.

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Fixed

• Offline notes finally sync. Made a note without wifi? It’ll upload.
• No more stuck spinners. Reconnecting is instant now.
• Filters work reliably. Pick a tag, see matching notes.
• Bluetooth mics work better. Smoother device selection.
• Deleted notes stay deleted. No more ghost notes.
• Play button works on Mac. Click play, it plays.
• One sync button on Mac. Removed the duplicate.
• No more crashes. Playback, Settings, and more.
• Keyboard appears reliably. Fixed iPadOS focus issues.
• Text doesn’t get cut off. Fixed macOS layout.
• Background transcription retries. Retries automatically.
• Recording status stays in sync. Lock screen timer works.
• Mac toolbar polished. Cleaner buttons, better spacing.
• Fewer interruptions. Clearer upgrade paths.

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Accessibility

• VoiceOver reads context menus. Full screen reader support.
• Bigger touch targets. Buttons are easier to tap, especially on smaller screens.
• Navigate with your keyboard. Improved keyboard navigation throughout.

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A Notes App That Really Works

“A notes app that really works.”

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Changed

• Start talking immediately. Tap record, see your words.
• Notes follow you everywhere. Phone to Mac, instantly synced.
• Pull down to sync. Grab latest from any device.
• “Hey Siri, take a note”. Voice commands, hands-free.
• Keyboard-first on Mac. N to record, C to copy, S to share. All shortcuts →
• Links open in Cleft. Tap links from emails to jump in.
• Continue where you left off (Plus). Add recordings to any note.
• Other apps can use audio. FaceTime, Spotify work alongside.
• Pin notes to Home Screen. Widgets for important notes.
• Auto-copy to clipboard. Transcribed note, ready to paste.
• Richer formatting. Bold, italic, headings, quotes.
• See what’s included. Plan features at a glance.
• Easier-to-read transcripts. Paragraph breaks for scannability.
• Accessibility improvements. VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, haptics.
• Vote on our roadmap. Upvote features from Settings.

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Fixed

• Create notes back-to-back. Finish one, start another.
• Say yes to the mic once. Then we get out of your way.
• Recordings save reliably. Voice notes captured consistently.
• Plus works immediately. No delays, no refreshing.
• Record without interruptions. Talk as long as you need.
• Switch headphones mid-thought. Swap devices without losing audio.
• Offline recordings sync. Upload when you’re back online.
• See what’s waiting. Pending notes indicator.
• No more “got interrupted” errors. Background sync fixed.
• AirPods just work. Preferred device stays connected.
• Smoother waveform. Fixed rare display glitch.
• Language settings stick. No more resets.
• Mac opens cleanly. One window, every time.

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For Our International Users 🌍

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Contributors

• 13 Zapier Templates - Enhanced card-based display showing status, setup time, and daily time savings for each template
• Organized by Category - Task Management (7), Issue Tracking (3), Knowledge Management (2), and Note-Taking (1) templates for easy discovery
• Visual Hierarchy - Each card displays ✅ Public status, ~2 min setup time, and 10-20 min/day saved - making ROI transparent at a glance
• Platform Browse - Find templates organized by your favorite tools: Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Notion, Reflect, and more

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What’s New

• Spotlight Search - Find any note instantly from anywhere on your device - just swipe down and search! Watch demo →
• Live Transcription - Watch your words appear in real-time as you speak
• Apple Watch Support - Record notes directly from your wrist! Recordings sync to your iPhone for transcription and processing. Includes complications for quick access.
• 2x Faster Performance - Everything’s snappier with our improved Whisper model

• Simpler structure - Find what you need in 3 clear sections: User Guides, The Cookbook, and Resources
• Better support - New dedicated pages for getting help and understanding your data rights
• Role-specific guides - Whether you’re a CEO, student, or creative, we have guides for you
• Cleaner navigation - Everything is where you’d expect it to be

• Expanded vendor transparency - Complete list now includes 37 vendors (up from 32) with enhanced EU data residency including 1Password, Revolut Business, Cloudflare, Namecheap, and Rebrandly → View All Vendors
• Lowered age requirement - Now welcoming users 13+ with parental or bill payer’s permission (down from 16+) → Terms of Service
• Enhanced accessibility roadmap - Clear timeline for screen reader support, VoiceOver improvements, and Cleft 2.0 accessibility features → Accessibility Statement
• Updated data processing agreement - Enhanced with missing vendor details and improved transparency → Data Processing Agreement
• Refreshed privacy policies - All trust center documents aligned with current protections → Trust Center Overview

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Added

• Spotlight Search - Find any note instantly from anywhere on your Mac. Just use Command+Space and search - your notes are now part of macOS Spotlight! Watch demo →
• Live Transcription - Watch your words appear in real-time as you speak. See exactly what’s being captured with our new progress indicator.
• Better Offline Sync - Captured a thought without internet? No problem. Your notes sync perfectly when you’re back online.

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Changed

• 2x Faster Performance - Everything’s snappier! Made significant improvements to the Whisper model utilizing CoreML for even better and faster processing on device. Note: The app size is slightly larger due to the improved model. The first transcription will be a little slower as it loads the model into memory.
• Full macOS Parity - Mac users get all the same great features including Spotlight Search with Command+Space.
• Documentation Overhaul - learn.cleftnotes.com got a major facelift! Check out the refreshed Getting Started guide, new platform-specific sections for iOS and macOS, plus tons of new content throughout.

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Important Notes

• macOS Release: Available now on Mac App Store
• iOS Coming Soon: iOS version with Spotlight Search coming soon - stay tuned!
• You may need to re-authenticate after updating to this version.

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Added

• Enhanced Audio Device Handling - Seamlessly switch between AirPods, headsets and internal microphone during recording
• Microphone Indicator - New indicator showing current audio input device while recording
• Push Notifications - Get notified for recording interruptions (calls, alarms)

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Changed

• Optimized Whisper Model - Now loads after recording starts to improve performance on older devices
• Editor Improvements - Increased line height in the editor for easier note editing
• Delete UX - Removes the current note from view if you delete it (Thanks Vince!)

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Added

• Notion Integration - Send your Cleft notes to Notion with our latest integration
• Auto-send to Notion - Auto send the note to Notion if you only have 1 Notion database selected. Instant send, less clicks.
• Offline States - Added a nice new empty state and offline state for when you’re recording offline!
• Silence Detection - Improved silence detection for long recordings
• Send Icon - New Send icon (paper plane) with integrated sharing options

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Changed

• Editor Readability - Enhanced editor readability with increased line height
• Sync Context Menu - Added Sync Online to context menu for offline notes
• Dark Mode - Improved dark mode in integrations view
• iOS Share Menu - Changed the iOS share menu to use dropdowns like the macOS and iPad apps

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Fixed

• Image upload reliability issues
• Recording resume after app switch
• Offline transcript saving
• Icon size consistency
• Text truncation issue in view tab
• Dynamic font sizes on pop over menus
• Shareable link auto-copy to clipboard

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Added

• Apple Family Sharing - Support for Apple Family Sharing
• Custom Instructions - Custom instructions for Plus Plan subscribers

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Changed

• New Pricing - Annual plan $39/year (was $89/year), Monthly plan $7/month (was $9/month)
• Family Sharing - Family sharing capabilities under one subscription

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Fixed

• Tag saving issue when tapping return on keyboard
• Lock screen widget issue on iOS18

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Added

• Zapier Triggers - Improved Zapier Triggers with tag-based automation
• Zapier Export - Enhanced Zapier data export capabilities
• Smart Audio Handling - Smart audio handling for iOS/iPadOS

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Changed

• macOS: Audio device selection in settings
• macOS: Keyboard shortcuts reference in Menu Bar
• iOS/iPadOS: Automatic audio pause/resume during recording
• iOS/iPadOS: Enhanced clipboard options for new notes

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Fixed

• Page navigation issues in iOS 18
• Streamlined interface improvements

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Added

• macOS App - macOS application on Mac App Store
• In-app Purchases - In-app purchases for iOS and macOS
• Clipboard Options - Enhanced clipboard functionality with multiple copy options

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Changed

• Automatic clipboard copy options for:
  • Links
  • Markdown
  • Plaintext
  • Combined text and shared links

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Known Issues

• Gaps in silence with Whisper model

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Added

• Password Protected Links - Password protected shareable links for Plus Plan
• Account Management - Account details update functionality
• Auto-copy on macOS - Auto-copy to clipboard on macOS

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Fixed

• Microphone functionality issues
• Filter performance improvements

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Added

• Initial Release - First App Store release for iOS and iPadOS
• Refined UI - Refined user interface
• Beta Migration - Smooth migration for beta testers

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Known Issues

• Whisper model silence gaps
• Initial microphone registration issues

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Added

• Rolling Notes - Rolling notes with voice recording append
• User Profiles on Mac - User profile management on Mac
• Note Merging - Horizontal line breaks for merged notes

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Fixed

• iOS 18 recording glitches
• Obsidian plugin functionality

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Added

• Obsidian Integration - Obsidian direct one-way sync
• Image Addition on Plus - Image addition to notes on Plus plan
• Silence Detection - 2-second silence detection for audio quality

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Fixed

• Search keyboard jumping issue

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Added

• Action Extension - iOS Action Extension for easy text note creation
• Shareable Links - Shareable link functionality (Plus plan)
• Advanced Clipboard - Enhanced clipboard functionality

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Fixed

• Delete button accidentally deleting notes

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Added

• Offline Mode - Full offline mode for iOS
• Conversation Capture - iPad/macOS conversation capture
• Settings Transfer - Settings copy to clipboard on iOS
• Note Title Display - Note title shown in blue on iPadOS

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Fixed

• macOS transcription and custom command issues

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Added

• Local Transcription - OpenAI’s Whisper for local transcription
• Offline Storage - Offline note storage capability

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Fixed

• Recording lock issue
• Connection stability improvements

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Added

• Restore Purchases - Account restoration functionality
• Mac Features - 50-word limit removed for Mac
• Privacy Policy - Updated privacy information

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Changed

• Improved authentication flow

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Added

• Zapier Integration - Enhanced Zapier connectivity
• Apple Notes Integration - Direct Apple Notes support
• Authentication - Improved authentication system

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Fixed

• Background transcription issue

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Changed

• Custom Instructions - Custom instructions improvements
• Audio Recording - Enhanced recording quality (from 24Hz to 44Hz)

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Fixed

• Sync reliability improvements

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Added

• Spotlight Search - Early Spotlight search implementation
• Audio Device Settings - Audio device preferences

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Fixed

• Recording and note display issues

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Added

• Widget Support - Control Center and interactive widgets
• Live Activity - Recording monitoring
• Mac Spotlight - Spotlight search on Mac

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Fixed

• Recording limit issues

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Added

• Shortcuts App - Apple Shortcuts integration
• Recording Features - 10 free recordings, 3-minute time limit

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Changed

• Updated onboarding experience

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Added

• Note Timestamps - Note creation timestamps
• Mac Keyboard Shortcuts - Command shortcuts for Mac
• Note Editing - Enhanced editing capabilities

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Fixed

• User preference saving

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Added

• Search - Search functionality for notes
• Custom Instructions - Early custom instructions
• UI Improvements - Splash screen and navigation

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Added

• UI Overhaul - Complete interface redesign
• Note Summaries - AI-powered summaries
• Performance - Speed improvements

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Added

• Note Organization - Basic organization features
• Audio Controls - Playback speed controls

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Fixed

• Critical bug fixes

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Added

• Onboarding - Initial onboarding flow
• Basic Features - Core voice note functionality

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Added

• Foundational Features - Basic app infrastructure
• Voice Recording - Initial recording capability

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Added

• Initial Beta - First beta release for testing
• Core Functionality - Basic voice-to-text features