Release notes

Every notable Loofah release, newest first. These are the same notes the app shows in its “What’s new” view. Releases that only contain internal changes are not listed.

Version 0.43.2

October 14, 2026

Fixes

Task checkboxes in notes and summaries now align with the first line of text across all themes, including wrapped text and nested tasks.

Version 0.43.1

October 12, 2026

Fixes

Sidebar dividers no longer leave a strip of background beside notes. The scroll indicator has more space from the divider.
The audio waveform stays visible when it fits beside the note controls, and switches to a compact play button when space runs out.

Version 0.43.0

October 12, 2026

New

Choose a design theme in Settings → General. Fieldnotes, Signal, Forma, Margin, and Workshop offer distinct light styles; Midnight and Ember offer dark styles. Default keeps neutral light and dark colors, the original Loofah logo, and your light, dark, or system appearance setting.

Changed

Notes, summaries, and transcripts use larger text, a centered reading column, and more consistent spacing. Theme-specific fonts and shapes carry through the editor, sidebar, and controls.
Sidebar navigation, settings, speaker labels, timestamps, and playback controls have clearer contrast. The theme picker previews each style before you select it.

Version 0.42.1

October 6, 2026

Fixes

Large recordings no longer hit the local Whisper upload size limit or time out while transcription and speaker detection are still working.
Whisper and Parakeet batch transcription use less memory when preparing and processing long recordings. Speaker labels still cover the whole recording.
Failed transcriptions with no words now show an error and a retry action instead of a blank Transcript tab.
Upload audio and Upload transcript stay available in notes that already contain text, as long as the note has no recording or transcript and no recording is in progress.

Version 0.42.0

October 5, 2026

New

Desktop, CLI, and MCP now share a search cache for each vault. Desktop rebuilds it automatically after updating; CLI and MCP create a missing or incompatible cache on first use, with progress on stderr.
CLI: loof init builds, refreshes, or repairs the cache explicitly. With --json, it streams NDJSON progress on stderr and returns the final response on stdout.

Changed

CLI and MCP search refresh external edits before querying and use desktop word, phrase, and prefix matching. Results contain one relevance-ranked hit per session, with its ID, score, and snippets. List queries now use full-text matching and relevance order.
CLI compatibility: JSON responses use schema version 2. Search requires a query; CLI --speaker/--kind and MCP speaker/kinds filters are removed. Fetch full transcripts separately for speaker and timing details.
CLI writes reconcile affected sessions before reporting success. A write_persisted error means the write was saved; repair or refresh the cache without repeating the write.

Version 0.41.5

October 5, 2026

New

About Loofah now has a Diagnostics tab with a copy button for sharing app, device, transcription, and Intelligence details when reporting an issue. The report separates saved settings, configuration resolved from those settings, and current activity. It excludes credentials and note, transcript, and recording content.
Local transcription models show their readable names, including Whisper, alongside their internal identifiers. The report also shows model availability, language support, and fallback reasons.

Version 0.41.4

October 2, 2026

Fixes

The current user now appears as “You” instead of an internal ID in transcripts and copied or exported transcript text when no display name is available.
Local Whisper transcription now accepts requests up to 250 MiB, increased from 100 MiB. This addresses the “length limit exceeded” error for recordings that exceeded the previous limit.
Transcription settings show the selected model’s supported languages and warn when your meeting languages are unsupported. Transcription keeps your selected model instead of silently switching to another one.
Images and attachments can be dragged to a different position within a note on macOS. These moves support undo, and dropping files from Finder still works.
CLI: loof transcribe checks whether the selected transcription model is downloaded, rather than requiring a different batch model.

Version 0.41.2

October 1, 2026

Fixes

If a note or restored draft cannot be loaded, the editor now shows an error and keeps its saved content instead of replacing it with an empty note.
Notes containing repeated C++ or other literal ++ text now load and save correctly. Underlined text continues to display with its formatting.

Version 0.41.0

September 28, 2026

New

Generating or regenerating a summary now asks your AI provider for a confidence score for each suggested tag. Tags scoring above 85% are attached automatically; tags at 85% or below stay as suggestions for you to accept or dismiss.
Auto-apply tags with high confidence is on by default in Settings → Summaries. Turn it off to review every suggestion manually. Changing the setting applies to future summaries and leaves existing tags and suggestions in place.

Changes

Regenerating a summary preserves attached tags and dismissed suggestions. Confidence scores are the model’s estimates of relevance, not calibrated probabilities.
The summary customization guide now explains tag confidence, automatic application, and manual review.

Version 0.40.4

September 28, 2026

New

Summarizing a note now also asks your selected AI provider to suggest up to three relevant tags. Suggestions favor tags already in your vault, with new tags proposed when useful.
You choose which suggestions to accept or dismiss. Attached tags stay in place, and dismissed tags are excluded from future suggestions for that note.

Changes

Tag suggestions are generated alongside summaries. Editing notes, importing recordings, and transcribing no longer calculate tags separately, and hashtags in note text no longer attach tags automatically.
The automatic tag application setting has been removed. Existing attached tags and dismissals are preserved; older pending suggestions are cleared. Generate a summary to get fresh suggestions.

Version 0.40.3

September 28, 2026

Fixes

Microphone reminders keep their 30-second countdown when you focus Loofah or navigate through notification settings. Hovering pauses the countdown, including when the reminder appears beneath your pointer. Closing the reminder or choosing an action still dismisses it immediately.
Clicking a microphone reminder while a recording is already starting or running opens that recording’s note without starting another recording or changing its meeting-app tracking.
Note and summary edits are preserved while content refreshes or you switch notes. Failed saves keep your draft available within the app and show an error instead of allowing older content to replace your edits.
Pressing Enter in a note title creates a body paragraph. Backspace at the start of the body and Delete at the end of the title no longer accidentally join the two.

Version 0.40.2

September 24, 2026

Fixes

Imported stereo recordings, including files from iPhone Voice Memos, are now transcribed as one conversation. Speech captured in both channels no longer appears twice under different speakers, and genuine repetitions are preserved.
Re-transcribing imported audio keeps its imported-audio handling after app restarts or transcript deletion. Interrupted imports now ask you to import the file again before transcribing or recording.
CLI: loof import and loof transcribe use the same imported-audio handling as the desktop app, including when replacing an existing meeting’s audio or supplying a recording date.

Version 0.40.1

September 22, 2026

Fixes

Tags can now start with numbers, including #3e, #2026, and nested tags such as #3e/planning. These tags are also recognized in generated summaries.

Version 0.40.0

September 21, 2026

New

CLI: rename an existing session with loof sessions rename SESSION_ID "New title". The session keeps its id, notes, recordings, transcripts, and other content. Use --json to receive the session id and new title in a machine-readable response.

Version 0.39.3

September 20, 2026

Fixes

Loofah releases unused recording, task, summary, window and image-preview data more reliably, reducing memory growth during repeated use.
Opening Note or Summary no longer loads the full transcript. Transcripts load when needed, with loading feedback and a retry option if reading fails.
Tasks keep their completion state, due dates and identity when notes are closed, reopened or displayed in a separate window. Reopening a note no longer creates duplicate tasks.
Completed recordings release their live transcript data after it is saved. Failed writes remain available for retry, and resumed recordings keep their transcript data protected during finalization.
Completed summaries remain visible while their saved content loads. Reopening an existing summary does not regenerate it just because older AI history was cleared.
Removing a failed image upload releases its preview, while retrying keeps the preview available until the upload finishes or is removed.
CLI: task updates and moves no longer fail with a missing-session error when they overlap a session metadata write.

Version 0.39.2

September 19, 2026

New

Summaries now ask the AI to include task checkboxes for outstanding actions clearly assigned to you or committed to by you. Other people’s actions stay ordinary summary bullets, and unclear ownership does not create a personal task.

Fixes

Tasks from generated summaries appear in your task list even when you never open the summary. Regenerating a summary preserves completion, due dates, and other saved details for matching tasks.
Summaries are no longer cut off by automatic character or section limits. The AI is guided to stay concise while preserving decisions and explicit actions.
Imported audio no longer assumes that its first audio channel belongs to you when identifying personal action items.
Ordinary bullets mixed with task checkboxes stay ordinary bullets, including in nested lists.

Version 0.39.1

September 19, 2026

New

Session summaries now live in a plain Markdown summary.md file inside each session folder, making them easier to find and edit with other tools. Existing summaries migrate automatically, preserving task completion and keeping the original documents in recoverable trash.
CLI: loof sessions export now supports PDF, plain text, and Org alongside Markdown and JSON. Use --include note,summary,transcript to choose the content to export. PDF, plain text, and Org include the note and summary by default. PDF exports require --output FILE and include supported images from note attachments.

Fixes

Summary generation now protects edits made while the AI is working. If the summary changes before generation finishes, the generated text will not overwrite those edits.

Version 0.38.2

September 18, 2026

New

CLI: loof sessions delete <ID> moves a session’s entire folder, including recordings and attachments, into recoverable vault trash. The exact session ID confirms deletion, so the command does not prompt.
CLI: Add --json to receive the deleted session’s ID and exact trash path for scripts and agents. Missing or already-deleted sessions return not_found with exit code 2.

Fixes

If a note cannot be moved to the vault’s trash, pending transcript changes are preserved.
Moving notes to the vault’s trash now protects existing trashed files from being overwritten, even when deletions happen at the same time.

Version 0.38.1

September 17, 2026

Fixes

Recording reminders now appear as soon as Loofah detects microphone use in a supported meeting app. The Show reminder after setting has been removed.
Reminders stay visible for 30 seconds before dismissing automatically. Hovering over a reminder pauses the countdown so you have time to choose Start recording.

Version 0.38.0

September 16, 2026

New

About Loofah → Storage shows your vault’s total file size, file counts, and a breakdown by MP3, WAV, images, PDFs, JSON, Markdown, and other files. Categories appear largest first, with their share of the total.
Trash is shown separately as part of the total, so it is counted only once. Attachments and hidden files are included. The info tooltip explains how file sizes can differ from space used on your Mac.
Refresh updates the measurement while keeping the previous results visible. If some files cannot be measured, the screen clearly marks the result as incomplete.

Version 0.37.10

September 16, 2026

Changes

Notes now stay in sessions/<id>/. Changing a title or date, including an automatically generated title, no longer renames the folder.
Existing note folders are moved whole during desktop startup, preserving notes, transcripts, recordings, summaries, tasks, and attachments. If a folder cannot be moved because of a conflict or unreadable metadata, Loofah leaves it untouched and shows its path and the reason. Other notes remain available; resolve the issue and restart Loofah to retry.
Removed the timeline action that renamed a note’s folder to match its title.

Fixes

Opening a note or its recording no longer requires searching other note folders, reducing unnecessary vault reads.
Search and related-tag updates wait for the vault to finish opening, and repeated background failures use bounded retries.
Recording works without a configured transcription model and no longer attempts an implicit cloud transcription connection when configuration is missing. Audio is kept locally for later transcription.
Audio and attachment views refresh after file changes, deletion, and restore in both the main window and standalone note windows.
Rapidly stopping and resuming a recording keeps the vault protected from relocation until recording and finalization finish.

Version 0.37.7

September 14, 2026

Fixes

Buttons, note navigation, settings, and playback controls respond more promptly. Transcript playback highlighting and background updates do less work while you interact with the app.
Live Whisper transcription keeps speech processing from blocking other app work and limits queued audio when transcription falls behind.
Whisper transcription after recording handles speech windows more efficiently and preserves the model’s segment timing for more accurate timestamps.
Whisper confirms the meeting language across microphone and system audio, with fewer repeated language checks during a meeting.
Meetings default to English when no spoken language has been selected.

Changes

Retired Argmax and Qwen transcription models are no longer available. Existing selections move to Soniqo Parakeet Batch. Check Settings > Transcription to download it or select another supported model.
Apple Reminders integration has been removed. Loofah no longer requests access to Reminders; existing reminders are left in Apple Reminders.
Custom dictionary terms and automatic hints from note titles and content are no longer supplied to transcription. Session tags remain available, and existing notes, transcripts, and recordings are preserved.
Recording automation hooks have been removed. Commands previously configured in the vault to run before or after recording will no longer execute.

Version 0.37.1

September 12, 2026

New

Whisper models can now show text while you record. Select a downloaded model in Settings > Transcription and choose While recording. Text arrives in speech chunks, with support for the selected model’s languages and your dictionary terms.
Choose While recording or After recording under Transcription timing. Loofah remembers your choice and explains when a model or language selection requires transcription after recording.
Set meeting languages in Transcription and the language for generated text in Summaries. Changing the summary language no longer changes your meeting’s transcription languages.
Settings now groups recording controls and microphone reminders under Recording, gives Storage its own page, and renames Intelligence to Summaries. Summary setup offers separate choices for a ChatGPT subscription, an API key, or a local AI app.
Onboarding now distinguishes downloaded, downloading, and unconfigured transcription models, and shows whether a summary service has been selected. The default microphone-reminder delay is now five seconds.

Fixes

Live transcription preserves the order of audio captured during startup or reconnection, helping avoid missing or garbled opening words.
Parakeet live transcription better recognizes quiet microphone input, including low-volume headset speech.
Live transcripts correctly attribute your microphone speech to you.
The summary-prompt editor preserves unsaved drafts while navigating settings and asks before discarding them. Summary connection checks also show when a retry is in progress and offer clearer setup errors.
Korean summaries use the same general writing instructions as other languages, without the previous Korean-specific sentence-ending rules.

Version 0.36.1

September 11, 2026

New

Edit one shared summary prompt in Settings > Intelligence > Summary prompt, or choose Edit summary prompt from a summary’s menu. Save instructions for future summaries and regeneration, insert the current date or language, and reset to the bundled default at any time. Your existing custom Auto prompt carries over.
Each session now uses one Summary. Older additional summaries remain available to read, edit, and regenerate, and regeneration keeps their titles. Existing text changes only when you regenerate it. The Templates library and pickers have been removed; old template definitions are recoverable from .trash/<date>/templates/ in your vault.
Recordings are now kept until you explicitly delete them. The audio-retention setting and automatic recording deletion have been removed, including deletion after transcription.
Vault selection now uses the folder picker. Automatic Obsidian-vault detection and its shortcuts have been removed from onboarding and storage settings.

Fixes

Regenerated summaries now show the newly saved text immediately, including when regenerating an edited summary or an older template output.
Concurrent requests to generate a summary reuse the same document instead of creating duplicates.

Version 0.36.0

September 11, 2026

New

Choose Whisper in Settings > Transcription on Apple Silicon Macs. Available models include multilingual Large V3 and Large Turbo, plus Base and Small in multilingual and English-only versions. Download a model, then select it to transcribe recordings and imported audio on your Mac after recording ends.
Whisper uses terms from Settings > Dictionary as transcription hints, helping it recognize names, acronyms, and technical vocabulary.

Fixes

Transcription language warnings now check your main language as well as additional spoken languages. They show the selected model’s name and update when you change your language settings.

Version 0.35.0

September 10, 2026

New

Connect your ChatGPT account in Settings > Intelligence to generate summaries using your account’s Codex allowance, with no API key required. This beta integration uses an installed Codex CLI and shows installation or update guidance only when needed. Sign-in opens your browser and makes summaries available as soon as you connect.
Generate a summary directly from the Summary tab, even when a note has no recording or transcript. Use the default template or choose another before generating. Add some notes or a transcript to get started.
Intelligence settings now distinguish the active provider from other configured providers. Use the provider and model selectors under “Model being used” to choose which one generates your summaries.

Version 0.34.7

September 8, 2026

Fixes

Tag pills now fit their text without leaving empty space for the remove button. Hover over a tag or focus its remove button with the keyboard to expand the pill and reveal the ×. The transition respects your reduced-motion setting.

Version 0.34.6

September 5, 2026

Fixes

Meeting reminders now show Loofah’s icon beside “Are you in a meeting?”. The app using your microphone still appears with its own small icon in the footer.

Version 0.34.5

September 5, 2026

Fixes

Tables now render as real tables in PDF exports. Previously a Markdown table came out as raw rows of pipes and dashes. Column alignment and bold header cells are kept, and line breaks inside a cell stay on separate lines
The export dialog now has “Note” ticked by default, so your own writing is included alongside the summary unless you turn it off
The buttons in the app header sit level with the macOS window controls again, including when the sidebar is collapsed and in fullscreen, instead of being slightly high or low depending on the layout

Version 0.34.4

September 4, 2026

Fixes

Closing a note that has no title and no typed text no longer discards it when it still holds attachments. Files you added to the note, and anything you dropped into the note’s folder in your vault yourself, now count as content and keep the note around
Housekeeping files the app manages itself (the recording, the transcript, and similar) still do not count, so genuinely empty notes are cleaned up on close exactly as before

Version 0.34.3

September 3, 2026

Fixes

Tags containing import anywhere in their name, such as imported or project/import-review, are no longer suggested or automatically added to notes

Version 0.34.2

September 2, 2026

Fixes

Pasting or dropping an image into a note now leaves the cursor on a new line below the image and scrolls that line into view once the image finishes loading. Previously a tall image could push the cursor off screen, so you ended up typing somewhere you could not see
If you click elsewhere in the note while an image is still being copied in, the image still lands where you added it and your cursor stays where you moved it

Version 0.34.1

September 1, 2026

Improvements

The note timeline in the left sidebar now renders only the rows currently on screen instead of every note in your vault. Scrolling, resizing the sidebar, and opening the app with thousands of notes are all noticeably lighter
Everything the timeline does still works the same way: date and tag headers stay pinned to the top as you scroll past them, the current-time line stays in place, and the “jump to today” and upcoming-meeting chips still take you straight there

Version 0.34.0

August 31, 2026

New

Every note now has an Attachments tab, reachable from the paperclip icon next to the note’s other tabs. It lists every file attached to that note with its name, type, and size, and clicking a row opens the file in whichever app macOS normally uses for it
Add files with the “Add attachments” button, or drop them anywhere in the tab. Files added this way live with the note in your vault, so they travel with it
“Show in Finder” opens that note’s attachments folder directly. If you add, rename, or delete files there, the list catches up as soon as you switch back to Loofah
Removing an attachment asks for confirmation first, explains that the file moves to the vault Trash, and warns that links to it in notes or summaries may stop working
Files you drop into a note now appear right away as a placeholder that shows the name and a copy progress state, so long copies no longer look like nothing happened. If a copy fails, the placeholder offers Retry and Remove instead of disappearing silently

Fixes

Dropped files are now copied straight from their location on disk instead of being loaded into memory first. Dropping large files, or many files at once, is noticeably lighter on the app
An interrupted copy (running out of disk space, for example) no longer leaves a half-written file sitting in your vault. Attachments appear only once they are complete, and a file dropped twice still gets a numbered name like “file 1.txt” rather than overwriting the first one
The import audio dialog uses the same drop handling. Dropping a folder still picks up the audio files inside it, now listed in alphabetical order
In the Attachments tab, the drop highlight now covers the whole pane, including the area around the note title. Previously the top of the tab was not a valid drop target, so a drop aimed there did nothing

Version 0.33.0

August 30, 2026

Highlight

A large amount of old, dead code was removed or refactored across the desktop app and its build system. This is an internal cleanup: notes, recordings, transcripts, settings, imports, and the rest of the app should work exactly as before, on a smaller and easier-to-maintain foundation

Quality

The cleanup was checked with the full frontend, Rust, CLI, documentation, and workflow test suites, a staging desktop build, and a seeded-vault app run
We do not expect any visible changes. If something unexpected does appear, please file an issue so we can investigate it

Version 0.32.8

August 30, 2026

New

The year breakdown in About is now a single chart of notes over time. Hover or tab through a year and the count for that year appears above the chart, with the totals across the whole span and your busiest year underneath
Years with no notes are drawn as gaps instead of being skipped, so a quiet stretch reads as a quiet stretch rather than two busy years side by side

Fixes

Vault activity stays inside the About dialog. The old layout added a row per year, so a vault spanning many years pushed the section past the bottom of the window. The chart keeps the same height whether you have three years or fifty
The stat tiles now show your tag count, and words transcribed moved up to the summary line next to notes and tasks. “In meetings” is now labelled “Meeting recordings”, which is what the number has always measured

Version 0.32.7

August 30, 2026

Fixes

The macOS download is now notarized by Apple, and the approval is stapled into the disk image itself. Opening the downloaded DMG no longer trips the “Apple cannot check it for malicious software” warning, and the check passes even when you are offline. Previously only the app inside the image carried a signature, so the image itself was treated as unverified

Notes

Nothing else in the app changed in this version. The most recent behaviour changes are still the ones from 0.32.6: dropping several files into a note at once, drops registering anywhere in the note area rather than only on a line of text, and a clearer message about what each dropped file will become

Version 0.32.6

August 29, 2026

New

You can drop more than one file at a time. Each file is inserted where you dropped it, in the order you dropped them, instead of everything piling up at a single point in reverse
The drop overlay now says what is about to happen before you let go: audio gets uploaded and transcribed, images land inline, and anything else is added as an attachment. Drag a mix of audio and other files and it tells you both will happen

Fixes

Dropping a file now registers anywhere in the note area, not only when the file lands exactly on a line of text. Empty space below the last paragraph, the margins, and the area around the title all accept a drop
Files can be dropped onto AI-generated documents the same way as onto your own notes. The drop highlight used to only show up for audio there, and other files were easy to miss
If an attachment fails to save, the app now says so by name instead of quietly dropping it. The same goes for a drag the app cannot read at all, which used to look like nothing happened
Switching notes or tabs in the middle of a drag no longer leaves the drop highlight stuck on screen

Version 0.32.4

August 28, 2026

Notes

Nothing in the app changed in this version. Everything that landed since 0.32.3 is release plumbing that never reaches your machine, so updating brings no new behaviour and nothing to relearn
The install instructions for the bundled loof command now point at Settings → Agents, which is where that Install button has actually lived for a while. Older pages still said Settings → Developers, a tab that no longer exists
The most recent user-facing changes are still the ones from 0.32.0: sessions that suggest their own tags, the sidebar that no longer jumps as it collapses, and the removal of the “Share usage data” switch that did nothing

Version 0.32.3

August 28, 2026

Notes

Nothing in the app changed in this version. Everything that landed since 0.32.1 is build and release plumbing that never reaches your machine, so updating brings no new behaviour and nothing to relearn
The most recent user-facing changes are still the ones from 0.32.0: sessions that suggest their own tags, the sidebar that no longer jumps as it collapses, and the removal of the “Share usage data” switch that did nothing

Version 0.32.1

August 28, 2026

Notes

Nothing in the app changed in this version. Everything that landed since 0.32.0 is build and packaging work that never reaches your machine, so if you are coming from 0.32.0 you will not notice a difference
The most recent user-facing changes are still the ones from 0.32.0: sessions that suggest their own tags, the sidebar that no longer jumps as it collapses, and the removal of the “Share usage data” switch that did nothing

Version 0.32.0

August 27, 2026

New

Sessions now suggest tags of their own. Once a recording is transcribed, or a file you imported finishes, the app compares that session against your other tagged notes and proposes up to three tags that keep coming back on the ones that read like it. Suggestions appear next to the tags already on the session, as dashed chips with a check and a cross: accept one and it becomes a real tag, dismiss it and it stays gone for that session. Nothing is added without you asking, and the comparison happens on your machine against your own vault, so it only gets useful once you have tagged a few notes by hand
Editing a note re-runs the suggestion a few seconds after you stop typing, so a session you keep writing in gets tags that follow what it has become rather than what it looked like when the recording stopped
If you would rather not confirm each one, Settings → General has a new “Automatically apply related tags” switch. It is off by default; turning it on applies only the suggestions the app is most confident about and leaves the rest as chips for you to decide on

Fixes

Collapsing the sidebar no longer makes its contents jump. The list used to reflow to a narrower layout partway through the animation, so titles rewrapped and rows shifted just as the panel was sliding away. It now holds its width while it leaves, and reopening it after you have resized the window puts it back at the width you dragged it to
The “Share usage data” switch is gone from Settings → General. It had no effect in this app, which sends no usage analytics or telemetry at all, so leaving a toggle there only suggested there was something to turn off

Version 0.31.0

August 27, 2026

New

The command line tool that ships with the app is now loof, shortened from loofah (and fmtr before that). If you had it installed, opening this version relinks it for you, so loof sessions list works right away and there is nothing to reinstall. Settings → Agents now lists it as “loof CLI”, and the install button puts the new name on your PATH
The MCP snippet on that same screen now points at the loof path. If you had pasted the old snippet into an agent, copy it again, because the command it named is no longer there
The AGENTS.md file the app keeps at the root of your vault has been refreshed to use loof in its examples, so agents reading it get the working command
loof meetings ... still works for now and keeps printing a short notice pointing you at loof sessions ... instead

Version 0.30.10

August 27, 2026

Fixes

Switching between a note and its transcript no longer stalls. On a long recording the app used to freeze for a moment when you opened the transcript view, long enough that the click felt like it had been ignored, because the whole transcript was being laid out before anything appeared. The view now changes right away and shows a brief “Loading transcript…” spinner while the text fills in, and the parts of a long transcript that are off screen are only drawn as you scroll to them. Speaker names, the people listed above the title, search highlighting, and click-to-play all work as before

Version 0.30.9

August 26, 2026

New

The Help menu now has a “Documentation” entry, above “Report a Bug” and “Suggest a Feature”. Choosing it opens loofah.io in your browser, so the guides are one click away instead of something you have to go looking for

Version 0.30.7

August 26, 2026

Same app, new name and new icon. Your notes, recordings, and settings stay exactly where they are, and nothing needs to be moved or re-imported.

After updating in the app, macOS may keep the old Free Meeting Transcriber.app name in Applications or an app launcher. Quit the app, rename it to Loofah.app, and launch it once from Applications. No reinstall is needed.

New

The app is now called Loofah, with new artwork to match. You will see the new name and icon in your Applications folder, the Dock, the menu bar, and the About window. Everything carries over on first launch: your vault stays at the same location, your settings and window position come with you, and if you had “start at login” turned on it stays on under the new name. When you choose a location for a brand new vault, the folder the app suggests is now called “Loofah”
Opening the app now shows a startup screen instead of a blank window while your vault is being read. It says what it is doing (scanning your notes, then indexing them, with a running count), so a large vault no longer looks like the app has frozen. If it is taking a while, a button appears to switch to a different vault folder, and if opening fails outright you get the error along with a “Try again” button
For a vault kept in a cloud folder, that screen adds a hint (naming Google Drive when it recognizes it) that your provider may still be downloading files, and that Loofah will carry on by itself once the vault is there
The command line tool is now called loofah, and its meetings commands are now sessions, as in loofah sessions list. The old fmtr command and the meetings name both still work, so existing scripts and agent setups keep running. Using meetings prints a short notice pointing you at the new name
Notes you export to PDF now read “Exported from loofah.io” on the cover page

Fixes

The formatting toolbar that appears when you select text in a note no longer flashes in the wrong spot first. It used to show up in the corner of the window for a moment and then jump to your selection; now it fades in already in place, and it keeps up as you scroll or extend the selection
Setup no longer asks for the macOS Accessibility permission, and the entry is gone from Settings. The only thing that used it was a small indicator for when Zoom was muted mid-recording, which has been removed, so the app was asking for access it no longer needs. Recording, transcription, and summaries are unaffected

Version 0.30.2

August 24, 2026

Fixes

Exporting a note to PDF no longer prints someone else’s product name on the cover page. The small line at the bottom said “Exported from Char”, left over from the project this app grew out of, and now reads “Exported from freemeetingtranscriber.com”. Nothing else about the exported file changes, so any PDF you share from here on carries the right name

Version 0.30.0

August 23, 2026

New

A note can now record the skill that produced it, alongside the name of the agent that wrote it. Since 0.28.1 a note created by an agent has carried an author; now it can also say which named, reusable instruction set (a “meeting-summarizer”, say) the agent ran to write it, so a vault full of agent-written notes tells you not just who made each one but how
Agents set this with a new --skill flag on fmtr meetings new and fmtr import, next to the --author flag they already pass. The guidance agents read in your vault now asks them to fill it in whenever a skill was involved, and to leave it alone when they are editing a note rather than creating one, so your own notes stay unmarked
Looking a note up with fmtr (or through the MCP server your agents connect to) shows the skill next to the author, both in the readable output and in the JSON, so an agent can find every note a particular skill produced

Version 0.29.5

August 23, 2026

Fixes

Vaults kept on a network mount or a synced folder (Google Drive, rsync, a NAS) no longer take minutes to open. The app checks a vault’s session folders when it starts and again when you come back to the window, and it now reads them in parallel instead of one at a time, which is where nearly all of that waiting went on a high-latency drive. Vaults on your local disk behave exactly as before, and the app still finds the same notes in the same order
Installing fmtr with the one-line installer now adds the install folder to your PATH itself when it is missing, writing to the right startup file for zsh, bash, or fish instead of only printing instructions for you to follow. Open a new terminal after installing and fmtr is there. Re-running the installer will not add the line twice, and any other shell still gets the instructions to do it by hand
Creating a note from the command line (fmtr meetings new, and importing an audio file) is quick again on a network-mounted vault. Each creation used to sweep the whole vault twice before writing anything, so the wait grew with the number of notes you had

Version 0.29.2

August 23, 2026

New

fmtr, the command-line companion that lets you and your AI agents read and edit the notes in your vault, now installs with one command on macOS and Linux: curl -fsSL https://freemeetingtranscriber.com/install.sh | bash. It picks the right binary for your machine, checks it against a published checksum, and puts it in ~/.local/bin without ever asking for your password. Run the same command again to upgrade, and delete the file to remove it. Installing from Settings > Agents still works and gives you the same binary in the same place
Linux machines and Intel Macs can run fmtr now. Until this release the only ways to get it were the bundled copy inside the macOS app or building it yourself. On-device transcription still needs an Apple Silicon Mac, but every other command, and the MCP server, work on all supported platforms
fmtr --help now points at the AGENTS.md file at the root of your vault, so the guidance your agents follow when they work with your notes is easier to find

Version 0.28.1

August 22, 2026

New

Tags can now contain a slash, so #clients/acme and #clients/globex sit under a shared clients heading. The sidebar’s “By tag” view shows them as a nested list: a parent heading counts every note anywhere beneath it (a note carrying two tags in the same branch is still counted once), and each level opens and closes on its own, so you can open clients to see its sub-headings without opening all of them. The parent heading appears even if you only ever use the full path, and “open or close everything” still covers the whole tree. Tags you already have keep working exactly as before, and so does whichever set of tags you left open
A slash tag is highlighted as one tag while you type it in a note, and AI summaries can suggest nested tags too. Links and URLs in your notes are still left alone
Notes that were not written by you now say so. When a note was created by an agent working in your vault, the note header shows a small pill with the name it was created under, and the note’s row in the sidebar gets a bot icon, so a glance at the list tells you which notes are yours. Your own notes look exactly as they did

Version 0.26.1

August 21, 2026

New

Grouping the sidebar by tag now starts with every tag closed, so switching over gives you a list of your tags with the number of notes in each, and you open only the ones you want to look through
A new button sits next to the “By date” / “By tag” toggle and opens or closes every tag at once. The app now remembers which tags you left open rather than which you left closed, so tags start closed after this update, including any tag you create from here on

Fixes

Switching the sidebar to “By tag” no longer stalls for seconds in a large vault. Only the tag headings are drawn when you switch, and the notes inside a tag are drawn when you open that tag
The sidebar no longer rebuilds itself every minute while you are grouped by tag, and notes in the timeline no longer each check separately whether a summary is being written for them, so scrolling and everyday use stay smooth

Version 0.25.0

August 21, 2026

New

About is now a proper window inside the app instead of a system message box. It opens with the app icon, the version you are running, and a build number you can click to copy when you want to report something
Underneath that, About now shows your vault in numbers: how many notes and recordings you have, how many words have been transcribed, and how long you have spent in meetings, along with AI summaries written, tasks completed, tags in use, and the disk space your recordings take up. If your vault spans more than one year, a small bar per year shows how much of it happened when, and the month you started shows in the corner. It reads what the app already keeps in memory, so it opens straight away even on a large vault

Fixes

Notes with an image sitting in the same paragraph as text now open normally. Previously a Markdown note where the image line follows a text line with no blank line between them (common in notes written elsewhere and brought into your vault, for instance from Bear) failed to open at all, showing “The editor failed to render.” instead of the note. Images anywhere in a note, including inside lists and checklists, are now placed on their own line, and saving the note keeps them where you put them

Version 0.24.1

August 21, 2026

Fixes

Notes with an image sitting in the same paragraph as text now open normally. Previously a Markdown note where the image line follows a text line with no blank line between them (common in notes written elsewhere and brought into your vault, for instance from Bear) failed to open at all, showing “The editor failed to render.” instead of the note. Images anywhere in a note, including inside lists and checklists, are now placed on their own line, and saving the note keeps them where you put them

Version 0.24.0

August 21, 2026

New

File attachments in a note now have a folder button that reveals the file in Finder, so you can get to the original without leaving the app
The app no longer holds every transcribed word of every meeting in memory. A transcript is read from disk when you actually open it, so memory use stays flat as your vault grows instead of climbing with every recording you make
Opening a note with Cmd+K is quicker in a large vault. With an empty search box the dialog now lists your 50 most recent notes instead of building a row for every note you own, and typing a few characters is the way to older ones. A closed dialog also stops doing work in the background every time something in your vault changes
The sidebar timeline and the other parts of the app that follow your notes now ask only for the handful of fields they display, rather than the whole of every note. Saving a note or finishing a transcript costs a lot less behind the scenes, which shows up as a smoother app once you have a few thousand notes
“Rebuild index” in Settings now reads notes in parallel and finishes considerably faster on a big vault. If one note fails to read, the rest still rebuild and the problem is reported at the end, instead of the rebuild stopping partway through
The bundled fmtr command line tool can now edit tags. fmtr meetings tag add <id> <tag>... and fmtr meetings tag remove <id> <tag>... write tags the same way the app does (trimmed, lowercased, without the leading #), and new ones are registered in the vault’s tag list that the app suggests from
fmtr meetings list gained --tag <name>, repeatable so a meeting has to carry all of them, and --untagged for the ones with none. Both list and get now show each meeting’s tags
New fmtr meetings path <id> prints the folder a meeting lives in, and fmtr tags list prints every tag your vault knows about
fmtr doctor now checks the AGENTS.md file the app keeps at the top of your vault, and rewrites it if it is missing or out of date. It only does this in a folder that really is a vault, so pointing doctor at an ordinary folder still leaves it untouched

Fixes

Hashtags containing a dash are now highlighted in full in the editor. #org-design used to light up only the #org part. A trailing dash is still left out, so “#org- and” tags just org
Selecting a file attachment in the editor no longer paints a stray selection band underneath the card

Version 0.23.0

August 21, 2026

New

The note you write is now stored as notes.md in the note’s folder, instead of _memo.md. It reads like what it is when you open your vault in Finder, in Obsidian, or in any other Markdown editor
Files you put into a note’s folder yourself are now left strictly alone. The app knows exactly which files are its own (the note, the transcript, the recording, its summaries and attachments) and ignores everything else, so a Markdown file you drop next to a note no longer turns up in the app as if it were a generated summary
The bundled fmtr command line tool can now backdate a meeting. fmtr meetings new --title "Kickoff" --created-at 2024-05-01T09:00:00Z places it on that date on your timeline and in its folder name, and --started-at and --ended-at set when it ran. fmtr import takes the same three, which is what you want when importing a recording you made months ago. A timestamp that does not make sense is rejected before anything is written
fmtr meetings new takes a repeatable --tag, so a meeting can arrive with its tags already on it. New tags are registered in the vault’s tag list, the same one the app suggests from
New fmtr meetings attach <id> <file> stores a file as an attachment of a meeting and prints the id to reference it by, with --name to store it under a different filename. Together with the timestamp flags, that makes it possible to bring a note archive from another app across with its dates and its attached files intact

Version 0.21.0

August 18, 2026

New

Changing your storage location now looks at the folder you picked and offers only what makes sense for it. An empty folder asks whether you want to move your vault there, copy it there, or start a brand new empty vault, laid out as three choices you select before confirming, instead of a row of buttons that meant different things depending on the folder
Picking a folder that is already a vault (one of ours, or an Obsidian vault) now offers a plain switch. Nothing is moved, copied, or deleted, your current vault stays exactly where it is, and you can switch back the same way. That makes it practical to keep more than one vault on disk, for instance a work one and a personal one, and hop between them
Starting a new empty vault leaves your existing one untouched, so you can try a fresh start without giving anything up
Picking a folder that already has unrelated files in it no longer mixes your vault in with them. The app creates a “Free Meeting Transcriber” folder inside it and shows you the exact path it will use before you confirm, so your vault always lands in a directory of its own

Fixes

The “Rebuild index from files” button no longer overflows its column in Settings. It now simply reads “Rebuild index”
The “Now” chip on the sidebar timeline is a touch lighter, with thinner text and arrow, so it sits more quietly against the notes around it

Version 0.20.1

August 17, 2026

New

Changing where your vault lives now offers a real Move, not just a Copy. Move relocates your files and cleans up the old location, while Copy leaves the originals behind, and both are offered side by side so you can pick. Moving is only offered into an empty folder, since mixing your vault into a folder that already has files in it would leave nothing safe to clean up
Relocating your vault is now coordinated with the app instead of happening underneath it. Anything still being written is flushed first, writing is held until the move finishes, and the app declines to relocate while a recording is running rather than moving files out from under it. Your trash comes along too, so notes you deleted are still recoverable at the new location
PDF exports now include the images in your note and summary rather than dropping them, at the width you set in the editor. An image that cannot be read or is in a format the exporter does not handle is simply left out instead of failing the whole export
Right-clicking a note in the sidebar has a new “Rename Folder to Match Title” action. The automatic naming only runs once, when a note first gets a real title, so this is how you bring a folder back in line after renaming the note later. It is unavailable while that note is recording
The export dialog’s “Memo” option is now called “Note”, matching what the rest of the app calls it, and exported files use “Note” as the heading

Fixes

The export dialog is wider and less cramped, so the format and content options have room to breathe

Version 0.18.2

August 17, 2026

New

Notes can now carry tags. A row of tag chips sits under the note title on every view, and typing in it suggests tags you have used before, so related meetings end up under the same label instead of a slightly different spelling each time
Tags that a generated summary picked up were already being saved but had nowhere to appear. They now show up as chips on the note along with the ones you add yourself
The sidebar can group your notes by tag instead of by date. Each tag becomes a section you can collapse, sorted alphabetically with untagged notes at the end, and the app remembers which view and which collapsed sections you left it on
A quieter, more neutral look throughout the app. The warm cream and amber surfaces give way to near neutral tones in both light and dark mode, the custom display font is replaced by your system’s own, and text is tighter and calmer to read. The amber accent stays
The audio player is now a small pill in the header next to the view tabs, and it is available on every view rather than only on the transcript, so you can listen back while reading your own notes or the summary. On a narrow window it folds down to a single play button
The sidebar shows “New note” and “Search notes” as labeled rows rather than bare icons, and the note tabs always show their names. The “Memos” tab is now called “Note”

Fixes

When your spoken language cannot be handled live but the after-the-fact model can handle it, the app now says so plainly, explaining the transcript will arrive once the recording ends. It used to show a warning implying the language would not be transcribed at all. Languages that neither model supports still get the full warning
Moving or copying your vault to another location now brings your people and task lists with it. They were being silently left behind before
Renaming or moving a note’s folder in Finder no longer leaves playback and attachments pointing at where the folder used to be
Starting a recording at the moment a new note first gets its title now reliably writes into that note’s folder
Opening the app and browsing notes no longer rescans the whole vault repeatedly, which keeps things responsive with thousands of notes
The bundled command line tool reports the app’s real version instead of always saying 0.1.0

Version 0.15.0

August 14, 2026

New

The notification that appears when the app notices you’re in a meeting now says what each button does. The main button reads “Start recording” instead of “Yes”, and the option to stop being asked about that app reads “Always ignore” next to the app’s name and icon. Previously both buttons said “Yes” while answering completely different questions, so it was easy to silence an app when you meant to record
That notification now shows the app’s own logo, making it clear at a glance which app is asking

Fixes

Searching your notes now matches whole words. A search for “david” used to turn up notes that merely contained the letters d, a, v and i somewhere, because every one, two and three letter fragment was being indexed separately, which buried the results you actually wanted under noise
Snippets under each result now highlight the words you searched for rather than scattered fragments of them, and typing part of a word still matches as you go, so “plan” keeps finding “Planning session”
Your search index rebuilds by itself the first time you open this version, so the improved results apply to notes you already have

Version 0.14.1

August 14, 2026

New

The open-note dialog now looks inside your notes instead of only matching titles. Something you typed in a memo, a line from a generated summary, or a phrase somebody said in a transcript will all surface the note it belongs to, so you can find a meeting by what was discussed even when you don’t remember what you called it
Each result shows a short snippet of the matching text under the title, with the words you searched for picked out, so you can tell which note is the one you want before opening it
Notes whose titles match still come first, and partial words keep working while you type, so “plan” still finds “Planning session”
The Developers tab in Settings is now called Agents, matching what it is actually for: connecting the command line tool so AI agents can work with your notes

Fixes

Copying a transcript from a note now works. It had been failing with a copy error and leaving your clipboard untouched
The command line tool no longer falls behind after an in-app update. It used to stay stuck at whatever version you first installed it from until you reinstalled it by hand, and it now follows the app automatically

Version 0.13.1

August 13, 2026

Fixes

Opening a note whose summary was never generated now lands on your memo instead of an empty summary page. A note only opens on the summary when that summary actually has content, so your own notes are what you see first. If you had deliberately left a note on its summary view, it still opens there

Version 0.13.0

August 12, 2026

New

Recordings that are transcribed after the fact, imported files and models marked “After recording”, now get automatic speaker detection. The transcript is split by speaker instead of running as one block, so a call with several people reads as a conversation. Live transcription still does not separate speakers
Click a speaker label in the transcript to name that speaker, and every stretch of that voice picks up the name. Names come from your existing people, or you can type a new one
When a side of the call has several detected voices, the first rename offers to apply the name to the rest of that side too. It is off by default, and it tells you how many other speakers it would cover, so a multi-person call doesn’t quietly collapse into a single name
Speaker detection runs entirely on your Mac and is included with on-device transcription. Its model is small and downloads by itself the first time it is needed. A new Speaker detection row in Settings, Transcription shows whether it’s ready and offers a Retry if the download didn’t finish
Re-transcribing a meeting that already has named speakers now asks first, since a new transcript replaces the old one and the names go with it

Fixes

Renaming a speaker no longer damages the transcript. Previously a rename wiped the per-word timing information, which made transcripts of two-sided recordings re-render as the two sides shredded into each other. Transcripts that were already scrambled this way now render correctly again
Renaming a speaker in a long transcript no longer leaves the view frozen on the old text until you reopen the note, and the new name shows up on the label right away instead of after a pause
Live transcripts no longer merge distinct voices to match the number of people the app thinks are in the meeting, so a provider that hears four speakers keeps four
When no Intelligence provider is set up yet, the summary view keeps showing the note title and the speakers row above the setup message instead of replacing the whole view

Version 0.12.2

August 10, 2026

New

Images you put in a memo now appear as a row of thumbnails just below the title when you’re looking at the summary, so a screenshot or a diagram you pasted stays in sight without switching back to the memo
Clicking a thumbnail opens the memo and scrolls to that image
Images resolve as soon as you paste them, so a freshly pasted screenshot shows up in the strip right away

Version 0.11.2

August 10, 2026

New

fmtr import recording.m4a --into <id> imports an audio file into a meeting you already created, instead of always making a new one. That makes a memo-first flow possible: start the meeting and jot your notes, then bring the recording in afterwards and add --transcribe to transcribe it in the same step. Importing never overwrites audio, so it stops with a clear message if that meeting already has a recording

Fixes

Images and file attachments you paste into a note now stay in the note. Previously a freshly pasted image was written to the note file without its attachment, so it vanished the next time the note loaded. They are now stored as a reference that travels with your vault, so the same note opens correctly on another machine too
Pasted images in a memo reach vision-capable models again, so summaries can take what’s in a screenshot or diagram into account
Editing a note’s date and then clicking somewhere else, into the memo for instance, now saves the new date instead of quietly dropping it. Clicking away without changing anything just closes the editor, and Cancel still cancels

Improvements

The button on notifications now reads “Open” instead of the full app name, which the notification already shows above it

Version 0.9.1

August 10, 2026

New

The fmtr command line tool that ships with the app can now write to your vault, not just read from it. Install it from Settings, Developers, and your coding agent can create meetings and fill in notes for you. Anything it writes shows up in the app right away, no restart needed
fmtr meetings new --title "Weekly sync" creates a meeting and prints its id, optionally seeding the note body from a file or from whatever you pipe in
fmtr meetings note <id> --append adds to an existing note, and --set replaces the body outright
fmtr import recording.m4a turns an audio file you already have into a new meeting. It converts the audio exactly the way the app’s own import does, so the meeting behaves like anything you recorded in the app. wav, mp3, ogg, mp4, m4a, flac, webm, and aac files are accepted, and the title defaults to the file name
fmtr transcribe <id> transcribes a meeting’s audio on your own machine with the same on-device model the app is set to use, and fmtr import --transcribe does the import and the transcription in one step. Download the model in the app first, since the CLI never fetches one itself. Note that transcribing replaces whatever transcript the meeting already had
Transcribing from the command line respects your audio retention setting just like the app does, so with retention set to “none” the recording is deleted as soon as the transcript is saved

Version 0.8.1

August 7, 2026

New

The floating bar while recording is redesigned. At rest it’s a small pill drawing a live trace of what it hears, and hovering it grows the pill leftward to reveal the elapsed time and the stop button, so the bar stays put where you left it
The bar now sits on a frosted background that picks up whatever is behind it, in both light and dark appearance
The session header no longer shows a plain “Stop” while your recording is still being transcribed. It reads “Transcribing” with a spinner, and clicking it stops transcription
Once a recording is stopped, the header shows “Finalizing” until the transcript is written, instead of offering a record button that wasn’t ready yet

Fixes

The floating pill no longer jumps sideways for a frame when you move your pointer onto it quickly, and the stop button stays visible and in the same spot the whole time
In fullscreen, the sidebar header no longer leaves an empty gap where the macOS traffic lights would normally be

Changes

The live transcript overlay and its expand button on the floating bar are temporarily hidden while the bar is reworked. Recording and transcription are unaffected, and the overlay will return

Version 0.7.1

August 7, 2026

New

Speaker names now stick. Renaming a speaker in the transcript saves that person, so the name survives re-renders and shows up as a suggestion the next time you rename someone in any meeting, no retyping required
Summaries now use the real names you assigned instead of “Speaker 1” and “Speaker 2”
The people in a meeting now appear as pills right under the note title, on the summary, memo, and transcript screens alike
The transcript screen picked up the editable date and the same title size as the other views, so all three headers now read the same way: date, title, participants
The fmtr command line tool and its MCP server now ship inside the app. Install them from Settings, Developers, and point your coding agent at your own meetings
fmtr can search across your meetings (titles, notes, summaries, and transcripts, optionally filtered to a given speaker), and it now returns a whole speaker-labeled transcript in one go instead of in pages

Improvements

The waveform in the Transcript view appears immediately instead of after a pause while the recording loaded
The menu bar icon is noticeably larger, since it no longer carries invisible padding that macOS was shrinking it into

Fixes

Renaming a speaker no longer blanks the transcript for a moment or scrolls you away from where you were. Only the labels you changed repaint

Version 0.5.1

August 5, 2026

New

The note’s date now appears right above the title and can be edited inline with a click — no more hunting for it behind the record button

Fixes

The “System” appearance option now actually follows your macOS light/dark setting instead of always staying light
The transcript view now shows the note title in the same spot as the other views, above the audio player, and you can edit it there too
The red “now” line in the sidebar no longer appears when there’s nothing upcoming in the timeline

Version 0.5.0

August 5, 2026

New

The note’s date now appears right above the title and can be edited inline with a click — no more hunting for it behind the chevron on the record button, which is now purely a recording control

Version 0.4.4

August 5, 2026

Fixes

Transcripts made with the on-device model no longer scramble the two speakers’ sentences into each other: speaker turns now stay whole, and existing notes are fixed too — just reopen them
Meetings in languages the live model doesn’t support (like Dutch) no longer produce gibberish during the call; they’re now transcribed right after the meeting with the more capable model

Improvements

Tidied up the summary-generating placeholder

Version 0.4.0

August 3, 2026

Improvements

Audio imports now run in the background: the dialog hands progress off to a sidebar toast, and reopening it mid-import makes clear that closing is safe

Fixes

Clicking an import-finished notification no longer starts a new recording; it opens the imported note instead
The updater now recovers when a downloaded update is superseded by a newer release, instead of getting stuck on a version mismatch

Version 0.3.2

August 3, 2026

Fixes

Widen the sidebar’s minimum width so header buttons never clip

Version 0.3.1

August 3, 2026

Batch audio import

Drop a folder of audio files into the app, review the list, and import them in one go
Each file is transcribed and summarized sequentially into its own memo

Fixes

Show release notes in the “What’s new” dialog after updating