v1.2.0: new look and setup intro

A new look and a guided setup. Most people want "Full".

What's new

• New design: rebuilt in Material 3 with grouped settings and a true-black dark mode. It follows your phone's colours where Android supports it.
• Setup intro: 7 short pages walk you through pairing (scan the QR code on your PC), permissions, and a practice dictation using your real voice. You can run it again from About.
• Clearer home screen: the top card shows where your voice goes. Text settings (Words & Triggers, AI Editing) are grouped together.
• Cloud services: presets for Groq, Together AI, OpenAI, OpenRouter or a custom server, each with an (i) box covering privacy, price and speed, plus a link to the provider's own pricing page.
• Privacy: recordings are deleted as soon as their text is inserted. The app never reads or types into password, PIN or card-number fields.
• Fixes: crashes when syncing words with the PC and when starting the floating button without microphone permission. The recording panel now sits above the keyboard.

File	App	What's different
WhisperUnchained-Full-1.2.0.apk	Whisper Unchained Full	Everything, including transcribing audio playing on the phone, and a one-tap battery exemption.
WhisperUnchained-1.2.0.apk	Whisper Unchained	The Google Play version: no audio-capture or battery-exemption permission.

Updates over 1.1.0 directly; there's no need to uninstall.

Signing certificate: CN=Whisper Unchained, O=Cyrus Studio, C=US · SHA-256 2276dbb8774aafdec4afa7090985d63ff1a2ff37a6366a0f58a42cd257d63efa

• Full (com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained.full) APK SHA-256: a4fb8a3de51690e25395133c459306143f2d3f7ba0b10918e22ea1f2339ffdb8
• Play (com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained) APK SHA-256: 14ab18cf36e1cfb1c6816a3f1f386179fe13148abf128dbe044f1c8082e15b92

Whisper Unchained for Android 1.1.0

The app now comes in two versions. Most people want "Full".

File	App	What's different
WhisperUnchained-Full-1.1.0.apk	Whisper Unchained Full	Everything, including transcribing audio playing on the phone (videos, podcasts; phone calls can't be captured).
WhisperUnchained-1.1.0.apk	Whisper Unchained	The version going to Google Play: no audio-capture permission.

They have different app IDs, so both can be installed side by side.

New signing key. Builds before 1.1.0 were signed with an older key, so they can't update to this one: uninstall the old app first, then install this and pair again. (Those older downloads have been removed.)

Signing certificate: CN=Whisper Unchained, O=Cyrus Studio, C=US · SHA-256 2276dbb8774aafdec4afa7090985d63ff1a2ff37a6366a0f58a42cd257d63efa

• Full (com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained.full) APK SHA-256: 876f8fb9f86050f541477bb44990f29e12c45517192e726661f62ceee11a8467
• Play (com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained) APK SHA-256: 47f4e927213e1d8fff15ef6b418866a26c5bf3c1306f7d898dc74a4d7048b6a8

Whisper Unchained for Android 1.0.3

Updates 1.0.2 in place.

• The style sheet has a big Done button that closes it while you keep recording (the X still works). Stop from the floating button as usual.
• Tapping outside the sheet closes it without touching the app behind it, so your text box keeps its cursor.

App ID: com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained · Signing certificate SHA-256: 07fc826a4502c7701789a1ff230d03db7d5fd398af513ea2b97de8232053c8a8
APK SHA-256: 04db461a40b88a242986c9b0b12dbd038bf0b48672d88185408009c275e4959e

Whisper Unchained for Android 1.0.2

Updates 1.0.1 in place.

• Setup checklist on first run: microphone, connect to your PC (or a cloud service), "appear on top", and paste into text boxes (or the clipboard chip). Steps tick themselves off and the card disappears when you're done. If you tap the button with a step missing, it tells you what's missing and how to fix it.
• Smarter AI cleanup default: on whenever an AI model is set up. Paired with a PC, the switch follows that PC's "Clean up every dictation" until you change it; with a cloud service, it turns on once an AI (chat) key is set. A note under the switch always says why it's on or off.

App ID: com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained · Signing certificate SHA-256: 07fc826a4502c7701789a1ff230d03db7d5fd398af513ea2b97de8232053c8a8
APK SHA-256: db359b3432cc3ec19f5a2e0b38cf097c699449731b563bdcda164ab1a2b26517

Whisper Unchained for Android 1.0.1

Updates 1.0.0 in place.

• Tone is always available in the style sheet. Picking Professional, Casual or Friendly while Grammar & flow is on "Keep my words" switches it to "Fix grammar" (changing tone means rewording) and tells you so.
• Mean is its own option (with your own PC): it no longer depends on Grammar & flow.

App ID: com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained · Signing certificate SHA-256: 07fc826a4502c7701789a1ff230d03db7d5fd398af513ea2b97de8232053c8a8
APK SHA-256: a0caf49e4964d790f411251f7a2716a75f9fed1b89bec8ad9504017961b1083e

Whisper Unchained for Android 1.0.0

The first full release.

Upgrading from a 0.1.x preview? This version has a new app ID, so it installs as a separate app: uninstall the old "Whisper Unchained" first, then install this one and scan the pairing code again.

• Dictate into any app: a floating button appears when a text box is selected. Tap, talk as long as you like, tap again; the text is inserted at your cursor (it never replaces what's already there). Or use the clipboard chip if you'd rather not turn on accessibility.
• Style on the fly: while recording, swipe the pill under the button to do less or more (Grammar & flow, Conciseness, Punctuation), or tap it for every option, including tone and (with your own PC) Mean mode. Applies to that dictation only.
• Your own PC or your own key: pair with a PC running Whisper Unchained Server by scanning its QR code (you confirm the server before anything is saved), or use your own Groq / OpenAI key.
• Shared words with your PC: vocabulary and name corrections.
• Private by design: API keys encrypted with the Android Keystore, no cloud backup of settings, nothing you dictate is logged on the phone.

App ID: com.cyrus_studio.whisperunchained · Signing certificate SHA-256: 07fc826a4502c7701789a1ff230d03db7d5fd398af513ea2b97de8232053c8a8
APK SHA-256: 88e452f7eaab470fb249789a5134292ea78c94a553844616810c084e8b973e7e

Whisper Unchained for Android 0.1.1 (preview) - superseded

Superseded by v1.0.0.

Preview build for sideloading.

• Signed with the project's permanent release key (0.1.0 used a development key). If you installed 0.1.0, uninstall it first, then install this one; you'll need to scan the pairing code again. Future versions will update in place.
• API keys stored with the Android Keystore directly (AES-256-GCM); other settings stay plain, so nothing gets scrambled.
• If your PC rejects a dictation, the app now tells you why instead of silently resetting the button.
• Matches the desktop: teal look, Transcription / Words & Triggers / AI Editing / Phone tabs, model picker, your PC's name corrections shown.

Signing certificate SHA-256: 07fc826a4502c7701789a1ff230d03db7d5fd398af513ea2b97de8232053c8a8
APK SHA-256: fab77290cded109ab173a4f1afeb4336602000281ba5e194b3f790a4cf4f715d

Whisper Unchained for Android 0.1.0 (preview) - superseded

Superseded by v0.1.1.

First preview build for sideloading.

• Dictate into any app with a floating button: auto-paste (Accessibility) or a 1-tap clipboard chip.
• Use your own PC running Whisper Unchained Server (scan its pairing QR code), or your own Groq / OpenAI key.
• API keys and settings stored encrypted (Android Keystore), excluded from cloud backups.
• Shared vocabulary with your PC, "prompt AI" voice commands and optional AI cleanup.

Install: download the APK on your phone, open it, and allow installing from your browser when Android asks. This preview is signed with a development key: a later signed release may need you to uninstall this one first.

SHA-256: 19f73d77ad2fd70603b180ee068ff2908100d59ffba2b4788173e3b033974282

On-device speech models (v1)

Model files the app downloads for on-device transcription (contract 05). Not an app release.

• parakeet-tdt-110m-en-int8 (default, English, ~108 MB)
• parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-en-int8 (higher accuracy, English)
• parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3-multi-int8 (25 European languages)
• silero_vad.onnx (cuts recordings at pauses)

manifest.json lists every file with its size and SHA-256; the app verifies each download against it.
Parakeet weights: NVIDIA, CC-BY-4.0, converted by k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx (Apache-2.0). Silero VAD: MIT.