Loq 0.6.2

Loq 0.6.2 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

The recording bar

The destination chip now sits at the far right of the bar, with the caption filling the space before it. The bar takes its full width while it listens and works, so nothing moves as words arrive; it returns to its compact size once the text has landed.

SHA-256: 9b700ea3a051eea54cdeea746c8cd9359a011a17aa187c6ec26a3b9127222d7f
Source: Larkooo/Loq@6266082

Loq 0.6.1

Loq 0.6.1 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Editing selected text lands like dictation

Select text, hold the dictation key, say how to change it, and the revision replaces the selection as soon as it is ready, with the change shown briefly in the bar. There is no confirmation step; Delivery settings can turn a preview back on for anyone who wants Return to replace.

Selections in Electron apps

Selecting text in an Electron app such as the Claude desktop app now works. Those apps build their accessibility tree only after the first read asks for it, so Loq reads the selection a few more times over the first half second of the recording, and also reads it from the selected range when the app does not offer the text directly.

The recording bar

The destination chip stays inside the bar while live captions grow; the caption is the part that wraps.

SHA-256: 32d63f9571ddbbc981c6ffd8f4f3ccaaebf615d74d84ad324612c1b22c44173c
Source: Larkooo/Loq@a966950

Loq 0.6.0

Loq 0.6.0 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Edit selected text with the same key

Select text in any app, hold your dictation key, and say how to change it: shorter, in your own voice, or turned into a task with acceptance criteria. Loq notices the selection on its own. The revision appears beside the original in the recording bar; Return replaces it, Tab asks for another take, I inserts the words as said, and Escape cancels. Nothing is replaced if the selection changed in the meantime. Delivery settings can skip the preview.

A draft, three presses away

Press the dictation key three times to open a draft in the recording bar. Speak, pause, and add another thought; say "also mention…" to add a point or "replace the last point with…" to change one. Return sends the whole draft to the field you started from, or to a connected agent session with Tab. Escape keeps an unfinished draft for later.

The recording bar

• Shows where the words are going while it listens: the app in front, the selected agent, Ask, the draft, or the selection being edited.

Settings

• General leads with the key and its gestures, then the microphone and permissions.
• Choose the microphone and test it before a long dictation.
• Model choice and tuning moved to Advanced.
• Advanced › Timing shows recording startup and stop-to-paste times for this session, with the slow cases.

Recording reliability

• A headset that connects or drops mid-recording no longer cuts the recording short; recording continues on the new input.
• After sleep, a refused microphone start is retried once, and a microphone that delivers no audio is reported instead of recording silence.

SHA-256: 77dee2e3944db789410a3b748d4fbf51242ff69dc9d712590815cba1eeb6a34f
Source: Larkooo/Loq@15e6c3e

Loq 0.5.0

Loq 0.5.0 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Native on Mac

Loq returns to a native SwiftUI/AppKit app for macOS.

• Quicker dictation startup: microphone capture starts while cached recognition warms up, and focused-field lookup runs alongside recording.
• More responsive recording animation, with no overlay animation left running while idle.
• Cleaner, resizable Settings with remembered window placement, visible model readiness, and simpler permission recovery.
• Available updates appear in the menu and Settings without interrupting your work.
• Stronger update verification and a retained copy of the previous app for recovery.

Returning from the desktop preview

Your preview history, preferences, spelling corrections, and saved prompts are imported once, with a local backup. Existing native licenses remain in place. A license or provider key entered only in the preview needs to be entered again. Native model weights may need to be downloaded if they are not already cached.

This release is for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later. The separate Windows 0.4.0 preview remains experimental.

SHA-256: c8961c23f11f2d3233c5a97167c9a3bb78629dffc35888dd855f91bc8c61e1e2
Source: Larkooo/Loq@1be6355

Loq 0.4.0

Loq 0.4.0 for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows (x64).

macOS: download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Windows: run the setup program. It installs Loq for the current user and can be removed from Settings. This installer is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning on first run; compare the checksum below before choosing Run anyway.

SHA-256 (Loq-0.4.0-arm64.dmg): 670cd3322fb54e9aba961ed2b5cac415752b12b4d360db2bcc5bc26abd7508bd
SHA-256 (Loq-0.4.0-arm64.zip): bcf2958d9d96e11afbbbba094ca7deaca2790caa5bc6c3c748e899985c06faee
SHA-256 (Loq-0.4.0-windows-x64-setup.exe): 1bc719dd494a0807fa17b63ab2c0e44fcb0e97ae5646ac73b3269c8938800438
Source (macOS): Larkooo/Loq@8771476
Source (Windows): Larkooo/Loq@efd9b71

Loq 0.3.14

Loq 0.3.14 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 946b09814ddfb93f0578e26668e3c3095f3d73b13bfef0a299395677f4ca6ed9
Source: Larkooo/Loq@6d01e83

Loq 0.3.13

Loq 0.3.13 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 1b4b3ddd1fbfca179c65675fb13b000dcc55eceb4122d0dc9f2855b7e80a91bc
Source: Larkooo/Loq@3462c9a

Loq 0.3.12

Loq 0.3.12 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: dd5415063ce7855c17727d239bb815d6878ead649a978c960f2d689432a79d89
Source: Larkooo/Loq@a00d932

Loq 0.3.11

Loq 0.3.11 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 106734b6d4d0176463a572f0ae78d6d0a2de1ea7b2345f19723c9014208553b3
Source: Larkooo/Loq@875c45f

Loq 0.3.10

Loq 0.3.10 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.

Download the zip, move Loq to Applications, and open it. This build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 46ce1deedc3dd88f4726e964a2be85734eafcc9f1d7a18a41e28298d48973f4c
Source: Larkooo/Loq@2af7d79