WhisperDrop 1.0.6

Summary

• Fixes GPU acceleration on Windows: Vulkan was selected but whisper.cpp's default flash attention crashes many discrete GPUs (notably NVIDIA), which silently forced a CPU fallback.
• WhisperDrop now disables flash attention on the Vulkan backend (probe + transcription), so NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPUs are actually used.
• Clearer logs: if the GPU is rejected, the real reason (e.g. DeviceLost, out of memory) is now shown.
• Power users can re-enable flash attention with the env var WHISPERDROP_VULKAN_FLASH_ATTN=1.

Assets

• WhisperDrop-1.0.6-windows-x64.exe - download and run
• WhisperDrop-1.0.6-windows-x64.zip - same executable, zipped
• WhisperDrop-1.0.0.dmg - macOS build (unchanged)

WhisperDrop 1.0.5

Summary

• Provides a corrected Windows onefile executable that keeps the simple download-and-run launch path and restores the original microphone icon.
• Includes the macOS DMG asset again so the latest release has both Windows and macOS downloads.

Assets

• WhisperDrop-1.0.5-windows-x64.exe
• WhisperDrop-1.0.0.dmg

WhisperDrop 1.0.4

Summary

• Provides a single Windows executable: download and run WhisperDrop-1.0.4-windows-x64.exe directly.
• Keeps Vulkan preflight with CPU fallback to avoid stalled GPU startup.
• Shows only live transcription text in the app log, filtering whisper.cpp backend diagnostics.

Windows

Download WhisperDrop-1.0.4-windows-x64.exe and run it. No zip extraction or launcher script is required.

WhisperDrop 1.0.2

Summary

• Shows live transcription text in the app log while filtering whisper.cpp backend diagnostics.
• Keeps the Windows executable Vulkan probe and CPU fallback behavior from v1.0.1.

Windows

Download WhisperDrop-1.0.2-windows-x64.zip, extract it, and run WhisperDrop.exe.

WhisperDrop 1.0.1

Windows executable package for WhisperDrop, with the macOS DMG kept available in the same release.

Assets:

• WhisperDrop-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip: Windows x64 packaged app with bundled ffmpeg and whisper.cpp runtime tools.
• WhisperDrop-1.0.0.dmg: macOS packaged app from the v1.0.0 macOS release.

Changes:

• Adds Windows PyInstaller packaging script.
• Uses the WhisperDrop window icon instead of the default Tk icon.
• Verified with packaged self-test and GUI launch test.

WhisperDrop 1.0.0

What's new

• Adds a packaged macOS app bundle with app icon.
• Adds a ready-to-install DMG for macOS.
• Adds YouTube video and playlist transcription through yt-dlp.
• Improves macOS runtime setup for installed app bundles.
• Updates README with release installation and packaging instructions.

Artifact

• WhisperDrop-1.0.0.dmg

Note: this build is not notarized, so macOS may require opening it with right-click > Open the first time.