Rearview 3.0.11

What's new in 3.0.11

• Live transcripts are off for now and come back as a setting in the next release. While a meeting records, the note and the floating bar show whether you and the other people are being heard. The full transcript is ready a few minutes after the meeting ends, and the note says so while it's being made.
• If a meeting stops recording your mic or the other people for 15 seconds, Rearview tells you and offers to restart recording.
• The floating bar now appears only during meetings by default. You can change this in Settings.
• Rearview opens on Meeting notes.
• First run ends with picking an AI model, or skipping it.
• Connections is one short list: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, or another app.
• Meeting notes have "Export for troubleshooting" in the More menu. It saves one zip of the meeting's audio, transcripts and logs on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
• Help has "Copy recent logs". Keys, emails and other private details are removed first.

Fixes

• Rearview keeps recording the other people after headphones or a dock disconnect. Before, computer sound stopped for the rest of the day.
• The speech model downloads at startup, not during your first meeting.
• When Windows switches to new speakers, Rearview follows within seconds instead of minutes.
• A meeting you started yourself no longer ends on its own after recording restarts.
• Unnamed voices in a transcript are numbered consistently.
• The floating bar follows your drag, stays where you drop it, and no longer opens the timeline or stops a meeting by accident. On Windows, clicking it no longer takes focus from your call.
• OpenRouter keys are checked properly. Pasting something that isn't a key shows an error, and a rejected key shows a plain message instead of code.
• "Recording restarted" no longer shows when the restart failed.
• Meeting note edits typed just before you leave the note are saved.
• Links into Rearview open the right page.

Removed

• Google Calendar sign-in. It never finished. Apple, Windows and ICS calendars still work.
• The Calendar page and "Routine ideas" notifications.
• Model names on the reply length setting in AI settings.

Rearview 3.0.10

What's new in 3.0.10

• OpenRouter: sign in from Settings > AI instead of pasting a key.
• Model lists load live from your provider. OpenRouter groups models by maker and shows prices. ChatGPT shows the models your plan includes.

Fixes

• Chat can read your Rearview data again. In 3.0.9 it said no Rearview server was connected.
• Switching a preset to another provider no longer keeps the old provider's URL and key.
• After you change a recording setting, the restart prompt stays on screen until you click it.
• Deleting a time range from the timeline now also deletes its screen videos and screenshots from disk.
• Deleting a time range no longer deletes recordings outside that range, such as audio not yet transcribed.
• Deleting a speaker keeps audio files that other speakers' transcripts still use.
• Rearview checks downloaded speech models before loading them. The first launch after updating checks the model on disk once, which can take a minute.

Removed

• Sharing AI presets with a team. It never worked.

Rearview 3.0.9

What's new in 3.0.9

• Local AI: a new card in Settings > AI sets up a model that runs on your computer through Ollama. It suggests a model that fits your machine, downloads it, and lets you chat with it. Installing Ollama is the only step outside Rearview.
• Windows: the yellow border around screens being recorded is now a setting, under Recording > Screen. It's on by default.
• Smart PII removal loads its model only when data leaves Rearview, and frees the memory after 10 idle minutes.

Fixes

• Meeting transcripts no longer get bits of silence inserted in the middle of speech.
• Windows: if a mic can't open in its usual format, Rearview records it at the right speed instead of a sped-up or slowed-down one.
• Short audio clips are no longer transcribed twice.
• Windows: a clipboard copy made by a background app, such as a password manager, is no longer credited to the app in front.
• Websites can no longer reach Rearview's local data, through Rearview or through your own browser.
• Windows: Rearview no longer opens your Ollama to every website.
• Images from the web in chat, routines and notifications show as links instead of loading on their own.

Removed

• Service connections other than calendars. Google Calendar, ICS feeds, your Mac or Windows calendar and custom MCP servers stay. Other AI tools can reach your services through MCP.
• The agent browser, its browser extension and sending messages from chat.
• Remote sync, local network discovery and the Voice Memos card.
• Memory sync into AI agent files such as CLAUDE.md. Rearview removes the block it added to those files once, after the update.
• Chat prompt suggestions and follow-up questions.
• The routine store's Discover tab and publishing. Installing a routine from a link still works.
• Rearview no longer downloads FFmpeg on its own.

Rearview 3.0.8

What's new in 3.0.8

• The Windows installer and app are now signed, so Windows and antivirus software can tell they come from Rearview.
• Rearview starts with far less memory. The speech model now loads the first time it's needed, not at startup.
• The app download is about a third smaller.
• Meeting transcripts in English are more accurate on Windows, and speech from your speakers shows up within about 30 seconds instead of minutes.
• Live meeting text is now a quick preview. After the meeting, Rearview transcribes it again for the saved record.
• Typed text: search can show only typed text, and clearing the search clears the results.

Fixes

• On a Mac, clicks and typing keep recording after a password or permission prompt.
• Each screen shows the right app name, and app time is no longer counted twice.
• If the default mic sends only silence, Rearview records from another mic.
• Rearview won't store recordings in OneDrive or other cloud-synced folders, and the Windows installer no longer adds a desktop shortcut.
• Turning on typing capture in Settings no longer opens System Settings or pins the window.

Removed

• HD recording.
• The Whisper Tiny, Whisper Large v3, Qwen3-ASR and Parakeet MLX transcription engines.
• Windows: no keyboard hook while typing capture is off, no hidden PowerShell windows, and no reading other apps' memory.
• The agent browser no longer reads browser cookie files.

Rearview 3.0.7

What's new in 3.0.7

• Typing capture, off by default. When you turn it on, Rearview saves the text you type as it appears in the field, so edits, paste and autocorrect come out right. Password fields are never saved. Turn it on during setup or in Settings.
• Ask "what am I working on" and get the tasks you worked on, not minutes per app.
• Meeting notes have a new layout: your notes sit beside the transcript, and the meetings list shows a preview of each meeting.
• On Windows, a screen keeps its name after you unplug and reconnect it.

Fixes

• Meeting transcripts no longer break up on USB dock headsets and other headsets that send audio in bursts.
• On a Mac, if the mic or screen recording stopped working after an update, the recovery window now resets the permission so you can allow it again.
• Rearview no longer reports a problem when the room is quiet for a long time.
• A meeting with no transcript no longer shows "Summarizing" forever.
• Meeting times read like "9:44 AM".
• After upgrading, the timeline shows each screen once.

Rearview 3.0.6

What's new in 3.0.6

• New floating bar. Hover it for actions, or click X to turn it off. Quitting no longer hangs or crashes.
• Meeting-only mode records only while you're in a meeting.
• Meetings get a summary, with a switch to write it automatically.
• Better recall. Ask "when did I first..." or "what am I working on" and get real answers.
• Rearview stores less: key presses and mouse moves are no longer saved, and the disk sits idle when there's nothing to clean up.
• Each recording now notes which computer it came from.
• New installs check for updates and notify you instead of installing on their own.
• Chat settings say "Pick a model" in place of preset jargon.
• On a Mac, a screen keeps its name after you unplug and reconnect it.

Fixes

• The timeline no longer shows screens from other times.
• Chat titles are no longer cut off.
• Clicking a meeting opens it instead of asking to delete it.
• The tray shows the right update label.
• The app icon is the right size in the Mac Dock and on Windows.

Rearview 3.0.5

What's new in 3.0.5

• Rearview Cloud is gone. Pick ChatGPT, Claude, OpenAI or Ollama as your AI model.
• Chat's built-in instructions now match what it can actually do.
• Meetings can now get a summary automatically. You can turn this off in Settings > Meetings.
• On Windows, Rearview uses far less memory while idle.

Updating on a Mac from 2.x

macOS asks for permission again, one time. If Rearview doesn't start recording, open System Settings > Privacy & Security. Remove Rearview from Screen & System Audio Recording, Microphone and Input Monitoring. Then reopen Rearview and click Allow.

Rearview 3.0.4

What's new in 3.0.4

• Settings has a simpler layout with plain labels, and a new Meetings page.
• Meeting search now finds what was said, not just titles.
• Meeting notes no longer poll in the background when idle.
• The timeline numbers your screens the same way your computer does.

Updating on a Mac from 2.x

macOS asks for permission again, one time. If Rearview doesn't start recording, open System Settings > Privacy & Security. Remove Rearview from Screen & System Audio Recording, Microphone and Input Monitoring. Then reopen Rearview and click Allow.

Rearview 3.0.3

Fixes in 3.0.3

• When disk space ran low, auto-delete could remove every recording. It now keeps the last 24 hours.
• Display and audio notices show once instead of repeating.
• The false "display connected" notice is gone.

What's new in 3.0

Privacy and storage

• Privacy mode: one switch keeps all AI on your computer or local network. Chat and routines also skip Perplexity and Glean.
• Auto-delete: choose how long to keep recordings. New installs keep everything.
• The mic records only during meetings. You can change this in Settings.

Chat

• Chat can send messages through Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, email, Todoist, ntfy and Pushover. Nothing goes out until you press Send.

Speed

• Lower idle CPU. The tray checks health every 5 seconds instead of every second.
• On Windows, the speech model unloads after 5 idle minutes to free memory.

Look and install

• New app icon. The tray dot turns red while recording.
• Mac: signed and notarized by Apple, and installs from a standard DMG.
• Windows: choose what closing the window does (tray, minimize or quit). Fewer captures while you type.

Cleanup

• Removed the upgrade prompts, unused connections and the cloud OCR engine.
• Timeline, calendar and settings fixes.

Updating on a Mac from 2.x

The new signature makes macOS ask for permission again, one time. If Rearview doesn't start recording, open System Settings > Privacy & Security. Remove Rearview from Screen & System Audio Recording, Microphone and Input Monitoring. Then reopen Rearview and click Allow.

Rearview 3.0.1

What's new in 3.0

Privacy and storage

• Privacy mode: one switch keeps all AI on your computer or local network. Chat and routines also skip Perplexity and Glean.
• Auto-delete: choose how long to keep recordings. New installs keep everything.
• The mic records only during meetings. You can change this in Settings.

Chat

• Chat can send messages through Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, email, Todoist, ntfy and Pushover. Nothing goes out until you press Send.

Speed

• Lower idle CPU. The tray checks health every 5 seconds instead of every second.
• On Windows, the speech model unloads after 5 idle minutes to free memory.

Look and install

• New app icon. The tray dot turns red while recording.
• Mac: signed and notarized by Apple, and installs from a standard DMG.
• Windows: choose what closing the window does (tray, minimize or quit). Fewer captures while you type.

Cleanup

• Removed the upgrade prompts, unused connections and the cloud OCR engine.
• Timeline, calendar and settings fixes.

Updating on a Mac from 2.x

The new signature makes macOS ask for permission again, one time. If Rearview doesn't start recording, open System Settings > Privacy & Security. Remove Rearview from Screen & System Audio Recording, Microphone and Input Monitoring. Then reopen Rearview and click Allow.