Supervertaler Sidekick 2026.11.3.1

Your API keys are now also locked to this computer, as in Supervertaler for Trados and memoQ; you can choose which AI answers the AI menu; and AI answers are shown formatted.

Installing

1. Download Supervertaler-Sidekick-Setup.exe below and run it.
2. Windows may say Windows protected your PC, because the installer is not signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose where Sidekick goes. It suggests a sidekick folder inside your Supervertaler data folder (C:\Users\<you>\Supervertaler\sidekick unless you moved that folder). Your own menu, clipboard history, notes and settings are kept there too, so pick somewhere you will find again.

No administrator rights are needed. Sidekick then runs in the system tray: press ` (backtick) in any program to open its window, or select some text and press Ctrl+Alt+T to translate it. The help is at https://docs.supervertaler.com/sidekick/.

Updating: run a newer installer. It closes Sidekick, replaces the program, and leaves your content and settings alone.

Already running Sidekick from this repository? The installer makes a separate copy. Exit the old one first, so the two do not fight over the same keys, and copy your data folder and settings.ini into the new folder if you want your content there.

Both .exe files below are the same installer: the one with the version number in its name is for keeping, the other is what the download links point to.

What's new

Added

• Choose which AI answers your AI menu prompts. Settings → AI providers &
  keys… now starts with AI menu actions use: – a provider (Claude,
  OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek or OpenRouter) and a model, from the same
  lists the engine rows below it have. Until now this meant editing
  settings.ini by hand. The choice takes effect at once, without reloading.
  It is not saved while that provider has no key Sidekick can use, and the
  window says why. A prompt that names its own provider or model keeps it.

• API keys are also locked to this computer. Every key Sidekick saves in
  Settings → AI providers & keys…, and every key it finds in the shared key
  file when it starts, is now also kept in your Windows profile –
  C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\Supervertaler\api-keys.locked.json – locked
  by Windows so that it opens only for your Windows account. Supervertaler for
  Trados and Supervertaler for memoQ read and write the same file. The shared
  api-keys.json in the data folder is still written as before, so nothing
  changes in use; a later version will stop keeping keys in the data folder.

• "Can't be read on this computer". A key that Windows will not unlock for
  you – saved under another Windows sign-in, or before an administrator reset
  your Windows password – is never sent to a provider blank, and an older copy
  is not used in its place. The providers window says so under that key's box;
  an AI action, or that engine's row in QuickTrans, says "Can't use your … key –
  it can't be read on this computer…". Paste the key in again and click
  Save. Leaving the box empty and clicking Save keeps the stored key, as
  some causes pass by themselves.

• A licence. Sidekick now has a LICENSE file. It stays free to use, for
  personal and professional work, with no licence key. Its source code is
  source-available, as for the Supervertaler plugins: you may read it, audit it
  and change your own copy, but not pass the program or the installer on.
  Installing it for the people in your own organisation is allowed. JXON and the
  copy of AutoHotkey the installer brings keep their own licences.

Changed

• AI answers are shown formatted. The answer window now shows headings,
  bold and italic text, bullet and numbered lists, tables, code, and sub- and
  superscript as the AI meant them, instead of the raw #, ** and - marks.
  Copy puts the answer on the clipboard as plain text without those marks,
  and formatted as well, so Word pastes it with its headings and bold;
  Insert & close types the plain text. Right-click in the answer for
  Copy (what you selected), Select all and Copy as Markdown (the
  answer exactly as the AI wrote it). Error messages are shown exactly as they
  arrive.

• The code that lets Sidekick's menus follow dark mode is rewritten. The few
  lines that did it were the last ones carried over from
  ChatGPT-AutoHotkey-Utility, where Sidekick's AI handling began; nothing of that
  project's code remains. The new version also checks that Windows has the two
  system calls before using them. Nothing changes in use: it makes the same two
  calls as before.

Fixed

• Making the AI window bigger no longer puts its buttons over the answer.
  They now stay below it.

• A key saved in Sidekick at the same moment as one saved in a Supervertaler
  plugin no longer loses one of them. Sidekick now takes the same lock on the
  shared key file as the plugins, and replaces the file in one step, so a save
  cut short can no longer leave it empty. A shared key file Sidekick cannot read
  – a slip made while editing it by hand, say – is no longer overwritten with
  only the key being saved; the providers window says which keys the plugins
  don't have yet.

Supervertaler Sidekick 2026.10.18.1

Sidekick now comes with an installer, so you no longer need to know anything about AutoHotkey to use it.

Installing

1. Download Supervertaler-Sidekick-Setup.exe below and run it.
2. Windows may say Windows protected your PC, because the installer is not signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose where Sidekick goes. It suggests a sidekick folder inside your Supervertaler data folder (C:\Users\<you>\Supervertaler\sidekick unless you moved that folder). Your own menu, clipboard history, notes and settings are kept there too, so pick somewhere you will find again.

No administrator rights are needed. Sidekick then runs in the system tray: press ` (backtick) in any program to open its window, or select some text and press Ctrl+Alt+T to translate it. The help is at https://docs.supervertaler.com/sidekick/.

Updating: run a newer installer. It closes Sidekick, replaces the program, and leaves your content and settings alone.

Already running Sidekick from this repository? The installer makes a separate copy. Exit the old one first, so the two do not fight over the same keys, and copy your data folder and settings.ini into the new folder if you want your content there.

Both .exe files below are the same installer: the one with the version number in its name is for keeping, the other is what the download links point to.

What's new

Added

• An installer, for anyone who has never used AutoHotkey. Download Supervertaler-Sidekick-Setup.exe from the GitHub releases and run it. It needs no administrator rights and brings its own copy of AutoHotkey, so there is nothing to install first. It asks where Sidekick should go and suggests a sidekick folder in the Supervertaler data folder, because your menu, clipboard history, notes and settings live in that folder too; it refuses Program Files, where Sidekick could not save anything. It offers to start Sidekick when you sign in. An update closes Sidekick properly first, so a note being typed is saved, and never touches your data folder or settings.ini; uninstalling leaves both and says where they are. Running Sidekick.ahk with your own AutoHotkey works as before.

• Text size buttons on the QuickTrans tab. A small − and + at the right end of the Source line, for the mouse: the same steps as Ctrl+- and Ctrl+=, remembered the same way, and they grow the note on the Scratchpad tab too. After a click the focus goes back to the selected translation, so 1–9 and Enter still insert.

Changed

• Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+D are no longer claimed on a new install. Ctrl+R reloaded Sidekick in every program, which took it away from browsers (reload) and Word (right-align); Ctrl+Shift+D started dtSearch, which most people do not have. Both are off by default now. Settings → Reload Sidekick is in the menu, and either key can be given back in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts. An install that already has them in settings.ini keeps them.

• The character keys can be changed or switched off. Ctrl+Shift+3 (€), Ctrl+Shift+6 and Ctrl+Shift+- (en and em dash), Ctrl+Shift+9 and Ctrl+Shift+0 (‘ and ’), Ctrl+Shift+' (‘ ’ around the selection), Ctrl+Shift+O (a bullet) and Ctrl+Shift+` (a backtick) were written into the script itself. They are built-in shortcuts now, on the same keys, in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts, where each can have another key, be limited to some programs, or be turned off. Ctrl+Shift+7, which opened one person's Talon folder, is gone.

• Searches open in your default browser. Every web search in the starter menu, Google this! (Ctrl+/) and Microsoft Terminology Search used to open Microsoft Edge whatever browser you use.

• A tidier starter menu for new installs. The menu a first run copies into data\ loses what only made sense on the machine it came from: the voice-command notes, the AutoCorrect entry, a regex placeholder, the Dutch–English translation prompts (QuickTrans does translation), Localize, the GitHub-issue summary, the dtSearch and LogiTerm searches, the Oxford Premium search, "Edit Sidekick.ahk", and the hints naming text expansions a new install does not have. The HTML link snippet is now a plain template. A menu you already have is never changed.

• Model lists come in two tiers, as in Supervertaler for Trados. Each engine's dropdown in AI providers & keys now opens on the few models worth recommending, the same short list the Trados plugin shows, and picking one shows its verdict and price on the status line. Show all models adds everything the provider lists for your key; Models beside an engine does the same for that one engine. A provider's own list runs to dozens of dated snapshots and previews, which was all the dropdown used to show. Show all models replaces the Fetch all models button, which it does the work of. The short list is a copy of Trados's, so it changes when that one does.