AliceMate 1.0.0

AliceMate 1.0.0

Meet AliceMate 1.0.0. What began as Alice Companion has been rebuilt from the inside out: a new name, a fresh look, and a whole new way to use Alice across your Mac. This is our biggest update yet, and the first one we're proud to call version 1.

• Alice now works in every app. Select any text and the new menu lets Alice explain, summarize, translate, or correct it.
• Create your own prompts and choose which ones appear on the panel or in the ⋯ menu.
• Tap the right Command key to talk to Alice. Your own shortcuts stay as they are.
• When AliceMate is out of sight, voice starts in a new chat. A chat on screen continues.
• The new screenshot button attaches a screen region to your draft.
• Settings are redesigned, with a sidebar and a one-click update check.
• Nothing to set up again: your sign-in, settings, and permissions carry over from Alice Companion.
• Lists in selected-text answers now match chat and paste as lists. The file-drop outline matches the message field, and dropping images into the image editor works again.

Thank you for being with us from the start. Version 1 is only the beginning.

AliceMate is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with Yandex. Chat and voice features depend on the availability of the Alice AI service.

Alice Companion 0.1.1

Alice Companion 0.1.1

• Added independent shortcuts for voice conversation and message dictation. Conversation uses press-to-toggle; optional dictation supports toggle or hold-to-dictate, leaving recognized text in the draft for you to send.
• Assign a standalone left or right Command, Option, Control, or Shift key by pressing and releasing it. Regular keyboard combinations remain available, and conflicting shortcuts are flagged in Settings.
• Standalone modifier taps take effect on release. Hold-to-dictate starts after a short delay; another key, a mouse click, interrupted key events, or sleep cancels the gesture.
• Redesigned Settings inside the desktop window, with separate voice controls and a return-to-chat action that preserves the conversation and draft.
• Added macOS permission guides for the microphone, Input Monitoring, and Screen Recording. The latter two include a draggable app icon and a Finder shortcut to help add the running app to System Settings.
• Moved microphone capture into the native app to address voice crackling, while preserving the website's voice controls and macOS permission checks.
• Added direct Reload and Screenshot to chat toolbar actions. Region screenshots attach to the current draft without sending it; failed attachments remain available for retry or saving.
• Refined the compact chat layout, typography, history navigation, file-drop overlay, and window toolbar.
• Fixed returning an expanded companion chat to the sidebar and toggling it from the main window.

Alice Companion is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with Yandex. Chat and voice features depend on the availability of the Alice AI service.

Alice Companion 0.1.0

Alice Companion 0.1.0

• First macOS release for Apple Silicon and Intel, requiring macOS 15 or later.
• Use Alice AI with your own Yandex account in a desktop window or a compact edge companion.
• Start voice conversations with configurable keyboard shortcuts and shared microphone permission.
• Translate, summarize, correct, improve, shorten, and expand text with built-in prompt tools.
• Recognize Alice Companion by its new Dock icon and monochrome menu-bar logo.
• Check for signed updates from the app menu or Settings, with automatic checks at launch and every six hours when enabled.

Alice Companion is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with Yandex. Chat and voice features depend on the availability of the Alice AI service.