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v0.12.0
Features
- add API providers with searchable model selection
- refresh desktop dependencies and AI provider management
Documentation
- clarify agent product constraints
Other
- test: await lazy Markdown renderer before assertions
Changes since v0.11.0.
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(onboarding).
Optional AI: choose Connect Claude or Connect ChatGPT and finish browser sign-in.
Or use your own OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenRouter API key in Settings, with searchable model selection.
Keys stay in macOS Keychain; API usage is billed separately by your provider.
No terminal or Simstim account is required; AI setup can be skipped.
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
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v0.11.0
Simstim 0.11 records and transcribes calls locally into Markdown files. Optional summaries and questions use your existing Claude or ChatGPT setup.
Changes since 0.10
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT from onboarding or Settings. Simstim installs the official helper and opens provider-owned browser sign-in. No terminal or Simstim account is required.
- Keep recording, transcription, notes, playback and search available when AI setup is skipped.
- Protect session files from overlapping recording, transcription, summary and edit operations.
- Updated README, configuration, privacy and development guides, with obsolete plans and design documents removed.
Install
Download Simstim_0.11.0_aarch64.dmg, open it and drag Simstim into Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Requires macOS 14.2 or later on Apple Silicon. Speech models download on first launch. AI setup is optional; provider plan limits and billing settings apply.
To update from an earlier version, quit Simstim and replace the app in Applications. Your notes, models and configuration remain in place.
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v0.11.0-beta.1
The first simstim beta: local call transcription, ordinary Markdown files, and optional AI through your own Claude or ChatGPT account.
- Record microphone and system audio locally, with a live transcript and a more accurate pass after the call.
- Keep notes, transcripts and recordings in your own folder. No Simstim account, telemetry or export subscription.
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT from onboarding or Settings. Simstim can install the official helper and open provider-owned browser sign-in; no terminal is required.
- Skip AI and keep using recording, transcription, playback, notes and search. Optional AI sends text, never audio; provider plan limits and billing settings apply.
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon. The default speech models download approximately 1.55 GB on first launch. Me/Them identify audio channels, not individual remote speakers. Recognition and timestamps can be imperfect; beta updates are manual.
Features
- set up optional AI helpers without a terminal
- prepare first public beta around files and existing AI tools
Fixes
- toolbar icon buttons match the bar's height, quiet open state
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(onboarding).
Optional AI: choose Connect Claude or Connect ChatGPT and finish browser sign-in.
No terminal or Simstim account is required; AI setup can be skipped.
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
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v0.10.0
Features
- your prompts, in prompts.toml
- a way back to Ask your notes
- name the people on a call from the transcript when the calendar names nobody
- hearing indicator, one field for search and asking, plain words, copy summary
- save who was on the call from the calendar event
- note meta line, row context menu, quieter statuses, wider defaults
- one AI choice for summaries and chat
- resizable sidebar and Ask-this-call panes, compact chat answers
- visible Ask this call button in the toolbar
- ask your notes and ask this call (stage 4.2)
- reorganize settings into five task-shaped pages
- add a storage_stats command weighing notes and audio
Fixes
- the transcript's main language is the call's language, the notes' language overrides it
- speaker labels on the text baseline, group names never shown as people
- transcript clocks on tooltips only, no hairlines around the selected note
- banner in the system look, tighter transcript gutter
- restore overlay scrollbars; quieter transcript
- transcript chunks flow as text; call length in words
- align the one screen
- drop the redundant suffix from the retired summarizer's name
- drop em dashes from ask empty-state copy
- size the note pane minimum for its toolbar, fade tab overflow
- focus input on open, full-width input, citation scroll
- exact model labels, grounded followups, wrapping chips
- spin the Summary tab instead of the clipping work chip
- wrap long session titles instead of clipping them
- reveal scrollbars only on hover or while scrolling
- align traffic lights with the toolbar, group transcript turns
- scale time and output budgets, never compete with live ASR
Other
- perf(ai): stop loading every connector per run; show the chat's steps; connector questions
- style(ui): Notes and Calendar as the references
- style(ui): HIG typography and controls
- style(theme): follow the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- style(theme): tune the paper palette
- feat!: retire the on-device summarizer, one-screen onboarding, one-page settings, finished-note defaults
- polish(settings): read like a product, not a config file
Changes since v0.9.0.
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
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v0.9.0
Features
- add guided first-run onboarding
Fixes
- refresh sherpa native libraries
Changes since v0.8.0.
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
shasum -a 256
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v0.8.0
Features
- render notes and summaries as markdown
- add file-first TOML configuration
- refine shortcuts and session view
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
shasum -a 256
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v0.7.0
Features
- calendar context works with codex too
- a found calendar event names the note verbatim
- offer enhance and re-enhance from the overflow menu
- opt-in model titles and calendar context for enhance
- stream enhance progress and show it everywhere
- add quality local summaries
- run summaries with bundled local AI
- add local summary model management
- replace menu panel with native controls
- refine compact menu bar panel
- add menu bar recording controls
- add transcript find navigation
- replace application icon
- redesign global search
- add collapsible sidebar
Fixes
- reset settings scroll via scrollTop, not scrollTo
- match the calendar event deterministically and retitle on re-enhance
- refuse a title/notes save while the session is finalizing
- drop the presentation lock before tray dispatch in the timer tick
- reject malformed local summaries
- speed up multilingual local summaries
- default summaries to local provider
- refresh menu panel state on focus
- clear menu bar timer on stop
- synchronize menu bar recording state
- anchor and restyle menu panel
- sharpen menu bar icon
- stack transcript find by available space
- move compact transcript find below toolbar
- prevent transcript find overlap
- tighten window toolbar spacing
- preserve collapsed search position
- keep sidebar actions aligned when collapsed
- remove active sidebar toggle styling
- align search palette with design
Other
- refactor: keep Models a pure download center, behavior moves to General
- refactor: reorganize settings into general and models pages
- refactor: keep one local summary model
Changes since v0.6.0.
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
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v0.6.0
Features
- apply stage 1.2 interface redesign
Fixes
- prevent toolbar model hint crowding
- align call banner with notification design
- align settings with design system
- set traffic light vertical origin
- apply titlebar inset atomically
- position titlebar traffic lights
- move settings into overflow menu
- center macOS titlebar controls
- align titlebar controls
- separate errors from screen content
- restore design text contrast
- align session tabs with toolbar design
- use thin application scrollbars
- keep sidebar metadata stable on hover
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
shasum -a 256
58a4b26bb09f5b003f295e0ddd317a40faf70c6d3570398ebe98a60bc505416d simstim_0.6.0_aarch64.dmg
v0.5.0
Features
- auto-enhance after each call
- enhance button, summary block and an AI settings page
- enhance notes with the user's own AI CLI (claude or codex)
- add the Summary section to format v2
- full-window settings with a section nav
Changes since v0.4.0.
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
shasum -a 256
4497d0047a1bcbf2dc4b5476566eaaaa180d1bc82c416b84d22e840fa2fa25fc simstim_0.5.0_aarch64.dmg
v0.4.0
Features
- split notes and transcript into tabs with a custom audio player
Fixes
- desktop contrast pass and arrow cursors
Install
Open the disk image, drag simstim into Applications, launch it. Signed
with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there is nothing to
bypass. ASR models download inside the app on first run
(Settings > Models).
Requires macOS 14.2+ on Apple Silicon.
shasum -a 256
9b3f897f13b08744e55c0405133835120ac052233f0db45d1b7e1835f938bd2a simstim_0.4.0_aarch64.dmg