v1.1.2

Simbi is now formally open source under the MIT license. Nothing about the app itself changes in this update; it puts the project's legal foundation in place.

• The project now carries an MIT license, so you are free to use, modify, and redistribute Simbi.
• A new privacy policy writes down what has always been true: Simbi runs no servers, collects no data, and keeps your notes and recordings on your Mac. Content is only ever sent to your own ChatGPT account.
• New terms of use cover recording consent and Simbi's independence from OpenAI, Apple, NVIDIA, and GitHub.
• Third-party license notices now credit every open-source library and speech model Simbi builds on.

v1.1.1

Speaker colors got a full rework. Every speaker now gets a distinct, vivid color from a perceptual color wheel, and the colors stay evenly spread apart no matter how many people are in the conversation. Colors are dealt by alphabetical order of speaker names, so two speakers can never end up sharing a color.

Also in this release:

• New notes now appear at the top of their folder in the sidebar instead of jumping to their alphabetical spot.
• Fixed a brief flash of an empty editor while the first AI summary of a note was still being written.

v1.1.0

A setup wizard, a movable notes folder, and a big reliability pass.

New

• First launch now opens a setup wizard: pick your notes folder, grant microphone and system audio access, connect the ChatGPT app, and watch the speech models download, all in one guided flow. You can re-run it any time from Help.
• Your notes folder is now yours to place. Settings > General can move the Simbi home anywhere; the app relaunches into the new location.
• Every agent's model picker gained a reasoning effort picker, fed by the live model list from the ChatGPT app.

Improved

• Codex status is now live everywhere. Signing in to the ChatGPT app clears the note banner, the sidebar footer, and the welcome card within seconds; previously only the welcome card noticed.
• The AI notes tab now reacts to changes on disk: a summary created or deleted outside the app (Finder, git, a chat thread) shows or hides the tab immediately.
• Chat sessions no longer list hidden junk like .DS_Store in their file inventory.
• The system audio banner now says what actually went wrong: permission denied and unsupported macOS get their own messages.
• If the ChatGPT app reports a reason when a file conversion fails, Simbi now records that reason instead of a generic error.

Under the hood

• Simbi now keeps a diagnostics log at ~/Library/Logs/Simbi/Simbi.log (also visible in Console). Failures that used to vanish silently, like a settings save or transcript write going wrong, are now recorded.
• A large internal cleanup: shared single owners for the audio pipeline's constants and the note folder layout, removal of dead code, and one implementation each for windows, pickers, and worker plumbing that previously existed in copies.

v1.0.4

Update settings are now impossible to get into a confused state.

• One source of truth: the update mode in Settings and the "Automatically download and install updates in the future" checkbox in the update dialog now always agree. Change one and the other follows instantly.
• Simpler choices: three update modes instead of four. "Never check", "Only notify me" (the default), and "Install automatically", which downloads in the background and installs when you quit. Updates still never interrupt a recording.

v1.0.3

A test release to verify that the hourly and at-launch update checks notice new versions on their own. No changes to the app.

v1.0.2

Updating got less naggy and more current.

• Simbi no longer shows the update permission popup. Fresh installs check for updates automatically and notify you from the sidebar; nothing downloads or installs without you.
• Updates are checked once at every launch and then every hour, instead of once a day. "Never check" in Settings still turns all of this off.

v1.0.1

A test release to verify the new update system end to end. No changes to the app.

v1.0.0

The first public release of Simbi.

Simbi is a macOS notetaking app for meetings. It records from your microphone and system audio, tells speakers apart on your Mac as the meeting happens, and transcribes through the ChatGPT desktop app you already use. A background fixer cleans the transcript up afterwards.

• Notes are plain folders on disk. Anything that edits files (Finder, git, an agent) shows up live in the sidebar.
• Live transcription with speaker diarization, all recording processing stays on your Mac.
• Each note has a built-in terminal chat powered by Codex, with the note as its working directory.
• Files dropped into a note are converted to Markdown context automatically.
• Automatic updates via Sparkle, delivered from GitHub releases.