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@rcourtman rcourtman released this 11 May 14:24
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v0.2.0
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Parakey is now a native Swift app. Same UX — push-to-talk, menu
bar, no preferences window — rebuilt on the Apple Neural Engine via
FluidAudio +
Parakeet TDT v3.

  • ~100 ms from key release to pasted text (down from ~180 ms)
  • 2.2 MB download (down from ~150 MB)
  • Two hardened-runtime entitlements instead of six
  • No embedded interpreter, no JIT, no library-validation override

Upgrading from v0.1.x

brew upgrade --cask parakey or the in-app Update now… button
handles the swap. Settings, granted permissions, and Skip-version
state carry over cleanly — same bundle id, same Developer ID cert.

Heads up: v0.2.0 requires macOS 26 (Tahoe). If you're on macOS
13, 14, or 15, the upgrade will refuse with a brew error — stay on
v0.1.6 until you can upgrade macOS.

Reclaiming disk space (optional)

The old MLX model cache from v0.1.x is no longer used. ~600 MB:

rm -rf ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--mlx-community--parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

If you ever installed v0.1.x from a source clone via install.sh,
the LaunchAgent it created is also unused now:

launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.local.parakey.plist 2>/dev/null
rm -f ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.local.parakey.plist
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