NoType 0.3.0

NoType 0.3.0

NoType 0.3.0 refreshes the app's visual identity and makes local dictation faster, safer, and more predictable. The release remains private by design: transcription runs entirely on your Mac with the bundled WhisperKit large-v3 model.

What’s new in 0.3.0

A new YC visual identity

• Introduces an Orbit-inspired watercolor app icon in YC's warm personal-brand palette.
• The microphone → waveform → document composition communicates NoType's complete voice-to-text flow at a glance.
• Includes correctly compiled macOS icon assets for crisp presentation from 16×16 through 1024×1024.

Faster first dictation

• Preloads the WhisperKit model in the background after launch, reducing first-use waiting.
• Stops language fallback attempts as soon as a transcription result is conclusive, avoiding unnecessary processing.
• Keeps one additional verification attempt for ambiguous English-only output in mixed-language mode, where translation can otherwise be mistaken for transcription.

Safer recording and text delivery

• Ignores accidental recordings shorter than 0.3 seconds without changing the clipboard.
• Leaves the clipboard untouched when transcription produces no usable text.
• Deletes temporary recordings after successful and failed transcriptions, and removes orphaned clips left by an interrupted run.
• Protects the original input target: if you change chats or text fields while NoType is working, the transcript is copied instead of inserted into the wrong place.
• Keeps the existing five-minute recording limit so an abandoned session cannot continue indefinitely.

More careful transcript cleanup

• Removes common filler sounds and likely subtitle-style closing hallucinations.
• Preserves meaningful conversational phrases, ordinary repetition, and mixed Chinese-English product terms.
• Continues to support Follow Model, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese output preferences.

Core capabilities

• Fully local WhisperKit/Core ML transcription with no account, cloud API, analytics, or telemetry.
• Natural Chinese-English code-switching, plus Chinese-first and English-first recognition modes.
• Insert and copy, insert only, or copy only output behavior.
• Double Command, Double Option, Command + Shift + H, or Disabled dictation triggers.
• Configurable recognition-mode shortcuts and menu-bar diagnostics.
• Bundled Whisper large-v3 model and tokenizer for offline-ready first use.

Download and install

1. Download NoType-0.3.0-arm64.zip and unzip it.
2. Move NoType.app to /Applications, replacing an older copy if present.
3. On first launch, Control-click the app and choose Open.
4. Grant Microphone and Accessibility permissions when requested.

No setup script or separate model download is required. The archive is approximately 1.4 GB because the local model and tokenizer are included.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac (arm64)
• macOS 15.0 or newer
• About 4 GB of free space during download and extraction
• Microphone permission for recording
• Accessibility permission for global shortcuts and direct text insertion

Verification

• Version: 0.3.0 (CFBundleVersion 3)
• Source commit: 03cf316
• 104 tests passed across 8 suites.
• App bundle signature verified with codesign --verify --deep --strict.
• Packaged app icon, WhisperKit model, and tokenizer verified after archive extraction.
• SHA-256: 9599c4fea1965dee27fc47940c6c8ff2db3ebd8bad1bf0e9a88ee8d6ce2d52e5

Known limitations

• This release supports Apple Silicon only.
• The app is ad-hoc signed and not yet notarized, so macOS may require the one-time Control-click → Open step.
• There is no automatic in-app updater; replace the existing app manually when upgrading.

Build 2026-04-02

Includes the shortcut registration fix and a freshly built noType.app bundle.