Amical Desktop v1.0.0

Features

• App layout rework — Redesigned the overall app layout (dfed9e9)
• Internationalization (i18n) — Added i18n support framework (2d961b1), plus Japanese and Spanish localizations (b2d689b)
• Voice Notes — Markdown support and UX improvements for voice notes (93f94cd)
• Notes window — New standalone note window accessible via global shortcut (eeeee9a), with ability to open specific notes (4977c8f)
• Transcription pipeline enhancements — VAD audio filtering, segment filtering, and hallucination detection (02ae0db)
• Transcription retry — Added support for retrying failed transcriptions (c4b48b4)
• Auto-updater rewrite — Rewrote auto-updater with native Electron autoUpdater and added update channel setting (stable/beta) (f85c6b8)
• Feature flags — Added support for feature flags (1f67811)
• Paste last transcript shortcut — New global shortcut to paste the last transcript with defaults and migration (5da9aac)
• Mute system audio — New setting and handling for muting system audio during recording (5d9caf0)
• Shortcut improvements:
  • Support both right and left modifiers (af71912)
  • Pressed-keys recheck and stale key pruning (288ac72)
• Enhanced error handling (cf7e13a)
• Dev theme toggle — Dev-only theme toggle in sidebar (fe40610)

Bug Fixes

• Platform detection — Fixed broken platform detection in onboarding window (fc6355b)
• Cross-platform UI — Unified site header layout and sidebar styling across Mac and Windows (2dfdd52)
• Theme sync — Ensure native theme syncs with theme changes (976e434)
• Notes widget — Fixed re-rendering issues (9bdc43d)
• VAD probabilities — Compute per-frame VAD probabilities for transcription retry (94ece53)
• Local whisper — Simplified initial prompt context and VAD fallback (b5a359c)
• Widget window — Clamp widget window size to prevent overflow (55db6f9)
• Shortcuts:
  • Clear-only resync and align Windows/Swift key tracking (6386386)
  • Expand keycode mappings and add fallback for external keyboards (a8db7ea)
• Sidebar — Fixed mobile sidebar overlapping header (621de96)
• Windows icons — Fixed Windows icon sizes (dd6809e)
• CJK vocabulary — Fixed vocabulary replacement for CJK languages (3f5d26f)
• macOS Tahoe — Adjusted traffic light position for macOS Tahoe (e525ed2)
• Discord icon — Use Tabler icon for Discord instead of colored SVG (0a64b97)

Chores / Internal

• CI workflow added (42d960c)
• Installer renaming during release workflow (d419a3c)
• Auto-updater error event reporting (8fa32bc)
• Notes window guarded by feature flag (e09fc47)
• Default prompts updated (ed308c5)
• Error handling updates (f3dc292)
• Bug report template updated with model info (1b9f82b)
• Redirect URI moved to env (8515f55)

Downloads

macOS

• Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3): Download the DMG or ZIP file for arm64
• Intel: Download the DMG or ZIP file for x64

Windows

• Windows (x64): Download the .exe installer for 64-bit Windows

Installation

macOS:

• DMG: Download and open the DMG file, then drag Amical to your Applications folder
• ZIP: Download and extract the ZIP file, then drag Amical to your Applications folder

Windows:

• Download and run the .exe installer
• Follow the installation wizard
• The app will be installed to your user AppData folder and a shortcut will be created

The ZIP files are primarily for automatic updates. We recommend using the DMG files for initial installation on macOS.