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Changelog

A record of everything new, improved, and fixed in Yaps.

Releases
v1.0 (iOS)August 17, 2026

Yaps for iPhone and iPad

  • Yaps: AI Voice Typing Keyboard is live on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
  • A voice keyboard that types into any app, with speech recognition, cleanup, and read-aloud running on the device.
  • Import audio or video files for on-device transcription, and keep notes in a searchable local vault.
  • Guest mode works with no account. Note sync with desktop is optional and off unless you pair the devices.
  • After the first-run model download, dictation, cleanup, and read-aloud work offline.
v2.3.10July 29, 2026

Yaps Plugins & Notes Browsing

  • Yaps plugins for ChatGPT Desktop, Claude Code, and Codex - 11 integrations covering dictation, transcription, meeting notes, text-to-speech, translation, SRT generation, auto captions, background removal, audio cleanup, video-to-audio, and Yaps Memory.
  • Plugins run against the Yaps engine installed on your own machine, and check that it is genuinely reachable rather than guessing.
  • Notes gained Finder-style folder browsing, a flat list view, and adjustable row density.
  • Linux builds now publish alongside macOS and Windows on every release.
  • Fixed bundled FFmpeg lookup for the media plugins, and recovery of the local Yaps account store.
v2.2.0July 28, 2026

Meetings, Inside Studio

  • Meetings moved into Studio, so recordings, transcripts, and read-aloud all live in one workspace.
  • Added guided import with synced review - scroll the transcript and the audio follows.
  • Meeting audio can be imported straight from video files.
  • Added playback plus complete exports, and speaker editing for interviews that came back fragmented.
  • Windows dictation now routes its supported languages through Cohere.
v2.0.1July 24, 2026

Linux & Auto Captions

  • Native Linux desktop support - the first Linux build of Yaps.
  • New auto captions editor for video, with a catalog of 14 caption styles.
  • Word-level caption highlighting via DTW word-timestamp alignment, with the flicker during pauses fixed.
  • Added background removal to the video tools.
  • Fixed long videos failing after a successful transcription.
v1.3.0July 21, 2026

Onboarding & Localization

  • Rebuilt onboarding: account setup now folds into the Ember opening instead of interrupting it.
  • Added language cards with flags and clearer cues during first run.
  • Localized the desktop interface, including copy generated on the backend.
  • Polished vault selection and sped up the closing step of the flow.
  • Enabled R8 optimization on Android for a smaller, faster build.
v1.0.0June 30, 2026

Windows Dictation

  • Dictation paste on Windows now works without admin privileges, via a uiAccess manifest.
  • The Windows installer is Authenticode-signed.
  • Fixed pasting into Teams and Outlook, where an overlay focus steal raced the clipboard.
  • Fixed dictation while the Yaps window itself is open.
  • Polished the live-preview pill: centered, widened waveform and faster preview text.
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