Summary
Four weeks of work since v2.9.2 — a meeting notepad, your own overlay buttons, Connectors, notes you can share as a link, and follow-ups in your style.
What's New
- Notepad — type your own notes while Natively listens, with the live transcript beside them. Recipes such as What did I miss, Write tldr and List my todos run from chips or "/" in Ask, and after Stop your notes are written up line by line.
- Your own overlay buttons — describe a button in plain sentences (what it does, what to read, how the answer looks) and Natively turns it into an overlay action. Pick the five buttons the overlay shows in Settings → Overlay.
- Connectors — send meeting notes to Gmail, Slack, Notion, Zapier, webhooks and CRMs such as HubSpot and Salesforce, with browser sign-in and auto-send rules. Notes go straight from your computer to the service. In Settings → Connectors.
- Share notes as a link — send anyone a link to a meeting's notes and transcript, from the meeting's Share menu next to Copy and File.
- Follow-ups in your style — a button in the meeting header opens a compose sheet, and the follow-up email is written in your tone, for older meetings too. Set the style per mode in Modes Manager.
- MCP server and API — a local MCP server and API let your own tools and AI assistants read your meetings. In Settings → Connectors.
- Setup & Help, rebuilt — 21 searchable guides in four groups, from setting up to after the meeting, each with a new screen recording in dark and light.
- Edit shortcuts while stealth typing — Ctrl/Cmd+V, A, C, X and word-by-word delete work in the overlay and the notes window.
- Click-through pill — the click-through button opens into a pill that shows the hotkey to leave click-through.
- Lavender overlay style — a new overlay look, and the Default in light and dark.
- More speech options — Qwen realtime speech, Indian languages in the language picker, and Parakeet v2 for English. On Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later, Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine, several times faster.
- Shared screens (off by default) — when someone else shares a screen in Zoom or Teams, what they showed is described in the notes. In Settings → Calendar.
- Attendee details (opt-in) — look up attendees' title and company. In Settings → Connectors.
- Web search in chat — ask typed chat to look something up and it searches the web and shows its sources. Live answers never search.
Improvements
- Meeting apps — Natively reads Zoom and Teams for the meeting ID, who is on the call and whether you are muted, follows the microphone the meeting app uses, and detects more meeting apps.
- Room speakers — people sharing one microphone are told apart in the transcript and notes, on Natively, Deepgram and Soniox speech.
- Model lists — each provider's models are fetched live, so a model released today can be picked today.
- Screenshots — screenshots and page captures are remembered across hotkeys, quick actions and typed chat, and you can paste or drop images into the overlay.
- Long meetings — the whole transcript is kept from the first minute to the last, and no AI answer is lost.
- Meeting notes — notes get a short meeting title, know the meeting app and the people on the call, and an empty reply from the model is no longer saved as a summary.
- About you — now at the top of Profile Intelligence → Cue Cards, and live answers in every mode read it. Available with Pro or a trial; text you saved before is kept.
- Speech failover — skips providers that cannot handle the meeting's language.
- Home — the meeting list shows meeting names only, and a meeting is deleted with one click on a small Delete pill.
- Settings — a new Overlay tab, Connectors rebuilt, Skills folded into Intelligence, the Dictionary in Audio as a field of word pills, and one text size scale across every tab.
- Chat — the Ask me anything and Ask about this meeting sheets slide in and close smoothly instead of blinking shut.
- Capture — Cmd/Ctrl+Y keeps HackerRank's problem statement and its formulas, including formulas drawn as images.
- Screen answers — a screenshot answer a model refuses is retried with the browser page cropped automatically.
- Code checks — Go code is checked on Windows too, and an answer the toolchain could not check is never "corrected".
- Reference files — thirty or more PDFs index in batches and resume where they stopped, and Spanish searches match accented text.
- Display — restoring Natively brings it to the display under the mouse pointer.
- Free trial — the trial starts by itself at a meeting that has no AI set up.
- Ambient AI Chat — the overlay says "Mic is off" when it hears nothing, and Turn on mic starts capture. Ambient AI Chat is turned off once on upgrade.
Fixes
- Windows system audio — capture that never started, went silent mid-meeting or played on another device now works, and connections through antivirus HTTPS scanning (Kaspersky and similar) no longer fail.
- Transcription — fixed meetings with no words transcribed on macOS and Windows, local models on a fresh Mac or PC, and Soniox going deaf after a silent call start.
- Speech errors — a wrong key, an expired plan or an out-of-credit account now says so and stops, instead of showing "reconnecting" for the rest of the meeting.
- ElevenLabs — running out of credit now shows Out of Credits instead of going silent, and a channel no longer stays silent after the server ends a session.
- Groq speech — Natively sends Groq longer pieces, so its per-request minimum no longer inflates your bill.
- Overlay — the first quick-action answer no longer leaves the window too short, and copy buttons work on Windows.
- Codex — an answer the backend holds back is no longer cut off, and the default model is one a ChatGPT account can use.
- Phone Mirror — the phone's Answer chip shows when the desktop is recording, and photos sent from the phone no longer pop the overlay up.
- Windows — the launcher no longer goes see-through between the splash and the launcher, keeps its rounded corners, and the overlay banner buttons open the right settings.
- Meetings — meetings left in the old Natively folder are copied into the current one.
- Calendar — a failed sign-in ends cleanly and says why, in the browser and in Settings.
- Follow-ups — Shorten and Rephrase say why they failed instead of spinning.
Technical
- The app is called Natively again on both platforms. 2.9.2's system process names (corespeechd on macOS, audiodg on Windows) are gone, and the data folder moves back by itself on first launch. Process Disguise in Settings still presents the app as Terminal, System Settings or Activity Monitor.
- Source maps are no longer shipped inside the app, so the download is smaller.
- Electron 43.7.7 and Node 22.13 or later, unchanged from 2.9.2.
macOS Installation (Signed Build)
Download the correct architecture .dmg or .zip file for your device (Apple Silicon or Intel).
- For Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4): Download the
arm64build. - For Intel Macs: Download the
x64build.
Open the downloaded file, drag Natively to your Applications folder, and launch it.
⚠️Windows Installation (Unsigned Build)
When running the installer on Windows, you might see a "Windows protected your PC" warning from Microsoft Defender SmartScreen saying it prevented an unrecognized app from starting.
Since this is an unsigned build, this is expected. You can safely ignore it by clicking More info and then Run anyway.
See CHANGELOG.md for the detailed list of changes.