OpenWhispr 1.8.0

Work together in shared team spaces and share notes on the web — plus new local AI models, privacy retention controls, and a big reliability pass across dictation and notes.

✨ What's new

• Team spaces — Create shared spaces alongside your private notes, invite teammates by email with roles, and jump straight in from a one-click link. Your notes stay on your device and sync in the background, with access checked on the server so only the right people can see them.
• Share notes on the web — Publish a note to notes.openwhispr.com for anyone with the link, anyone in your company's email domain, or just the people you invite.
• Workspace settings — Manage members, team spaces, and billing from the new Settings → Workspace section.
• New local AI models — Added the Gemma 4 family of on-device models for faster, fully private AI.
• Privacy retention controls — Choose how long saved recordings and transcripts are kept — down to a single day — and OpenWhispr cleans up the rest automatically.
• See your raw transcript — History now shows the full, unedited transcript with a one-click copy button.
• Dictionary from the command line — List and bulk-update your custom dictionary through the CLI.

🛠 Fixes & polish

• More accurate dictation — Local transcription no longer chops words in half, long recordings don't time out early, and a dropped microphone no longer loses what you just said.
• Steadier cloud & streaming transcription — Sturdier large-file uploads, cleaner NVIDIA Parakeet and AssemblyAI streaming, and your transcript is kept even if the cleanup step comes back empty.
• Safer notes sync — Cloud sync will no longer overwrite a note you've edited locally with an empty copy.
• Better exports — Meeting participants are included, subtitle timing is fixed, and speaker-less segments are merged more cleanly.
• Translation — Local translation is more reliable and handles empty results gracefully.
• Windows — No more console windows flashing during dictation, meetings, and GPU checks.
• Linux — More reliable pasting and meeting detection, and better behavior on Wayland.
• macOS — The Dock icon now follows the control panel, the tray icon toggles it, and the Accessibility setup handles the app not being listed yet.

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to @Chadpiha, @hsusul, @xAlcahest, @IdrisGit, @greatcoat, @dpersek, and @sochotnicky for their work on this release — and a warm welcome to first-time contributors @stantheman0128, @dreasan, @fabrizio2210, @William-Ger, @ambbone, @AIalliAI, and @B3rK-3! 🎉