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:
- 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:
- 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.