What's new in this release

Main new features:

• Projects
  create and manage projects, link transcriptions, stories, and text files from your computer
  perform project-wide searches and manage project files easier
• Expanded LLM Support
  ability to use additional models (using ollama, LM studio etc.)
  added support for open source reasoning models (e.g. DeepSeek-r1)
  and OpenAI o1, o1-mini, o3-mini models
• Whisper Turbo Support
  transcribe significantly faster with Whisper Large-v3 Turbo without sacrificing quality
• Improved Assistant
  slash-based keyword prompts instead of square brackets (e.g., use /help for details)
  ability to reload available Assistant models dynamically from the settings
  improved usage calculation and model selection
• Auto-Export for Transcriptions
  Include custom export formats that the tool will use during ingest and editing

See CHANGELOG.md for more info.

Important notes:

This is release is still experimental!
Please backup your config and project files stored in your documents folder before updating to this version, as this update will change their structure irreversibly.
If you want to downgrade to a previous version, you will need to manually restore the backup files that you made before updating!

Download links

This update is available early for Frequent Users only, to download see this post.

Everyone else can download version 0.23.2 from here.

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Installation

macOS

Requirements

macOS 13 Ventura or newer
Intel or arm64 (M1, M2 etc.)
8 GB RAM

Installation Steps

Download the zip file suitable for your platform (arm64 for M1, M2 etc. or x86_64 for Intel machines).
Unzip, copy the app file into your Applications folder, then double-click and it should start.

Windows

Requirements

Windows 10 or newer

Installation

Just follow the installer to get the tool on your machine.

Notes for Windows

Starting with this standalone version, we're using Python 3.11 as the main runtime, which means that the tool might have problems connecting with the Resolve API if you have other Python versions installed on the machine.
Please refer to this section about the Davinci Resolve Studio integration

Do not install this version of the tool in Program Files unless you know what you're doing. Some users have experienced permission issues which will make some features unusable.

If the tool returns errors or would not start after updating an older version, we recommend completely uninstalling and re-installing before reporting the issue.

If you get an error saying something like "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting...", just press More info and Run anyway.