Everything that shipped.

Chirp for everything. Dictation now lands right the first time, knows the code you're talking about, and lives in the notch next to your music, your next meeting and your coding agents.

Words that come out right

• Auto-correction. "Tuesday — no, Wednesday" becomes "Wednesday". Spoken formatting ("new line", "bullet", "camel case…"), your dictionary, confident spelling fixes and a style that fits the app you're writing in. Choose Off, Suggest (the default: fixes appear in the notch and you choose) or Automatic (applied, with "Undo corrections" for five seconds). Code, paths, links and anything in backticks are never changed.
• Chirp learns from your edits. Fix a word it wrote twice and it offers to remember it. It reads only the text it pasted, for 30 seconds, and never in password fields. Dictionary → Learned shows and deletes everything.
• Vocabulary. A new Dictionary tab for names and terms. Chirp listens for them and spells them your way, and picks up names from the window you're in.

Talk about your code

• File tags. Add a project and say "look at the app delegate file": Claude Code and Codex get @App/AppDelegate.swift, Cursor's chat @AppDelegate.swift, Slack and GitHub ` AppDelegate.swift . Identifiers come out cased ("handle commit" → handleCommit`).
• Projects. Each project is an explicit opt-in. Indexes stay on your Mac; secrets, .env files and anything git ignores are never read. The speech engine is biased towards your project's names.

The island

The notch becomes a place: dictation, volume and brightness, Now Playing, a tray for files and links, screenshots, clipboard history, your next meeting with one-click join, a focus timer, keep awake, battery, Bluetooth headphones (and the microphone follows them), downloads, and Claude Code and Codex sessions — with a tap to allow what they ask. Every module is switchable, does nothing while off, and asks for permission only when you switch it on. On a Mac without a notch, Chirp draws one when there's something to show.

Voice commands

Hold your dictation key with Shift and say what you want: "timer twenty-five minutes", "keep awake an hour", "paste the link I copied from Safari", "what's next", "note call the printer people" (a voice note in the tray), "caption it login bug" (on the newest screenshot), "allow". About forty commands work offline; your connected AI engine handles the rest. AirDrop, emptying the tray, clearing clipboard history and allowing an agent always wait for your tap. Every command is in History.

A new look

Birdsong: cool field paper by day, blue-green night after dark, one ember signal colour, Newsreader, Geist and Geist Mono, and the sound ridge — your voice drawn as columns of dots. Hero screens show *specimens of sound*: a Chladni plate that follows your pitch, a chart recorder, record grooves, an eggshell. New screens for Projects, Island, Clipboard and Style by app; History shows what was corrected and tagged, and what you actually said.

Getting started

Onboarding is a tour in chapters, shaped by what you'll use Chirp for — about ninety seconds for writing, three minutes for everything. Skip any chapter; it waits on Home until you want it.

Also

• A beta update channel in Settings → Updates.
• Every part of 2.0 can be switched off on its own in Settings → Updates → Features.
• Calendar and coding agents are part of Chirp Pro; the tray keeps five items and clipboard history 24 hours without it.

Windows discontinued

Chirp is now a Mac app only. The Windows app is no longer built or released; 1.2.0 is its final version and stays downloadable from the releases page, where its notes say so. Existing Windows installs keep working but will not be updated.

macOS · 36.0 MB

Permissions are the first thing Chirp asks for and they have been the least reliable thing about it. Three separate faults were behind that, and this release fixes all three.

Permissions

• Granting access now works immediately. Chirp built its keyboard hooks once at launch — which, on a new install, is before onboarding has asked for Accessibility. They failed, nothing ever rebuilt them, and granting access afterwards turned every checkbox green while the hotkey stayed dead until you quit and reopened. Pasting kept working the whole time, so nothing looked wrong.
• Building Chirp locally no longer breaks the installed copy's permission. macOS ties Accessibility to an app's signature. A local build and a released build are signed differently, so sharing one identity meant each silently invalidated the other's permission — leaving the switch on in System Settings and nothing working. Local builds now have their own identity.
• When a permission has gone stale, Chirp says what actually fixes it. It used to suggest switching the toggle off and on, which does not work: macOS keeps the old signature until the entry is removed with the − button and Chirp is added again. That is what it now tells you, with a button to reveal Chirp in Finder so you can drag it back.
• Denied Automation and Input Monitoring permissions are named instead of failing silently. Both are separate from Accessibility, in their own panes, and nothing previously mentioned either.

Uninstalling

• Chirp can now uninstall itself, from Settings → Access. It clears its permissions, deletes your data and saved keys, removes every downloaded model, and moves itself to the Trash.
• Doing it this way matters: macOS runs no part of an app when you drag it to the Trash, and it never removes the Accessibility entry on its own. Uninstalling from inside Chirp is the only moment those permissions can still be cleared.
• Parakeet models are removed too. They live outside Chirp's own folder, so nothing had ever deleted them — they survived a full reinstall.

Fixes

• The engine you download during onboarding is the engine Chirp uses. It was being saved somewhere nothing read, so setup finished with a downloaded model and none selected, and you had to go to Settings and pick it again. Anyone already in that state is repaired on upgrade.

macOS · 8.87 MBWindows · 88.6 MB

Updating itself is the thing Chirp has to get right before anything else, so this release is mostly about that — plus the polish it turned up along the way.

Updating

• The update prompt appears once. It used to open two identical Software Update windows stacked on top of each other on every daily check.
• Skip This Version and Later now close the window. Both buttons previously did their job and left the dialog on screen.
• Release notes read as release notes. Headings are headings, bullets are bullets, and a bullet that wraps across lines is one bullet again instead of one per line.
• On Windows the download shows real progress and transfer size rather than an indeterminate bar that was indistinguishable from a hang.
• On Windows the prompt brings Chirp to the front. Closed to the tray, the notification used to be shown into a hidden window, where nobody saw it and it blocked every later check.
• macOS in-app updates would have been impossible. The updater required releases to be signed by a team that is not the one on the signing certificate, so every update would have been refused as "signed by an unexpected developer" — and no later release could have fixed it, because no later release could have been installed. The release now fails if the artifact does not satisfy the requirement the updater enforces.
• A signed copy of Chirp now installs only updates signed by the same publisher, on Windows as well as macOS. Nothing about the downloaded installer was checked before it was run.
• Version comparison is numeric. 1.2 and 1.2.0 are the same release, and a pre-release tag no longer outranks the build it precedes — either of which could offer an update to the version already installed, on every check.
• Check for Updates now answers on macOS. Finding nothing was completely silent, so a successful check, a failed one, and "already current" all looked the same.
• A failed check no longer counts as a check, so being offline at the wrong moment does not cost a day of updates.
• Cancelled and rejected downloads clean up after themselves instead of leaving installers in the temporary directory forever.

Fixes

• The recorder overlay no longer fails to build against the system logger — a regression that broke the macOS build outright.
• The macOS build now proves its window actually paints. Releases were verified by launching the packaged app and checking the process existed, which a window that renders nothing but its background passes — the same failure the Windows build has asserted against for a while, and which macOS had no guard for.
• Scrolling is smoother in History, Insights, and the dashboard's recent transcriptions. Each was constructing a date formatter — one of the most expensive objects in Foundation — inside the view body, per row, per frame.

macOS · 8.84 MBWindows · 88.6 MB

The first public release. Chirp is completely free, with no subscription and no account.

Dictate anywhere

• Hold a configurable shortcut, speak, and release. Chirp transcribes and types the result into whichever app you were already using.
• macOS and Windows builds are native — SwiftUI and WinUI 3, not a web wrapper on either platform.

Private by default

• Whisper and Parakeet models run locally, through Core ML on macOS and natively on Windows. No transcript leaves the machine unless you connect a cloud provider yourself.
• History and usage data stay on disk locally. Provider API keys are held in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager.

Make it yours

• Dictionary rules, text snippets, language selection, and optional cleanup modes shape the words Chirp returns.
• Import audio files, search local history, replay saved recordings, and export plain text.

Installers

• The macOS DMG and PKG are signed with a Developer ID certificate, built with the hardened runtime and a trusted timestamp, notarised by Apple, and stapled.
• The Windows Setup EXE is not yet signed with a trusted publisher certificate, so SmartScreen will warn on first run.

Requirements

• macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
• Windows 11 21H2 or later, x64 or ARM64.
• Microphone access, plus Accessibility permission on macOS.

macOS · 8.80 MBWindows · 47.8 MB