Changelog
What's new in Parlo.
Parlo updates itself: when a new version is out, it offers to install it from inside the app. You can also check any time from the menu bar icon → Check for Updates.
- Real names in your meeting transcripts. Parlo works out who's who from the calendar invite and the conversation. If it isn't sure, the voice stays "Speaker 1".
- Separate speakers for in-person meetings. Parlo tells the voices in the room apart, even with no call running.
- Cleaner speaker turns when people talk close together.
- The calendar prompt stays longer, 50 seconds instead of 20.
- Updated components for telling voices apart.
- Next up. Home shows your next meetings for today and tomorrow, with who's invited. From 15 minutes before a meeting, Join & record opens the call and starts recording in one click. Record is there for a call you're already on.
- The Parlo window opens centered on the screen you're working on.
- Updated components for app updates and on-device models.
- Google Calendar, without the Mac's Calendar app. In Settings → Meetings → Calendar, copy one link from Google Calendar and paste it. Meeting reminders, who's in each call, follow-up recipients and “what's on my calendar” all work from it. No Google sign-in, and Parlo never changes your calendar.
- No more prompts for meetings you declined.
- Recurring meetings are offered every time, not only the first time after Parlo starts.
- Hands-free dictation. Tap fn twice, talk, then tap fn once to type it. Esc cancels. Turn it off in Settings → General.
- Your last word is kept. Letting go on your final word no longer cuts it off.
- Long dictations, fast at the end. Parlo transcribes as you talk, and the notch follows your latest words.
- “Um” no longer slows you down. Fillers are removed instantly.
- A simpler dictionary. Just add words the way they should appear; Parlo catches close mishearings.
- Lighter on memory when Parlo isn't in use.
- Fewer phantom words from pauses.
- Faster dictation with AirPods. Dictation starts sooner, and Parlo tells you when it's ready to hear you.
- No music interruptions. Parlo no longer cuts what you're listening to when it starts.
- Notes organized by topic. Parlo Cloud notes follow the topics of your meeting.
- More reliable recording. Fixes for recordings that failed or froze.
- Better dictation everywhere. Works in more apps, with cleaner text and spacing.
- Smaller fixes and polish.
- Import a recording. Drop an audio or video file on the Parlo window or on its Dock icon, or use Import in Meetings, and Parlo turns it into a meeting with a transcript and notes. It works with recorders, iPhone Voice Memos and the recordings call apps save, and with videos, where it uses the sound. Parlo reads when it was recorded from the file and finds the meeting in your calendar, and you can correct the date before importing. Everyone on the recording is listed as a participant, since one recording can't tell which voice is yours. Your original file is never changed.
- See how far along a meeting is. While a meeting is being transcribed, its row, its notes and the menu bar show a percentage. Long meetings whose notes are written on your Mac show one too.
- Google Drive, fixed and closer at hand. If Google Drive was set to upload automatically and the shared folder wasn't, meetings weren't being uploaded. They are now. A meeting in Drive shows "In Google Drive · Open" under its notes, and Settings links to your Drive folder. Regenerated notes update the copy in Drive instead of leaving the old one there, a dropped connection no longer leaves a second copy behind, and dates in Google Docs no longer show underscores. Meetings missed before this version can be sent from their Share menu.
- Calls heard through your speakers. When your Mac's microphone picked up a call from the speakers, the transcript could repeat everything under your name and lose the back-and-forth. Parlo now removes what came from the speakers, sentence by sentence, and keeps the conversation in turns.
- No more waiting after an update. The first launch after an update showed "Setting up Parlo" for about a minute and a half while macOS prepared speech recognition for the new version. Parlo now does that in the background, and tells you when it's ready.
- Parlo Cloud notes for long meetings. Meetings long enough to fall back to on-device notes now get Parlo Cloud notes too.
- A more polished Parlo. The Parlo window and Settings got a design pass: a colored icon for each section, headings set in Archivo (the typeface of the Parlo logo), and a cleaner meetings list. Dictation History is grouped by day, and your shortcuts show as keys on Home and in Examples. The menu bar menu opens with Open Parlo and has an icon on every item.
- Meeting notes in the right language. If the first minute of a meeting was misheard as another language, which can happen with accented English, the notes could come out in that language. Parlo now goes by the language of the whole meeting and redoes the misheard opening of the transcript in it. For earlier meetings, Regenerate Notes now picks the right language too.
- Titles follow regenerated notes. For meetings recorded from this version on, Regenerate Notes also updates the title Parlo wrote. A title you typed yourself always stays.
- Nobody is called "Hello" anymore. A call that opened with "Hello, can you hear me?" could label the other person "Hello". Parlo now tells greetings, thanks and quick reactions apart from real names.
- A new look. Parlo has a new logo: a speech bubble with three dots. You'll see it in the Dock, in Finder, in the menu bar and in Parlo's windows, and it reads well in dark mode too.
- Updated on-device language engine. The engine behind dictation cleanup and on-device notes now runs on the latest version of Apple's MLX. Everything works the same. The first launch after updating takes a few extra seconds while it gets ready.
- Draft a follow-up after a meeting. Click Follow-up on any meeting, or say "draft a follow-up for my last meeting", and Parlo writes it from the meeting notes. For a one-on-one you get a short email with what you agreed and who does what next; for a team meeting, a recap with decisions, action items and open questions. Recipients come from the calendar invite. Edit it, then copy it or open it in Mail. Parlo never sends anything for you.
- Open a meeting by voice. Say "open my last meeting" or "open the notes from the call with Ana" and Parlo opens them. When a meeting's notes are ready, the notch now has an Open notes button too.
- Parlo Cloud notes survive a closed lid. Close your Mac right after a call, or lose Wi-Fi, and Parlo now waits until you're back online to finish the notes with Parlo Cloud, instead of falling back to slower on-device notes. If you stay offline longer, you get on-device notes first, and Parlo swaps in the Parlo Cloud version once you're connected, as long as you haven't edited them.
- See what Parlo is doing. While a meeting is being transcribed or its notes are being written, the menu bar menu says so, and so does the meeting in the Parlo window. When it's done, the menu offers Latest Notes and Draft Follow-up. The menu bar icon now always stays the Parlo icon, so it's easy to find.
- Clear feedback when regenerating notes. Regenerate Notes now shows its progress in the notch and in the window, and tells you whether Parlo Cloud or your Mac wrote the result.
- Dictation fits in more apps. Parlo now reads the text around your cursor in apps like Claude, Slack and VS Code, so continuing a sentence there gets the right spacing and capitals.
- Find your stuff by voice. Hold your command shortcut and say "find the lease PDF from last month", "search my notes for wifi" or "find emails from Ana about the contract". Parlo searches your files, Apple Notes and your Mail inbox on this Mac and shows the results in the notch. Click one to open it, or show a file in Finder.
- Your schedule at a glance. Ask "what's on my calendar tomorrow?" or "what's my next meeting?" and your events appear in the notch, with a Join button when the invite has a call link.
- Dictation that fits where it lands. Parlo now looks at the text around your cursor before typing. Continue a sentence and the first word stays lowercase; start a new one and it's capitalized. Dictating twice in a row no longer glues the sentences together, and dictating into the middle of a sentence no longer leaves a stray period. Names keep their capitals. It all happens instantly on your Mac, with no extra wait.
- Updated on-device speech and language components for the local models behind dictation and meeting notes.
- Pause a recording. Need to go off the record mid-meeting? Click pause on the recording pill in the notch, or Pause Recording in the menu bar. Nothing is recorded while paused, and the transcript marks where the pause was, so the notes don't run the conversation together.
- A quicker "Meeting ended" prompt. Parlo now offers to stop about 10 to 15 seconds after you hang up, instead of over 30, whether the call was in FaceTime, Zoom, Teams, Slack or a browser like Chrome or Safari (Google Meet included). Another app on the mic, like a dictation app or Siri listening in the background, can no longer keep the prompt from appearing.
- FaceTime calls and Slack huddles by name. When Parlo offers to record one, it now says "FaceTime call" or "Slack huddle" instead of a generic "Meeting".
- A reminder if you miss it. Still recording after the call ended? Parlo asks again 5 minutes later, and once more 10 minutes after that.
- The Meetings window keeps up. A meeting that just ended, its notes and its title now appear on their own while the window is open, with no need to click away and back.
- A cleaner Meetings window. The title bar now matches the rest of the window instead of showing a lighter strip next to the sidebar.
- Meeting prompts arrive when the meeting starts. For meetings on your calendar, Parlo used to offer to record up to 5 minutes early, often right alongside your calendar's reminder. It now asks at the start time.
- Join & record in one click. When a calendar meeting has a Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams link, the prompt offers Join & record: Parlo starts recording and opens the call, with Zoom links going straight to the Zoom app. Already on the call? Choose Record instead.
- One prompt per meeting. Join a few minutes early and Parlo asks once when your call starts, not again when the meeting's start time arrives.
- Parlo has a window of its own. Click Parlo in the Dock, or open it from Spotlight, and Home shows whether Parlo is ready, your shortcuts, a Record button, and your latest meetings and dictations. Meetings and Dictation History live in the same window, with Settings one click away at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Parlo in the Dock. Parlo now has a Dock icon, so you can always find it, even when a full menu bar or the notch hides its menu bar icon. Prefer menu bar only? Turn off "Show Parlo in the Dock" in Settings → General.
- Faster start. Parlo no longer checks the internet before it's ready: on a slow or flaky connection, the loading screen could wait over a minute. Launches are also about twice as fast in general (4 seconds down to under 2 on an M4).
- Meeting recordings take 8 times less space. Once a meeting's notes are ready, its audio is kept as compressed .m4a instead of WAV. Meetings you already have are converted the first time you open this version (3.4 GB of recordings became 400 MB on our Mac). Notes and transcripts don't change.
- Fixed: dictation in Slack, Claude and other Electron apps. Since 0.1.32, dictating into apps like Slack, Claude, VS Code, Discord or Notion could leave your words in the notch with a Copy button even though the cursor was in a text box. Parlo types into them again.
- Choose your own shortcuts. Dictation and commands no longer have to be fn and fn+ctrl. Pick any modifier on its own or combined (Right ⌥, fn ⇧) or a key with modifiers (⌥ Space, F5), plus an optional second shortcut for each, in Settings → General. Your current shortcuts carry over.
- A cleaner Meetings window. Meetings are grouped by date (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, then by month), each with a one-line preview of what was discussed. Notes now show proper bullets, numbered lists, checkboxes and timestamps on a clean white page.
- Rename meetings. Click a meeting's title to rename it; the notes follow.
- Record from the Meetings window. A Record button sits in the window's toolbar, and Delete Meeting is in the ⋯ menu.
- Dictation is never lost. If no text field is focused when you finish speaking, Parlo keeps the text in the notch with a Copy button instead of typing it into nowhere. The "Typed" toast after every dictation is gone.
- Liquid Glass on macOS 26. The Meetings and Settings windows and the notch pill take on the new macOS look, and the pill's colors now mean one thing each: red while listening, blue while working, green when done, orange when it needs you. On macOS 15 everything looks as before.
- A simpler menu. "Setup & Permissions…" is now "Settings…" (⌘,), and your account and Sign In are a single entry.
- Parlo Cloud meeting notes. Better notes from a hosted model, included with your plan, no API key needed. Only the transcript text and the meeting's details are sent, never audio, and nothing is stored. New installs choose it at setup; existing ones can switch in Setup → Meetings. The Meetings window always shows whether notes came from Parlo Cloud or on-device, and a failed cloud run falls back to on-device so notes are never lost.
- Names from your calendar. When a recording matches a calendar event, the invite's attendees are used to name speakers in the transcript and to assign action items, instead of "Speaker 1".
- Fixed: silent mic track with a second microphone connected. If EarPods, a headset or a USB mic was present, the mic track could record nothing at all since the device appeared. Recordings now capture your voice again in that setup.
- Switch microphones mid-recording. Unplug a headset, plug one in, or let a battery die: Parlo follows whatever macOS uses as the input and keeps recording without a gap.
- Voice Isolation hint. During your first recording, Parlo points you to macOS's Mic Mode so you can pick Voice Isolation for a cleaner track. Shown once.
- Waveform for the other side. The recording pill now moves when the other participants talk, not only when you do.
- Updated internals. Refreshed the speech recognition, on-device language model, and updater libraries to their latest versions. No new features, just a healthier base for what comes next.
- A real Settings window. Setup is now organized into General, Dictation, Models, Meetings, Privacy and Updates, so each setting lives where you'd go looking for it instead of competing in one long page.
- Resize it, and it stays. The window can be resized and reopens at whatever size you left it. Longer sections scroll properly, so nothing runs off the bottom of the screen and out of reach any more.
- Everything is readable. Folder paths and model names now show in full, and you can select and copy them, instead of being shortened with a "…" through the middle.
- Start at login is in Settings. It sits in General next to your shortcuts now, rather than only in the menu bar.
- Always shows your real settings. Reopening the window reflects your current values, so nothing is ever left showing a stale copy.
- Choose any local language model. Qwen3 4B, Qwen3.5 4B, or MiniCPM5 2B — or type any Hugging Face model under Custom.
- Swap without waiting. Your current model keeps working while the new one downloads in the background.
- Safe by design. Parlo checks a model works before downloading it, saves only successful swaps, and falls back to the default if one ever fails to load.
- Free up space. See which models you've downloaded and their sizes, and delete the ones you don't use.
- A nudge for lower-RAM Macs. On Macs with less than 16GB of RAM, Parlo now points you toward cloud meeting notes instead of the on-device model, since that's the pass most likely to feel slow on longer meetings. It's just a suggestion: a one-time tip after setup and a hint in Setup → Meeting Notes. Nothing is ever turned on for you.
- Reasoning level for cloud notes. If you use OpenAI, Anthropic, or a custom endpoint for meeting notes, you can now dial in how hard the model should think before writing them, from Off up to Max. Higher levels can produce more thorough notes on complex meetings, at the cost of a slower, pricier request.
- Graceful when a model doesn't support it. Not every model accepts every reasoning level. Parlo now retries automatically without it rather than giving up on the cloud result, so one unsupported setting never costs you cloud-quality notes, let alone the meeting itself.
- Share straight to Google Drive. Setup → Meeting Sharing → connect Google Drive, pick a folder — your My Drive or a Workspace Shared Drive — and each shared meeting lands there as a native Google Doc (or markdown, your choice). Re-sharing updates the same file in place instead of creating duplicates.
- One destination sheet. Sharing a meeting now asks once — Google Drive or a Shared Folder — instead of juggling two separate flows.
- Least-privilege by design. Parlo only ever touches the files it creates (
drive.filescope) — it can't see or list the rest of your Drive, and nothing is ever deleted on your behalf. Recordings never leave your Mac; only notes, transcript, and metadata are shared. - Suggests stopping the recording, too. Parlo already offers to record when it hears a call start; now it offers to stop once the other side hangs up — "Meeting ended — stop recording & take notes?" A recording you started manually for an in-person conversation is never interrupted this way.
- Fixes. Re-sharing to Google Drive no longer keeps the old file type after switching between Doc and markdown output. Setup & Permissions… now sizes itself to whichever section you're on, instead of carrying a scrollbar.
- Share any meeting with one click. A new Share button in the Meetings window copies the meeting's notes, transcript, and metadata into the shared folder; a small arrow badge marks meetings that are already there. Regenerate the notes and hit Share again to refresh the copy.
- Pick any folder — your iCloud Drive, Google Drive (desktop app), OneDrive, Dropbox, or a network share — in Setup & Permissions… → Meeting Sharing, then share that folder with your team once in the provider's app. Everyone in the folder sees every meeting you share.
- Bring a team up to date instantly. "Copy Existing Meetings" in Setup copies your whole library to the folder on demand; it's safe to run again — already-identical files are skipped.
- Auto-share (optional, off by default). Turn it on and every finished meeting lands in the shared folder as soon as its notes are written.
- Your recordings stay private. Only notes, transcript, and metadata are ever shared — meeting audio never leaves your Mac. Sharing is export-only: your local copies stay canonical, and Parlo never touches what your team does with the shared files.
- Better notes, on-device. Typical meetings are now summarized in one pass over the whole transcript (up to ~6,000 words) instead of stitched-together chunks, so summaries, decisions, and action items are grounded in the full conversation — noticeably better and more coherent output.
- Regenerate Notes in the Meetings window reruns generation on the saved transcript and refreshes the pane in place; it also fills in a real, content-derived title when the meeting had a generic one ("Meeting", "Zoom meeting").
- Polish with ChatGPT/Claude. A new Polish menu in the Meetings window opens the transcript in ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made notes prompt — the transcript lands on your clipboard, so it's paste and enter.
- Optional cloud notes with your own key (off by default). Setup → Meeting Notes lets you generate notes with OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (LM Studio, Groq, OpenRouter…) using your own API key, including a custom Base URL. Saving a key runs an instant connection test, so you know your key and endpoint work before you rely on them. If a cloud run ever fails, notes are still generated on-device — and you'll see exactly why it failed.
- Meetings window cleanup. Copy / Reveal in Finder / Regenerate / Polish moved into a proper toolbar — nothing gets clipped when the window is narrow — and every action has a hover tooltip.
- Fixes. ⌘V / ⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘A work again in Parlo's text fields. Menu-bar apps have no Edit menu, so pasting (e.g. an API key) previously only worked via right-click.
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