Changelog

The biggest update since launch. Resonant's entire interface has moved into your Mac's notch — a native overlay that lives at the top of your screen and gets out of the way completely when you're not using it.

Every interaction now happens in that strip of hardware: the waveform while you speak, the processing pulse as your words are formatted, the result landing with a snap. Celebrations for milestones. Audio cues for every state. It's the same dictation engine — it just feels like part of the OS now.

Resonant now keeps an automatic work journal. Every dictation is tagged with the app, window, and URL you were in. At the end of the day you get a timeline of what you worked on, with commitments surfaced and — on devices with Apple Intelligence — short summaries written entirely on your Mac.

You can now run every dictation through a local model before it pastes. Use Apple Intelligence if you have it, or point Resonant at any local or remote inference server. Write your own system prompt, pick a specific model, and the transformation happens invisibly between your voice and the text field.

The text formatter has been rewritten from scratch and is now the default engine. All 19 post-processing transforms — punctuation, numbers, acronyms, contractions, spoken quotes, phone numbers, and more — are compiled once at startup and run with zero per-dictation overhead. Formatting that used to add latency is now effectively free.

Resonant now reads the active window title, app, and browser URL at the moment you start speaking. That context travels with every transcript — powering journal summaries, agent tasks, and smarter feed items that show the actual site (Gmail, GitHub, Notion) instead of a bundle ID.

New privacy controls for regulated industries. Analytics is opt-in and off by default. HIPAA mode turns on encrypted history storage (via macOS Keychain), an append-only audit log, and disables telemetry entirely. Data retention, audio recording, and right-to-erasure are all configurable in Settings.

A cleaner layout across settings and the feed, with search, filtering, and keyboard navigation. Agent controls are now gated until an LLM is connected so the interface stays clean for everyone else.

A cleaner settings experience, a smoother onboarding flow, and a fix for the overlay stealing focus from your active app during dictation.

Resonant now handles long dictations up to 5 minutes. Audio is decoded in the background while you speak, so the wait after you stop is the same whether you dictated for 10 seconds or 5 minutes.

Resonant is now completely free — a private alternative to big tech dictation with zero data retention. Your voice is processed entirely on your Mac. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. Not to us, not to anyone.

This release is also noticeably snappier. A rewritten text engine, smarter memory management, and faster startup across the board make dictation feel instant.

The text formatting engine has been completely rewritten for speed, memory is managed more aggressively between dictations, and the overlay responds instantly when you press the trigger key. First dictation after launch is faster too thanks to background model warm-up.

We've built screen-aware dictation and context-aware recognition under the hood. These features are being optimized before general release — if you want early access, reach out to us.

Reliability improvements to keep Resonant rock-solid, even when you start dictating the instant the app launches.

Make Resonant yours. Name your assistant, choose your transcription style during setup, and enjoy faster repeated phrases thanks to smart tone caching.

A redesigned onboarding experience, built-in support, and under-the-hood reliability improvements — plus the start of our beta rollout.

The first release of Resonant. A private voice dictation app that runs entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no data leaving your machine.

Resonant processes your voice locally using on-device models, then types the result directly into whatever app you're using. It works across your entire system — notes, code editors, browsers, messages.

Capture thoughts as voice notes without switching context. Press the shortcut, speak, and your note is saved — instantly searchable and always local.

Issue voice commands to control your Mac. Dispatch mode interprets what you say and dispatches actions — opening apps, composing messages, running shortcuts — hands-free.