Minutes · changelog

Every release, written down.

Everything new in Minutes, the meeting notetaker that runs on device. Buy it once and every version below, and every one after it, is yours free. Requires macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon.

1.4.19

LATEST 2026-10-14

Microphone and system audio permissions that fix themselves

• If macOS shows Minutes switched on but still blocks the microphone or system audio, one click resets it and asks again.
• When Record can't start for a permission, it says why and offers the one fix right there, instead of doing nothing.

1.4.18

2026-10-07

Keep your meetings in the folder you choose

• Choose where Minutes keeps your meetings: Settings, Your library, Meetings folder. Your existing meetings can move with it.

1.4.17

2026-10-07

Minutes offers the multilingual engine when your Mac speaks more than English

• If your Mac speaks more than English, Minutes now offers the multilingual engine during setup and switches it on when the download finishes. Downloading it from Settings switches it on too.

1.4.16

2026-10-07

Bluetooth headphones keep their full sound while you record

• With Bluetooth headphones on, Minutes records from your Mac's mic and leaves your headphones alone. They no longer drop to call-quality sound partway through a meeting.
• Listening quietly no longer sets off a warning that your mic is silent. Minutes shows a calm line instead and keeps recording.
• Minutes no longer stops for a second or two to rebuild the mic while you are just listening, so the app stays responsive and your music or call does not skip.

1.4.15

2026-10-06

Minutes tells you when the other side of a call is missing

• If the other side of a call is not reaching Minutes, the Them meter and a short line now say so while you record, and the saved note says so too, with the setting that fixes it.
• Setup now confirms system audio only when Minutes actually hears it.
• Long meetings keep their catches. Minutes reads the transcript in parts the on-device model can handle, and still finds plainly stated plans if the model stumbles.
• Settings now says the built-in engine transcribes English, and that other languages use the multilingual engine.
• Sign-in messages now match the sign-in options the app has today.

1.4.14

2026-10-03

Clearer licence messages

• Minutes is ready for licences that renew each month or each year. If you bought Minutes or the suite once, nothing changes: your licence keeps working offline, for good.
• When something stops a licence from unlocking, Minutes now tells you why in plain words and what to do next, instead of a bare error.

1.4.13

2026-09-27

On a speaker call, their words stay theirs in the transcript

• When a call played through your speakers, the transcript could list the other person's sentences twice, once under their name and once as yours, because your mic heard them too. Minutes now writes your side from the cleaned-up audio, so their words appear once, under them.
• If Minutes takes any of those echo lines out, the transcript step says how many, so you know what changed.

1.4.12

2026-09-26

An anonymous install count, and a switch to turn it off

• When Minutes checks for updates it now sends a random install id it made up the first time it ran, so we can count how many Macs use it. It isn't linked to your account, your email or your licence, and it says nothing about your meetings.
• Don't want it? Turn off Share anonymous install count in Settings > Updates. Updates keep working either way.

1.4.11

2026-09-26

No more echo on the other person's voice

• On a call played through your speakers, the other person could come through twice in the saved recording, a moment apart. Minutes now finds and removes that second copy even when it arrives late, and keeps your mic and the call on one clock so a hiccup mid-meeting can't pull them apart.
• If some of a meeting still has their voice twice, the audio step now says so and for how long, so it's never a mystery.

1.4.10

2026-09-26

The meeting card fits your screen, and you can make it taller or shorter

• After a long meeting with lots of reminders, the card that pops up could grow past the bottom of the screen and hide Open note and Close. Now it stops above the bottom edge, with room left for a dock bar like Cooldock, and the long part scrolls while the buttons stay put.
• Drag the card's top or bottom edge to make it taller or shorter. Minutes remembers the height next time.

1.4.9

2026-09-25

Starting a recording next to a call no longer closes Minutes

• With Bluetooth headphones on and a call app holding the microphone (Gather, for one), pressing Record could close Minutes before the meeting even started. macOS refused the microphone's setup the moment Minutes switched to the Mac's own mic, and that refusal took the whole app down.
• Now Minutes tries again on its own: first with the format the microphone has right then, then on your normal default mic. If macOS still says no, you get a message with its exact words instead of a crash.

1.4.8

2026-09-23

Your calls keep their volume, and your own words land in your channel

• Recording next to a call app that holds the microphone (Gather, or a call in a browser tab) no longer turns the call down to almost nothing. Minutes still joins the call's audio path to hear you, and now asks macOS for the lightest turn-down it allows.
• With Bluetooth headphones on, Minutes records from the Mac's own mic so your headphones keep full sound instead of dropping to call quality. One click switches to the headphones' mic if you prefer it, and Settings remembers your choice.
• After a meeting, Minutes re-reads your own cleaned channel before it writes the transcript, so words that leaked in from the speakers are credited to the right person.
• The empty part of the title bar drags the window again.

1.4.7

2026-09-22

The title bar stops wrapping its controls in a capsule

• On macOS 26 the system drew a pale capsule around Settings, search and Record in the title bar, with the red Record button flush against its edge. The capsule is gone: the three controls sit on the bar itself, with room around each, in all three looks.

1.4.6

2026-09-22

Minutes comes with Crest

• Minutes is not sold on its own any more. One payment of $24.99 buys Crest Pro, Take and Minutes, and it is one payment: there is nothing monthly here and there never will be.
• Already own Crest Pro? Sign in and add Take and Minutes for $5, which is what everything costs minus what you already paid. The app asks your account and puts that offer on the button itself, so you are never quoted the full price for apps you have mostly bought.
• If you bought Minutes on its own before today, you owe nothing and nothing changes. Your licence is yours.
• Every place the app talked about price was saying last month's numbers, including the release notes below. All of them now read the live price from the same place the checkout charges from.
• Who was this with? Names used to come only from a matching calendar event, so a meeting recorded outside one had nobody on it and the People tab stayed empty. Now every meeting has a line under its title to type who was there. The names go into the note itself, and the People tab, the search and the transcript's Them label follow.
• The three controls in the title bar (Settings, search, Record) are one height now, so their edges line up instead of the search field sitting half a pixel off the Record button.

Prices

2026-09-22

Everything for five dollars more

• Minutes now comes with Crest Pro and Take. The price is the $24.99 it moved to yesterday, and it buys all three apps.
• If you already own Crest Pro, your account page offers Take and Minutes together for five dollars.
• This was a price change, not an app update, so there is nothing to download. A licence you already own is unchanged.

Prices

2026-09-21

Minutes is now $24.99

• Minutes is now $24.99, up from $15. All three apps together, Minutes, Take and Crest, stay $35.
• This was a price change, not an app update, so there is nothing to download. A licence you already own is unchanged.

1.4.5

2026-09-18

Minutes on macOS 27: the minutes write every time again

• On macOS 27, Apple ships a new on-device model, and it had started returning summaries Minutes could not read, so plain conversations with nothing to decide ended in a note with a transcript and no minutes. Minutes now asks the model through Apple's guided generation, which holds the reply to the exact shape Minutes expects. Measured on the same meetings before and after: every run that used to fail now writes its minutes, with no invented decisions or tasks.
• Catches during a call are asked the same way, so a sweep can no longer come back empty because the model mistyped its answer.
• When the on-device model does refuse, the finish screen now says why in plain words: the part was too long for its context window, Apple's guardrails declined the content, the model is still downloading. The transcript is always kept.
• The multilingual engine gets ready in the background after a macOS update. Its model is rebuilt for the Neural Engine once per macOS version, which takes a few minutes; that used to happen silently at the end of your first meeting on the new system. Minutes now starts it when it launches and when you press Record, and if it is still preparing when a meeting ends, the finish screen says so.
• On a Mac where Apple Intelligence is turned off, Minutes no longer touches the model at launch and at every record start. That was the likeliest reason a fresh Mac kept asking about Siri after recordings.
• The multilingual engine is offered where you can see it: as an optional step when you first set Minutes up, and as one line at the foot of the library until you install it or choose Not now. Settings keeps the full control, and all three places show the same download progress.

1.4.4

2026-09-15

Tell the next person how Minutes is treating you, from the library

• Rate Minutes without leaving it. Once Minutes has earned the question, a card sits at the top of the library: five stars, the name to show, a few honest words, and Send review. It goes to our review queue and appears on the Minutes page of our website once we have read it, so the next person deciding has something real to go on. Later puts the card away for a week and the third Later is a no; No thanks means never, and neither is asked twice.

Prices

2026-09-07

Minutes is now $15

• Minutes is now $15, down from $29.99. All three apps together, Minutes, Take and Crest, are $35, down from $49.99.
• This was a price change, not an app update, so there is nothing to download. A licence you already own is unchanged.

1.4.3

2026-09-05

The App Store version asks where your meetings live

• On the Mac App Store, Minutes now asks you to choose the folder your meetings are kept in, as plain notes and recordings you can open in Finder, instead of filing them inside the app where nothing else can see them. Anything recorded before you choose moves into the folder with you.
• If that folder later goes missing (an unplugged drive, a folder you moved), the library says so by name and offers to look again or to choose the folder again. Nothing is ever deleted by Minutes.

1.4.2

2026-09-05

The setup steps say Continue

• The permission steps before your first meeting now say Continue instead of Allow. Pressing one hands you to the macOS prompt, and the answer is always yours to give there; the button never stood in for it, and now it does not look like it does either.

1.4.1

2026-08-05

The engine setup says what it is doing

• Installing the multilingual engine now says plainly that the one-time Neural Engine preparation can take a few minutes, instead of looking stuck at the end of the download.
• Every stage of finishing a recording now reports how long it took to the system log, so a slow finish can name its own cause.

1.4.0

2026-08-05

Minutes learns your languages

• A new multilingual engine, one download away in Settings: after it, saved transcripts hear Arabic, French, English, and meetings that switch language mid-sentence, picking the language by themselves. The engine runs entirely on this Mac; the internet is only used for the one-time download, about 600 MB.
• Minutes now learns the words your meetings actually contain: a vocabulary you can type in Settings, the attendee names from the calendar event you are recording, and names it finds in your own notes all teach the transcriber. Payoneer stops coming out as Pioneer.

1.3.6

2026-08-05

The first minutes after launch write reliably

• The very first summary after installing or updating could fail with a model error and leave the note transcript-only. Minutes now warms the on-device model at launch and when recording starts, and retries once by itself if the model's first generation stumbles.

1.3.5

2026-08-05

Recording during a call hears you at full strength

• When a call app holds your Mac's microphone, Minutes now records through the same shared audio path the call itself uses, so your voice arrives at full level with the room echo already cancelled. No more faint rescued copy: the measured difference on a live call was over twenty decibels.
• The switch happens by itself, at the moment you press record if the call is already running, or within seconds if a call grabs the microphone mid-recording. AirPods, headsets, and external microphones keep their existing path.

1.3.4

2026-08-05

A rescued voice mixes at full strength

• When the recorder has to amplify your side because a call app is holding the microphone, the saved mix no longer treats that channel with the caution reserved for a channel that never carried a voice: your rescued side earns the same lift as any other, measured end to end against a synthesized call.
• The audio pipeline now writes its finalize decisions, cleanup verdicts, and per-channel mix gains to the system log, so any recording that sounds wrong can explain itself from evidence.

1.3.3

2026-08-05

The call rescue arrives in half the time

• When a call app is holding the microphone, the rescue that amplifies your faint side now engages within about twelve seconds instead of twenty five. The first real field call showed the wait cost too much of the meeting's opening.

1.3.2

2026-08-04

Recording into a live call finally hears you

• Starting a recording while a call app already holds the microphone used to record your side as nothing: the call hands other apps a faint raw copy of the mic, quiet enough to fool the dead-mic detector and shaped so the saved file received none of it. Minutes now recognizes that faint copy, amplifies it, folds it into the recording, and tells you on the strip exactly what it is doing.
• The dead-mic warning fires on real starvation now, not only on perfect silence, and every rescue the recorder attempts is written to the system log so a support question can be answered from evidence.

1.3.1

2026-08-04

Your side survives the call

• When a call app takes hold of the microphone, your side of the recording used to go quiet and stay quiet: the takeover fed Minutes a signal just above the level the dead-mic detector was watching for, so no warning fired and the rescue never ran. The detector now knows the difference between a quiet person and a starved microphone.
• The rescue itself is rebuilt. Instead of reattaching to the very microphone the call is holding, Minutes now opens its own private route to the mic, which keeps hearing you for the whole call. The strip still tells you the moment a rescue happens.
• On a brand new install, the first launch used to greet you with a folder error instead of an empty library. Minutes now creates its library folder on first run and invites you to record.

1.3.0

2026-08-04

Calls sound like the call

• On a speaker call, the other side used to reach the recording twice: once clean, and once through the room into your mic a split second later. The two copies hollowed each other out, which read as a muffled far side. Minutes now removes the room's copy after the recording ends, using the clean one as the reference. Headphone calls are untouched, your own voice is untouched, and nothing changes while you record.
• Their channel is recorded exactly as it played, always. There is no noise reduction on it, and when a call or a headset delivers reduced quality at the source, the note now says so plainly instead of letting the recording take the blame.
• If your mic reaches Minutes as silence while another app holds it (a phone standing in as a microphone, a headset in call mode), the strip now says so, and if the silence persists Minutes switches to the built-in microphone and tells you, instead of recording your half of the meeting as nothing.
• Meeting audio is saved at a higher quality, and the whole audio pipeline is now pinned by measurement tests, from capture to the file you keep.

1.2.7

2026-07-28

A full screen window finally reads like one

• In a wide or full screen window, the reading room now grows with it: the type scales up and the column widens with it, instead of a small fixed column floating in a void.
• The page sits centred in the pane in every design language. It used to hang off the left rail with the rest of the window standing empty.
• Add to Calendar and Add to Reminders now sit beside the catch they act on. In a full screen window they used to hug the far edge, half a metre from the words.
• The Desk's masthead, tabs and figures rail all follow the same scale, so the workbench reads as one instrument at any window size.

1.2.6

2026-07-28

Your licence answers for itself

• Your licence now checks in with the server every few days. A Mac you freed from your account page locks itself here within days, says exactly why, and offers the way back in. Being offline never locks anything: no answer is never treated as a refusal, and a Mac that stays offline keeps working.
• A licence claimed by signing in now unlocks Minutes immediately, instead of after the next relaunch.
• A Google or Apple sign-in that fails at the last step, like a licence already on its limit of Macs, now says so plainly instead of a browser round trip that ends in silence.
• A clock that jumped forward and was corrected can no longer end your free trial for good. Minutes notices the shape, asks the server to arbitrate, and the trial comes back on its own.

1.2.5

2026-07-28

Minutes remembers who you are

• Minutes now remembers who you are signed in as after you quit and reopen it. Some screens used to treat you as signed out until you signed in again, and the free trial could quietly fail to start itself for the same reason.
• There is a Sign out button in Settings now, next to your email. Signing out keeps your licence and your notes; it only unlinks this Mac from the account.
• Sign-ins through Google and Apple now store your address in one canonical form, so capitalisation can never lock you out of what you own.

1.2.4

2026-07-26

Sign in with Google or Apple

• You can now sign in with Google or Apple instead of an email and a password. Your browser opens, you pick your account, and Minutes unlocks itself.
• Both of them land on the same Crest account, so your licence follows you whichever you use, and the password you already have keeps working.
• The buttons are wherever you could already sign in, including the screen you see when recording is locked.

1.2.3

2026-07-26

Minutes checks in on your licence, quietly

• Minutes now refreshes your licence in the background when it happens to be online. You will never see it, and it never interrupts a recording.
• If it has not been able to check in for a long time, Minutes keeps working exactly as it does today and simply mentions it once. Nothing locks, and nothing is taken away while you are offline.

1.2.2

2026-07-26

Moving your licence between Macs, handled properly

• Deactivating now hands the licence back to the server rather than just naming it, so only the Mac that actually holds it can release it.
• If a licence has been moved between more Macs than it can cover, Minutes says so plainly and points you at support, instead of sending you to deactivate somewhere it would not help.

1.2.1

2026-07-26

A task only gets a due date if you gave it one

• A caught task no longer arrives with a due date nobody said. If you say you will do something and never say when, it is now filed with no date instead of quietly landing on tomorrow.
• Found by running Minutes over a real recording and reading every catch it made, which is a check that now runs on every release.

1.2.0

2026-07-26

Action items are actually caught now

• Add to Calendar and Add to Reminders now appear. If you said "tomorrow we have a meeting at 10 PM" or "I'll send the deck", Minutes catches it. This was broken, and the honest version is that it almost never fired: a shipping bug threw away the evidence every catch needs, so the whole thing was switched off in the app while the tests all passed.
• One reply in five from the on-device model was not readable, and every one of those was reported to you as "nothing was said". Minutes now asks again before believing a blank.
• A caught meeting keeps the time you actually said. A meeting agreed for 10 PM used to be able to land at midnight.
• A meeting you cancel during the call stays cancelled, and confirming a time no longer files a second copy of the same meeting.
• A catch is named in the words you used. Nothing reaches Calendar or Reminders until you press Add, exactly as before.

1.1.2

2026-07-25

The price came down

• The price came down. If you already bought Minutes, nothing changes and nothing is owed.
• The price shown inside the app now always comes from the same place the checkout charges from, so the two can no longer disagree.

1.1.1

2026-07-25

Deleting a meeting, properly

• Deleting a meeting now removes it from the suite too, so the notch stops showing what was said in a meeting you deleted.
• Undo works even if you have recorded again since. It used to fail whenever a new meeting took the deleted one's name, which is exactly what happens when you record twice in a minute.
• Delete two meetings in a row and both can be undone. The second delete used to silently drop the first one's Undo.
• Command-Delete no longer trashes the selected meeting while you are typing in the search box, and holding it down cannot walk through your library.
• If a recording cannot be moved to the Trash with its note, Minutes says so instead of leaving the file behind in silence.
• The recording strip always goes away with its recording. It could be left floating over every Space with nothing in it.
• A meeting you deleted stays deleted: an interrupted session is no longer refiled as a new "Recovered meeting" on the next launch.

1.1.0

2026-07-25

Settings finally tells you where you stand

• Minutes never showed you what you owned. There was no place to see how long your trial had left, whether you were signed in, or what Minutes costs. Settings opens on all of it now, and the days remaining are the first thing on the page.
• The price is on the button. Buy Minutes now names the actual amount, read from the server so it can never drift from the site.
• Unlocking is signing in. Your licence lives on your account, so it follows you to any Mac, and a forgotten password is one reset away.
• The licence key field is gone. Keys still exist behind the scenes and support can still use one, but nothing asks you to paste anything.
• The free 7 day trial starts from your account rather than from this particular Mac.
• A Crest or Take licence entered into Minutes used to fail with nothing useful, after quietly using up one of that licence's two Macs. It now says which app the licence is for, and costs you nothing.
• Fixed: the unlock screen ended with "No account needed. Your key lives on this Mac", which had stopped being true on both counts.

1.0.2

2026-07-25

Minutes updates itself now

• Minutes checks crestnotch.app for a new version a few times a day and installs it when you say so. Until now the only way to get a newer version was to download the whole app again.
• Ask whenever you like. Settings has a Check for updates button that says exactly where the check got to, and so does the menu bar panel.
• An update will never interrupt a meeting. If a new version is ready while you are recording, Minutes holds it, tells you it is waiting, and installs it after you stop.
• What's new in Minutes, in Settings: every release, version by version, so a version you skipped is still readable.
• When a check cannot finish, the app says why in plain words: no connection, the update list did not answer, or Minutes is running from the disk image and cannot replace itself there.

1.0.1

2026-07-25

Your trial, said out loud, and a licence that applies itself

• Minutes now tells you where your free trial stands, every time you open the panel, instead of going quiet for a week and then asking for money.
• Signing in is all it takes. Buy Minutes and you get one activation link: choose a password there, sign in here, and your licence applies itself. No key to copy.
• Buy on a Mac that is already signed in and Minutes unlocks itself the next time you open it, with nothing else to do.
• Signing in before you have bought anything now works properly: it links this Mac to your account and says so, rather than looking like it failed.

1.0.0

2026-07-24

Minutes 1.0: private meeting notes, now yours to keep

• The first public release. Minutes is part of the Crest Suite, a one time purchase with a free 7 day trial and no subscription.
• Sign in with the email you bought with, or paste your license key, and Minutes activates on up to 2 Macs. After that it runs fully offline, like everything else here.
• Crest can start and file a Minutes recording from the notch, so a meeting gets captured without you leaving what you were doing.
• Everything still runs on device: your audio, transcripts and summaries never leave this Mac.

0.2.0

2026-07-23

A window worth looking at, and three ways to look at it

• The whole app was redesigned. Pick the one that suits how you work, in Settings: Two Lanes reads a conversation as a two sided score, The Record sets a meeting as a document with notes in the margin, and The Desk puts the audio and a rail of real figures on screen.
• Every meeting in the list now carries the shape of the conversation itself, drawn from who actually spoke and when, so a nine second scrap never looks like an hour long call.
• Catches moved out of the bottom of the note. They are the first thing under the title now, with the buttons that file them to Calendar and Reminders.
• The player draws the real audio, with your side and their side on their own lanes, and marks where each catch and each note of yours landed. Click the shape to jump there.
• A People view: everyone you have met, when you last spoke, and what is still open from the meetings you were both in.
• While recording, two separate meters now show your side and their side. One combined bar could look healthy while your mic was delivering silence.
• Light and dark are both first class in all three designs.

0.1.1

2026-07-21

Recordings you can actually hear

• Their side of a call is now truly in the saved audio. A format mismatch silently dropped it from every recording.
• If your mic reaches Minutes as pure silence (muted, or held by another call app such as WhatsApp), the app now warns you while recording and notes it when filing, instead of saving a silent file.
• When the mic goes quiet mid-meeting, Minutes rebuilds the audio engine once to try to win it back.
• Recording survives the input device changing mid-meeting (a headset connecting, a call app rerouting audio).

0.1.0

2026-07-20

Scaffold

• Project skeleton: library window, menu bar presence, on-disk note format.

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