1.1.8 30 July 2026

• Saying nothing is no longer an error. Starting dictation and stopping without speaking used to report that recognition had failed. A real problem — no audio reaching the app, or a speech model still downloading — still speaks up.

1.1.7 30 July 2026

• Updates install by themselves again. Lekton was refusing the quit its own updater needed, so an update closed the window, left the app running, and never installed.
• The first dictation after launch no longer stalls — the cleanup model loads ahead of time rather than when you start speaking.
• Tap-to-talk no longer feeds a repeated sentence to cleanup after a pause.
• The shadow behind the dictation card follows its rounded corners.

1.1.6 29 July 2026

• Tap to talk no longer loses what you said after a pause. Pausing mid-thought used to end the dictation silently, discarding everything that followed. A pause is now just a pause.
• Start and stop have their own sounds — one rising, one falling — so you can tell them apart without looking.
• A Send Feedback button in the app, so suggestions do not need a mail client.
• Dictionary and snippet changes made by an assistant apply immediately instead of waiting for the next launch.

1.1.5 29 July 2026

• Dictation can start on a tap instead of a hold — press once to begin, press again when you are done. Onboarding asks which you prefer.
• The press-to-talk key is chosen on the Dictation page now, under the sentence that tells you which key to hold, rather than inside Settings.
• Bluetooth headphones no longer sound muffled after you dictate. Lekton was keeping the microphone open after the first dictation, which holds a headset in its low-quality hands-free mode.
• Dictating into a terminal with a remote shell open works again — Lekton uses the app's own Paste command where typing is blocked.
• New Agent tab: a lekton command and a skill, so an assistant can maintain your dictionary, snippets and writing style for you.

1.1.4 28 July 2026

Lekton tells you where it went. Closing the window leaves Lekton running in the menu bar and takes its Dock icon away, which is tidy but easy to mistake for having quit. The first three times you close it, a small card points at the icon so you know where to find it.

The window also looks like one piece now — the title bar takes the same colour as everything below it, instead of sitting as a grey strip on top.

1.1.3 28 July 2026

Fixes a crash that could end a dictation. Lekton could close unexpectedly while starting to listen — most likely just after setup, where the microphone test and a real dictation could both try to open the microphone at the same moment. Only one thing may hold it, and asking twice took the app down.

If you hit this, nothing of yours was lost — dictation history and notes are written as they happen.

1.1.2 28 July 2026

If Lekton closes unexpectedly, it now asks about it. The next launch shows what happened and offers to send the report — and shows you the whole report first, rather than asking permission to send something it will not let you read. It carries an app version, an error type and the stack of the thread that failed. Nothing you dictated, and nothing that identifies you or your Mac.

And it stops repeating a crash it can survive. If Lekton died while polishing a transcript, that step is switched off on the next launch rather than tried again — dictation keeps working and still fixes spacing, capitals and your dictionary words. You can turn it back on in Settings.

• The window now opens at a size that suits your screen instead of a fixed one that covered a 13" laptop and looked lost on a large display.

1.1.1 27 July 2026

Setup no longer asks for things you have already given. Walking back through it with permissions in place used to show the same "Allow" screens as a fresh install, and pressing the button did nothing — macOS does not re-ask for a grant you already hold. Each step now says it is done and moves on.

The microphone and the key are chosen where they are tested. If the meter is flat, pick a different microphone right there and the bars follow it; the choice is the one dictation uses afterwards. If the key is wrong, record a new one on the same card instead of being sent to Settings to find it. And the key now actually lights up while you hold it, which is what the screen was asking you to look for.

Snippets and Transforms can be edited. They could be switched off or deleted but never changed, so fixing a replacement meant deleting it and retyping both halves. Click one to reword it.

• Pro Voice is its own section rather than a pane inside Settings.
• The floating dictate button has a switch in Settings — it had none, so anyone updating from an older version could not turn it on.
• "Run setup again" no longer starts behind the Settings panel it was opened from.
• The first-run coach is gone. It pointed at the corner of the screen when it could not find the menu-bar icon; setup now just tells you where Lekton lives.
• One type scale across the app, so text of the same importance is the same size.

1.1.0 27 July 2026

Lekton has a window. Until now it was a menu-bar icon and a small settings box, which left nowhere to see whether anything was working. There is now a proper window: Dictation, Insights, Dictionary, Snippets, Style, Transforms and a Scratchpad.

Setup proves itself before it lets go of you. The old flow could report success over an install that could not possibly work. It now checks where Lekton is running from before asking for anything — permissions granted from a disk image are thrown away the moment you move the app — then tests the microphone and the key you will hold, and finishes by having you dictate a sentence into a real field. Every "Open Settings" button now opens the pane it names; on macOS 13 and later they had been landing somewhere else entirely.

Fixed: Accessibility that says it is on but is not. An entry left behind by an older version keeps reporting success while macOS quietly refuses the new one — so dictation ran, and nothing was ever typed. Lekton now spots that state and tells you to remove the entry and add it again.

• Snippets, Transforms, per-app Style, and a Scratchpad you can dictate into.
• Insights: words, sessions and time saved, computed and kept on your Mac.
• A click-to-dictate button, so the hotkey is never the only way in.
• Closing the window leaves Lekton listening from the menu bar. Quitting is in the menu-bar icon.
• Setup can be run again at any time from the menu-bar icon.

1.0.1 27 July 2026

Fixed: learned words kept their punctuation. Lekton picks up technical words from your shell history and the text on your screen, so it can spell them right when you say them. It was keeping the symbols around the edges too. A command-line flag like --clean-up was learned whole, so saying "clean up" in an ordinary sentence typed --clean-up. Paths did the same thing: ~/projects/api came back with the tilde and the slash attached.

Words learned from now on are trimmed at the edges and keep everything inside, so clean-up and projects/api are what you get. Words already learned the old way are repaired the first time this version starts, and they keep the history they earned. Anything you added to your own dictionary by hand is left exactly as you typed it.

1.0.0 27 July 2026

First release.

• Hold the right ⌥ key, speak, and clean text is typed into whatever app you are using. Nothing you say leaves your Mac.
• Filler words and false starts are removed, punctuation and capitals are added, and commands, file paths and code are left exactly as you said them.
• Lekton reads the visible text of the app you are dictating into, so it can spell the names, branches and files that no dictionary has heard of. That text is used once and discarded.
• Optional Pro Voice model, about 3× fewer mistakes, also entirely on your Mac. Free during early access and free permanently for anyone who downloads it now.
• Works with no internet at all once installed.