Changelog

Apple Watch companion app with voice recording, Viva Modes, complications, Action Button support, and background transcription. See the watch app documentation for setup guides.

Apple Watch App

• Record voice notes directly on your Apple Watch
• Tap the mic button, speak, and your recording is automatically sent to your iPhone for transcription
• Works even if your phone is in another room
• Notes are transcribed in the background so they're ready when you open the app

Watch Modes

• Switch between Viva Modes right on the watch
• Use different transcription and AI processing settings per recording

Complications & Action Button

• Add VivaDicta to your watch face for one-tap recording
• Assign the Action Button to start and stop with a single press
• Quick Record available in Control Center and Smart Stack

iPhone Recording Control on Watch

• Start and stop iPhone recording right from your wrist
• Shows up in Control Center, Smart Stack, and Action Button under "From Your iPhone"

Cohere Transcribe, new translation presets, sign in with your AI subscriptions, tags & organization, keyboard AI processing, and keyboard recent notes.

New Translation Presets

• 8 new built-in translation presets: Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Italian

Cohere Transcribe

• New cloud transcription provider with best-in-class accuracy (5.4 WER)
• 14 languages supported, free trial tier — no credit card required

Sign in with your subscriptions

• GitHub Copilot — access Claude, GPT, Gemini models via Copilot (free tier available)
• Google Gemini — sign in with your Google account, no API key needed
• ChatGPT — sign in with your ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription, no API key needed
• VivAgents Server — route AI through CLI agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) on your Mac or VPS

Tags & Organization

• Custom tags with name, color, and SF Symbol icon
• Source tags auto-track origin: In-App, Keyboard, Share/Action Extension, Mac
• Filter transcription history by source and custom tags
• Bulk-assign tags in selection mode
• Tags sync across devices via iCloud

Keyboard AI Processing

• Process text in any app directly from the VivaDicta keyboard
• Place cursor or select text, tap a mode to translate, rewrite, summarize
• Toggle between Voice, Text Processing, and Recent Notes modes

Keyboard Recent Notes

• Quick-insert recent transcriptions from the keyboard without opening the main app
• Shows last 5 transcriptions, tap to insert at cursor
• Multi-level undo for consecutive pastes

Edit Notes

• Edit transcription text directly from the note detail screen
• Tap the edit button in the toolbar at the bottom of the note detail view

Major update with AI Assistant, auto-translation, iCloud sync, clipboard context, and AI presets with variations.

AI Assistant

• A new preset turns VivaDicta into a voice-powered AI assistant
• Ask a question or give an instruction — fact-check, explain, reformat, change tone
• Just say what you need

Auto-Translation

• Speak in one language, get polished text in another — instantly
• Dictate in English and receive output in Spanish, or speak Russian and get Japanese
• Set a Translate preset as your mode's default and every recording is automatically translated

iCloud Sync

• Transcriptions, presets, custom dictionary, and API keys sync seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud

Clipboard & Text Context

• AI processing can use your clipboard or selected text as context
• Copy a message and dictate your reply, or paste an email and voice-dictate your response

AI Presets & Variations

• 40+ built-in presets — Summary, Email, Coding, Assistant, and more
• Process any transcription with multiple AI presets, each result saved as a variation
• Create custom presets and mark favorites

Keyboard & UI Improvements

• Swipe between modes, cleaner recording timer, smoother animations
• Auto-copy after recording, copy buttons on transcription rows
• Searchable model picker, redesigned detail view
• Multi-select deletion

New Providers

• Z.AI and Kimi (Moonshot) added

Initial release of VivaDicta for iOS.

• Voice-to-text with on-device transcription via WhisperKit and Parakeet
• Cloud transcription via Groq, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Gemini, Mistral, Soniox, and more
• AI text processing with built-in presets (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, Ollama, and more)
• Viva Modes — auto-configure model, language, and AI preset per context
• Custom keyboard extension with recording and transcription
• Transcription history with search and audio playback
• Custom vocabulary and word replacements
• Spotlight and Siri Shortcuts integration