DoodleNote

built by Onyx Dev Labs

What’s new

Every DoodleNote release and what changed. The app updates itself — you’re always on the newest version within a few hours.

v0.4.21

September 4, 2026

  • Improve Windows transcript accuracy with a private, on-device final pass after recording
  • Keep live captions, speaker labels, timestamps, and saved audio while the final wording is refined
  • Use the same higher-accuracy Windows transcription path for imported recordings

v0.4.20

September 4, 2026

  • Restore Check for updates for Windows beta installations
  • Replace internal updater diagnostics with a short, readable error message

v0.4.19

September 4, 2026

  • Preserve the final spoken words when stopping a Windows recording
  • Prevent delayed microphone starts and switches from crossing recording sessions
  • Show recording readiness and microphone switch failures accurately on Windows
  • Route Windows beta update checks through the Windows beta release feed

v0.4.18

September 1, 2026

  • Import MP4 video recordings and transcribe their audio into a meeting
  • Play and seek imported MP4 recordings after restarting DoodleNote
  • Show a clear error when an MP4 has no supported audio track

v0.4.17

August 30, 2026

  • Keep to-do checkboxes, checked state, and nested task structure when reopening formatted notes

v0.4.16

August 28, 2026

  • Checkpoint transcripts during recording so an unexpected quit cannot erase an entire meeting transcript
  • Show Transcribe recording when saved audio needs its transcript rebuilt
  • Turn an unavailable Generate notes button into a direct Notes model setup action
  • Keep Groq, OpenRouter, and Ollama notes settings active after restarting DoodleNote

v0.4.15

August 28, 2026

  • Keep to-do checkboxes and checked state when reopening regular notes and meeting notes

v0.4.14

August 27, 2026

  • Remove the retired G Brain export from Settings and the desktop application
  • Keep Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP agent integrations available

v0.4.13

August 26, 2026

  • Cloud sync no longer re-pulls your entire library on every app restart
  • Sync reconciliation waits for the first cloud snapshot before trashing local meetings that look missing
  • Connecting DoodleNote to the cloud on doodlenote.ai sign-in is more reliable again

v0.4.12

August 7, 2026

  • Add your name in Settings so your side of transcripts is labeled consistently instead of You
  • Rename the other speaker once and apply that name throughout the entire meeting transcript
  • Generated meeting notes and Ask now use the resolved speaker names when attributing what people said

v0.4.11

August 3, 2026

  • The Mac app icon now uses the same edge-to-edge sage background as iPhone, without black side gutters
  • The matching mascot inside DoodleNote now uses the corrected opaque artwork too
  • Website Mac downloads now open a familiar drag-to-Applications installer

v0.4.10

August 3, 2026

  • Resize the Mac app down to a compact 800 × 560 window for smaller screens and side-by-side setups
  • Meeting prompts now send one native Mac notification while keeping the Start taking notes action available inside DoodleNote
  • The corrected full-bleed app icon now refreshes reliably after an in-place update

v0.4.9

August 2, 2026

  • The Mac app icon now fills its rounded shape cleanly, with no pale side gutters

v0.4.8

August 1, 2026

  • Create a meeting, note, or audio import from one streamlined New menu
  • Empty new notes and meetings now ask whether to save, discard, or keep editing before they close
  • Untitled notes receive a useful title derived from their notes, transcript, or attachment context
  • Home stays focused on the last seven days, with older meetings available in manageable batches

v0.4.7

August 1, 2026

  • Meeting action menus now stay above every note row, so Move to trash, exports, and folder actions cannot be obscured or intercepted by another meeting

v0.4.6

August 1, 2026

  • Meeting prompts now appear only once: calendar reminders and live call detection coordinate instead of nudging you separately
  • Zoom Phone ringing, notification sounds, and other output-only activity no longer look like active meetings
  • Starting a recording clears any outstanding prompt, and background prompts no longer reappear as a second banner when you open DoodleNote

v0.4.5

July 14, 2026

  • Mac: DoodleNote no longer needs the Screen Recording permission — system audio is captured with a Core Audio tap (macOS 14.2+), so setup only asks for microphone and system-audio access
  • Every recording checks the new capture is actually hearing audio and falls back to the old method automatically if it isn't
  • Prefer the old capture? Settings → General → Meeting recordings has the switch

v0.4.4

July 13, 2026

  • Export any meeting as Markdown or PDF from the note's ⋯ menu
  • Bring your own key: Groq, OpenRouter, and Ollama join OpenAI and Anthropic as notes-model providers — Ollama needs no key at all

v0.4.2

July 12, 2026

  • Long meetings get full-coverage notes — transcripts over ~40 minutes are condensed in parts so nothing in the middle is skipped anymore
  • First-run setup wizard: permissions, the transcription engine, and your notes model, all set up before your first meeting

v0.4.1

July 12, 2026

  • Import audio files (wav, mp3, m4a) from the home screen — DoodleNote transcribes them into a meeting
  • Re-transcribe any meeting from its saved recording
  • Recordings made by DoodleNote recover the You/Them speaker split on import

v0.4.0

July 11, 2026

  • Meeting audio is saved on your Mac (local only, never synced) — play it back from the transcript panel and click any line to jump there
  • Crash recovery: if DoodleNote quits mid-meeting, the recording is stitched back together on next launch
  • Stopping a recording responds instantly, and Resume continues the clock where it left off

v0.3.5

July 7, 2026

  • Mac: microphone picker in the meeting bar — choose any input device, switch mid-recording, and DoodleNote falls back to the default mic if your chosen one goes silent (thanks Alec!)
  • Mac only for now — Windows stays on 0.3.4 until the next cross-platform release
  • All in-app links now point at doodlenote.ai

v0.3.4

July 7, 2026

  • Folders sync: your Spaces, and which folder each meeting is in, now travel to every linked device — folder deletions move meetings back to My notes everywhere
  • Windows: brand-new full-bleed sage icon — no more black edges on the desktop or taskbar
  • Fixed: the “quit unexpectedly” dialog when installing an update on Mac
  • Developer console moved out of the sidebar into Settings → General → Troubleshooting

v0.3.3

July 7, 2026

  • Two-way sync: meetings recorded on one computer now appear on every device linked to your workspace — deletions travel too (to Trash, always recoverable)
  • Fixed: “failed to load the model” on Windows — note generation now falls back to CPU automatically when the GPU can’t fit the model

v0.3.2

July 7, 2026

  • Windows: recording now stops and notes generate automatically when your meeting ends, and DoodleNote offers to take notes when a meeting app grabs the mic — same as Mac
  • Paw prints! Generating notes now shows a trot of paw prints and doodle-flavored phrases instead of a word counter
  • Fixed: “Check for updates” could report stale versions (the update feed was cached too aggressively)
  • Fixed: the Windows desktop icon showed black corners; Settings copy no longer says “Mac” on Windows

v0.3.1

July 7, 2026

  • Welcome tour: a first-run walkthrough of recording, calendars, meeting detection, cloud sync, and notes models — replay it anytime from Settings → General
  • Fixed: the Windows app icon showed the default Electron logo instead of the DoodleNote mascot

v0.3.0

July 7, 2026

  • DoodleNote for Windows (beta): recording, on-device transcription, AI notes, calendar, cloud sync — the whole app on your PC
  • Windows transcription runs a streaming zipformer model via sherpa-onnx; the speech model downloads automatically on first launch
  • Windows captures your mic and system audio (what the other side says) natively — no bot joins your call, same as on Mac

v0.2.5

July 7, 2026

  • Microsoft and Google logos on the calendar connect/disconnect buttons

v0.2.4

July 7, 2026

  • Settings → General → Updates: see your version, check for updates on demand, watch the download, and click Restart to update
  • Fixed: downloaded updates could fail to install on quit — the new Restart button is the reliable path

v0.2.3

July 7, 2026

  • Google Calendar: connect your Google account alongside (or instead of) Microsoft 365 — same Coming-up card, menu-bar countdown, and meeting-start prompts
  • Sign in with Google on the web dashboard
  • Incoming-call prompts appear within ~5 seconds of the ring (was up to 13)
  • Exactly one prompt per meeting — no more stacked notifications covering each other
  • Notarized by Apple: DoodleNote now installs cleanly on any Mac
  • Version number in Settings links to this page

v0.2.0

July 7, 2026

  • Instant recording start — transcription models stay loaded, so hitting record (or accepting a meeting prompt) begins transcribing immediately
  • Incoming call detection: DoodleNote offers to take notes while Zoom, Teams, or FaceTime is still ringing — and Slack huddles count too
  • Recording stops by itself when the meeting app hangs up, and notes generate on their own
  • Note templates: Customer discovery, Site survey, Troubleshooting, 1:1, Standup, Interview — pick per meeting, switch and regenerate anytime
  • Share links: publish a read-only page of any meeting's notes and transcript with one click
  • Full-text search across notes and transcripts, on the desktop and the web library
  • Quick notes: standalone notes with the same editor, formatting toolbar, images, and optional voice dump
  • Dark mode on the desktop app and this website
  • Team workspaces: invite members by link; everyone sees the workspace's synced meetings
  • Images in notes sync to the cloud and appear on shared pages
  • Signed and auto-updating: the app now updates itself in the background

v0.1.0

July 5, 2026

  • First release: no-bot meeting capture on your Mac — mic plus system audio, transcribed entirely on-device
  • AI meeting notes from your rough bullets and the transcript, using a local model (or your own API key)
  • Ask anything about a meeting — or across all your meetings — with cited answers
  • Microsoft 365 calendar: Coming up card, menu-bar countdown, meeting-start prompts
  • Folders, trash, and a cloud dashboard with meetings library and Microsoft sign-in