Jeronimo release notes
Jeronimo runs on macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon. macOS 26 support is untested so far. Downloads: jeronimo.app.
Jeronimo Beta 0.20.0 (50)
Meetings that run long, a card to share your numbers, and cleanup from the new signature.
- Meetings and your calendar: a recording now ends only when the call ends. A call that runs into your next calendar event keeps going as one meeting, and the transcript marks where the next event began. Before, the call was cut and started again as a new meeting.
- Meeting names: an event with no attendees, such as a hold or a focus block, no longer names a meeting.
- Zoom: joining from the lobby shows the record offer once instead of twice.
- Transcribing a meeting: your Mac stays awake until the transcript is done (the display may still sleep), and the speech model is no longer put away while a transcript is being written.
- Activity: a Share button makes an image card of the words you dictated in the period on screen.
- Beta builds now expire 30 days after they are made, down from 45.
- Housekeeping: Jeronimo removes the keychain items left by its earlier signature, and reads the keychain in the background at launch so the app stays responsive.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.19.2 (49)
Two fixes.
- Meeting transcripts: a call that ended in the middle of a word could leave a sliver of audio too short for the speech recognizer, and that one sliver failed the whole transcript. Jeronimo now pads a short piece with silence, tries a piece that fails a second time, and skips it if it fails again, saying so on the meeting. A meeting that failed this way before keeps the text it had saved.
- Personal Dictionary: the table shows every entry, and the Speech pane scrolls to reach them, so no entry is hidden below the ones you see.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.19.1 (48)
Fixes from the first day on the new signature.
- Input Monitoring: after the new signature window's Continue, Jeronimo now quits and reopens on its own before asking, so your Mac lists it under Input Monitoring instead of showing "No Items". The window says so.
- System Audio Recording: your Mac never showed its prompt for Jeronimo, on any version, because the sentence the prompt needs was missing from the app. It is there now, so Continue… in the Permissions window and the first recording ask as they should. While your Mac decides, the button reads "Waiting for macOS…" instead of asking again on every click.
- Name meetings from your calendar: when calendar access was never asked, the Meetings pane says so and offers Allow…, instead of sending you to System Settings, where Jeronimo is not listed yet.
- The Personal Dictionary table shows up to eight entries at once instead of three.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.19.0 (47)
Jeronimo is now signed by Incipit Labs LLC, the company behind it. Nothing else changes in this version. Your dictionary, snippets, history, meetings, and settings stay exactly as they are. What you will see after the update, in order:
- A window explains the new signature. Click Continue, and Jeronimo clears its own old entries from your Mac's permission lists before asking for anything.
- The Permissions window asks for Microphone, Input Monitoring, and Accessibility again, because macOS ties each permission to the app's signature. Input Monitoring takes effect after Jeronimo quits and opens again, as macOS requires. System Audio Recording is asked for at your next recording, and Calendars at the next meeting named from your calendar.
- iCloud sync starts again from this Mac's data, in a new iCloud container: everything on this Mac is sent once more and merged with what your other Macs send when they update, the newer change winning. Before updating each Mac, let it finish syncing; the iCloud settings show the last sync.
- The data earlier versions kept in iCloud stays in your iCloud account under the old container, which this version can no longer read. You can remove it in System Settings, your Apple Account, iCloud, Manage.
- The Always Record list has to be set up again after this update: approve each app once more from the recording notification. Its seal belongs to the previous signature, and this version does not carry a list over.
- The first dictation after the update prepares the speech model again, as after every update.
- If this Mac updates from a version before 0.18.0, there is no explanatory window: the Permissions window asks for the three permissions directly.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.18.0 (46)
Groundwork for a change of signature. Nothing looks different in this version.
- A later update will be signed by Incipit Labs LLC, the company behind Jeronimo, instead of the developer's personal certificate. Your Mac ties each permission to the app's signature, so that update will ask once more for Microphone, Input Monitoring, and Accessibility, and again for System Audio Recording and Calendars when they are next used. This version carries what makes that smooth: Jeronimo will explain the change before asking, clear its own old entries from the permission lists, and keep your dictionary, snippets, history, meetings, settings, and Always Record list exactly as they are.
- iCloud sync learns which iCloud container it is using, so the change of signature, which comes with a new container, continues from this Mac's data without losing anything. Before you install that later update, let every Mac finish syncing; the iCloud settings show the last sync.
- The one item Jeronimo keeps in your login keychain, the key that seals the Always Record list, is now named after the signing team, so the later update never asks for your keychain password.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.17.2 (45)
Fixes and small changes from real calls on 0.17.1.
- A recording started from the menu before a call app picks up the microphone now takes that call app if it does so within two minutes: its name, its icon, and the automatic stop when the call ends.
- The recording pill can be dragged anywhere, and it goes back to that spot on the same display next time. Near an edge or a corner it snaps into place. Around calls it now sits at the top center by default, clear of the call controls most call apps put along the bottom; dictation stays at the bottom center.
- Your personal dictionary now applies to meeting transcripts as they are written, not only when you choose Apply Current Dictionary, and Jeronimo's own name is always spelled right.
- An action item's owner now means who will do it, and the meeting says so: Owner: Me, Owner: Them, or a name. An owner is shown only when the transcript makes it clear.
- A single word of the other side coming back through your speakers is no longer kept as one of your lines.
- You can select any part of a meeting transcript, across lines and speakers, and copy it with Command C or the right click menu; the copied lines keep the Me and Them labels and their times. The summary and its lists can be selected and copied the same way.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.17.1 (44)
A fix for meetings that came back with no line on your side, and a few changes that follow from it.
- A call in FaceTime, or a call in a web page in Safari, turns on Apple's voice processing for the microphone, and while it is on every other app hears the microphone as three very quiet channels. Jeronimo turned those into silence, so the meeting had no Me lines. Now it records them, and after the call it raises your side to a normal level before transcribing it. The audio is kept as it was recorded.
- When your side had to be raised, the meeting says so: your lines may be less accurate than usual. When the microphone sent only silence, the meeting says that too, and why that can happen.
- While a recording runs, a crossed out microphone appears beside the time when Jeronimo has heard almost nothing from your microphone for ten seconds, and goes away when it hears you again.
- Calls in Safari, FaceTime, and Phone are now recognized and named for the app, with its icon, so the Record offer appears for them as it does for other call apps.
- A meeting where too little was said gets no summary, instead of a summary with decisions and action items made up from a few lines.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.17.0 (43)
A meetings round: where one meeting ends and the next begins, the end of a call, a speech recognizer choice for meetings, and the transcript's seams.
- One rule for where a meeting ends: a recording goes on for as long as the call app is on its call in the same calendar event, through the 15 second countdown. When a different calendar event begins while the call app is still on the microphone, the recording stops at that moment and the next call is its own meeting. A call that runs past its event with nothing after it stays one meeting.
- A meeting now ends when the call ended, not 15 seconds later: its end time and length are the moment the call app let go of the microphone, and the audio after that moment is cut before the transcript is written, so the transcript ends where the call did.
- Settings, Speech has two choices, one for dictation and one for meetings, each Automatic unless you change it. Automatic picks the recognizer this Mac is best served by. A choice you made yourself is kept.
- Transcribing waits while a recording runs and while the Mac is critically short of memory, and the Meetings list says in plain words what each meeting is doing: Transcribing, Waiting and why, Writing the summary.
- Meeting audio is no longer cut into fixed 30 second pieces: each piece now ends at the quietest moment near the 30 second mark, never through a word, so words at the seams are neither lost nor doubled. A piece that came back as a lone period is dropped.
- On a call taken on speakers, a line on your side that is really the other side coming through the microphone is removed more reliably, and when one line holds both their sentence and your answer, only their part is removed.
- Numbers in a meeting transcript read as numbers: 1,000,000 rather than 1000000, and 20.1 rather than 20.one.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.4.1 (8)
Four fixes from checking 0.4.0 on the development Mac. Nothing you saved is affected.
- Setup, Noticing the Fn Key: after Continue opens System Settings, the step now waits for you to turn the switch on and click Quit & Reopen in your Mac's own alert, and setup continues from the next step. Jeronimo no longer offers a second quit for the same change; its own Quit and Reopen appears only if you chose Later.
- Setup, Placing Your Words: the step now says that your Mac asks first, with Open System Settings, before the list with the switch.
- Erase All Data and Settings and Reset Permissions no longer let the microphone level meter open the microphone after the permissions are forgotten, which showed a microphone prompt before Jeronimo had reopened.
- The "quit unexpectedly" line in the menu now appears only for a crash of this copy of Jeronimo, not for another copy on the same Mac.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.4.0 (7)
Jeronimo now behaves like a regular Mac app whenever one of its windows is open, and its setup and wording follow one style throughout. Nothing you saved is affected.
- A menu bar app that becomes a normal app when it has a window. Open History, Settings, or About and Jeronimo gets a Dock icon, a Command-Tab entry, the full menu bar, and a Dock menu; close the last window and it returns to the menu bar icon alone. Closing windows never quits. Reopening Jeronimo from Finder, Spotlight, or the Dock shows History.
- History is the main window, with a sidebar. Activity shows the words, dictations, and recording time for today, this week, and all time, and the apps you dictate into most.
- About Jeronimo shows the version and copyright, with Licenses behind it. Settings has six panes at two widths, its title is the pane, and it reopens to the pane you left.
- Setup has been rewritten. Each permission has a plain title, keeps the name your Mac uses for it, and says what happens when you click Continue. The Fn key and Accessibility steps show a picture of the System Settings list with the switch to turn on. Setup ends by offering Open Jeronimo when you log in and Show Jeronimo in the menu bar.
- On a Mac with little free space (below about 10 percent), setup and Settings, Speech point to Apple Speech, whose speech recognizer macOS manages, so it never needs the half minute preparation that macOS clears when space runs low. Parakeet stays the default.
- Erase All Data and Settings, in Settings, Advanced, removes everything Jeronimo stored on this Mac, forgets its permissions, and reopens into setup.
- Wording follows one term list across the app: press and hold, the dictation key, the speech recognizer, and your words appear. Every control in Settings has a tooltip, and the dictionary and snippets tables say what to do when they are empty.
- The dictation indicator honors Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast.
macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.3.1 (6)
Two fixes found while checking 0.3.0 on the development Mac. Nothing you saved is affected.
- Input Monitoring: on some Macs, clicking Grant in setup or in the Permissions window opens System Settings without Jeronimo in the list, and no prompt appears. The step now says what to do in that case: click the plus button, choose Jeronimo in the Applications folder, turn it on, then reopen Jeronimo. On a Mac that prompts, nothing changes.
- The speech model warm up at launch could believe the compiled model was still there after macOS had cleared it to free disk space, so the first dictation spent about half a minute preparing. The check now looks for the compiled program itself, so a cleared cache is noticed and the model is prepared in the background instead.
macOS discards the compiled speech model when free disk space runs low, below roughly 10 percent. Keeping free space avoids the half minute wait. macOS 26 support is still untested.
Jeronimo Beta 0.3.0 (5)
The first build labeled as a beta. It expires 45 days after it was made, and the app says so in Settings, General and in the menu from a week before. After that date dictation pauses until you update. Nothing you saved is affected.
- Beta builds carry an expiry date and show a quiet notice in the last 7 days. An expired beta asks for an update and keeps your dictionary, snippets, history, and settings as they are.
- Setup has a new first screen for betas that states the pre-release terms once. If you finished setup before this build, that screen is all you will see.
- Report a Problem, in Settings, General and in the menu: prepares a report from Jeronimo's own event log for the last hour, the app and macOS versions, and this Mac's model. You read it first, then send it from your own mail app to help@jeronimo.app. Jeronimo never sends anything itself. Copy and Save Report are there for a Mac without a mail app.
- If Jeronimo quit unexpectedly, the next launch offers once to include the crash report macOS wrote, with your account name removed from its paths.
- On a Mac that never ran Jeronimo, the Input Monitoring prompt appeared at launch, before setup explained it. Every permission prompt now waits for its setup screen.
- Settings, Privacy states that problem reports are emailed by you and never by Jeronimo.
macOS 26 support is still untested. The beta expiry is checked on this Mac, with no network.
Jeronimo 0.2.0 (4)
- The first update delivered by Jeronimo itself, as a small delta rather than the whole app.
- Settings, General now says exactly what an update check carries: Jeronimo's version number and nothing else.
- Release notes live at jeronimo.app/releases.