Made in v1.2.9 - v1.2.12

We’ve rolled out a series of updates from focused mainly on stability, bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements.

In v1.2.12, we addressed a couple of critical crash cases—one caused by audio effects triggering at the wrong time, and another from quickly double-tapping the hands-free hotkey.

Both are now resolved. We also made visual improvements to the notch waveform to smooth out janky transitions, and fixed an issue where the changelog wouldn’t appear after updates.

v1.2.11 introduced a proper in-app changelog, so you can now see exactly what’s new every time Willow updates. We also fixed “Launch at Login” (still being monitored in rare edge cases), restored clipboard and image recovery functionality, and added support for more niche custom keyboard layouts like Gallium.

v1.2.10 focused on compatibility with macOS Sonoma 14.1 and 14.2, which had introduced a silent error when reading audio files. This bug prevented word counts from increasing and broke downstream features like post-processing. That issue should now be completely resolved.

And in v1.2.9, we fixed an audio lag issue that stopped the UI from activating properly. This also fixed some bugs where transcriptions weren’t saving with the correct timestamps.

These updates may seem small on the surface, but they remove a ton of friction under the hood. And they’re helping us gear up for the bigger features on the roadmap.

Thanks for all the bug reports, and keep them coming!

Lawrence Liu (CTO)