RecordAudio v1.0.9

This release is a big update to transcription. Transcribing now shows live progress and writes a proper .srt subtitle file with timestamps, right where you kicked it off — no extra window pops up. Settings gains a Transcription section where you pick the Whisper model (Tiny through Large v3), the language, and whether to translate to English. Transcripts land in a tidy Transcripts sub-folder next to your recordings, and the History list marks anything already transcribed with a badge you can click to open the .srt. There's also an Open Recordings Folder button in both the window and the menu bar, and the "Record from" picker now shows the real icon of the app you chose.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio (not the mic) to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture one app, a History window, a trim editor, and on-device Whisper transcription.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below, then drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these gets you in, and you only have to do it once:

1. Right-click to open. In Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app, choose Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security. If newer macOS still blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal. Or clear the quarantine flag yourself:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

The first time you hit Record, macOS asks for Screen Recording permission. That's the only way it lets an app capture system audio, so turn RecordAudio on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Transcription needs whisper-cli (brew install whisper-cpp); the tiny model (~75 MB) downloads on first use.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.8

New: play recordings in the History window. Each row gets a Play button that plays the audio right in the app, with a small transport at the bottom: play/pause, a scrubber you can drag to seek, and elapsed / total time. Closing the window stops playback.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio (not the mic) to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture one app, a History window, a trim editor, and on-device Whisper transcription.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below, then drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these gets you in, and you only have to do it once:

1. Right-click to open. In Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app, choose Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security. If newer macOS still blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal. Or clear the quarantine flag yourself:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

The first time you hit Record, macOS asks for Screen Recording permission. That's the only way it lets an app capture system audio, so turn RecordAudio on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Transcription needs whisper-cli (brew install whisper-cpp); the tiny model (~75 MB) downloads on first use.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.7

New: History window. Click History (in the window or the menu-bar panel) to see every recording in your folder, paginated, each with Show, Trim…, and Transcribe buttons. Rows show the audio length, date, and file size. Opening it from the menu bar now dismisses the panel back to the menu bar.

The length of the latest recording also shows on the "last recording" row in the main window and the menu-bar panel.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio (not the mic) to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture one app, a trim editor, and on-device Whisper transcription.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below, then drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these gets you in, and you only have to do it once:

1. Right-click to open. In Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app, choose Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security. If newer macOS still blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal. Or clear the quarantine flag yourself:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

The first time you hit Record, macOS asks for Screen Recording permission. That's the only way it lets an app capture system audio, so turn RecordAudio on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Transcription needs whisper-cli (brew install whisper-cpp); the tiny model (~75 MB) downloads on first use.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.6

New: Trim editor + Transcription.

• ✂️ Trim editor — after a recording, click Trim… to open a waveform editor. Drag the start/end handles (or the sliders), click anywhere to scrub/seek, preview with Play, then Save Trimmed. Passthrough export — no re-encoding, no quality loss.
• 📝 Transcribe — click Transcribe to turn a recording into text on-device with Whisper (tiny), saved as a sidecar .txt (with Copy / Reveal). Requires whisper-cli — install once with brew install whisper-cpp. The tiny model (~75 MB) downloads automatically on first use.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture just one app's audio.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.5

Fixes missing apps in the "Record from" list. The app picker only showed apps ScreenCaptureKit considered to have an on-screen window at that moment, so apps minimized, on another Space, or in a background/tray-only state (e.g. Vesktop) never appeared — even though their audio could be captured. The list is now built from the same source of truth the recorder itself uses to find an app, so any regular running app shows up.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture just one app's audio.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.4

Fixes the Settings button doing nothing. The in-app "Settings" button (main window and menu-bar panel) wasn't reliably reaching the window SwiftUI creates for the Settings scene, so clicking it silently did nothing — only the app's own RecordAudio ▸ Settings… menu item worked. It now reuses that same menu item's action directly, so both paths open Settings.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon, with a "Record from" picker to capture just one app's audio.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   /usr/bin/xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.3

New: choose which app to record from. A "Record from" selector lets you capture all system audio (default) or the audio of one specific app — handy when several apps are playing at once. Your choice is remembered between launches.

• Pick a source in the main window or the menu-bar panel; hit ↻ to refresh the running-app list.
• The app list populates once Screen Recording permission is granted (apps with a visible window appear).
• If a selected app isn't running when you hit Record, you get a clear message instead of recording everything.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.2

Reliability hardening for the recording lifecycle:

• Finalize the recording when you quit while recording (⌘Q / Quit) — the file is no longer left half-written and unplayable.
• Salvage & finalize the file if the capture stops unexpectedly (e.g. permission revoked mid-recording).
• Prevent a rapid double-press from starting two overlapping captures.
• Fix a data race in capture teardown; roll back cleanly if capture fails to start.
• Detect the missing-permission case by error code (works in any language).

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.1

Fixes a complete UI freeze (beachball) present in v1.0.0 — the app pegged the main thread in SwiftUI update/layout feedback loops. Now idle-quiet and responsive.

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

RecordAudio v1.0.0

RecordAudio records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — to small, good-quality AAC .m4a files. Runs as a normal window app and an optional menu-bar icon.

Download: RecordAudio.dmg below → drag RecordAudio to Applications.

How to open the app

RecordAudio isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it the first time. Any one of these works — you only need to do it once:

1. Right-click to open — in Finder, Control-click (right-click) RecordAudio.app → Open, then Open again in the dialog.
2. Privacy & Security — if it's still blocked on newer macOS, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the RecordAudio message, then confirm with Open.
3. Terminal — or clear the quarantine flag:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RecordAudio.app

On your first Record, macOS also asks for Screen Recording permission — that's the only channel macOS provides for capturing system audio. Enable RecordAudio under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.

Requirements: macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon