Ibis ← Back to Ibis

Release log.

Every major iteration of Ibis, newest first. We version what we ship and keep building within the version you own.

Versioned, not dated. The number is the reference.

2.0The ground-up rebuildIn development

Ibis is being rebuilt as a fully native app — every privacy promise kept, everything faster. Coming soon.

  • New native engine (Rust + whisper.cpp): faster transcription on ordinary CPUs, GPU acceleration where available, still 100% offline.
  • Set-and-forget capture: watch folders, move-on-complete filing, and auto-import the moment you plug in your voice recorder — originals never deleted.
  • Consent capture, PII redaction review, and a tamper-evident chain of custody for recordings that have to stand up to scrutiny.
  • Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out spelled right; exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, Markdown, and Word.
  • Speaker-change markers (beta), light & dark themes that follow your system, keyboard and screen-reader accessibility throughout.
  • Models download once with checksum verification; at-rest encryption is non-destructive by default with a recovery key you hold.
1.0.0First public release

Drop an audio file in a folder, get a transcript back, with the recording never leaving your machine.

  • Automatic watch-folder transcription: every MP3, WAV, or M4A you save becomes a timestamped text transcript.
  • Whisper large-v3-turbo bundled in the installer, covering 99 languages, with no download per language and no internet required after install.
  • Completed recordings encrypted at rest with age, keyed to the Windows Credential Manager.
  • Runs quietly in the system tray with toast notifications, plain text and .srt output, and an in-app license agreement.
  • Signed Windows installer with an embedded runtime for a clean first launch on Windows 10 and 11.
0.9.0Release candidate

The last polish before going public.

  • Added a privacy-respecting error reporting flow that drafts a message for you to send and never transmits anything on its own.
  • Shipped support templates so reporting a bug or asking for help follows a clear path.
0.5.0Privacy hardening

Recordings became private by design, not just by promise.

  • Added at-rest encryption for completed recordings, with the secret key held in the operating-system credential store rather than any file Ibis can read.
  • Built a recovery tool for decrypting your own archive, and made first launch more reliable across machines.
0.2.0Licensing

Turned the prototype into something you could own.

  • Added license activation, an activation window, and a one-time purchase model.
  • Brought the license agreement into the tray menu so the terms travel with the app.
0.1.0First build

Where it began.

  • The core idea, working end to end: a folder watched on your Windows PC, audio transcribed locally with Whisper, a text file written back beside it.