What’s new
What’s new in SwitchDesk, the Mac app for dictation, meeting notes, screen videos and your to-do list.
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The Activity list in Meeting Automations no longer runs on forever: it shows the five latest sends, and you can page back through older ones. Calls waiting for your approval and sends that failed stay pinned at the top with their Send, Review and Retry buttons.
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Ask the Chat window or a meeting's Ask panel to write a follow-up, a reply or a recap, and you get two or three short drafts, each a different approach. Click through them, copy one, or open it in Apple Mail, Gmail or Outlook with the subject and recipients filled in.
Settings → Dictation now shows voice commands as one row. Open it to see every command, grouped by to-dos, timers, chat and meetings, calendar, opening apps and sites, and dictating.
Choose Sink to bottom in Settings → To-Do List → Completed and done items stay in their section, below the open ones. On iPhone: tap the mic, talk, tap again and it's added, plus cleaner Settings pages.
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The floating pills (dictation, timers, meeting countdown and recording) can now sit in the top-right corner under the menu bar instead of bottom center. They stay stacked neatly, and bottom center is still the default.
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The main window's toolbar now has one button you choose: My Meetings, Calendar, Notes, Recap or Board. It opens My Meetings by default, and every window is still in the calendar menu next to it, with Board at the bottom.
After an update, What's new now shows every change since the version you last used, grouped by new features, improvements and fixes. Scroll back through earlier updates anytime from Help.
SwitchDesk no longer quits right after opening on macOS 14 Sonoma and macOS 15 Sequoia.
Dictation pastes your words sooner, spaces repeat dictations correctly, and a banner now tells you exactly why dictation can't work, with a one-click fix. The calendar opens on your calls, Monday to Friday. AI Access walks you through connecting ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and more in a few short steps, and Notes opens ready to type.
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A calendar window with notes before each call. Ask questions across all your meetings. Repeating to-dos. A Notes window. Connect AI tools to your list over MCP or the CLI. The app now updates itself, and you can delete your account in the app.
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Sign-in emails now carry the SwitchDesk logo and one clear button, which opens a sign-in page on switchdesk.org that email link scanners can’t use up before you click. The app’s Privacy and Terms links point to switchdesk.org too.
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Builds 222–228: seven builds in one day, touching every step from the picker to the share page.
1Pick a window
2Record
3Stop: the share card
4Paste: the link unfurls
The menu bar tile, the picker (“Create a Video”) and Settings now say “Create Video”. Next to “Record Meeting”, “Record Video” read like recording the video call.
When a video stops, a card shows its upload with the link already copied, plus “Open in Browser” and “My Videos”. The menu bar now opens with two big record tiles, one for a meeting and one for a video, and in Window mode your camera bubble is recorded too (for a window on the current desktop).
Shared videos now live on new storage built for streaming, so a long recording is no longer held back by the old 50 MB upload limit. Links you already sent keep working.
A shared video’s link opens a SwitchDesk page with the title, the player and a transcript you can jump around in and copy, and it unfurls in chat apps with the video’s own title and thumbnail. Links copied before this keep working.
When you record a window, the picker now shows windows on every desktop and behind full-screen apps, not just the current one, with “other desktop” under the ones that live elsewhere.
A video’s link is reserved when you start recording and copied when you stop, while the upload runs behind it and picks up again after a quit or a dropped connection. Each video gets a transcript on its share page (you can hide it per video) and, unless you typed a title, a short one made from what you said.
Screen mode shows a live preview of each display, and Window mode is now a grid of thumbnails. Click to select, double-click to start.
Also on Oct 3
In Settings → Developer → Meeting exports, point a category at a webhook, and its calls are sent there when they end, signed by our server so the receiver can trust them. Only calls recorded after you set it up are sent, and by default you review each one first.
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In the notepad and My Notes, Tab turns a numbered item into a bullet under the one above and Shift-Tab turns it back. Numbers are automatic, so a stray keystroke can’t turn “1.” into “11.”, and pasted lists renumber themselves.
The meeting notepad with a numbered list: item 2 becomes a bullet under item 1 and the next item renumbers to 2.
A to-do in “Today’s Todo” or “This Week’s Todo” without a category now shows a small “+ Category” chip. Pick one and the to-do stays where it is, now with its category tag.
The Mac app is named SwitchDesk in Finder, Launchpad and the Dock, and the logo in the window header is a sharp vector at every size. Your settings, permissions and data carry over as they were.
The to-do window’s header shows the SwitchDesk logo by default. In Settings → Appearance → Header logo you can type your company’s name in one of 13 fonts, previewed on light and dark headers, or use an image.
Two cream bars on black, drawn on Apple’s icon grid.
Plus one behind-the-scenes build.
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Ask “What have we promised Lumora so far?” in the new “Ask me about any past meetings” bar, and it answers across all your calls. It shows which calls it read and links each point to its moment; click one to open the transcript at that line.
When the Google Meet window goes behind another tab or desktop, the lines said meanwhile now get their names once it’s back. In the live captions, each person keeps one color for the whole call.
The notepad (notes, Ask and live captions) no longer floats above every app: click your call and it goes behind like any other window. It still comes to the front when a recording starts.
Type “Lum” and Lumora’s calls come first, not every call that mentions the word. A short word you’re still typing lists the best matches first.
A meeting opens on its Call Summary, with Transcript and My Notes a click or ⌘1–3 away. Ask moves to a pane on the right (⌘J), each meeting keeps its own chat, and timestamps in an answer jump to that moment.
Plus one build that isn’t public yet.
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Meetings search now looks through titles, people, companies, summaries, your notes and transcripts, shows at most five best matches, and turns a person, company or date into a filter chip. In the to-do chat you can keep typing after Return: the next message waits its turn instead of creating a duplicate.
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On speakers, your mic also hears the other side; those words no longer show up as yours. On Google Meet, lines are now named from Meet’s own captions, your own included.
“Assign Due Date…” now opens a full-size month grid where one click on a day sets the date, with “Today”, “Tomorrow” and “Next Mon” shortcuts and “Remove due date”.
Right-click a to-do and choose “Assign Due Date…” to open the calendar next to the row. Once a date is set, the same item lets you change it.
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A dated to-do joins “This Week’s Todo” in its week, sits under its day, and reaches “Today’s Todo” when it’s due. A date only ever moves a to-do earlier.
On Google Meet, the live captions drawer now names each person as they talk, using Google Meet’s own captions. Start recording before you join and SwitchDesk keeps looking for the call. On other call apps, lines read “You” and “Them”.
A tool that sent you a to-do with your key can now mark it in progress or done. In dictation, version numbers come out typed with their dots and dashes: say “two point four point one” and you get 2.4.1.
Make a key in Settings → Developer → Incoming to-dos, and a support form or your own script can add to-dos to your list. They arrive in Incoming, and links in to-dos are now clickable.
In the captions drawer, A− and A+ change the text size, and Settings → Meetings has a “Caption text size” slider. In every chat, your own messages now show in orange, so a conversation reads as question and answer.
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On Google Meet, SwitchDesk turns on Meet’s captions, reads the name beside each one and matches the words to your transcript. On other call apps, lines read “Me” and “Them”.
Plus four behind-the-scenes builds.
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Builds 20–174 · 13 milestones
Milestones from before build 175, newest first. Smaller builds aren’t listed.
Record a freeform area, a square or a 16:9 frame.
Record your whole screen, one window or an area, with your camera in a bubble.
Create Video →
Your mic and the call’s audio are recorded as two tracks on your Mac. When the call ends you get notes and suggested to-dos.
Meeting Notes →
A pill counts down to your next calendar meeting, so you join on time.
Hold the Globe key to dictate, double-tap it to go hands-free, triple-tap it to open the chat.
Voice Dictation →
Say “add todos: X, Y, and Z” and each one lands in your list on its own.
To-Do List →Switch on “Organize by day” and “This Week’s Todo” splits into Monday to Friday, plus a “Week Backlog”.
On a team, “Take & Assign to Me” moves an item from a teammate’s backlog onto your list.
Teams →See your to-dos as cards in columns, such as “Up Next” and “In Progress”.
A second built-in list for the rest of the week.
A drawer that shows the call as it’s transcribed. It’s off by default.
Exact in Terminal, casual in Messages, tidy in Mail: dictation formats for the app you’re in.
