What's new in Sprecho

Small update focused on dictation stability and clearer backup privacy wording.

Improved

• Backup encryption wording: We now state that Hetzner backups are encrypted in transit only, so transfers are protected but backups are not encrypted at rest.

Fixed

• Dictation stability on macOS: Dictation will no longer stop unexpectedly when you paste text, including on macOS 26.

This update focuses on privacy, consent accuracy, and clearer documentation.

Improved

• Trust center and pricing pages: Updated hosting, sub-processor, and agreement information, and corrected plan listings so you see accurate details when choosing a plan.
• Mobile app copy: Server-side processing descriptions are now accurate and truthful in the app, so privacy expectations match reality.
• Clarity and reliability: Minor behind-the-scenes corrections across the web and backend for clearer information.

Fixed

• Window titles and URLs: We no longer store or use raw window titles or URLs, reducing the chance of accidental exposure of sensitive context.
• Training-data defaults for Enterprise: Data collection is locked off for Enterprise teams by default and will fail closed, protecting team data.
• Dictation overlay: The Show Dictation Bar setting now actually controls the on-screen overlay as expected.
• Self-hosted model replies: Support drafts and replies now use your configured self-hosted model where applicable, instead of external defaults.
• Consent display: The training-data consent shown in the app now matches exactly what is stored on the server.

Small maintenance update with fixes for keyboard paste, whisper recognition, payment sync, and backend reliability.

Fixed

• Paste on alternative keyboards: Cmd+V now works correctly with Neo, Dvorak, and Colemak layouts, so pasting behaves as expected.
• Whisper recognition: Very soft speech and whispers are no longer cut off, improving capture of faint dictation.
• Payment settlement sync: Mollie settlement synchronization now authenticates with your organization token, reducing payment or settlement errors.
• Backend reliability: Miscellaneous server startup and sync improvements to reduce rare restart and synchronization issues.

Small reliability fixes for Windows hotkeys and Play Store activations.

Fixed

• Hotkey capture inside app window: On Windows, pressing your dictation hotkey while Sprecho is focused now reliably starts dictation, so you can begin speaking without extra clicks.
• Onboarding hotkey detection: Hotkey setup during onboarding now detects your keypresses more reliably, reducing setup confusion and helping the app record your chosen shortcut correctly.
• Google Play activations: Activations from Google Play are now recorded correctly and will no longer be truncated or cause activation failures.

A small reliability update to the hotkey test you see when first setting up Sprecho.

Fixed

• Onboarding hotkey test: now automatically recovers if a key press is not detected and registers your hotkey presses more reliably, so creating or verifying a shortcut is smoother.

This update focuses on accessibility, dictation reliability, keyboard behavior on iOS, and clearer affiliate payout handling.

New

• Affiliate payouts: See when commissions become payable, with clearer due dates and support for automated payout runs so affiliates have better visibility into payments.
• Full iOS keyboard by default: The app now shows the full system keyboard by default and includes a simple dictation-only switch for faster toggling between typing and voice input.
• High-contrast palette: An opt-in high-contrast theme is available to improve visibility for low-vision users.
• Desktop accessibility: The desktop app is now usable at 250% scale and works better with screen readers.

Improved

• Quiet and short speech: Dictation is more reliable for quiet or very short phrases, and previews are less likely to be dropped.
• Large text handling: Screens and components now reflow and scroll correctly at large OS text sizes, preventing clipped text and improving readability.
• Input labels: Form field labels and input labelling are clearer for easier navigation and use.

Fixed

• Keyboard sizing on iOS: Keyboard margins, key widths, and grid now match the iOS 26 system layout for a consistent typing experience.
• Dynamic Island and timer: Dynamic Island starts and ends reliably and the dictation timer behaves correctly.
• Rotation lock: Phones follow the system rotation lock again.
• Overlay launch crash: An overlay failure no longer prevents the app from launching.
• ChatGPT desktop integration: The app correctly recognizes the ChatGPT desktop client so related features work as expected.
• Miscellaneous UI fixes: A stray bullet was removed from the lifetime card and other minor platform-specific issues were addressed.

Team owners can now buy lifetime access for their teams, and a few purchase and language issues were fixed.

New

• Team lifetime purchases Team owners can buy lifetime access for the whole team, making it easier to grant permanent access to everyone at once.
• Team seat tracking Lifetime team seats are recognized across the app, so license counts and access stay accurate.

Fixed

• Credit for prior payments If you already paid for seats, buying lifetime now gives correct credit for what you already paid.
• Dictation language Your dictation's language is no longer changed when the app name looks like a language, so transcriptions keep the language you selected.
• Android billing compatibility Android purchases and releases are now accepted by Google Play so billing and purchases continue to work smoothly.

Small maintenance release focused on payments and billing.

Fixed

• Duplicate PayPal charges: Prevents accidental double charges when paying with PayPal, so you won't be billed twice for the same purchase.
• Invoice corrections: Ensures invoice adjustments are applied correctly, keeping your billing records accurate.
• Offer audience: Fixes which users receive account offers, so promotions and discounts reach the intended recipients.

This update fixes offer visibility, push targeting, and name detection in voice commands.

Fixed

• Lifetime offer eligibility: Fixed an issue where the lifetime offer could be hidden from eligible users. Only enterprise accounts and paying teams are now intentionally excluded, so eligible users should see the offer.
• Push notification targeting: Plan-filtered push audiences now count correctly, so notifications and offer messages reach the intended recipients.
• Name recognition during voice commands: Misheard words are no longer treated as names, reducing false name matches and improving command and dictation accuracy.

This release adds new payment options and editing improvements, and includes a range of fixes to make dictation, sync and keyboard behaviour more reliable.

New

• Pro Lifetime by invoice: Buy a one-time Pro Lifetime licence by invoice or bank transfer, including SEPA support and automatic invoice corrections for customers who prefer invoicing.
• Thinking mode editor: Thinking mode now opens as an editor, giving clearer, more controllable rewrites when you want to refine text.
• Per-session language: Choose the recognition language for each session so dictation better matches the language you speak.
• Longer undo window: The auto-learn undo pill now gives you 10 seconds to revert a learned correction.
• Campaign visuals and delivery: Campaign cards can include images and appear in the home banner and iOS keyboard, and campaigns can be delivered as OS push notifications.
• Play review prompt (Android): Android users may be asked to leave a Play Store review after 50 dictations.

Improved

• Payments and campaign delivery: Smoother handling of payments and campaign delivery for more reliable purchases and notifications.
• Session stability: Better handling of warm dictation sessions so sync and background sessions are more robust.

Fixed

• Greeting lines and tax terms: Letters now keep the greeting line intact and abbreviate tax-related terms correctly.
• Accessibility service errors: When the accessibility service is force-stopped, the app now reports the real cause so you can address it.
• Music control on Android: The Android bubble now properly lowers or pauses music during dictation according to your setting.
• Line and paragraph commands: Spoken new-line and new-paragraph commands now insert breaks as expected.
• Sync stability: The sync socket reopens and stays open correctly for warm dictation sessions, including background starts.
• Keyboard input parity: Enter always inserts, caps lock and auto-cap behave consistently, and interior capitals are handled correctly.
• Keyboard prompt badge: The keyboard prompt badge now disappears once a campaign card has been seen.
• Notification onboarding: Notification permission is now requested correctly during onboarding on both platforms.
• Screen vocabulary accuracy: On-screen vocabulary no longer rewrites ordinary words or deletes punctuation, and hotword gating is constrained to reduce accidental triggers.
• Token refresh: Expired tokens are refreshed natively so warm dictation sessions keep working.
• Clipboard restore: Clipboard restore timeout shortened to 3 seconds for a quicker restore experience.
• Misc server improvements: Various server and infrastructure fixes to improve reliability and performance.

This update helps keep long dictations under control and fixes paste reliability on macOS.

New

• Per-account dictation limits: Different accounts can have their own maximum dictation length, and the app enforces those limits so your dictations follow your plan.
• Warnings and automatic finalization: Sprecho will warn you as you approach a length limit and automatically finalize a dictation when it reaches the maximum, preventing content loss or exceeding allowed length.

Fixed

• macOS paste stability: Pasting on macOS no longer leaves Caps Lock stuck or clears your clipboard, so your typing state and clipboard contents are preserved.
• Complete formatting on paste: Pasted formatted text will no longer be truncated, ensuring the full formatted content appears as expected.

This release improves privacy and performance, makes partner-invite handling easier, and fixes several mobile and backend issues.

New

• Self-hosted fonts: Fonts are now served locally, which speeds up the app and reduces external network calls for better privacy.
• Partner invite controls: Admins and affiliates can now resend or cancel pending partner invitations directly, so invite management is easier.
• Android bubble-only onboarding and keyboard removal: Android now uses a simpler bubble-only flow and no longer requires the separate Sprecho keyboard, so setup is clearer and less intrusive.
• More reliable bubble dictation: Dictation insertion is more robust on mobile when direct typing is restricted, using a verified fallback so your text appears where you expect.

Improved

• Email delivery stability: Background sending is now more stable, reducing backlog delays and improving delivery timeliness.
• General stability and infrastructure: Various behind-the-scenes improvements to make the app more reliable.

Fixed

• Picture-in-Picture return: PiP now returns immediately once accessibility permissions are granted, restoring your session without delay.
• Authentication and OAuth: OAuth polling now shows real errors and behaves reliably, and pending login tokens are handled correctly to avoid intermittent auth failures.
• Trials and billing UI: Trial and quota badges will no longer appear on paid accounts, and trial responses are correctly identified so billing states display properly.
• Affiliate commissions: Commission calculations and admin commission displays have been corrected so partner payouts are accurate.
• Onboarding navigation: Onboarding navigation guards are re-armed when the app regains focus, preventing users from getting stuck.
• Contact updates: Contact-related requests no longer return incorrect responses.
• Enterprise SSO layout: The advanced SSO link placement has been adjusted for clearer presentation.

This release focuses on simpler enterprise SSO setup and several mobile stability and usability fixes.

New

• One-click Entra connect, set up managed Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a single step to speed enterprise onboarding and admin setup.
• Managed Entra SSO and consent flow, smoother sign-in and admin consent handling for managed accounts.
• Backend Entra support, server-side updates to enable managed Entra SSO features going forward.
• Floating bubble parking, the recording bubble now stays clear of the keyboard action row so it no longer blocks typing controls.
• Android dictation resilience, dictation stays active even when some Android devices stop accessibility services, so transcriptions keep running.

Fixed

• Newsletter sync reliability, background syncing is more durable so newsletter segments and related content stay up to date.
• Background watchdog, the app no longer marks healthy background services as dead on idle phones, reducing unexpected stops.
• Sound effects toggle, the Android toggle now actually silences app sounds when switched off.
• Bubble resting place, the floating bubble keeps one resting position and stops chasing the keyboard.
• Full keyboard dictation, dictation now captures input across the entire keyboard surface from any layer.
• Model badge restored, the visual badge for the selected speech model is back in the keyboard UI.
• Infrastructure and stability, assorted backend and build fixes for improved overall reliability.

This release focuses on clearer controls, smarter language handling, and reliability improvements.

New

• Surface Pen toggle: start or stop dictation by launching the app again with a Surface Slim Pen, for faster hands-free control.
• Personal vocabulary: the app can learn words from your edited dictations, improving recognition of your names and custom terms over time.
• On-demand language packs: download keyboard language packs only when needed, so switching languages delivers better suggestions without using extra space.
• Live visual feedback: voice-reactive equalizer bars show when the app is picking up speech, so you get immediate confirmation your voice is being recorded.
• More keyboard locales: dictionaries and emoji search are available for 25 locales, improving accuracy and suggestions across languages.

Improved

• Lower keyboard memory use: the keyboard UI is instantiated only when needed, reducing background footprint and improving responsiveness.
• Cleaner UI and localization: multiple panels and labels were polished for clarity and translated strings were improved, so the app feels more consistent and readable.
• Keyboard responsiveness: reduced resize flashes and smoother height handling when switching keyboards, so typing flows without visual jumps.

Fixed

• Accurate stats: the word count and stat row now show the real numbers and stay centered.
• Stable audio behavior: audio routing, music ducking, and mute behavior were fixed so recordings start and stop reliably and external audio no longer interferes.
• Offline messaging: the app now shows a clear offline screen instead of an unclear authentication message, so connection issues are easier to understand.
• No more missed taps: an iOS keyboard ground issue that caused fast-typing taps to be ignored has been fixed.
• Various input fixes: URL row, number pad, emoji search height, labels in German, and other small input regressions were repaired.
• Backend resilience and alerts: server-side protections and alerting were tightened to avoid runaway metrics and to notify us if an AI service goes down, helping keep dictation reliable.

Minor build and infrastructure updates were also applied to improve stability and monitoring.

This update tightens privacy cleanup, smooths onboarding, and improves transcript formatting.

New

• Privacy sweep: Desktop now runs automatic audio sweeps to enforce your retention settings, so old recordings are removed and your account stays within your chosen privacy rules.
• Onboarding help: A clearer iOS Full Access banner and a guided onboarding step help you enable and train the keyboard more easily, so setup completes smoothly.
• Deletion reliability: Team and account deletion behaviors are more reliable, so removals propagate promptly across devices and teammates.

Fixed

• iOS keyboard detection: Onboarding now recognizes when the Sprecho keyboard is already enabled, avoiding duplicate prompts.
• Transcript compatibility: Better handling of newer speech-engine outputs reduces parsing errors and improves transcription accuracy.
• Punctuation and emoji formatting: Improved handling of punctuation around emojis, parentheses, and backticks, so transcripts look cleaner and read more naturally.
• Miscellaneous: Small stability, backend cleanup, and reliability improvements across platforms.

This update focuses on better language and account sync, more reliable billing and uploads, and a few usability fixes.

New

• Cross-device language sync, your chosen language now stays consistent across desktop and other Sprecho clients so the app, onboarding, and messages match your preference.
• Signup language repair, new server-side checks help correct wrong language selections during signup so you see the right language more quickly.
• Updated affiliate terms, clearer payout structure and partner options for affiliates, so compensation rules are more predictable.
• Default statistics and typing test, stats now default to all-time and the typing test is more consistently started from Settings for a predictable experience.
• Accessibility deep-links and faster stats on mobile, easier access to accessibility features and quicker loading of your usage statistics on mobile devices.

Improved

• Language normalization, language preferences are handled more consistently across different platforms so you get a unified experience whether on desktop or mobile.

Fixed

• Affiliate and referral handling, corrected payout rates and stopped referred customers from being turned into affiliates by mistake.
• Affiliate account access, restored login access for joint affiliate accounts so partners can sign in again.
• Team invites, raised the batch cap so you can invite very large teams in a single action.
• Onboarding and notification emails, registration, onboarding, and speed-test emails are batched and sent more reliably to reduce missed or duplicate messages.
• Invoice and billing reliability, extended the invoice stamping window for SEPA, excluded voided rows from invoices, added retries for temporary errors, and improved handling of credit notes so billing and receipts are more dependable.
• In-app purchase tax handling, receipts for Apple and Google purchases are now routed and labeled correctly for business tax flows and invoice status, improving billing accuracy.
• Audio upload and decoding, fixed recording decode and upload issues so m4a/recorded audio files upload and process reliably.
• Help content and footer label, voice-commands help displays correctly again and the footer link now reads Help Center for clearer access to support.
• Stability improvements, reduced a cause of unnecessary container rollbacks to keep services running smoothly.

Minor internal and infrastructure updates were also included to improve background reliability and monitoring.

Get help faster, upload media quicker, and avoid billing surprises.

New

• In-app Help Center, with 51 help articles and a guided support wizard right inside the desktop app so you can find answers or start a request without leaving Sprecho.
• Support ticket system, so support requests and attachments are tracked for quicker, more reliable follow-up from our team.

Improved

• Faster image uploads, images are reduced before upload to save bandwidth and speed up transfers.
• Smarter help search, typo-tolerant search helps you find the right article even if a term is misspelled.
• Better online visibility, Help Center content is now indexed so articles appear more quickly in web searches.

Fixed

• Subscription renewals, renewed subscription periods now correctly extend the seats they pay for, preventing unexpected access gaps.
• Compatibility and stability, a few under-the-hood fixes to improve stability and browser compatibility.

This release makes installs smoother, fixes account duplicates, and improves backend responsiveness.

Improved

• Server performance: Backend optimizations to improve responsiveness and syncing.

Fixed

• Installer updates: Updates to Remote Desktop integration now complete without requiring you to close your remote desktop app, so installs are smoother.
• Account matching: Your account is now recognized consistently even if your email uses different capitalization or plus-addressing, preventing accidental duplicate accounts.

This update focuses on sign-in stability, mobile alert and UI fixes, and making background jobs more reliable.

Improved

• Background tasks and server responsiveness: Backend changes make background jobs and server-side processing more reliable, which helps sync and long-running tasks complete more smoothly.

Fixed

• Sign-in reliability: Resolved issues that could cause authentication tokens to become stale or be lost, reducing unexpected sign-outs and auth errors.
• Transcription deletion: Deletions now require an authenticated session, preventing accidental removals when you are signed out.
• Mobile error alerts: Stopped the repeating error beep and red-flash loop that could occur during authentication problems.
• Mobile iris animation: Fixed the expand and collapse glitch so the visual animation behaves consistently.

Small stability update focused on syncing and macOS reliability.

Fixed

• Sync and sign-in reliability: Sprecho now refreshes sign-in sessions and the sync connection more reliably, reducing unexpected sign-outs and failed uploads so your dictations stay in sync across devices.
• macOS stability: Fixed a crash that could occur when scanning or switching windows on macOS, improving overall app stability during window and accessibility interactions.