March 2026
Cloud AI Providers
Connect your own API key for Claude, GPT-4o, Groq, Grok, or Gemini for higher-quality summaries and chat. Local Qwen3 remains the default — cloud is entirely optional.
Speaker Diarization
Know who said what. System audio is now diarized offline after recording — speaker labels appear inline with your transcript. Your audio never leaves your Mac.
Clean Text Processing
A deterministic pipeline that cleans up raw speech-to-text output — proper capitalization, punctuation, number formatting, and more. Works in both meetings and OatFlow dictation.
Custom Words & Text Snippets
Teach Oatmeal your vocabulary. Add custom words to improve recognition accuracy, and define text snippets that expand from short triggers — like "brb" → "be right back".
New Logo & Brand
Fresh Flower of Life sacred geometry mark, new menu bar icon, and updated brand assets across the app.
Sparkle Auto-Updates
Oatmeal now checks for updates automatically and installs them in the background. No more re-downloading DMGs.
February 2026
Content Import
Import audio files, videos, and text transcripts (VTT, SRT, TXT, YouTube links) into your meeting library. Drag-and-drop or use ⌘I.
⌘K Cross-Meeting Queries
Ask questions across all your meetings with a floating panel. Retrieval-augmented generation finds the most relevant context and cites its sources.
Playback with Synced Subtitles
Scrub through recorded audio with a seekable playback bar. The transcript auto-scrolls and highlights the current word in real time.
January 2026
OatFlow — System-Wide Dictation
Voice-to-text anywhere on your Mac. Double-tap or hold the Fn key, speak, and the transcribed text is pasted into whatever app you're using. Dictation history, audio playback, and configurable settings included.
Memory Layer
Oatmeal now extracts people, companies, and topics from your meetings and builds a knowledge graph. Browse entity pages, see relationships, and track action items across conversations.
Calendar Integration & Hybrid Search
Meetings now link to your calendar events via EventKit. Search combines full-text and semantic matching to find exactly what you're looking for.
First Release
Audio capture (mic + system audio), local speech-to-text via Parakeet, recording flow, AI-powered meeting summaries and chat, and a full GUI — all running entirely on your Mac.