Gorp
Release notes

What’s new in Gorp.

Every published build, newest first. Installed copies update themselves; Gorp checks once a day and never installs an update while you record or while a meeting is processing.

Where older notes say your meetings stay on your Mac, one caveat applies: on Macs without Apple Intelligence, choose the built-in private writer during setup; if you add an OpenAI key, notes go to OpenAI unless you change the writer.

Download Gorp 0.1.18

Gorp 0.1.18 (38) Current

This Mac beta update remembers your recording setup and improves live transcript recovery. It uses the existing primary release channel.

Remember your recording choice

  • Choose This Mac or Another device, then leave Remember my choice enabled to use that choice for new meetings.
  • Gorp revisits setup when the audio route, capture engine, echo setting, permissions, or macOS version changes, or after a capture failure. An ordinary Gorp update no longer invalidates your remembered choice.
  • For calls playing on another device, the eight-second check measures the Mac microphone. A quiet system track is expected.
  • Reopen Help → Recording Setup… to check audio again, or turn off Remember my choice to review setup before each recording.

Live transcript reliability

  • Gorp retries a stalled recognizer when sound is arriving but words are not. If the retry cannot recover, the live panel explains the pause and offers Try again.
  • Choose Restart live transcript from the live transcript menu to restart recognition during a recording.
  • Punctuation-only recognition results no longer appear as transcript passages. Calls on another device use the microphone for live recognition; changing call location updates the active sources.
  • Fixed loading of an already downloaded live speaker model, which could leave optional speaker guesses paused with a missing-manifest error.

Pilot testing

  • Try a short recording on your usual route, confirm that words appear live, then check the saved transcript and playback after stopping. Live text remains provisional; the saved transcript is made from the recording.
  • Feedback is available from Help → Send Feedback…. This download updates the Mac app; companion apps remain separate development builds.

Gorp 0.1.17 (37)

This Mac beta update adds People, conversation continuity, and a simpler Home screen. It uses the existing primary release channel.

A clearer place to start

  • Home puts New Meeting and Import recording… up front, alongside upcoming calendar events, unfinished recordings, and recent conversations.
  • Open People, reviewed follow-ups, or project history to prepare for your next conversation. Your existing folders and meeting library remain available in the sidebar.
  • Starting a new meeting opens a draft; it does not start recording until you choose Record.

Keep a conversation going with People

  • Add a person with a name, aliases, and your own context. Explicitly choose which conversations to link; name matches are suggestions you review, and calendar invitations do not confirm attendance.
  • Optionally link a named speaker from a conversation to see their passages and open the source recording. Gorp does not match voices across meetings or automatically assign responsibility to a person.
  • Preparation brings together reviewed decisions, pending actions, and noted questions from linked conversations. Open the source to review the evidence, copy preparation, or browse all reviewed history.
  • Profiles and links stay on this Mac and are included in whole-library backups. They are excluded from individual meeting exports. Preparation uses a bounded set of recent reviewed items; all reviewed history remains available.

Reliability and pilot testing

  • Personal context uses a simpler accessible card that avoids a reproduced native inspection compatibility failure on the current macOS/tool build.
  • Try adding a person, linking a conversation and a named speaker, opening a source, and returning Home. Check one short real recording and playback on your usual audio route, and try scrolling through a longer People profile.
  • Feedback sends directly from Help → Send Feedback…. The Mac package does not install the separate iPhone, Watch, or experimental Windows clients.

Gorp 0.1.16 (36)

This Mac beta update adds previewable note rewriting and reusable saved actions. It uses the existing primary release channel.

Rewrite with a preview

  • Choose Rewrite… beside an enhanced note. Rewrite the whole note or select a passage, describe the change, then compare Original and Proposed replacement.
  • Edit the proposed text and explicitly Accept rewrite to save. Nothing replaces the note automatically. Your own notes and transcript stay unchanged.
  • Undo acceptance in the open preview restores the original note and its evidence links when the meeting has not changed. Newer edits are protected. Changed statements are not carried forward as confirmed.
  • The preview identifies the writing provider and what context it receives. Attachments are excluded; existing budget checks apply. Select a smaller section when a note exceeds the writer's preview limit.

Save an action to use again

  • Ask Your Meetings… → Actions includes Weekly recap, Customer feedback, Decision recap, and Follow-up checklist starters.
  • Customize a starter copy or save your current question as a named action. Choose recent-meeting or matching-meeting context, a rolling date range, meeting types, and an optional speaker filter.
  • Answers include sources to review and remain separate from the notes. Actions do not send follow-ups or create tasks. Source excerpts are sampled; an answer is not a complete account of every meeting.
  • Recent actions exclude demo and deleted meetings and attachment text. AI summaries remain labeled unverified. Existing pinned questions still work.
  • Saved actions remain local to this Mac. Unreadable or newer action files are preserved rather than replaced. If writing-provider settings change during the source approval step, Gorp uses the provider named in that approval.

Pilot testing

Start with a recording check, then try one real call, a rewrite, and a saved action across several meetings. Feedback sends directly from Help → Send Feedback…. See the guide.

The Mac package does not install the iPhone, Watch, or experimental Windows clients. Real call audio routes, long meetings, and speaker accuracy still need pilot feedback. This release adds no hosted note links or team workspace.

Gorp 0.1.15 (35)

This beta update makes it easier to start a meeting, follow recording status, and review who said what. It adds optional experimental live speaker guesses. The existing primary update channel carries this release.

Optional live speaker guesses

  • On macOS 26 or later, the live transcript has a Live speaker guesses toggle. It is off by default. Settings → Recording also exposes the preference.
  • The enable prompt explains the compact model download (about 100 MB, once), extra processing and a four-voice limit. Audio stays on this Mac. Select Another device when several people reach the Mac through its microphone; otherwise guesses apply to the Mac's call audio.
  • Probable Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc. appear a few seconds after speech. Short, overlapping, mixed or unclear passages stay unassigned. Similar voices, distant speech and groups larger than four can produce wrong or merged guesses. Turn guesses off when they are unhelpful or unnecessary.
  • Audio is offered to a separate bounded worker. Lag, stalls and high thermal pressure pause guesses independently. Turning them off or stopping recording releases their model after outstanding work ends. No live guesses are saved as confirmed speaker assignments or used as names in notes/exports.
  • Voice numbering may change after pauses or interrupted audio; it does not identify people across recordings. After stopping, use Find speakers and Review speakers to correct the saved transcript.

A dedicated speaker review window

  • Choose Review speakers… in the Speakers panel or Edit → Review Speakers…. The resizable window stays with its original meeting when the library selection changes.
  • Listen to a sample, name a voice group, then move misidentified passages individually or in a selection. Combine groups for the same person, separate combined voices, or restore suggested assignments. Undo reverses changes made in that window while protecting newer changes made elsewhere.
  • Understandable match labels distinguish clear voice matches, passages needing listening, unanalysed audio, source-track labels and your own assignments. Unassigned passages are not counted as people; scores are not presented as identity probabilities. Naming a group does not confirm its ambiguous passages.
  • Playback updates are isolated from the lazy passage list; grouping and timing are cached. Corrections preserve original audio, words and notes. Update notes explicitly if they need the revised names.

Meeting and recording controls

  • New Meeting is visible in the main window, including when the sidebar is hidden.
  • Timer, microphone health, warnings, Pause and Stop remain visible above the notes. Buffer/fallback details are available under Recording details.
  • Other-device live microphone text uses Unassigned voice when guesses are off, avoiding the assumption that everyone heard by the microphone is you.

The Mac release does not install the iPhone or Watch companions. Those remain registered-device development builds. Live speaker accuracy on Bluetooth routes, loudspeaker calls, long meetings and similar voices still needs beta feedback; synthetic tests and the bundled-demo smoke check are not hardware qualification.

Gorp 0.1.14 (34)

This update expands Gorp beyond meeting notes with editable starter templates, photo captions and audio moments, reviewed story chapters, and person-set follow-up planning. Generated text and speaker suggestions still require review. The companion recorder remains a development test build; this Mac package does not install the iPhone or Watch apps.

Choose an outcome

  • Browse six starter templates in Settings → Templates: family oral history, expert handover, home/project walkthroughs, interrupted-work checkpoints, decision journals and interview research. Add an editable copy, save settings, then choose it in a note. Existing templates and note snapshots stay intact.
  • The website has practical steps, example notes, interview prompts and downloadable text worksheets for each use case.

Photos and source moments

  • Caption an attached photo and link it to a saved audio file and offset. Listen at that moment to check the connection. Linked audio is protected from automatic retention removal.
  • The development iPhone recorder adds a Photo action, camera or system Photos selection, captions, local JPEG copies and a recorded capture clock. Photo captures require the updated Mac receiver. Photos during pauses keep their clock without inventing recorded audio in the gap.
  • Photo copies are bounded and remove original location/camera metadata. Captions enter writing and question context only under the existing materials permission and your selected provider. Original source recordings remain unchanged.

Reviewed chapters you can keep or share

  • Add → Story chapters… keeps chapter drafts separate from My notes and the source transcript. Choose passages and photos, write your chapter, inspect the complete sharing preview, then save it as reviewed.
  • Export a reviewed chapter as a portable folder: HTML, Markdown, selected photos and exact selected audio clips. It does not include the full meeting archive, other passages or unused attachments. Selected clips may contain private words inside their selected range; listen before sharing.
  • Changed sources invalidate review. Unreadable or changed files stop export without publishing a partial folder. Original audio is preserved, and full portable archives preserve chapters and stable source IDs.

Follow-ups with a plan

  • Reviewed follow-ups → Plan… adds an owner, due day and waiting-on detail you choose. These are planning fields, not generated commitments. Search includes owners and dependencies.
  • Add to Reminders… previews an explicit separate copy. Permission is requested only when you choose Add or Check. The copy includes the action, planning details and source link, without recorded audio, and may sync through the default list’s account.
  • Repeat requests check existing source links and local receipts to avoid duplicate copies. Gorp leaves existing reminders and their edits unchanged. Completing or editing a follow-up in Gorp does not synchronize its Reminders copy.
  • Playback-driven redraws are reduced in the follow-up list. Photo thumbnails and chapter photo previews decode off the main UI thread.

A project across notes

  • Project history… in the library sidebar or Edit menu shows reviewed decisions, actions and noted questions in an explicit folder or tag. Search words, note titles, owners and waiting-on details, open/listen to the source, or copy the shown dated history.
  • Only statements confirmed against available saved audio appear. Source changes or missing audio require review; repeated statements remain separate by source and date. The view uses background snapshot scanning and file checks, lazy rows and explicit result limits.
  • Pre-meeting briefs now keep an action open until you mark it completed. A later mention no longer hides the original action. Person-set planning fields appear beside it, without rewriting the source claim.

Import and export resilience

  • Unsupported imported timing stays visible as unavailable without crashing timestamp displays or changing the original metadata.
  • Subtitle exports reject invalid passage timing with an explanation before replacing an existing file. Large times and empty passages cannot trigger unsafe cue allocation or integer conversion.
  • PDF paragraph settings keep their value storage alive through Core Text style creation. Exported fonts, spacing and page-size choices remain the same.
  • Audio clips replace an existing export only after the new file succeeds. Failed or cancelled exports keep the old file, and a clip cannot overwrite its own source recording through an alias.

Beta qualification still in progress

Mac, portable iOS/watchOS and Xcode builds plus synthetic export, permission, receipt and transfer scenarios are tested. Physical camera use during recording, actual Reminders permission/account behavior, local-folder browser playback, physical Watch installation/transfer and real cross-device iCloud handoff still need hands-on qualification. A simulator or fake adapter pass is not a physical-device result. Keep the source archive and review each selected sharing payload.

Gorp 0.1.13 (33)

This update to the Gorp beta brings recordings from the iPhone recorder into the Mac note workflow, with clearer delivery and recovery states. Pair a Mac in Settings → Devices, then send a saved recording over the local network or import its Share/AirDrop bundle. Audio remains on the phone until you delete it. Delivery and transcription are separate: the Mac shows whether a recording is received, waiting for processing, ready to review, or needs a retry. The companion recorder is still a development test build; this Mac package does not install the iPhone or Watch apps.

Playback, names and speaker review

  • Multipart recorder audio plays as one continuous recording, including across segment boundaries. Missing parts produce a recoverable playback error rather than silently shortening the clip.
  • Recorder captures use distinct date/time names. Rename on the phone before its first send to include that name in the handoff; later phone renames affect the phone copy. The Mac note can be renamed independently. The selected local writer can suggest a subject after analysis, with Use title and Dismiss controls.
  • Speaker review distinguishes unassigned transcript passages from a count of people. Review passages together, assign a voice group, and correct individual exceptions. Anonymous voice groups and generated notes still require review; they are not verified identities or facts.

Feedback, recovery and interface

  • Send a bug report or feedback inside Gorp, without opening an email client. Diagnostic attachments are optional and reviewable. Sending requires a connection; a failed attempt keeps the report available for retry.
  • Saved recordings and unfinished transcription or writing appear in Recording recovery. Imported audio waits for current work, and unattended processing is limited to the selected local providers. Cloud-provider work still requires an explicit action.
  • Reviewed follow-ups collect confirmed actions across meetings. Playback offers seeking and speed controls, and evidence review can play the source passage.
  • The toolbar/sidebar divider is continuous, outline controls fit at the minimum window size, the menu bar icon is bounded, and unnecessary playback-driven redraws and repeated note rendering have been reduced.

Organization and local tools

  • Organize meetings with folders and tags, and search by folder or tag.
  • Export notes as PDF or Word, transcripts as SRT/VTT, or a package of confirmed statements and their audio clips.
  • Optional pre-meeting briefs, call-start nudges, Shortcuts/App Intents, per-meeting transcription language settings, and assistant change requests extend the local workflow. Assistant write tools are off by default and require reviewing requests; applied changes have an audit log and Undo.
  • An optional local Nemotron speaker model and Parakeet spelling hints are available. Spelling hints are not evidence of improved recognition accuracy. Recorder-file metadata import and wireless-microphone pairing remain device-dependent; broad hardware compatibility has not been established.

Current beta testing limits

Encrypted iCloud recorder handoff is opt-in. Cross-device key sharing, network/account changes and interruption/endurance testing still need wider physical-device coverage. Apple Watch recording and transfer have simulator coverage; physical Watch testing is pending. Call-detection nudges, Shortcuts/Siri and external-recorder workflows need broader real-device testing. Generated notes, speaker labels and suggested titles should be checked against the saved audio before sharing.

Gorp 0.1.12 (32)

Gorp now offers a second Start notes reminder if a scheduled video meeting begins while Gorp is idle. You can snooze for five minutes or skip that meeting. Starting notes prevents a later missed-start reminder, even if you stop recording early. A late app launch can still offer the follow-up while the meeting is in progress.

For a recording started from a calendar event, Gorp can offer Stop and process after the scheduled end and a quiet period. It does not stop automatically. The notification's action applies only to the recording session that produced it, so an older notification cannot stop a later take. Both reminder types can be turned on or off under Settings → Calendar; macOS notifications must be enabled.

This build also improves the meeting header layout on first selection and includes the running app's installation location and version in diagnostic feedback, which helps distinguish an older installed copy from a newer test build.

Gorp 0.1.11 (31)

Each meeting now has a Where did the call play? setting in Transcript & audio. Choose Another device when a Teams, Zoom, or phone call plays on an iPad or another device while Gorp records through the Mac microphone. You can also change this setting on a meeting already recorded.

In this mode, Gorp treats a quiet Mac system track as expected, reports that fact without a failed-capture warning, and leaves microphone passages unassigned instead of assuming every voice is yours. Find speakers can analyze the saved microphone recording; listen to and correct its proposed speaker labels before relying on them. Live transcript labels and later transcript exports use the same setting.

Recording setup now describes the other-device microphone check and allows the recording to start when system audio access is unavailable. The saved-audio check can confirm the microphone alone for that session, but does not save a full two-track check receipt. Recording through one microphone may blend voices and overlap; this mode does not by itself improve separation accuracy or rewrite previously generated notes. Review speaker assignments and update enhanced notes if needed.

This release also includes the AirPods route check from local build 0.1.10 (30), plus the passage correction and term-note tools from local build 0.1.9 (29).

Gorp 0.1.8 (28)

Templates you can make your own, and a sturdier recorder.

  • Note templates. Settings → Templates lets you create your own templates from any preset or from scratch, with a starting outline and writing guidance, and choose the default for new meetings. New Interview and Lecture presets join the list. Gorp now flags any quote in generated notes whose wording isn't in the transcript, and Copy quote candidates copies pinned transcript passages word for word.
  • Quitting while recording. Gorp now asks before quitting mid-recording, then stops and saves the recording properly. Logging out or shutting down does the same without asking.
  • System audio falls back safely. If the System Audio Recording option can't start, Gorp uses the standard engine only when it's already allowed, and otherwise records your microphone alone and tells you why, instead of not recording at all. If system audio stops arriving, Gorp tries to recover a few times and then tells you, rather than retrying forever.
  • Calendar reminders survive a flaky connection. Meeting reminders and Start notes keep working from your last calendar update when your Mac is briefly offline, and Gorp retries on its own. You get one reminder per meeting even if it's on two calendars. Outlook all-day events show on the right day everywhere, and accounts with many calendars list all of them.
  • Safer backup and restore. Gorp won't start a recording or new meeting while a backup or restore is running, and a restore that can't fully undo itself now says so and shows you where your previous library is.
  • Safer Move to Applications. Running Gorp from an external drive no longer offers to eject that drive, replacing an existing copy only removes it after the new one is in place, and Gorp warns before replacing a newer version with an older one.
  • Fix. Gorp no longer quits if the private AI writer or a subscription CLI stops unexpectedly while Gorp is sending it work.

Your meetings remain on your Mac unless you choose an outside AI provider. If something breaks, Help → Send Feedback opens an email you can review before sending.

Gorp 0.1.7 (27)

  • Optional usage counts. You can choose to share coarse counts for recording, transcription, notes, and calendar connection results in Settings → Privacy. Sharing is off by default, and you can see an example of exactly what is sent. Gorp sends no meeting content, email address, device ID, or diagnostic log in these events.
  • Public preview update. This stable release brings the changes from the 0.1.6 beta to everyone using automatic update checks. Your existing settings and meetings stay on your Mac.

Your meetings remain on your Mac unless you choose an outside AI provider. If something breaks, Help → Send Feedback opens an email you can review before sending.

Gorp 0.1.6 (26) Beta

  • Optional usage counts. Settings → Privacy now has a switch to share a one-time opt-in count and coarse results for recording, transcription, notes, and calendar connections. It is off until you turn it on. No meeting content, account address, device ID, or diagnostic log is sent. You can inspect an example and turn it off anytime. The privacy policy lists every category.
  • Private beta measurement. We count requests for the versioned installer in Cloudflare, separately from opted-in app events. Download requests and opt-in events are not a count of unique people or all installs.

Your meetings remain on your Mac unless you choose an outside AI provider. If something breaks, Help → Send Feedback opens an email you can review before sending.

Gorp 0.1.5 (25)

  • Calendar connections now give clearer guidance when sign-in is canceled, an account needs reconnecting, or an event list is empty or temporarily unavailable.
  • Refreshing calendars keeps the event list current and avoids stale results; disconnecting an account removes it from view immediately.
  • Recording setup now explains engine-specific steps, gives a recovery action when the audio check fails, and warns when recording has not been verified before finishing.
  • Setup handles relaunches more safely and keeps its screens clear through error and recovery states.

Gorp 0.1.4 (24)

A smoother Google Calendar sign-in.

  • Choose your Google account. Connect Google now shows Google's account chooser before the consent screen, so you can pick the right account when you're signed in to more than one.
  • Settings → Calendar. The note that Connect Google is open only to invited beta testers is gone.

Gorp 0.1.4 (23)

Your calendar, and always knowing when Gorp is recording.

  • Calendars. Connect Google Calendar or Outlook, or use your Mac's calendars, in Settings → Calendar. Today's meetings appear in the sidebar with Start notes, new meetings are named after their event, and Gorp can remind you when a video meeting starts. Invitees show in the meeting header and are suggested when you name speakers. Gorp only reads your calendar; it never changes it. (Connect Google is open to invited beta testers while Google reviews Gorp.)
  • Recording indicator. While Gorp records, a small floating bar shows the time and a Stop button, and the Dock icon shows a red dot. You can collapse the bar or turn it off in Settings → Recording.
  • New system audio option (beta). Settings → Recording → System audio capture can use macOS's "System Audio Recording Only" permission instead of screen recording. There's also an optional "Reduce echo from speakers" setting; it can make other apps a little quieter while recording.
  • Fixes. The sidebar no longer goes blank in a new library, and a meeting with several notices no longer pushes its title under the window's title bar.

Gorp 0.1.3 (22)

A proper Mac installer.

  • New installer. Gorp now downloads as a disk image: drag Gorp to Applications and open it from there.
  • Move to Applications. If you open Gorp from Downloads, your Desktop or the disk image, it offers to move itself to Applications, where updates install reliably and macOS remembers the permissions you give it. If Gorp is already installed, it updates that copy instead of adding a second one.

Gorp 0.1.2 (21)

Safer data, and better help when something goes wrong.

  • Back up your library. File → Back Up Library… saves every meeting, recording and setting to a folder you choose, then checks every file. File → Restore from Backup… checks the backup first and keeps your current library as a safety copy. Settings → Storage shows when you last backed up.
  • Diagnostic log. Gorp now keeps a local log of events, such as a recording starting or a transcription failing. It never records titles, transcripts, notes or names. Settings → Help → Show Diagnostic Logs in Finder.
  • If Gorp quits unexpectedly, it offers once to send a report. Help → Send Feedback… can attach the diagnostic log as a zip you can inspect first.

Gorp 0.1.1 (20)

Help is now one click away.

  • Help menu. Gorp Help (⌘?) opens the getting started guide, Troubleshooting covers permissions, quiet tracks and local AI, and Recording Setup… runs the audio check.
  • Send Feedback. Help → Send Feedback… starts an email to support@gorpapp.com. You can add your Gorp and macOS versions, AI choices and permission status, and see exactly what's included before sending. Meeting content, audio and notes are never included. Also in Settings → Help.

Gorp 0.1.0 (19)

The first build that updates itself.

  • Automatic updates. Gorp checks once a day, never installs while you're recording or processing, and verifies every update's signature before installing. Settings → Help → Updates.
  • Capture you can trust. A capture receipt after every call, live per-track status, and recovery after a crash or full disk.
  • Check notes against the audio. Click any line in the notes to hear where it came from. A quick review walks through decisions and actions.
  • Ask your meetings (⌘K). Find decisions, action items and mentions across meetings, with the passage to play.
  • Private AI, set up for you. Built-in transcription with no download, Parakeet v3, and a private note writer that runs on this Mac without Ollama. You can also use your Claude or ChatGPT subscription, or an API key.
  • Import and export. Voice Memos, Zoom, Plaud and Apple call recordings; Obsidian-ready Markdown; a local assistant connection (MCP).
  • Consent helper, speaker names, live transcript, retention and cost controls.

Your meetings are converted to a new format on first launch. The originals are kept as meeting.v1.json.