Changelog

What's new.

Every version of LocalBolo, newest first.

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LocalBolo 0.5.1 · October 23, 2026

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Dictate in Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi or Japanese, or let LocalBolo detect the language. Choose one in Settings › General › Language. These languages use Whisper Turbo, a 630 MB download. English keeps your current speech model.
A new Polished style in Settings › Cleanup › Output style fixes grammar and punctuation and adds paragraphs or lists, in all four languages. It keeps your meaning and your languages, so a mix of Hindi and English stays mixed. It uses Qwen 3 1.7B, about a 990 MB download.
Polished applies corrections you make as you speak, such as “sorry”, “不对”, “いや” or “नहीं”, and keeps only what you meant. If an edit would change a number, a name, a link or what you said, LocalBolo pastes your words as you spoke them instead.
With a Whisper model, dictations of a second or less, such as “OK” or “はい”, are no longer dropped, and your text appears sooner when you haven't dictated for a while.

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Keys now come in plans for 1, 2 or 5 Macs. Keys you already have keep working on as many Macs as before.
The Lost your key? link in Settings › License now explains how to find your key.

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Transcript cleanup is several times faster: about 0.2 seconds on an M1 instead of about a second, and a long dictation no longer takes longer to clean up than a short one.
Your text appears sooner when you haven't dictated for a while. LocalBolo now gets ready as soon as you hold fn, rather than after you let go.
Cleanup leaves more of what you said alone. It removes “um”, “uh” and accidentally doubled words, applies your corrections, and pastes every other sentence exactly as you spoke it.
Understands more ways of correcting yourself, such as “No, ten o'clock”, “oops” and “strike that”.

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LocalBolo's website is now localbolo.app. The app's links and update checks use the new address.

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LocalBolo asks for your license key the first time it opens, then walks you through permissions.
Each key works on up to 2 Macs. Settings › License shows your key and frees this Mac for another one.
LocalBolo now updates itself. It checks for new versions once a day, and Check for Updates… is in the menu bar. If you have 0.1, download 0.2 once; it takes care of updates from then on.
A new app icon and menu bar icon.

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Hold fn anywhere to dictate, and let go to paste the text at your cursor.
The pill shows the icon of the app your words will land in, with a live waveform.
NVIDIA Parakeet v2 as the default speech model, plus Whisper Base, Small and Large v3 Turbo.
Optional transcript cleanup with Qwen 2.5 1.5B, running on your Mac, which applies your self-corrections and removes filler words.
Your clipboard is restored after every paste.
Copy Last Transcript from the menu bar.
A setup guide for the microphone, Accessibility and the fn key.
Launch at login.