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Everything Ember does today, release by release, and what we're building next. Every version is on GitHub, and installed copies update themselves.

Releases
19
Since
1.1 · Oct 1
Latest
1.10.2
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Ember Record
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Ember Record

A private Loom alternative, built into the app you already have open. Record your screen, your face and your voice, and Ember writes it up the way it writes up your calls. It arrives in four stages, each one useful on its own.

  1. Stage 1Building next

    Record

    One shortcut to record the whole screen, a window or an area, with a round camera bubble you can drag and resize, and your microphone.

    • Countdown, pause, restart and a recording pill like dictation's
    • Camera bubble, camera only, or screen only; pick mic and camera in place
    • Saved on your Mac as MP4, never uploaded unless you share it
    • Transcribed on your Mac, then titled, summarised and split into chapters
    • A new Recordings page beside Meetings, searchable and askable with ⌘K
  2. Stage 2Planned

    Share

    Stop recording and a link is on your clipboard before you've switched apps.

    • Uploads in the background while you record, to storage you own
    • A fast, clean viewer page: plays straight away, any browser, no sign-in
    • Clickable transcript, chapters and the AI summary beside the video
    • Links that expire, passwords, and delete-from-everywhere
    • A notification when someone watches, with how far they got
  3. Stage 3Planned

    Polish

    Screen Studio-style finish, applied automatically, so a quick recording looks produced.

    • Auto zoom that follows your clicks and typing, with smooth easing
    • A smoothed, enlarged cursor and click highlights
    • Backgrounds, padding, rounded corners and shadows
    • Camera layouts: corner bubble, side by side, full frame
    • Export up to 4K, as GIF, or cropped vertical for social
  4. Stage 4Planned

    Edit by text

    Edit the video by editing its transcript.

    • Delete words in the transcript and the video is cut to match
    • Remove ums, false starts and long silences in one click
    • Captions, burned in or as a file, and translated
    • Send a recording into Saved, a board, Notion or Linear with its summary

Same rules as the rest of Ember: recording, transcription and editing happen on your Mac, and nothing leaves it unless you press Share.

Exploring

Ideas we're weighing after Ember Record. Not promises; tell us on GitHub which matter to you.

Ember for iPhone

Record in-person meetings from your pocket and find them on your Mac.

Live translation

Transcripts and live help in the language of the call, on your Mac.

Browser extension

Save to boards and grab page text from inside the browser, without a shortcut.

Shared boards

Share a board or a set of calls with a teammate, by link.

CRM sync

Call notes and action items onto the right deal in HubSpot, Attio or Salesforce.

Windows

The most requested platform after the Mac. A big lift; we're looking at it honestly.

Shipped

Every release so far, newest first. Full notes are on GitHub Releases.

  1. 1.10
    RenameSaveVoiceCalls

    Meeting Notes becomes Ember

    A new name, an ember orange look, and a lot more than meeting notes.

    • Saved and boards: ⌃⌘S saves the page you're on as a card with a summary and tags
    • Grab text from screen: ⌘⇧2 copies the text in anything, plus QR codes and barcodes
    • Clipboard history: ⌃⌘V over any app; password manager copies never kept
    • Offline mode: every AI feature on your Mac with Gemma 4
    • In-person meetings, note templates, and action items sent to Linear, Notion or Reminders
    • Dictate into a call, follow-ups in your voice, and dictionary suggestions

    1.10.1 Notarized by Apple, a new animated welcome, Open at login on current macOS.

    1.10.2 Stays in the Dock; choose how often tips come, and turn off briefings.

  2. 1.9
    CallsKnowledgeAI apps

    Help during calls, and a knowledge base

    • Tips that appear only when they'd help, and live help typed or out loud
    • Shared screens saved with their text
    • Knowledge base from your own documents and MCP servers, cited in answers
    • Speaking coach: talk share, pace, filler words and a tip per call
    • Snippets, whisper mode and dictation history
    • MCP server and command line tool for Claude, Claude Code and Cursor
  3. 1.8
    CallsVoice

    Speaker names, voice everywhere

    • Speaker names by voice in every call, remembered for next time
    • Ask by voice and Edit by voice from any app
    • Dictation style by app, your own notes filled in from the transcript
    • Follow-up drafts, calendar briefings, weekly digest and a dictionary
  4. 1.7
    CallsVoice

    Ask your meetings, record any app

    • Ask AI (⌘K) across your calls, with links to the calls it used
    • Auto-record for Meet, Teams, Slack, FaceTime, Webex, Discord, WhatsApp and more
    • Dictation clean-up, microphone choice and a new menu bar icon
  5. 1.6
    Library

    The Meetings page

    Every call with its notes and transcript: search, AI titles, folders, tags and Open at login.

  6. 1.5
    Setup

    A welcome for new users

    Guided setup on first launch: permissions explained, a model downloaded, notes connected.

  7. 1.4
    App

    Updates itself

    Automatic updates from GitHub, Notion sign-in through Composio, and a new icon.

  8. 1.3
    VoiceDesign

    Dictation anywhere, and a new interface

    Hold a key, speak, and it's typed where your cursor is. The app rebuilt in React with a calm dark design.

  9. 1.2
    Models

    Choose your transcription model

    One-click, verified downloads of Phonon-2, Parakeet and Whisper.

  10. 1.1
    Calls

    Where it started

    A private menu bar recorder: live transcription on your Mac with Phonon-2, notes through OpenRouter, Zoom auto-record and speaker names, and every call saved to Notion.

Get every stage as it ships.

Ember updates itself, so Ember Record lands on your Mac the day it's released.

Download for Mac

Free · Apple silicon · macOS 14.4 or later