Last updated September 13, 2026

Changelog

Every release of Kapy Notes for macOS and Windows, newest first. The app checks for these once a day and downloads nothing until you ask it to.

1.24.0Latest

The official launch: clear plans, a much richer editor, and calmer work on every screen.

  • Forever Free and Pro are now live. Every account gets fourteen days of Pro without a card, then keeps every writing and calculation tool with up to five editable notes. Pro Lifetime is one purchase, never a subscription, and adds unlimited notes, encrypted sync and sharing, one gigabyte of storage, two hours of cloud transcription a month, and a larger AI summary allowance. Settings shows the current plan and the exact storage, transcription, and summary usage instead of leaving anyone to guess.
  • The optional add-ons are gated behind Pro, where they belong. A Pro account can add five gigabytes of encrypted storage or a thousand transcription minutes at a time from the mobile stores. Those minutes do not expire. Fake RevenueCat Test Store purchases can no longer grant a production entitlement; real App Store and Google Play review purchases remain isolated in their own auditable sandbox channels.
  • Voice notes explain the choice before asking for an account. Turn on Transcription opens the settings that choose local or cloud work, only one can be active, and a signed-out person can choose local transcription immediately. Cloud transcription and summaries say plainly that they need sign-in. On a phone, opening Settings, a sidebar, Archive, or Hidden Notes keeps the keyboard down, and a close-keyboard button stays fixed at the far right of the footer whenever the keyboard is visible.
  • The editor has grown without making the page busier. Notes can use Markdown-style formatting, videos, protected hidden notes, several editor panes, and live collaborator cursors. Formatting tools stay open until you close them. Context menus use a quick fade and fit inside the sidebar when there is room, and shared notes say who shared them or who they are shared with, with the complete access list available on hover.
  • Desktop layout and shortcuts have been tightened. A narrow Windows window no longer traps the calculator sidebar open, the right sidebar has its own keyboard shortcut, the split-screen action sits at the far right beside sharing, and the hamburger tooltip shows its shortcut. Save and sidebar shortcuts keep working at the minimum desktop width.
  • The app starts and edits with less overhead, uses smaller image and font assets, keeps desktop update symbols separate from user downloads, and carries refreshed accessibility, keyboard, focus, window placement, and responsive layout coverage across iPhone, iPad, Android, macOS, and Windows.

1.23.0

Mac and Windows can buy Pro securely in the browser and bring it straight back to the app.

  • The Pro row on Mac and Windows now opens the identified Kapy Notes checkout in the system browser. Sign in first so the purchase reaches the correct encrypted account; payment details stay with RevenueCat and Stripe and never pass through the app or our server.
  • A Pro Lifetime purchase made on iPhone or Android already belongs to the same account, so desktop users who bought there only need to sign in. There is no second desktop license and no subscription to manage.
  • The mobile apps still use their own store purchase sheets. They do not show or link to the browser checkout, and the two optional consumable packs remain available only through the native mobile stores.

1.22.0

Pro Lifetime can be bought on phones and tablets. Nothing you already had has been taken away.

  • Pro Lifetime is for sale in the app on iPhone, iPad and Android: twenty-four dollars, once, through the App Store or Google Play. It is not a subscription and there is nothing to cancel. Two top-up packs sit beside it for people who run out of room or minutes, five gigabytes of storage and a thousand transcription minutes, ten dollars each and repeatable. The website has offered Pro Lifetime for a while with no way to buy it inside the app, which is the gap this closes.
  • Buying does not need an account. The part of Pro that works on its own, writing as many notes as you like, unlocks on the device the moment the purchase goes through. Sign in whenever you want and the purchase follows you to the account, so the rest of Pro, sync and sharing across your devices, works too. A purchase belongs to the first account that claims it and stays there.
  • On Mac and Windows nothing changes yet. There is no way to buy Pro on the desktop in this release, and the app does not show a plan it cannot sell you. Sync, sharing and the number of notes you can keep are exactly as they were.
  • No limit has been switched on. Free still syncs, still shares, and still holds as many notes as you want to write, on every platform. The plans exist in the app before they are enforced on purpose: charging for something people already have, without warning and without a way to pay for it on the machine they use, is not a change anyone should wake up to.
  • The app knows how to be told that something needs Pro. Older versions would ask again, and keep asking, against a server that had already said no. This one sets that one space aside and carries on with the rest, so a single unpaid space cannot stall everything else you are syncing.

1.21.0

A note you can finally throw away, a picture that keeps its own line, and numbers that follow where you are.

  • A note can be deleted. The archive has always been where notes go when you are done with them, and until now nothing took them out again, so the app that keeps your notes on your device gave you no way to make one stop existing. The archive now has a strip above it: pick some notes and restore or delete them, or empty the whole thing at once. Deleting there is permanent and reaches every device you sync to, which is why it asks first. The main list still has no delete; a note leaves it by being archived.
  • Exporting on a phone asks where to put the file. iOS opens the same Save to Files sheet every other app uses and Android the system picker, instead of writing into a folder belonging to the app that nobody was told about. On the desktops this has always worked and is unchanged.
  • "Match my region" now reads the country your device is set to rather than the language it is read in. A Mac whose language is English and whose Region is India was being told it counted in millions; it counts in lakh and crore, and always did. Only the automatic setting changes. If you picked a number format yourself, it stays picked.
  • A picture keeps a line to itself. Text typed beside one used to render on the picture's own row, squeezed into whatever width was left; it now moves to its own line, below the picture when you typed it after and above when you typed it before, with the caret following so you can carry on. Notes written before this are left exactly as they are.
  • Swiping up for a new note while sitting in a blank one no longer makes a second blank one. The caret goes back into the note already open, and the cue says so rather than announcing a note that was never made.
  • Clicking a ruled line below your writing puts the caret on that line, where you clicked, instead of at the end of the text. And a note opened on a phone stops asking for the keyboard once it arrives, rather than asking again for five seconds.
  • The drawer opens from the same corner on every platform. On macOS its button starts after the traffic lights rather than moving to the opposite side.

1.20.0

Settings you can read, a window you can see through, and a note that remembers where you were.

  • Settings has been rebuilt. Every option is a labelled row with a line saying what it does, gathered into a short list of categories instead of a wall of panes. Sharing now sits with your profile and sync, where the account both halves need already lives.
  • The app can look the way you want it to. Choose light or dark rather than following the machine, rule the page if you were taught to write on lines, and, on macOS and Windows, thin the window until the desktop shows through it.
  • Keeping the window on top no longer hides the panels the app does not draw. The updater and the About panel open at the ordinary window level, so a floating window used to sit over them and the click that asked looked like it had done nothing. The window now gives the pin up, visibly, and one press puts it back.
  • Open a note again the same day and the cursor is where you left it. A new day still starts you on a fresh line at the end, which is what that blank line is for.
  • Dictation tools that live outside the app can type into a note on macOS. Wispr Flow, Spokenly and their kind ask the system for the app's focused text field and give up if they cannot find one; there is one there now, even while the window is not the active one.
  • The bar of writing tools reads style, checklist, bulleted list, bold, italic: what changes a whole line before what changes a word. On a phone it now sits on the bottom edge of the screen instead of floating above a strip of empty background. Settings has left the bar; it is a row in the notes list.
  • The stray double lines under tooltips and popovers are gone. They were Flutter's fallback text style showing through, not a style anyone chose.

1.19.0

A much smaller download, and on-device transcription on far more machines.

  • Kapy Notes is a fraction of the size it was. The engines behind on-device transcription and summaries are no longer part of the app; they arrive only if you choose to download a model, and they go again when you remove the last one. If you transcribe in the cloud, or not at all, you now carry none of it.
  • More Macs and iPhones can transcribe on their own. Turning recordings into text on the device used to need either a very recent Mac or a 670 MB download. It now works with the recogniser Apple has shipped for years, so machines that were offered nothing but the cloud can keep a recording to themselves, with nothing to download and nothing to set up.
  • Long recordings transcribe whole on those machines. The recogniser Apple provides quietly gives up partway through anything longer than about a minute; Kapy Notes now feeds it a recording in pieces, cut at pauses so no word is split, and joins the result back into one transcript with its timings intact.
  • Downloading a speech model on Android shows you what it is doing. The engine comes down first, with its own progress, then the model itself. Cancelling stops both, and removing your last model gives the space back.

1.18.0

Turn a recording into words and a summary on your own device, with no account, no minutes, and nothing leaving it.

  • Voice notes can now be transcribed and summarised entirely on your device. On a recent Mac it uses the recogniser Apple already ships, so there is nothing to download and nothing to set up; everywhere else you can download a speech model once and keep it. Choose where each happens under Settings › Voice. "Where recordings are transcribed" and "Where summaries are written" are separate, so you can keep one in the cloud and bring the other home.
  • Summaries can be written the way you want them. Describe the kind of summary you would rather have and every recording follows it. You can also make something else from a transcript entirely, such as a post, a message, or a shorter version, and copy it out whole.
  • A transcript now says who was speaking when more than one person did, and you can give each voice a name that sticks. A note you recorded alone looks exactly as it always has.
  • Transparency is a new appearance option on macOS and Windows. The desktop shows through the app, blurred, with a slider for how much. Menus, dialogs and the writing surface keep enough body to stay readable.
  • People you share with now appear by name and picture instead of by email address, and you can set your own under Settings › Account.
  • The calculator understands more of what you already write. Ask for a number in hex, binary, octal or scientific notation, and read a clock in another place: "time in Tokyo", "3:30pm in Berlin".
  • Dictation from Wispr Flow, Spokenly and similar tools now types straight into the note on macOS instead of falling back to the clipboard.

1.16.0

Keep important notes close, see your voice take shape, and write with fewer distractions.

  • Pin any note and it stays in a dedicated Pinned section at the top of the notes list. Unpin it whenever it no longer needs pride of place. The sidebar now starts collapsed each time Kapy Notes opens, leaving the page ready for writing.
  • Voice recording has a calmer, richer surface. A live waveform responds while you speak, elapsed time and recording state are easy to scan, and the controls remain compact enough to stay out of the note.
  • Spell check can now follow the platform you already use. Turn it on or off in Settings; on macOS and Windows it uses the system spelling service and keeps suggestions subtle inside the editor.
  • The editor footer has room to breathe, with controls sized and spaced to match the rest of the app. Notifications are compact modern pills instead of stacked accent lines, so feedback is visible without stealing focus.
  • Desktop updates now close the running app cleanly, reopen it after installation, and keep a valid signed-in session when the network is briefly unavailable. The Windows installer also carries Kapy Notes artwork throughout the setup flow.
  • Calculations understand labels inside arithmetic, such as 20 domains * 2 or $2 per mailbox, and read x between two amounts as multiplication without taking x away from variables.

1.15.0

Say it instead of typing it, and read it back as words.

  • Notes can hold voice notes. Tap the microphone and talk; the recording lands in the note as a chip on its own line, on the line your cursor was on, and plays back where it sits. The calculator ignores it entirely, the same way it ignores a picture.
  • A recording is yours before anything else happens to it. It is written to your device as you speak and it stays a complete voice note whether or not you are signed in, online, or interested in the rest of this. Switch notes, close the window or quit halfway through and the recording still lands in the note you started it in.
  • Turn on transcription and a recording comes back as text and a short summary, usually within a few seconds of finishing. The transcript is searchable, so a recording you made in a car park is findable by a word you said in it, and the summary becomes the note's title if you never typed one.
  • Transcription is off until you turn it on, and it is the one thing in Kapy Notes that leaves your device readable. Everything else, your notes and the pictures in them, is sealed before it goes anywhere. So the sheet that asks names who does the work, what is sent, and that neither they nor we keep it, and Settings turns it off again.
  • Thirty minutes a month on the free plan. A recording is capped at thirty minutes, the counter resets on the first of the month, and running out stops transcription rather than recording.
  • Exporting takes your recordings with it, into an attachments folder beside the markdown, with the transcript in the manifest so re-importing does not transcribe anything twice.

1.14.0

Start from the Home Screen: write, capture, or talk.

  • The Write widget is now three actions and two widgets. The small square one does a single thing: Write, Dictate or Capture. You pick which when you place it, or change it later without taking it off the screen. The wide one carries all three side by side, a tap each.
  • Whichever you tap, it opens the note you were last writing at the end of it, with the keyboard up. The widget is a way back into your notebook, not a way to fill it with one-line fragments, so nothing makes a new note behind your back.
  • Capture opens the picture picker straight over that note, so a photo goes into what you were already writing. Dictate opens the note ready for your keyboard's own dictation key; a recorder of our own, one that keeps the audio in the note, is what comes next.
  • On iPhone the square widget still sits on the Lock Screen, and each of the three is also a Control Centre button and an Action button option.
  • No widget shows a word of what you wrote. An icon and a name cost nothing to keep on screen and give nothing away to whoever picks up a locked phone.
  • Undo after removing a picture now brings the picture back, not an empty space where it was. Previously the character came back and the picture did not, and it was gone for good once the note was reopened.
  • A note holding something a newer version of Kapy Notes added is now kept whole when an older one opens it. Editing that note on the older device no longer strips out what it could not display.

1.13.0

Type on one device, watch it appear on the other. And put pictures in a note.

  • Sync is live now. A note being written on your phone changes on your laptop as you type, in the note that is open, with your own cursor left where it was. Nothing to reload and no Sync button to press: every device keeps one connection open while the app is in front, and every edit travels down it the moment it is made.
  • Two devices, or two people, can write in the same note at the same time and end up with the same note. Each keystroke is a small change with an identity of its own, and the app merges them character by character rather than choosing a winner. The "conflicted copy" notes that a clash used to leave behind are gone.
  • A note written offline catches up the same way when the connection returns: its changes go up as they were made and slot in beside whatever happened elsewhere. Text can be lost only by deleting it.
  • Everything on the way to the server is still sealed on your device. The server orders and relays changes it cannot read, exactly as it stored notes it could not read. Nothing about what is encrypted, or by whom, has changed.
  • The first launch after updating carries each note across to the new format once. Two devices that both hold an old note are kept from both writing it; if one of them had newer words of its own, those go on top, and if it had older ones they are kept as a copy rather than thrown away.
  • Notes can hold pictures. Paste one, drop one on the window, or pick one on your phone, and it sits on the line where your cursor was. The calculator ignores it entirely, so a screenshot in the middle of a budget changes none of the arithmetic around it.
  • Pictures are encrypted like everything else, each under a key of its own that never leaves your devices, and they sync with the note that holds them. The same picture used in four notes is stored once. Opening a note fetches small previews; the full image is fetched when you tap it.
  • Exporting a note takes its pictures with it, into an images folder beside the markdown, and importing that archive puts them back where they were.

1.12.0

Block someone, report something, and know what happens next.

  • Anyone you share with can now be blocked. Blocking stops them inviting you ever again and takes you out of any space you shared with them, and it is offered on every invitation and beside every member of a shared space. They are told nothing: an invitation from someone you blocked is simply never delivered, which is not a fact you should have to disclose in order to be left alone.
  • Anything in a shared space can be reported: an invitation, a note, or a person. One person reads every report, usually within two business days.
  • Reporting a note asks one question honestly. We cannot read your notes, so we cannot judge one unless you send it. The app asks whether to include a copy of that single note, unencrypted, for that report alone. Say no and the report is still filed and still acted on. Nothing goes anywhere unless you tick the box.
  • The rules of a shared space are now written down and shown before you can share for the first time. They are four lines, in the second person, with the full terms a tap away.
  • An invitation email no longer carries the name of the space. That name is free text, and putting it in an email meant anyone could have our servers deliver whatever they liked to any address they cared to name. It now appears in the app, once you have opened the invitation.

1.11.0

Share a note with someone, and keep it encrypted while you do.

  • Right-click a note, or hover it and choose Share, and enter an email address. They get an invitation; once they accept and your app has let them in, you both edit the same note, from any of your devices. Sharing a second note with the same person lands in the same shared space, and Settings has a Sharing pane for the spaces you are in and the invitations waiting for you.
  • A shared note is encrypted with a key only its members hold. Each member gets that key sealed to a keypair their own device made, so our servers relay and store bytes they cannot read, exactly as with your own notes. The app remembers every member's key the first time it sees it and warns if one changes, and Settings shows the fingerprint to compare in person.
  • It is sharing, not live co-writing. Two people changing the same note in the same moment while apart still ends with the later change winning and the other kept as a separate note, so nothing is lost. Remove someone and they stop receiving changes at once, the space's key is changed, and the note's own key is changed the next time it is written.
  • Taking a note back is one action: Move to My notes. The owner can hand a space to someone else or stop sharing it, which brings every note home and ends the space without deleting anything. Closing an account that still owns shared spaces asks you to settle each one first.
  • Sync now speaks a versioned protocol and every device names its version. A build too old for the server one day is told to update rather than retrying forever, and the notes on it stay exactly as they are.

1.10.0

Drive it from the keyboard, and find it already running.

  • Four shortcuts the desktop was missing: move to the next note, move to the one above it, show or hide the notes list, and show or hide the results column. Moving walks the list you are actually looking at, so a search you have typed still applies and the keys never step into a note you have filtered away.
  • Any shortcut can be cleared as well as changed. A binding you remove stays removed, including through an update that adds new ones.
  • Kapy Notes starts with your machine from now on, the first time it is able to and never again. It is built to be already there, since a summon shortcut and a menu bar icon are worth less if the app is not running. Turn it off in Settings, or in your system settings, and it stays off.
  • On Windows, the app no longer offers you an update you already have. It was comparing a build number Windows never reports, so a fresh install could be told every day that it was behind itself.

1.9.0

A window left open keeps itself current.

  • Notes now arrive while you are looking at them. Write on the laptop and the machine beside it catches up on its own, instead of finding out the next time you touch it. A device holds one quiet connection open and hears about a change only when there is one, so an idle app costs nothing while it waits.
  • That connection carries no notes, only "something in your account changed", after which the device pulls the way it always has. There is no second delivery path, and nothing about what we store became any more readable to us than it was before.
  • A fresh install opens into a real note rather than an empty page: one you can edit, rewrite or throw away. It shows what the calculator does by letting you change a number and watch the column beside it move, which no screenshot can do.
  • Kapy settles down properly. Left alone, the mascot lowers through a bend, a squat and a tuck instead of tipping sideways, and wakes back through the same movement in reverse.
  • On phones, settings opens as a list of categories you push through, rather than six panes stacked into one column with no map. Every control is sized for a thumb as well: the formatting bar, the notes list, and the type throughout.
  • The bottom of the window reads left to right now. Settings sits at the foot of the notes list with its name next to it instead of being a gear you had to hover to identify, and the formatting controls start at the left edge rather than floating in the middle. This keeps the nesting buttons on a list line from sliding every other button sideways, out from under the one you just pressed.
  • A Write widget for the iPhone Home and Lock Screens, and for Android home screens. One tap puts you back in the note you were last writing, below where you stopped, with the keyboard already up.

1.8.0

Close your account, from the app, on your own.

  • Settings › Sync now has Delete account. It asks you to type your email address, and then removes the account and everything stored for it: the synced copy of your notes, their attachments, and the key your passphrase unlocks.
  • It is there even on a device that cannot open your notes. If the passphrase and the recovery key are both gone, closing the account and starting again is the only way forward, so it is not hidden behind the key you no longer have.
  • Nobody can undo it, us included. Without that key what sits on our servers is unreadable to anyone, which is the same reason we cannot reset a passphrase for you.
  • The notes already on your device stay exactly where they are. Closing a server account is not a request to erase your writing.
  • If you cannot reach the app at all, kapynotes.com/support has an email route that does the same thing.

1.7.0

Take a copy of your notes out, and read it back in.

  • Settings has a Your Notes section. Export writes every note into a single .zip as markdown, so the copy still opens in Obsidian, or any editor, in a world without Kapy Notes.
  • Import reads that archive back, and tells you what it will change before it changes anything. Restore puts notes back under their own ids, for a device you are setting up again. Add as copies brings them in alongside what is already there.
  • It is not a backup, and it is not called one: nothing runs on a schedule, and the file is plain once it is saved. It is a copy you can take somewhere else. It is not a way back into a forgotten passphrase, because writing one needs an unlocked device anyway.
  • Kapy has moved into the header, and reacts to what you are doing.
  • On a trackpad, a two-finger sideways swipe opens and closes the notes list.

1.6.0

Keep a note in front of whatever else you are doing.

  • A pin in the toolbar keeps the window above your other apps. A recipe, a running total, or a number you are reading out over a call stays where you can see it while you work in something else. Press the pin again to let the window fall behind.
  • Cmd+Shift+T on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows. Like every other shortcut, it is yours to change in Settings › Shortcuts.
  • A window you pinned is still pinned tomorrow, so a note set up beside a task does not need setting up again.

1.5.0

Your notes on every device you own, sealed so that only you can read them.

  • Kapy Notes can now sync across your devices. Your notes are encrypted on the device before they leave it, so what reaches us is sealed. We cannot read them, and neither can anyone who reaches our servers.
  • Signing in is your email and a six-digit code. There is no password to invent, and nothing to remember when you pick up a new device.
  • You choose an encryption passphrase, and it never leaves your device. That is what your notes are locked with, which is also why nobody, us included, can reset it or read your notes without it.
  • So you are shown a recovery key once, while you set up. Save it somewhere safe: it is the only way back if the passphrase goes.
  • Signing out leaves every note exactly where it is. It forgets the key and the session, not your writing.
  • A tapped link now offers to open or copy it, rather than asking you to remember a modifier. Copy Plain Text turns bullets and checkboxes into ordinary characters, so a list pasted into an email still reads as one.
  • A line that counts something, such as 12 mangoes or 3 shirts, now totals like any other amount.
  • On Windows, the updater no longer offers you a release you are already running. Elsewhere: the sidebar remembers whether you left it open, a selection no longer paints past the end of the text, and the pointer becomes a hand over anything you can click.

1.4.0

Links behave like links, and every platform opens ready for the next thought.

  • Web addresses are now recognizable links without changing the text you wrote. Tap on mobile, Command-click on Apple devices, or Control-click elsewhere to open one.
  • Open Link and Copy Link sit beside the familiar selection and context-menu actions, so a pasted address is effortless to use or share.
  • Kapy Notes now opens the latest note focused on a fresh line across desktop and mobile, including when the desktop window returns from the tray or a shortcut.
  • Prefer to keep your place? Turn off Ready to type on open in Settings › General. New notes still open ready for writing.

1.3.0

Reach a blank note from anywhere, and keep the app there when you close it.

  • A system-wide shortcut now opens Kapy Notes straight onto a blank note: Option+Cmd+N on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+N on Windows. Both it and the summon shortcut are yours to change in Settings.
  • Kapy Notes can keep running after you close the window, waiting in the Windows tray or the macOS menu bar with Open, New Note and Quit. Your shortcuts go on answering. Off unless you turn it on.
  • And it can open when you sign in, if you ask it to.
  • On Windows, opening the app a second time brings the running copy forward instead of starting a rival one.

1.2.0

Updates get a home in Settings, and results explain themselves.

  • Settings has an Updates section: the version and build you are running, a manual check, and the release waiting for you if there is one.
  • Opening Settings while an update is waiting goes straight to it.
  • Kapy Notes will not claim to be up to date until a check has actually reached us. An app that has never looked now offers to look.
  • Hovering a result reads it out in words, such as "Seven million" or "Seventy lakh" if you use Indian grouping, with the scale below it.
  • Shortcuts now lead with the app's own: summoning the window, new note, search. Formatting keys follow, where the footer already shows them.

1.1.0

The first release that can update itself.

  • Kapy Notes checks for new releases once a day and offers them in the corner. Nothing downloads until you ask.
  • The summon shortcut moved off 1Password's, and now toggles the window instead of only showing it.
  • Tab nests list items, and the footer buttons do it on touch.
  • A labelled amount reads as its value, so a line can name a number and still be counted.

1.0.0

The first public build, for macOS and Windows.

  • A notebook that does the math: answers appear in the gutter, only on the lines that need them.
  • Currency and unit conversion, with rates refreshed in the background.
  • Formatting, checklists, and dated separators for each day you write.
  • Everything stays on your device. No account, no server copy.

Getting the latest build

Kapy Notes 1.24.0 installs itself from inside the app. Open Settings, then Updates, and press Check. If you are installing for the first time, or you are still on 1.0.0, which predates the updater, download it here: macOS or Windows.

The macOS image is notarised by Apple. The Windows installer is not signed yet, so SmartScreen shows an unknown publisher warning. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Older versions stay downloadable at the URL their release published under; nothing here is ever rewritten.