What's new in Slash.

New

• Choose your dictation engine — and have that choice honored. Settings ▸ Dictation now has one Engine picker: Automatic (Slash picks for you), Slash Cloud, or an on-device engine — Apple, NVIDIA Parakeet, or Whisper. The engine you pick is the engine that runs, every time. Previously the engine list only chose an offline fallback, and dictation could quietly use the cloud even with an on-device engine selected.
• Honest failures with one-tap fixes. If your chosen engine can't run — you're offline, signed out, the model is still downloading, or you've hit your Slash Cloud limit — dictation tells you why and puts the fix on the pill: Sign In, Try Again, or Switch Engine. It never silently substitutes another engine.
• Your words survive a cloud failure. If Slash Cloud fails after you've spoken, nothing is lost: the pill offers the on-device transcript, and one tap inserts it. Ramble goes further — the note is always saved, with a small line noting it was transcribed on this Mac.

Improvements

• First words stop getting clipped. Slash Cloud recordings now carry a brief lead-in, so the transcriber no longer drops or mangles the first word or two of a dictation.
• Privacy by structure, not by toggle. Choosing an on-device engine means your voice never leaves this Mac — by design. The "On-device only" switch is retired; the engine picker is the whole story, and the Slash Cloud option states plainly that audio is processed with zero retention.
• Cloud pauses now say why. Hitting the weekly limit, a busy service, or a Pro ceiling each shows its own message and fix — and Slash remembers across relaunch instead of trying and failing again.

New

• Open the Command Bar by tapping ⌘ twice. No chord to reach for — tap the Command key twice and the bar appears, from any app. It's the default for new installs; if you already use Slash, your current shortcut is untouched and keeps working. Slash stands the gesture down while you're typing in a password field or using Sticky Keys, and your keyboard shortcut stays available as a backup either way.
• Set the Command Bar summon like any other shortcut. The Command Bar row in Settings ▸ Shortcuts now records whichever you prefer: tap ⌘ twice for the gesture, or press a key combination.
• Report a bug without leaving Slash. Reporting a bug now opens a form inside the app instead of handing off to your email client.

Improvements

• One set of text sizes, everywhere. Notes, commands, clipboard, dictations, and the Command Bar used to each pick their own type sizes — a row title here was bigger than the same title there, and note text towered over everything beside it. The whole app now shares one type scale: matching row titles, matching timestamps, matching headers, on every surface.
• Note text sits with the rest of the app. New notes start at a size that belongs next to the lists and panels around it. ⌘+ and ⌘− still adjust it to taste, your choice still sticks, and ⌘0 now returns to this default instead of the old oversized one.
• The command title no longer gets cut off. Long command names in the editor fit at the default window width instead of truncating.
• Smarter AI commands. Slash AI now runs your AI commands on Claude Sonnet 5, and dictation cleanup on a faster route — better rewrites, quicker polish, no key or setting changes needed.

Improvements

• The dictation timing readout now covers the wait after you stop talking. Settings ▸ Dictation already showed how fast your mic starts; it now also shows the finish — how long transcription and cleanup take after you release the key, so a slow dictation can say exactly where the time went. Timings only, never what you said.

New

• A locked store now explains itself — and offers a way out. If your encrypted commands, clipboard, or dictation history ever can't be unlocked because the key is truly gone, Slash says so plainly and offers Start Fresh, instead of waiting forever on data it can never open.

Improvements

• Dictation is ready the instant you press the key. The microphone engine is built once and kept prepared instead of being spun up from scratch every time, and it now survives device switches, sleep, and audio-system restarts mid-sentence. When the mic genuinely needs a moment, the pill shows a brief warming cue rather than silently losing your first words.
• Cleanup now fixes misheard words. When the recognizer hears "line pages" but your sentence plainly says "landing pages," cleanup corrects it from context — tightly bounded so it can fix a word or two, never rewrite what you said.
• See how fast your mic starts. Settings ▸ Dictation shows a small readout of recent dictation start-up timings — timings only, never what you said.

Fixes

• The first dictation after launch is as fast as the rest. Pro status is now read instantly at launch instead of after a network check, so your first dictation no longer falls back to the slower local route.

New

• Paste a link onto words. Select some text in a note, paste a web address, and the text becomes a link — the thing you'd instinctively try. No dialog, nothing to hunt for.
• Mark a task done from the keyboard. ⌘⇧↩ ticks and un-ticks the task your cursor is on.

Improvements

• Markdown gets out of the way, precisely. Raw syntax now appears only around the thing you're actually editing instead of un-styling the whole line. Write a sentence with three links in it and only the one under your cursor shows its brackets.
• Your to-dos stay to-dos while you write them. A checkbox used to flip back to - [ ] the moment your cursor landed on its line. It stays a checkbox now, and the arrow keys and Backspace step over it as one piece instead of crawling through hidden characters.
• Links open wherever your cursor is. Clicking a link that looks like a link follows it, even when you're editing elsewhere on the same line. They open when you *release* the mouse, so you can still drag across one to select text, or slide away to change your mind.
• A shortcut you can't use is refused up front. Pick a combination another Slash shortcut or macOS itself already owns — ⌘Space, say — and Slash names who has it instead of accepting it and never firing.
• Switching a feature off frees its shortcut. Turn off clipboard history, GIF search, notes or dictation and its shortcut goes back to the system for another app to use; turn it back on and Slash takes it back. Your recorded shortcut is kept either way, so nothing needs re-entering.

Fixes

• A shortcut that never worked can now be replaced. If the combination you picked was already taken, that shortcut stayed dead for the rest of the session no matter what you chose afterwards — restarting Slash was the only way out.
• Duplicate shortcuts sort themselves out on launch. If two Slash shortcuts ended up on the same keys, the second one moves to a free combination rather than silently never firing.
• ⌘ and Escape can be recorded together. Pressing Escape while recording a shortcut always meant "cancel", which put every combination containing it out of reach.
• A link to a file no longer opens a dead web page. spec tried to visit a website called readme.md.
• Toggling a task no longer edits your code samples. A - [ ] line inside a code block is an example, not a to-do, and the task shortcut leaves it alone.
• Selecting a whole line toggles only that line. Marking a task done by selecting its line used to catch the following line too.

Improvements

• The Getting Started note now covers dictation — hold ⌃⌥D and talk, or tap it to keep recording hands-free — and it arrives dated from the day you installed Slash instead of looking decades old. This applies to the copy new installs receive; a note already sitting in your Notes stays exactly as you left it.

Fixes

• Esc cancels a trigger rename. In Settings ▸ Features, pressing Escape while renaming a built-in command's trigger now puts the field back to its saved value instead of leaving a rejected trigger and its warning on screen.
• A search that finds nothing now says so. Searching your Library for something you don't have showed an empty column that read like a glitch; it now tells you there are no matches for what you typed.

New

• A Getting Started note. Slash writes one short note covering the three things worth knowing on day one: capture anything with ⌃⌥/, find an old note by typing a word and pressing Tab, and run a command with /. New installs get it on first launch, and if you're already using Slash it shows up the next time you open the app. Delete it and it stays deleted — on this Mac and every Mac you sync with.

Improvements

• Built-in commands moved to Settings ▸ Features. /dictate, /paste, /note, /screenshot and the rest no longer sit in your Library next to your own work — the Library, its search, and its counts are now only the snippets and prompts you wrote. Nothing about running them changed: they still answer to their triggers, their hotkeys, and the Command Bar. To switch one off or rename its trigger, open Settings ▸ Features ▸ Slash Commands. The Library's Commands lens is now called AI & Code, and points you there when it's empty.

Improvements

• Snippets expand instantly in Mac-native apps. The brief per-keystroke delay that apps like Slack and WhatsApp need is now applied only to them — in TextEdit, Xcode, Notes, and other native apps your typed trigger disappears in one instant burst before the snippet lands. Browsers, remote-desktop sessions, and unfamiliar apps keep the safe timing.
• Faster launch. Slash shows its window immediately and loads your clipboard history, notes, dictations, and chats right after — instead of decrypting everything before drawing anything.

Fixes

• A frozen app can no longer jam your keyboard. If the app you're typing into hangs, Slash now backs off in a quarter of a second instead of waiting on it — typing everywhere else keeps working, and expansion resumes as soon as the app does.
• Expanding in Slack right after it opens. A freshly launched Slack could silently ignore your triggers. Slash now wakes Slack's accessibility layer on the first attempt, and expansion works from the next keystroke on.
• First dictation of the day no longer comes up empty. The mic's warm-up could read as "No audio" on your first try and then work on the second. Slash now detects the warm-up and restarts its audio capture mid-recording, so the first try counts.
• Deleted items stay deleted across Macs. With sync on, a device that hadn't synced in a while could bring back items you'd deleted elsewhere. Deletions now stick, and sync got more careful about conflicting edits all around.
• Password fields stay protected even when an app is slow. If Slash can't positively tell what kind of field is focused — including when the app is hanging — selection capture for AI now declines rather than guessing.

Improvements

• Faster dictation. Slash now preps the connection while you're still speaking, and the transcript is polished in the same round trip that transcribes it — the pause after you release the key is much shorter, and the separate "Cleaning…" wait is gone. If polishing ever hiccups, you simply get the raw transcript instantly.
• Snappier chat follow-ups. When chatting with your notes on an Anthropic key, your notes are cached between turns instead of re-sent, so follow-up answers start sooner.

Fixes

• Wrapped bullets stay lined up. A long list item that wraps onto a second line now hangs the continuation under its own text instead of dropping back to the left margin — for bullets, numbered lists, and checkboxes alike.
• No more freeze when clicking into Slash. Switching into the app could stall everything for a second (worst right after an update). Fixed.

New

• Chat with your notes. A new Chat section in the sidebar: ask a question and get an answer drawn only from what you've captured — your notes, links, and dictations — never the open web. Every answer cites the notes it used; click a citation to jump straight to that capture. Follow-up questions understand the conversation ("how much was the first one?"), and you can save any answer as a new note. Conversations are kept in a thread switcher and stay private, powered by the same AI you've already set up (Slash AI or your own key).

Fixes

• Cleaner saved posts. A saved tweet shows its text instead of the author's avatar thumbnail, and a quoted tweet now hugs its own text with the author shown once.
• No title flash when you start a #tag at the beginning of a line.
• Note summary actions appear on hover rather than sitting on the note at rest.

New

• Tags. Type #word in any note and it becomes a quiet grey pill. Click a pill to see every note carrying that exact tag; type # to autocomplete from tags you've already used. No tag manager, nothing to maintain — a tag is just text in your note, so it syncs everywhere today.
• +folder files, #tag labels. In the Command Bar, +portugal #flights book the fares files the note into Portugal and keeps #flights as a tag. (# no longer files into folders — that job moved to +.)

Fixes

• Cleaner X titles. Saved tweets no longer keep the "(4) " unread-count prefix from the browser tab — on every capture path.
• A deleted summary stays deleted even if you were editing that note on another Mac at the moment you deleted it.
• Sync edge-cases. A note that turns into a link mid-edit now fetches its preview promptly, and dismissed summaries never quietly burn enrichment retries.

Fixes

• The notes list no longer bounces. Resizing the window could leave the whole notes column oscillating up and down indefinitely — a runaway animation that escaped the cards' loading shimmer. Both shimmer sites are fixed.
• Notes synced from another Mac now finish loading. A note captured on one Mac used to arrive on your other Mac stuck on a loading shimmer forever — the receiving Mac never scheduled the work its shimmer promised. Synced-in links now fetch their titles, types, and previews on arrival, and anything already stuck heals on next launch.

New

• Capture anything from the Command Bar. Press ⌃⌥/ anywhere, type a thought, hit ⌘↩ — it's saved to Notes. Paste an image, drop in a link, stage a file from the new + menu, or grab the page you're reading. Saving never interrupts what you're doing.
• Links that know what they are. A saved link is recognized as a Video, Article, Product, Post, Audio, or Website — instantly, from the link itself, with no AI involved — and its card shows the category. Products show their price when the store publishes one; tweets and Reddit posts save their actual text, visible on the card and searchable.
• YouTube video summaries. Save a YouTube link and Slash watches it for you — an overview plus key points appears as a Summary block at the top of the note (via Slash AI, or your own Gemini/OpenRouter key). Collapse it, delete it for good, or hit Add to note to make it part of your editable text — the note body itself is always yours; AI never writes into it. Behind the same "Summarize captures automatically" switch as before.
• Same-link stacking. Saving a URL you've already captured adds to the existing card instead of creating a duplicate — the toast tells you which note it landed on.
• Screenshots get their own home. Bare /screenshot grabs live under History ▸ Screenshots, out of your notes; add words to one and it moves into Notes.
• Select multiple notes. ⇧-click for a range, ⌘-click to toggle — then move them to a folder or delete them together.
• A clickable preview in link notes. A saved link's note shows its picture (a video's frame, an article's image) — click it to open the page; videos wear a play badge.

Improvements

• One Notes pool, no Inbox. Everything you capture lands in Notes and stays there, filed or not. Folders are optional lenses — filing a note never removes it from Notes.
• Voice types, Ramble files. Voice dictation types into whatever you're writing; Ramble records a rambling thought and files it as a tidy note.
• One hotkey. ⌃⌥/ opens the bar (and reads the page you're on, with permission); ⌃⌥N opens a fresh note in the editor.
• Calmer cards. Note cards use quiet grey icon tiles with the category written in the meta line — no thumbnails, no color noise. Rows show a markdown link's text, never the raw syntax.
• Sharper video summaries. Summaries now open with the video's actual point and every bullet carries a concrete detail — no more "The video showcases…" filler.

Fixes

• The bar's phantom white space is gone for good — the panel now owns its size, so nothing can quietly stretch it.
• Clicking a link in a note opens it. Plain click on any link — including bare URLs — opens the browser instead of revealing markup.
• The Voice → Ramble rename sticks, even when an older synced copy tries to bring the old command back.
• Tweet text actually saves. Twitter moved the endpoint their embeds come from; Slash now calls the new one.

New

• A / menu inside your notes. Type / in a note (on the Mac) for a menu of blocks (headings, lists, task lists, callouts, code, quotes, dividers, dates), inline formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, highlight, inline code, links), and your whole command library — inserted right where you're typing.
• Link a note — or create it — as you type [[. The note picker is redesigned, and when the title doesn't exist yet a Create "…" row makes the note and links it in one keystroke.
• Real, clickable checkboxes. Task lines (- [ ]) render as actual checkboxes — click one to check or uncheck it.
• A formatting toolbar for selected text. Highlight text in a note and a small bar of bold / italic / link / highlight / code appears above it.

Improvements

• Notes is the home screen. The Library opens on your Notes by default, and Notes sits at the top of the sidebar.
• Collapsible sidebar sections. Library, History, and Folders each get a disclosure arrow to collapse or expand; your choice sticks.
• Roomier notes. More breathing room after bullets, cleanly aligned checkboxes, and a lighter empty-note prompt — "Untitled note" and "Write something or press '/' for options".

Fixes

• Opening a note no longer hitches. The first note you opened used to freeze for a second or two while the editor warmed up; it now boots ahead of time.
• Blank notes don't pile up. Create a note and leave it without typing anything and it's quietly discarded instead of becoming a stray "Untitled" row — and a note you actually started is never lost.
• Pointer cursor on backlinks and a note's source link, so it's clear they're clickable.

Fixes

• Spellcheck underlines actually work now. Misspelled words get the red squiggle as you type — the setting is enabled the right way this time (the previous approach didn't take).
• Wiki-links show the pointer cursor. Hovering a [[linked note]] now shows the finger/pointer cursor, like Obsidian, so it's clear it's clickable.

Fixes

• Clicking a wiki-link really opens it now. The previous fix didn't take on a real click; a [[linked note]] in your text now jumps to that note the moment you click it.
• Arrow keys really move through your lists now. After you click a note (or a clipboard or dictation item), ↑/↓ walk the selection through the list — matching the main Library list — instead of doing nothing or moving the sidebar.

Fixes

• Click a wiki-link to open it. A plain click on a [[linked note]] in your text now jumps straight to that note.
• Spellcheck underlines are back. Misspelled words get the red squiggle again as you type.
• Opening the first note is instant. The editor now finishes warming up at launch, so the first note you open no longer has a brief hitch.
• Arrow keys move through your notes. Up/down now walk the notes list (and the clipboard and dictation lists) after you click into it, matching the main Library list.

New

• Start a bullet with just a dash. Type - on an empty line and Slash adds the space for you, so you're straight into the item. One Backspace gives you back a lone dash (for a --- divider).
• Shift-Tab out of a list. Shift-Tab at the very start of a bullet removes the bullet and drops the line back to plain text.
• Blockquotes render. A line starting with > now shows a clean left bar instead of the raw marker.
• Brackets and quotes auto-close. Type (, [, or " and the closer is added for you — and this plays nicely with [[ wiki-link autocomplete.
• Wiki-links read cleanly. [[Note]] now hides its brackets in the text and opens the note when you click it; the raw form comes back on the line you're editing.
• Sentence case as you type. The first letter of a sentence capitalizes itself. One Backspace undoes it, so a deliberately-lowercase line (or iOS) costs a single keystroke.
• The cursor blinks again.

Fixes

• The cursor and bullet stay locked together. On macOS the caret could paint a step ahead of its bullet while the bullet lagged behind; the editor now keeps the caret, bullet, and text on the same frame so they move as one.

Improvements

• Notes open instantly. The editor now warms up at launch and is reused as you move between notes, so opening a note no longer has a brief loading pause.
• Tab always indents. Press Tab anywhere on a list item to nest it another level — it no longer has to sit directly under another item, and deeply-indented lines stay proper list items.
• Indenting is perfectly smooth. The word, the bullet, and the cursor now move together on the same frame when you press Tab, instead of one trailing a beat behind.

Fixes

• Notes can't be lost to Undo after switching. Pressing ⌘Z right after switching to a different note could overwrite it with the previous note's text — fixed.
• Typing in the Library is never interrupted. A background refresh could pull focus off the note mid-sentence; the editor keeps it now.
• Fixed a formatting crash triggered by a link with an empty or just-deleted label.
• Copying a snippet is safe again — a trailing newline can no longer auto-run when you paste it into a terminal.

New

• Wiki-link suggestions are always current. Typing [[ now looks up your notes live, so a note you created seconds ago shows up in the autocomplete immediately.

Improvements

• Typing in notes is dramatically faster. The editor was rebuilt so keystrokes go straight to the text — no more app-wide work on every character. Typing, Tab, and switching notes all land in a few milliseconds.
• Tab behaves like a proper outliner. Tab nests a bullet one level under the item above it (and only then), Shift-Tab un-nests it — and tabbing can never accidentally turn your list into a code block again.

Fixes

• No more flash of raw markdown while typing. Bullets, headings, and checked-off tasks style themselves the instant you type them, instead of showing - or # for a beat first.
• Typing a dash under a paragraph no longer blows it up into a heading. Starting a bullet below text used to momentarily restyle the paragraph above as a giant title; headings now come only from #.
• Quick captures can't be lost to fast clicks. Clicking away from the capture window a moment after typing now saves exactly what you typed, and quitting the app mid-sentence keeps every character.
• Notes edits, syncs, and agent updates can no longer overwrite each other. A round of hardening closed several rare timing windows where a note update from sync or a capture routed into an open note could clash with what you were typing.

New

• Images in notes. Paste, drag in, or insert an image and it lives right inside the note, rendered where you put it and stored encrypted like everything else.

Fixes

• Enter on a bullet no longer skips a line. Pressing Return at the end of a list item now starts the next item right away, instead of dropping a blank row that the cursor jumped past.
• Deleting a bullet back to the start no longer jiggles the cursor. Backspacing through the “- ” now removes the marker in one press (or outdents a nested item) instead of leaving invisible spaces the cursor floated over.
• Indenting a list item is instant again. Pressing Enter and then Tab in quick succession no longer lags, and Tab now indents a full level so nesting is easy to see.
• Typing in a long note stays smooth. The editor no longer rebuilds the whole window on every keystroke, so fast typing and editing keep up with you.

Fixes

• Deleting through bullets no longer makes the cursor jiggle. 1.30.0's spellcheck also switched on macOS's inline autocorrect, whose suggestion bubbles and correction-replays fought the cursor during fast deletes and made creating a new bullet feel slow. Autocorrect and auto-capitalization are now off in the note editor; the red spelling underlines stay.

New

• The standard editing shortcuts, in Notes. ⌘B and ⌘I toggle bold and italic (and untangle themselves correctly on already-styled text), ⌘K makes a link, ⇧⌘L toggles a checkbox, ⌘1–⌘3 set heading levels, and pasting a URL over selected text turns it into a link.
• Find in note. ⌘F opens find and replace inside the note editor.
• Adjustable note text size. ⌘+ and ⌘− zoom the editor text, ⌘0 resets, and your choice sticks across launches.
• Spelling, like every Mac text field. The note editor now underlines misspellings in red and applies system autocorrect as you type.

Improvements

• Notes read clean. Markdown markers get out of the way while you read: bold shows as bold without the asterisks, heading hashes hide, dashes render as round bullets, finished tasks cross themselves out, and wrapped list lines align under their text. Put the caret on a line to reveal and edit its markers — the note itself stays plain Markdown.
• Links open with a plain click. [[wikilinks]] and web links in a note open directly — no modifier key needed.
• A quieter Library. The notes list drops its subtitle line and the note's info column drops its header, leaving the content itself.

Fixes

• Typing in notes is fast again. Every keystroke was doing whole-document work behind the scenes, which made long notes feel sluggish — several layers of that are gone, and deleting through indented bullets no longer makes the cursor flutter.
• Bold always renders. Selecting a word with a stray space or a list dash and pressing ⌘B used to produce styling that could never display; the selection now snaps to what can actually be bolded.
• Note text was nearly invisible in mixed dark/light setups. With the system in dark mode and Slash in light, the editor painted light text on a light background.
• A crashed note pane recovers itself. If the editor's underlying web process died, the pane went blank and silently swallowed typing until you switched notes; it now reloads in place.

New

• Choose your dictation engine. Settings ▸ Dictation has a new Local engine picker naming the exact model that transcribes on your Mac: Apple SpeechAnalyzer (the macOS 26 system model, the only one that honors My words), NVIDIA Parakeet v3 (a one-time ~600 MB download and the fastest option, 25 European languages), or OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo (~630 MB, about 100 languages). The downloaded engines run fully offline — audio never touches disk or leaves your Mac.
• Dictation on macOS 14 and 15. Pick Parakeet or Whisper and voice dictation no longer requires macOS 26 (Apple silicon Macs).

Improvements

• Hosted dictation returns faster. Audio now uploads compressed — about 8× smaller — so transcripts come back sooner, especially for longer dictations and on slower connections.

Fixes

• The first dictation after launch no longer fails with "No audio from…". A just-woken microphone could deliver pure silence for the whole first session (and the second try would mysteriously work). Slash now detects the dead start and restarts capture mid-recording without losing any words.
• A brief network blip no longer downgrades a dictation. Hosted transcription retries once before falling back to on-device.

New

• One shared Notes editor across Mac and Android. Notes now use the same Markdown engine and document format on both platforms, with headings, bold text, lists, task items, and [[wikilinks]] behaving consistently.
• Notes are agent-accessible. Authorized agents can create, read, and append to notes through the encrypted sync service without needing an interactive app sign-in.

Improvements

• Notes stay canonical Markdown. Editing, syncing, and agent operations preserve the plain-text source so notes remain portable and future clients can use the same data without translating a proprietary editor format.

Fixes

• The Android editor fills the available screen and selects text correctly. The shared editor no longer collapses to a zero-height WebView, and touch selection—including double-tap word selection—works on phone.

New

• Focus mode for notes. A button in the note's toolbar collapses the sidebar and note list so you see just the note — press again to bring them back. It steps down progressively (full layout → list hidden → note only), Obsidian-style, for distraction-free writing.

Improvements

• The notes details column is resizable. Drag its divider to set how wide it is and Slash remembers the width; the divider is easier to grab, and the note's title now sits at the top of the pane.

Fixes

• Dictation transcription works reliably again. Hosted dictation had been silently falling back to on-device transcription for everyone — the higher-quality hosted transcription almost never went through. It now works as intended.
• No more false "Slash AI limit reached" for Pro subscribers. A momentary hiccup from the transcription service was being reported as if you'd hit your plan's limit. Now a brief service slowdown shows an honest "Slash AI is busy — transcribed on-device" note instead, a real outage shows a warning in Dictation settings, and your Pro limit is only ever mentioned when you've actually reached it.

New

• Notes read and edit on one surface. No more flip between a reading view and an editor: a note opens looking fully formatted, clicking in places the cursor right there, and only the line you're on reveals its markdown markers — bold, headings, and links stay styled as you type, Obsidian-style. Esc puts the note back to reading.
• Click a checkbox to toggle it. Click the box of a - [ ] item to check or uncheck it — no need to edit the text. Checked items show struck through.
• Find inside a note. ⌘F opens a find bar scoped to the note you're reading (⌘F elsewhere still searches your lists). Esc dismisses the bar, then the note.
• Move and delete lines. ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ move the current line (or selection) up and down; ⌘⇧K deletes it.
• [[ closes itself. Typing [[ adds the closing ]] with the cursor between, the link suggestions still pop up, and picking one never leaves stray brackets.
• A details sidebar for notes. A toggle in the note's top-right corner opens a column with where the note is linked from, created/updated times, its folder and source, and word counts — collapse it and the note takes back the full width.
• Working undo in notes. ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z now work in the note editor, scoped to the note you're editing.

Improvements

• Bullets look like bullets. List dashes render as • at every nesting level, wrapped lines align under their item's text, and blockquotes sit indented with dimmed text.

Fixes

• Sync can't interrupt your typing. A sync arriving while you're editing a note no longer replaces the text under your cursor (which could jump the caret and clear undo) — it waits until you leave the note, and your newer edits always win.
• Typing in big notes is smoother. Each keystroke now restyles only the line you changed instead of the whole note, which also removes a subtle flicker when moving between lines.

New

• Lists that write themselves. Press Return on a bullet, numbered, or checklist item and the next one starts automatically (Return on an empty item ends the list). Tab and Shift-Tab indent and outdent list items.
• ⌘B, ⌘I, and ⌘K in notes. Bold or italicize the selection (press again to undo it), or wrap it as a link with the cursor ready for the URL.
• Richer note rendering. Numbered lists, blockquotes, and horizontal rules (---) now render properly instead of showing raw markdown.

Fixes

• Typing in long notes stays fast. Notes now save shortly after you pause typing instead of re-encrypting the whole store on every keystroke — and still save instantly when you switch notes, close, or quit.
• Notes look better. Headings render at their proper sizes, bullets get real bullet points, and line spacing gives text room to breathe. Notes pasted with Windows-style line endings no longer collapse into one giant heading.

Fixes

• Folders now show the notes you filed in them. A folder listed only its commands, so a note captured with #folder — or filed from the note editor — was nowhere to be seen in that folder, and the folder's count ignored it. Folders now list your commands and your notes together, and count both.
• Duplicate no longer copies a command you've navigated away from. ⌘D and the Command ▸ Duplicate menu item now act only on the command list's selection, matching Copy and Delete.

Fixes

• "Delete everything" now confirms your data is truly gone. Clearing clipboard, notes, or dictation history verifies the encryption key was destroyed before removing anything — if it can't, it keeps your data and shows an error instead of falsely reporting success.
• An older version of Slash no longer wipes newer data. Clipboard and dictation history written by a newer version is preserved (locked) instead of reset when an older build opens it.
• The Delete key now works in the Notes, Clipboard, and Dictations lists, and Tab / arrow-key navigation is consistent across every Library section.
• Link notes no longer show their address twice, empty notes are easy to click into, and deleting a filtered note no longer jumps the selection to a hidden one.

Improvements

• Notes open rendered and drop into edit on click (Esc to return); the note action row is streamlined to Folder · Copy · Pin · Delete, with folder colors in the picker.
• The sidebar's notes area is now labeled "Capture."

New

• Private AI rewrite quality evaluation. The single explicitly allowlisted dogfood account can now contribute real selection rewrites to a weekly quality check. It tests instruction following, factual faithfulness, usefulness, protected numbers and URLs, and response time. Quick Ask, audio, and every other account are excluded.
• Quality, speed, and cost scorecards. Weekly dictation cleanup, Voice Ramble, and rewrite evaluations now report latency, token use, and provider-returned cost alongside quality. Production-model cost stays separate from independent judge overhead, including cost per passing result.

Improvements

• Private evaluation consent is clearer. The hidden account-only switch now explicitly names dictation, Voice Ramble, and selection rewrites, and confirms that Quick Ask is not included.

New

• Private Voice Ramble quality evaluation. For the single explicitly allowlisted dogfood account, the existing private-evaluation switch now covers raw and structured Voice Ramble text—never audio—and checks real examples weekly for faithfulness, usefulness, protected terms, and latency. Other accounts do not see the switch or contribute data.

New

• Find anything you've captured without leaving the Command Bar. Press Tab while typing to search your notes, saved links, image text, and dictation history, then open the result directly.
• Organize Notes into folders. File notes from the Library, filter the list by folder, type #folder while capturing to file immediately, and use [[/ autocomplete to insert a folder token.
• Save pasted links as rich notes. Pasting a URL into the Command Bar captures it with its page title while preserving the original link.

Improvements

• Dictation cleanup quality checks now run weekly. Slash's regression suite keeps protecting names, numbers, and meaning without spending money on repetitive daily synthetic runs.
• Notes are cleaner and easier to edit. Link notes no longer repeat their URL in the body, notes open in a readable rendered view and switch to editing when clicked, and the detail view has fewer competing controls.

Fixes

• Capture search is more precise. Long text no longer produces surprising fuzzy matches, while short queries still tolerate small gaps and typos.
• Folder sync is safer across Macs. Concurrent edits, deletions, and encrypted-store failures no longer leave notes filed into missing or stale folders.
• Note interactions behave consistently. Empty notes have a real click target, Delete works from the note detail view, and link-only notes no longer store duplicate body text.

New

• Report a bug or request a feature from the Command Bar. New /bug and /feature commands open a prefilled email to Slash support (with your app version and OS) so you can send feedback in a few keystrokes.

Improvements

• The Command Bar has a calmer, steadier shape. It now settles into three consistent sizes — a slim resting strip, a compact size while you're typing a thought or asking AI, and the full size for command search — instead of resizing on every keystroke or when you switch to Ask. Reopening it no longer flashes the previous shape.
• Manage Subscription now sits with the other account actions (next to Sign out) on the Account tab, instead of floating in its own box.

Fixes

• Dictation no longer fails on the first try after your Mac's been idle. A cold start could report "Couldn't access the microphone" until you pressed the hotkey a second time; Slash now warms up the mic and retries automatically, so the first press works.

A polish pass over the 1.25.0 release, from an exhaustive multi-agent audit.

Fixes

• "Upgrade to Pro" while signed out now says "Sign in to upgrade" and takes you there, instead of doing nothing.
• Saving an image from clipboard history as a command no longer fails silently when it can't be saved — you get a clear message.
• Deleting a note with the keyboard now asks for confirmation (matching the trash button), and can no longer hit a note that your search has hidden.
• The Account tab no longer shows your Pro expiry date or weekly AI allowance twice.
• The Command Bar's capture card is fully keyboard-navigable: ↓/↑ walk every action (Save, Ask AI, Create command, and matching commands), and Return runs the highlighted one.
• Fixed stale wording throughout: a command type that didn't exist, "1 commands", a hint claiming built-in tools "run on an AI model", and messages implying tool triggers fire while you type.

Improvements

• Accessibility: the Command Bar's action rows, note thumbnails, image captures, and the note delete button now have proper VoiceOver labels, and the Command Bar's resize respects the Reduce Motion setting.
• The "New note" shortcut moved to the Features group in Settings ▸ Shortcuts, alongside the other feature shortcuts.

New

• Slash's own features are now commands. Ten new built-in tools, runnable from the Command Bar: /note opens the note capture window, /new opens Quick Add, /library opens the Library, /notes jumps straight to your Notes, /settings opens Settings, /pause pauses or resumes expansions, /import starts the snippet importer, /theme cycles the appearance (System → Light → Dark), and /updates checks for a new version. /ask turns the bar into a question box: the placeholder flips to "Ask AI anything…" and plain Return submits your question to Ask AI (Esc goes back to normal). New installs get them in the Starter folder; existing installs pick them up automatically on next launch.
• The Command Bar now acts on whatever you type. A new Actions section at the bottom of the Command Bar saves the typed text straight to Notes with ⌘↩ — "Capture as note" for text, "Save link to Notes" when it's a URL (saved as a link card). "Ask AI" (Tab) moved into the same section so the bar's query actions live in one place. Plain Return still inserts the highlighted command, exactly as before.
• The Command Bar knows what you mean by how you type. Start with / and it's command search, exactly as before. Type plain text and the bar goes capture-first: plain Return saves it straight to Notes (link URLs get a "Save link to Notes" row), Tab asks AI, and ⌘N turns the thought into a new command — with up to three "Run /x instead" rows underneath when the text still looks like a command you use, reachable with ↓. The bar at rest is now just that — a slim strip with the input field and a hint, no list — and the panel itself shrinks to hug it, growing back to your full size the instant you type /. Command mode is list-only now (Raycast-style): the body preview pane is gone, so your whole library fits on screen, and /sig-style searches also match command titles again. With Notes off, plain text keeps today's search behavior.
• Voice Ramble. Tap ⌃⌥R (or run /ramble from the Command Bar), talk through a messy thought, tap again — Slash turns it into a tidy note (short title + cleaned-up prose) in your Library, with the raw transcript kept below it. If AI isn't available, the raw transcript is saved as-is: the thought is never lost. Files into Notes; the shortcut is configurable in Settings ▸ Shortcuts.
• Snippets and Commands are now visually distinct. Everything you invoke — built-in tools like /dictate and AI commands like /fix — shows one "Command" badge in the Library and Command Bar; snippets stay unbadged. Selecting a built-in Command in the Library now shows a clean panel explaining what it does and how to run it, instead of an empty snippet editor.
• Link captures. Saving a note whose content is a URL now records it as a link: it gets a link icon and the site's domain in the Notes list, and the note itself shows the URL up top, ready to open in your browser. Syncs across Macs like any other note.
• Save to Notes from clipboard history. Text and link clips in the Library's Clipboard view have a new "Save to Notes" button that keeps a copy as a note — independent of your clipboard history, so clearing history never touches it.
• Image captures. "Save to Notes" now works on image clips too: the picture is copied into its own encrypted store, shows as a thumbnail in the Notes list and full-size in the note, and the text *inside* the image (recognized on-device) makes it searchable. Image notes stay on this Mac for now — they don't sync yet.
• Notes search. The Notes list has a search field that matches titles, note text, and the recognized text inside image captures.

• Starter folder. On a fresh install, Slash's built-in example commands now arrive in a "Starter" folder instead of loose in your library, so it's obvious which commands are yours. "Restore Starter Commands" files what it brings back into the same folder. Existing libraries are left exactly as they are — nothing is moved.

Improvements

• Favorites lead the Command Bar. Starred commands rise to the top of the bar and win ties in search results; your recent habits (used-lately beats used-long-ago) order the rest.
• One Shortcuts tab. Every global shortcut — Command Bar, Library, note capture, dictation, Voice Ramble, clipboard history, and GIF search — now lives in a single Settings ▸ Shortcuts tab instead of being scattered across feature tabs.
• Simpler Settings. Nine tabs become seven: Clipboard and Notes merge into a Features tab, Pro and Account merge into one Account tab, and the Privacy controls now live in General. Every setting is still there — just easier to find.
• Tool commands no longer fire while you type. Typing /dictate, /paste, /gif, or /emoji inline used to trigger the tool mid-sentence; these now run only from the Command Bar or their hotkeys — the typed name stays put as ordinary text and still works as a search term.

New

• Code snippets. A new snippet type built for code: a monospace editor that stores and pastes your text *exactly* as written — no smart-quote or dash "corrections" that quietly break code — with an optional language tag. Pick it from the new Text / AI Command / Code switcher in the command editor.

Improvements

• The [[ link menu now pops up right at your cursor while you type in a note, instead of at the bottom of the editor. And an empty notebook shows a "Type to search notes…" hint so it's clear the search is live.
• Notes remember where a capture came from — the source app on every capture, and the original URL when you save a pasted link.
• The command editor's Text / AI Command / Code switcher now matches the native macOS segmented-control look and has a clear label.
• Every note action (Copy, Paste, Pin…) now confirms with the same on-screen toast.

Fixes

• Fixed the type switcher being unable to change a command back from Code to Text or AI.
• The command list no longer shows uneven gaps around action commands like /dictate and /emoji.
• Nested note links like [[a[[b]] now resolve to the inner note.
• Note titles are capped so an overlong title can't break the layout.
• The orange "needs Accessibility" banner no longer flashes for a moment on launch when the permission is already granted.

New

• Notes is now on for everyone. No toggle hunt — the Notes section and the ⌃⌥N capture shortcut are ready out of the box. (If you'd turned it off, your choice sticks.)
• New note from the Library. A + button in the Notes list creates a note, drops you straight into the Title field, and Tab moves into the body — name it, write it, done.

Improvements

• The note editor reads like a document. One big title at the top (no more duplicate title line), the date tucked above it, and every action visible on the page — Copy, Paste, Pin, Add Link, Save as Command — no overflow menu.
• Esc in the Command Bar now clears your search first, then closes on a second press — the same rhythm as Spotlight and Raycast.
• Pressing Return in the New Command sheet saves it (⌘↵ still works, and Return keeps making new lines while you're writing the expansion).
• Clipboard history hides filter tabs with nothing in them.

Fixes

• Switching sidebar filters no longer leaves the editor showing a command that isn't in the list — the selection follows the filter.
• The development build now says "Slash Dev" in its window and menu bar, so it can't be mistaken for the real app.

New

• Note links you can click. [[Title]] links now look and act like links while you write — the title shows underlined in the accent color with the brackets dimmed, and clicking one jumps straight to that note. Works in the Library editor and the ⌃⌥N quick-capture window (from capture, the note opens in the Library and your draft is saved first).
• Slash now tells you when another app is blocking expansion. When any app turns on macOS secure keyboard input (password fields, Terminal's Secure Keyboard Entry, a stuck app), every text expander on your Mac silently stops receiving keystrokes. Slash now detects it and names the culprit in the menu bar and Library — "Expansion blocked — 'Claude' has secure keyboard input enabled" — with what to do about it, instead of looking healthy while nothing expands. The warning clears itself within seconds of the other app letting go.

Fixes

• Esc reliably closes the quick-capture window.
• Picking a note from the [[ autocomplete now inserts a working link (it could previously leave a stray ]] instead), and the popup responds to the mouse and ↑/↓ keys properly.
• The [[ autocomplete now works in the quick-capture window too, including creating a new note from what you typed.
• Warning banners span the full window instead of being cut off by the middle column, and no longer tint the window's title bar.
• Notes has its own sidebar section instead of living under History.

New

• Notes — a new way to capture. Press ⌃⌥N anywhere to jot a quick markdown note into an inbox that lives in Slash, right alongside your commands and clipboard. It's the fourth thing Slash does — capture — next to expanding, transforming, and recalling. Off by default; turn it on in Settings ▸ Notes.
• Link your notes together. Type [[ and a searchable list of your notes appears — pick one to link to it, or create a new note on the spot. Click a link to jump there, and every note shows what links back to it. It's connected, not a filing cabinet — no folders, no tags, no graph.
• Optional titles. Give a note a title if you want a clean name for it, or don't and Slash uses its first line. Either way, a titled note keeps the same link even as you edit its body.
• Save links into notes. Paste a URL and Slash turns it into a tidy link with the page's title filled in automatically.
• Notes sync across your Macs (Pro), encrypted end to end like your commands — jot on one Mac, it's on the others in about a second.
• Do more with a note. Copy it, paste it into whatever app you're in, pin it, or turn it into a reusable command.

New

• See your weekly Slash AI at a glance. For free accounts, the Pro tab in Settings now shows how much of this week's Slash AI you have left ("This week — 18 of 25 left · resets Monday"), so the free budget is something you can check rather than a surprise when you hit it.

Improvements

• A clearer way to pick a plan. The Pro tab now shows Yearly and Monthly as two selectable cards priced the same way — $4/mo billed annually (with a "Save 20%" badge) next to $5/mo — and a single "Upgrade to Pro" button, so you choose first and check out second instead of a price opening checkout the instant you tap it.

New

• A real welcome. First launch now walks you through Slash in five quick steps: type /sig in a live demo field and watch it expand, learn the Command Bar hotkey, try voice dictation, grant the one permission Slash needs, and see what Pro adds. Skippable at any point, and re-runnable from Help ▸ Show Welcome.
• See exactly what will be inserted. The Command Bar preview now resolves a command's variables live — today's date, the time, your clipboard — and marks the fill-in prompts and cursor position with inline chips, so what you see is what gets typed.

Improvements

• A taller preview pane. The Command Bar preview nearly doubled in height, so multi-line snippets show in full — with their line breaks — instead of one squeezed line.
• Smoother, more consistent motion. Panels, banners, keycap hints, and the sync pulse now share one house animation style instead of each doing their own thing.

Fixes

• Scrolling and hover behave everywhere. The clipboard list and GIF grid got the same fix the command list got in 1.18: arrow-key navigation scrolls the list and no longer fights the mouse.
• Small edge cases around sign-out. Signing out mid-checkout no longer leaves a stale "Finished checking out?" prompt behind.

New

• Ask AI anything, right from the Command Bar. Type a question and press Tab (or click the new Ask AI button) — the answer appears in place, ready to copy. Select text first and the AI sees it, with a visible chip showing exactly what's being shared. Answers are copy-only by design: Ask never types into your document.
• A command menu for every result. Press ⌘K on anything in the Command Bar for its full set of actions — insert, copy, edit, favorite, or delete a command; paste, pin, or save a clip. Deleting asks for a confirming second press, since deletes now sync everywhere.
• The bar learns your habits. Results are ranked by how often and how recently you use each command, so your daily drivers float to the top.
• No more dead-end searches. No matches? One press turns your search into a brand-new command.
• Upgrade and manage your plan in Settings. A new Pro tab shows what Pro includes, both plans ($5/month or $48/year), and — for subscribers — a Manage Subscription button that opens your billing page for card changes, invoices, or cancellation.

Fixes

• Arrow keys no longer fight the mouse. With the cursor resting over the Command Bar list, keyboard navigation could snap the highlight back to the row under the mouse.

New

• Sync is now realtime. Edit a command on one Mac and it appears on your others in about a second — no more waiting for the next check-in. A quiet pulse at the bottom of the Library sidebar shows sync activity as it happens: a brief spinner and checkmark when something moves, nothing at all when everything is quiet, and a small notice if sync ever needs attention.

Improvements

• Conflict handling got a precision upgrade. Sync now uses logical clocks under the hood, so the "newest edit wins" rule stays correct even when a Mac's system clock is wrong — and server writes are fully atomic, so simultaneous edits from two Macs can never lose the newer one.
• A tidier menu bar. Slash's own menus no longer carry macOS-injected items that duplicate or confuse Slash's features (AutoFill's Passwords and Credit Cards, Apple's Writing Tools and Start Dictation), the window-tab commands are gone from a single-window app, and the two "View" menus are now one.

Fixes

• Edits made right after receiving a sync update always sync back. A subtle timing issue could classify a fresh edit as already-synced on a Mac whose clock ran behind; several variants of this were found and fixed, including one in the millisecond arithmetic itself.

Fixes

• Deleting a synced command now removes it from your other Macs. A launch-day bug rejected deletion records at the server, so deletes stayed local while sync reported everything was fine. Deletions now propagate within seconds — and any deletes made on 1.16.0 catch up automatically.
• Sync status is honest about problems. A stalled upload could hide behind a green "Synced" as long as downloads kept working. The status now stays visible until the upload actually recovers.
• No more doubled starter commands when a second Mac joins. Signing in on another Mac used to duplicate the built-in starter commands. Untouched duplicates are now cleaned up automatically — any starter you've edited or used is always kept.
• Pro accounts no longer see "add an AI model" advice they don't need. The AI commands view suggested configuring a model even when Slash AI (included with Pro) was already handling everything with zero setup.

New

• Encrypted sync & backup across your Macs (Pro). Sign in with your email on any Mac and your commands, folders, and settings are there — synced automatically in the background, encrypted in transit and at rest. Your library is backed up the moment it syncs: a new or reinstalled Mac restores everything with just your email sign-in. Edits made offline sync when you're back online; if the same command was edited on two Macs, the newer edit wins. Clipboard and dictation history never leave your Mac.
• Export and import your commands. Everyone (no account needed) can now save their commands and folders — images included — to a file from File → Export Commands…, and bring them back with Import. Importing merges by command: nothing is duplicated, and your newer local edits are never silently overwritten.
• Sync status at a glance. Settings → Account shows your sync state and last-synced time, and the Library shows a notice if sync ever needs your attention — a stalled sync is never silent.

Fixes

• Saving can no longer outrun the Mac's Keychain. In rare cases — typically a locked Mac at the exact moment of a save — clipboard history, dictation history, or a command's image could be encrypted with a key the Keychain never actually stored, leaving that data unreadable after the next launch. Slash now verifies the key is safely stored before sealing anything, and safely skips the save otherwise.

Improvements

• Under-the-hood restructuring. The app's core coordinator was split into focused services and encryption-key handling was unified into one audited path. Nothing visible changes — this makes future updates safer and faster to ship.

Fixes

• The "Save GIF as Command" panel truly goes away now. 1.15.0's fix covered the Command Bar but missed two sibling panels — the GIF-save sheet and the fill-in-the-blanks input prompt could stay on screen indefinitely, follow you across desktops, and swallow a stray Return into an accidental saved command. Every floating Slash panel now shares one dismissal rule: click anywhere outside and it's gone (these two also leave when you switch Spaces). The Command Bar keeps its usual behavior, and an AI command you've started is never cancelled by moving between desktops.

Improvements

• Faster with big libraries and long histories. Expanding a snippet no longer rewrites your whole command library behind the scenes, Command Bar search stays instant as your library grows, reading text out of copied screenshots no longer re-saves your clipboard history once per image, and the keystroke matcher does less work on every key you type. Same behavior, less churn.

New

• Slash AI Dictation — your Mac finally spells your name right. Signed in, dictation is now transcribed by a hosted speech model with a real jump in accuracy on names, jargon, and fast speech — the same hotkey, pill, and insert, just noticeably better words. On-device transcription stays the default and runs in parallel as an instant fallback: offline, or if the service is ever slow or unreachable, your words still land (with a small note telling you why). Free accounts get it from the weekly Slash AI allowance; Pro removes the limit. Your audio is forwarded for transcription and never used for training, and never written to disk. Prefer to keep your voice fully on-device? Turn on On-device only in Settings ▸ Dictation.

Fixes

• The GIF search window no longer lingers or reappears. A leftover "Save GIF as Command" panel could hang around over other apps — or come back on the next launch — and turn a stray click or Return into an accidental saved GIF command. Palettes now dismiss the moment you click away, and these transient windows never restore themselves.

New

• Every built-in tool, three ways. Dictation, GIF search, and the emoji picker now work however you reach for them: a hotkey, the Command Bar, or just typing /dictate, /gif, or /emoji inline in any app. New installs get these commands out of the box; existing libraries pick them up automatically (delete one and it stays deleted).
• /emojify. Select text, run it, and AI adds tasteful emoji — grouped with the tone commands.

Improvements

• Dictation cleanup is faster and more faithful. Cleanup now runs on a faster model (typically under half a second), and it will never swap one of your words for a different one — a visible transcription quirk beats a fluent wrong guess. Filler removal, punctuation, and your My Words vocabulary work as before.
• Similar triggers no longer collide. A trigger that starts another trigger (/emoji and /emojify, /sig and /signature) now waits until you finish typing instead of the shorter one firing mid-word.
• Hitting the weekly Slash AI limit now shows your options. The message offers Pro (one press of Return opens checkout) with your own-API-key path noted alongside — instead of just telling you to come back Monday. Running an AI command while signed out now offers a one-click "Sign in free" instead of failing quietly.

Fixes

• Buying Pro is more resilient. Returning from checkout on flaky Wi-Fi can no longer sign you out; an abandoned checkout no longer keeps re-checking your account; and payment records on our side are protected against out-of-order billing events — a canceled old subscription can never override a new one you just paid for.

New

• Free Slash AI, every week. Create a free account (Settings ▸ Account — just your email and a one-time code, no password, no card) and you get a weekly allowance of Slash AI: run /rewrite, /fix, /reply and get your dictations cleaned up with no API key and no setup. The allowance refills every Monday. Your text is forwarded for processing and never used for training.
• Slash AI for dictation. With a free account and no key configured, dictation cleanup (filler words gone, punctuation added) now works out of the box — it shares your weekly Slash AI allowance. When the allowance runs out, dictation keeps working and simply types your words verbatim until Monday.
• Go Pro from the app. Settings ▸ Account now has Get Pro — $4/mo, billed yearly. It opens a secure Stripe checkout in your browser (Stripe handles your card and taxes; we never see your payment details), and your account lights up Pro the moment you're back in the app. Pro removes the weekly Slash AI limit.

Improvements

• With no account and no API key, running an AI command now points you to free Slash AI as well as the bring-your-own-key option. Your own key stays free and unlimited, as always.
• Anonymous usage analytics (counts of app launches, expansions, and AI command runs — never your command text, triggers, titles, or clipboard) now help us see what's working, with the same posture as crash reports: anonymous, and you can turn it off any time in Settings ▸ Privacy & Diagnostics.

Improvements

• Capitalization is one setting now, not per-command. How triggers match capitalization moved to Settings ▸ Expansion — choose once for the whole app: Any case (the default — type in any casing, text inserts as written), Adapt (the inserted text follows how you typed the trigger: omw → "on my way", Omw → "On my way", OMW → "ON MY WAY"), or Exact (only the exact casing expands). Replaces the per-command Case picker from 1.12.0.
• Import moved into Settings. Importing snippets from another app now lives under Settings ▸ Expansion (and still File ▸ Import Snippets…, ⇧⌘I) — the Library toolbar button is gone, since importing is a once-in-a-while thing.
• Native scrollbars. Scrollbars across the app are now the standard macOS auto-hiding kind — they appear only while scrolling and no longer sit permanently on the right.
• The Library sidebar's top item now just reads All (it holds snippets too, not only commands).

Fixes

• Dictations list. Selection now uses the same neutral highlight as the rest of the app, and the Copy / Delete buttons moved to the detail pane, so hovering a row no longer makes it shift. Arrow keys, ⌫, and ↵ now work in the list.
• Command editor. No more layout jump when switching between Edit and Preview, and the stray gap below the Trigger field is gone.

New

• Import your snippets from another app. File ▸ Import Snippets… (⇧⌘I) brings in your whole library from TextExpander, aText, Alfred, Raycast, or a plain CSV in one step — pick the exported file, Slash detects the format, and you get a preview with any conflicts flagged before anything is added. Placeholders map to Slash's where there's an equivalent; the rest come in as plain text.
• Nested snippets. A command can embed another with {{snippet:trigger}} — e.g. end /proposal with {{snippet:sig}}, and editing your sig command updates it everywhere. Reference loops are handled safely.
• Custom date & time formats. {{date:yyyy-MM-dd}} and {{time:HH:mm}} (any format pattern), alongside the existing {{date}}/{{time}}.
• Per-command case matching. Each command now has a Case setting: Ignore (the default — matches any casing, as before), Sensitive (exact case only), or Adapt (the output matches how you typed it — omw → "on my way", Omw → "On my way", OMW → "ON MY WAY").
• A variable reference in the editor. An "Insert variable" button lists every variable — dates, clipboard, cursor, nested snippets, and more — each with a description and example, so they're discoverable instead of something you have to memorize.

Improvements

• Voice dictation is macOS 26-only. It relies on macOS 26's on-device speech engine for its accuracy; on earlier versions the dictation controls show a short note instead of falling back to a weaker engine.

Fixes

• The command editor no longer shifts around as you type. The body area and the New Command popup stay put instead of resizing while you write or when a validation note appears.

New

• A dramatically better dictation engine. Voice dictation now runs on macOS 26's new on-device speech engine — the same one behind the system's own dictation — with a big jump in accuracy on natural, long-form speech. Your voice is still processed entirely on your Mac, and there's nothing to download: macOS manages the speech model itself.
• My words. Teach dictation the names and jargon it should get right — people, products, shorthand. Add them one per line in Settings ▸ Dictation and both speech recognition and the AI cleanup start spelling them correctly. Works offline; the list never leaves your Mac.
• Dictation language picker. Dictate in any language the speech engine supports, or follow your system language (Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ Language). Switching may download that language's model once, handled by macOS.
• Filler cleanup without an AI key. With "Clean up dictation" on but no AI model configured, Slash now strips the "um"s and "uh"s itself (English) — locally, instantly, nothing sent anywhere.

Improvements

• Voice dictation requires macOS 26. On earlier versions Slash shows an honest "needs macOS 26" notice instead of falling back to the old, less accurate engine — dictation should be great or absent, never mediocre.
• Settings reorganized into tabs. General, Expansion, Dictation, Clipboard, AI, and Privacy — the single long page had outgrown itself. The window is properly resizable too.
• Dictation feel. A bigger waveform, faster insertion after you stop speaking, Esc cancels from any state (including mid-cleanup), and error messages now say what actually went wrong — including naming a silent input device instead of a vague "no speech detected".

Fixes

• Dictating no longer wipes a copied image or file. Inserting a dictation preserves whatever was on your clipboard, in full.
• An eager next dictation no longer discards the previous one. Pressing the hotkey while the last dictation was still transcribing used to silently drop those words.
• The dictation pill stays readable on dark pages (it could fade to near-invisible over a black browser tab) and appears on the display you're working on, not always the primary one.
• GLM models respond promptly. Using a GLM model (like z-ai/glm-4.6) via OpenRouter now disables its slow "thinking" mode automatically — responses in about a second instead of up to 30.

Fixes

• Microphone access works in the shipped app. The notarized 1.10.0/1.10.1 builds could never show the Microphone permission prompt (a missing hardened-runtime entitlement), so dictation couldn't hear anything. If dictation said it needed permissions that macOS wouldn't grant, this release fixes it. (1.10.1 attempted this fix; 1.10.2 completes it.)

New

• Voice dictation. Hold a hotkey (default ⌃⌥D), speak, release — clean text appears at your cursor in any app. Or tap the hotkey to keep recording until you tap again. Speech is transcribed on your Mac; with an AI model configured, a cleanup pass removes filler words and polishes punctuation before inserting (raw transcript otherwise). Configurable in Settings ▸ Dictation.
• Dictations history. Your last 50 dictations, kept encrypted on your Mac, in a new History section of the Library beside Clipboard — click one for the full text, copy or delete it, or turn the history off entirely.

Fixes

• "Search Giphy…" now reachable on any command. The editor's add-image button is now a menu with both "Choose Image…" and "Search Giphy…" — previously the Giphy option only appeared after a command already had an image attached, so there was no way to reach it on a new or text command.

New

• GIF search. Press ⌃⌥G (configurable), type what you're feeling, pick a GIF — it drops into whatever app you were in. Powered by Giphy; the GIF stays on your clipboard so ⌘V lands it anywhere the auto-paste can't. On by default, with an off switch in Settings for the privacy-conscious (search text goes to Giphy).
• Saved GIF commands. Found a GIF you'll use again? Save it as a command — ⌘Return on a result (or the save button) binds it to a trigger like /funny, and typing that trigger pastes the exact same GIF, animated, no search needed. You can also pick a GIF right inside the command editor with its new "Search Giphy…" button.
• Images view in the Library. A new sidebar filter that gathers every image snippet — stills and saved GIFs — in one place.

Fixes

• Recording a keyboard shortcut could change the wrong one. Setting a shortcut in Settings sometimes saved your key combo to a different action's shortcut and looked like nothing happened. Each recorder now saves to the setting it belongs to.

New

• Emoji shortcodes. Type :rocket: and it becomes 🚀 in any app, from a built-in dictionary of the standard :name: codes. On by default (toggle in Settings ▸ Expansion). Your own commands always win over the built-in names, and you can turn it off if it clashes with apps that have their own :emoji: autocomplete, like Slack or Discord.
• A clearer signal when Accessibility is off. The menu-bar icon now flags when Slash is missing the Accessibility permission it needs to expand text — so an app that's been silently switched off is obvious at a glance instead of just seeming broken.

Fixes

• Editor controls in a narrow window. In a small or split window, the command editor's header controls (Edit/Preview, add-image, copy) and its "Insert variable" chips could crowd, clip, or break mid-word. They now reflow onto their own lines and wrap cleanly.

New

• Search the text inside your screenshots. Slash now recognizes the text in images you copy — entirely on your Mac, nothing is ever sent anywhere — so you can find a screenshot by the words in it. On by default (toggle in Settings ▸ Clipboard), and screenshots already in your history become searchable automatically.
• A search box for your clipboard history. The Library's Clipboard view now has a search field, the Command Bar's clipboard view gained a Text / Link / File / Image filter, and clipboard search is faster and more forgiving (it tolerates typos and partial matches).
• Resizable windows that remember their size. Drag the Command Bar, Library, and Settings windows to resize them, and the size is remembered across launches. The Command Bar's close and minimize buttons work now too.

Improvements

• Removed the per-command Creativity setting from AI commands.

Fixes

• Delete a command with the keyboard. Selecting a command in the Library and pressing ⌫ (Delete) now removes it (undo with ⌘Z) — previously the Delete key did nothing there.
• New commands land in the folder you're viewing. Adding a command while a folder is selected now files it into that folder and keeps you there, so it shows up right away — instead of being created unfiled and bouncing you back to All Commands.

New

• Move through the command list with the keyboard. In the Library, use ↑/↓ to move the selection and ⌫ (Delete) to delete the selected command — Delete is undoable with ⌘Z.
• Press Esc to close the Library window. If you're searching, the first Esc clears the search and a second closes the window. (⌘W still closes it too; the app stays in the menu bar.)
• Restore Starter Commands. A new Command menu item re-adds any built-in starters (like /paste) missing from your library — handy if you installed before they were added. It only ever adds starters, never changing or removing commands you've made.

Fixes

• Arrow keys now move through the clipboard list. Opening clipboard history (/paste or ⌃⌥V) and pressing ↑/↓ now moves the selection, instead of doing nothing.

New

• Anonymous crash reporting, to help fix bugs faster. Slash now sends anonymous crash reports so the developer can find and fix crashes you hit. Your command text, triggers, and titles are never included — only an opaque id and counts. A one-time notice explains this, and you can turn it off anytime in Settings; with it off, nothing is sent.

Fixes

• Drag a command into a folder. You can now drag any command from the list onto a folder in the sidebar to move it there.

Improvements

• The New Command screen is less noisy. Removed the "very short triggers…" caution that appeared while typing a trigger — short triggers are allowed, so the warning was just in the way.
• The About window no longer shows an internal build number next to the version.

Improvements

• Snippets paste more reliably in Slack and other Electron apps. Fixed a timing issue where a snippet could delete its trigger but fail to insert the text — leaving an empty field — in apps that read the clipboard slowly.
• Clipboard history is kept by time, not item count. Slash now keeps your copied text for a set number of days (7 by default) instead of a fixed number of items, so a busy day no longer evicts the morning's clips. Images keep their own separate limit.
• Set Translate's language without editing tokens. The command editor now has a Language picker — choose a fixed language or "Ask me each time" — so you never have to type {{…}} by hand.

Fixes

• The Command Bar closes when you click outside it, like Spotlight — instead of staying on screen until you clicked back into it and pressed Escape.

New

• A starter set that matches the website. New installs now come with the exact commands the site shows off — Improve Writing, Fix Spelling & Grammar, Make Shorter, Make Longer, three tone commands (Professional, Friendly, Casual), Translate, Draft a Reply, and Summarize — plus example snippets (email signature, mailing address, today's date) and /paste to open your clipboard history. Every AI command now instructs the model to return only the result, so its answer drops straight into your text with no "Here's your text:" preamble.
• Language picker for Translate — and fixed inputs. Translate now has a built-in language slot. It's set to English so it runs with no prompt; switch it to "Ask me each time" in the command editor to pick from a dropdown (any language, with type-to-filter) on each run. More broadly, any command input can hold a fixed value that runs silently or ask you each time — all set from the editor, with no token syntax to type.

Improvements

• AI commands now work on text anywhere. Running an AI command on a selection now works in Electron apps (like Slack) and terminals, where the selected text lives outside the field you type into. When Slash can't replace the text in place, it copies the result instead and the button reads "Copy" so you know what will happen.
• The input pop-up matches the app. The prompt that asks for a value (like Translate's language) is restyled to match the rest of Slash, with a real dropdown for choices.
• Cleaner translation results. A translation now shows a plain before/after result instead of a misleading word-by-word "changes" count — the change highlight is kept for edits like Fix and tone, where it actually helps.

New

• AI answer commands. AI commands can now *show you an answer* instead of replacing your text. Summarize and Explain Simply — and any command you set to "Show answer" — open the result in a panel to insert at your cursor or copy, leaving your selection untouched. Each AI command's behavior (rewrite the selection vs. show an answer) is set in the command editor; the rewrite commands (Fix, Improve, Tone, Translate…) keep the before/after review.

Fixes

• The Command Bar's command list no longer scrolls on its own as you move the mouse — hovering highlights the item under the cursor; scrolling stays with the trackpad and arrow keys.
• Entering an API key in Settings now confirms it was saved — a checkmark appears as soon as the key is stored, instead of giving no feedback.

New

• AI rewrite review. Running an AI command on selected text now shows a before/after review in the Command Bar — your original text next to the suggestion, with the changed words highlighted and a change count — so you can see exactly what changed before applying. Apply replaces the selection in place; or Copy, Retry, or Cancel.
• Per-provider API keys. Each AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, Ollama) keeps its own key, so switching providers no longer reuses the wrong key. Provider error details now surface in the app when a request fails.

Fixes

• The Command Bar shortcut no longer types into the focused app. Previously, summoning the bar over selected text could overtype and erase the selection — it now opens without disturbing your selection, so AI commands receive the text you highlighted.
• Triggers now delete reliably in WhatsApp and other Electron apps.

First auto-updating release. If you installed 1.0, download 1.1 once from the website — 1.0's updater is dormant and can't update itself. From 1.1 onward, updates install automatically.

New

• Expansion in Slack, Granola, and other Electron apps. Slash now wakes up Chromium's accessibility tree so triggers expand in apps that previously ignored them.

Fixes

• The Command Bar, Library, and Clipboard keyboard shortcuts can now be changed in Settings (the recorder wasn't capturing key presses).
• Opening the Library no longer also opens the Command Bar — which previously appeared stuck and couldn't be dismissed with Escape.
• The "Slash needs Accessibility access" banner no longer overlaps the sidebar.

• Initial public release: local-first slash-command text expander with a Command Bar, clipboard history, AI prompt commands, and signed/notarized distribution.