What's New in Pluely — September 2026 (v1.1.0)

Pluely 1.1.0 shows up for every meeting and lets you go Pro without leaving the app. Update from the app or download the latest installer (how to update). Your existing license works as is.

Buy Pro from inside the app

Reach a Pro feature, or open Dashboard → Your plan, and a small panel shows the plans and prices. Pay on the secure checkout and the license activates on that computer by itself. No key to copy, no email to dig through.

• The purchase is tied to the computer that opened the checkout, and the app checks the key really belongs to your order before keeping it. It can only ever activate once.
• The license email still arrives. If it reaches you before the app finishes, or you bought on the website, paste that key into the License Key field on the dashboard. Both paths end with the same active plan.
• Details: Buy a license and Activate your license.

Meetings

• Meeting detection with one-click transcription. When a call starts in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, FaceTime and more, the overlay comes forward with a quiet Start transcription prompt. No system notification, so nothing shows on a shared screen. Included with every Pro license, Limited, Unlimited and Dev Pro, on by default, with a switch in App Settings.
• Pro settings switch on at activation. The moment a license activates, Hide app icon, Always on top and Meeting detection turn on together, on every Pro license including Dev Pro. This happens on every activation, and each stays a normal switch in App Settings. See What switches on with a license.
• Transcription only. A mode with no automatic AI and no suggestion chips: a clean, speaker-labeled transcript. Switch it from the Auto responses chip or from Responses in the dashboard.
• Automatic meeting recap. When a session ends, Pluely writes a summary with decisions and action items and saves it to the meeting.
• Generate. A clear Generate button in Listen mode, during a session and after you stop, plus the Cmd/Ctrl+G overlay key.
• Answers read the whole conversation. Every response gets the entire transcript and answers the latest lines with something you can actually say.
• Ask and Listen keep separate conversations, and a Start new button clears a finished session and listens again. The history and settings panels close when you click outside them.
• Compact transcript window redesigned, with speaker chips, timestamps and a New lines button when you scroll back.

Signed and notarized on macOS

The macOS build is now signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It opens with a normal double-click: no "Open Anyway" in System Settings, no Terminal command. If an older copy still shows the Gatekeeper warning, here is what to do.

Everywhere else

• Summaries, translations and recaps come back in seconds. Every Summarize-menu option, the automatic meeting recap and the smart chips run on a best model chosen by Pluely, whatever model you picked for chat. Long transcripts are handled in parts. Dev Pro keeps using your own connected AI.
• Hide app icon works the way it should. On macOS the Dock icon disappears the moment the switch flips and the app leaves Cmd+Tab. On Windows and Linux the dashboard window is kept out of the taskbar too, so opening it no longer brings Pluely back; on Windows, quit and reopen Pluely once after turning it on. See App Icon Stealth Mode.
• One copy of Pluely. Opening Pluely while it is already running, from the Dock, Finder, the Start menu or a shortcut, brings the existing overlay forward instead of starting a second copy with its own overlay and dashboard.
• Quit from the overlay. The overlay's settings panel ends with a Quit Pluely button, so you no longer need the dashboard sidebar to exit.
• Hints stay off shared screens. Hover hints, the Listen language menu and the right-click menu are drawn inside Pluely's own window. Before, macOS drew them as separate system popups, which could show up on a screen share even while the overlay was hidden. See Stealth mode and screen-share privacy.
• Open dashboard / Close dashboard. The chip in the overlay's top bar is a toggle and always says which one it will do, however the dashboard was last opened or closed.
• A tidier top bar. On a narrow overlay the bar never wraps: history, settings and the drag handle stay put, and the Docs chip shrinks to its icon until there is room.
• Summarize, translate, rewrite and meeting recaps answer in seconds. On Limited and Unlimited Pro they run on a dedicated best model instead of your chat model, with a hard time limit. Dev Pro keeps using your own AI.
• Automatic screenshots that tell you what happened. A capture that could not go out now says why, right under the composer: missing Screen Recording permission, or a model that cannot read images. Timed captures work during a Listen session too, a line under the composer says what the next message will carry, and an answer that received images says how many were sent.
• Capture area and prompt. Automatic screenshots can be limited to an area you pick once, so unrelated windows stay out, and the question asked with each timed capture is editable. With Use image on, a follow-up chip takes the screenshot and sends it with the prompt in one step.
• Full overlay size. One tap sizes the overlay to the whole screen it is on.
• CLI test and clearer errors. A flask icon next to a connected CLI sends a one-word test and shows the CLI's own reply or error. CLIs installed with npm or nvm now start from the app the way they do in a terminal.
• Search everything. The All Conversations search looks inside transcripts, messages, notes, recaps and file text, on every plan.
• Manage subscription and Contact support buttons next to your license on the dashboard.
• Dev Pro licenses: the live transcription issue is fixed.
• Captured images show as thumbnails under the composer; click one to view it full size, flip between captures, or remove it. Captures are a few hundred KB now, so they take well under a second.

Fixes

• Windows: one invalid shortcut no longer stops all of them from registering, Ctrl+\ hides the overlay again, and Always on top can be turned off. Typing no longer stays stuck in Pluely after you use Ask. The microphone opens the way calling apps do, so Teams, Zoom and browser calls keep their echo cancellation.
• macOS 13 and early 14: Listen mode works again with your microphone. System audio needs macOS 14.2 or later, and Pluely now says so instead of failing.
• Linux: screenshots no longer crash the app. On Wayland, screenshots and region select go through the desktop portal, keyboard shortcuts bind through the shortcut portal (KDE Plasma 5.27+, GNOME 48+, wlroots desktops with a portal), and Listen records through PulseAudio or PipeWire.
• Switching from Listen to Ask pauses a live session and releases the microphone; it stays paused until you press Resume. Stop can no longer hang on "Finishing". Compact view shows the transcript on the Free plan too, with your own speech-to-text provider.
• Windows: Ctrl+G and the other overlay shortcuts (Ctrl+P, R, S, U, 1 to 4) work after you click the overlay, matching Cmd+key on macOS.
• The dashboard sidebar scrolls on a short window, so the links at the bottom are always reachable.
• The Open dashboard chip never bounces: Close hides the dashboard every time, Open brings it in front even when it was minimized or buried, on every platform. While the app icon is hidden, the dashboard cannot be minimized into nowhere.
• After a license activates, the dashboard stays in front instead of dropping behind other windows while the app icon is being hidden, and Pluely starts with the icon already hidden on the next launch.
• CLIs installed with Homebrew or npm are detected on macOS, and OpenAI Codex installed with npm works on Windows.
• Dev Pro always uses your selected speech-to-text provider, and Summarize and the other transformations run on your own provider or CLI.
• Stop in Listen mode finishes the job: the last words are transcribed and the answer is generated.
• A confirmation before removing a license, since a license activates once on one device.
• The app restarts itself after installing an update on macOS and Linux.

Reported on GitHub and fixed in this release

• #305, #291, #292, #287, #310: keyboard shortcuts on Windows, including Ctrl+\ to hide the overlay and the Ctrl+key overlay actions; shortcut hints show the keys for your platform.
• #304: Always on top can be turned off on Windows.
• #303, #302: typing no longer stays stuck in Pluely after you click into another app on Windows.
• #298, #289: the macOS build is signed and notarized, so it opens without the "damaged" warning.
• #295, #306: custom AI and speech providers that send no CORS headers work.
• #294: "Transcription with your provider failed" in Listen mode on Dev Pro.
• #286: CLIs installed with Homebrew or npm are detected on macOS.
• #299, #307: Manage subscription opens the Pluely billing page from the dashboard, and the card shows the email your order is under so you know which one to enter there.
• #290: the blank or transparent window on Linux with AMD graphics and Wayland compositors.
• #285: taking a region screenshot on macOS no longer pulls focus away from the app you are sharing.
• #288: Claude Code keeps one session per conversation, so follow-ups send only the new message and answer sooner.