Changelog

What changed, release by release.

Muxvox Desktop updates itself from 0.3 onward; the phone apps update through the App Store and Google Play.

Desktop 0.5.2 — 1 September 2026

A phone you never accepted no longer uses up a place in the meeting. If a phone asked to join and nobody clicked Allow, Muxvox kept its place reserved for the rest of the session — so later phones were turned away with “that computer already has as many phones connected as it allows”, sometimes with nothing connected at all. Places are now given back the moment a phone goes away, whatever the reason.
“Check the room” explains itself. It used to tell you to choose a room speaker even when you had one selected. The real reason is usually that the speaker was picked after the meeting started, so it now says exactly that — and Settings makes clear that device choices apply from the next Start.

Phones stop kicking each other out of the meeting. A fix in 0.4 that stopped one phone appearing several times in the list went too far: phones installed from the App Store or Google Play look identical to each other, so the desktop mistook a second phone for the first one reconnecting and dropped it. If you could only ever get one phone into a meeting, this was why. Update the Mac and they all connect — nothing to change on the phones.

Dutch notes need nothing from the Terminal. The Whisper engine is now built into Muxvox, so the only thing you fetch is the language model itself, from a button in Settings. Transcribing also got faster: the model is loaded once per meeting instead of once per phone, and you now see a real progress bar — with a Cancel button — instead of a spinner.
Your licence applies the moment you enter it. A Team key entered while Muxvox was already running left the app on the free plan's limits — two phones, and no rooms, room speaker, guest mode or remembered approvals — until you quit and reopened it. Everything you paid for now takes effect immediately, even in the middle of a meeting.
A meeting that ended badly is no longer lost. If Muxvox was force-quit or the Mac lost power mid-meeting, the recording was left in a state nothing could read. Recordings are now kept readable as they are written, and Muxvox can recover the older ones too.

Meeting notes, in beta (Team). Because every phone is its own microphone, Muxvox knows who said what — tag each phone with a name and the transcript uses it. When you stop the meeting, decisions and action items are summarized and everything lands as one Markdown file in Documents › Muxvox (or a folder you pick). All of it happens on your Mac: no audio or text ever leaves it.
You are in charge of the recording. Notes are off, on, paused or resumed per meeting with one click, with a clear pulsing indicator and a clock that counts only recorded time. Nothing is captured while notes are off — and a meeting where notes never ran leaves no files at all. During the beta the indicator lives on the Mac; phone-screen indicators come before notes leave beta.
Languages. English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are transcribed by macOS itself on macOS 26, with summaries by Apple Intelligence. Dutch, auto-detection and ~99 other languages use the optional Whisper engine — during the beta that path needs one extra free install (brew install whisper-cpp); a coming update removes the step. Without Apple Intelligence you still get the full transcript.
Fixes. A joining phone no longer appears several times in the list; pressing Enter while naming a phone no longer ends the meeting; and finished notes announce themselves properly instead of hiding behind other windows.

Plans are here. Personal stays free forever: two phones per session and all core audio. Team adds up to 16 phones, rooms & room speaker, Check the room, remembered approvals and guest mode for $14 per Mac per month or $140 per year — and there's a free 3-day trial inside the app, no card needed. Phones are free on every plan.
Muxvox now updates itself. New versions install automatically — this is the last one you download by hand.
A full room is handled gracefully. When a third phone tries to join on Personal, it gets a clear message — and the two connected phones carry on without a blip. Upgrading lets the next phone straight in, even mid-meeting.
Approvals are truly per phone now. Approving one phone no longer quietly covered others. Phones you approved before will ask once more — after that, everything is remembered correctly.

First public release, for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
The Muxvox audio devices install with one click from inside the app — nothing else to download.
Rooms and room-speaker routing, the "Check the room" sound check, remembered approvals, and automatic mixing.

First releases on the App Store and Google Play.
Your phone becomes the room's microphone and earpiece — audio stays on your own Wi-Fi, encrypted, and never passes through our servers.
Android: an echo-cancellation switch for using the loudspeaker without headphones. (On iPhone it's built in and always on.)