Changelog

Responsive typing, smarter emoji search, and Rewrite

Improvement iPhone Android

• Fast typing stays responsive during quick taps on the mobile keyboard
• Common emoji searches put the expected result first, including eyes → 👀 and eye → 👁️
• Rewrite remains close to the text for clearer, shorter, warmer, or more professional messages
• Dictation, emoji, and AI tools remain available while you type

AiType v5 is available now for macOS and rolling out for iPhone and Android. Read the full update: AiType August 2026 product update

Crash reporting & stability improvements

New iOS macOS Android Windows

• Automatic crash reporting across all platforms — issues are now reported to the development team the next time the app launches after a crash
• iOS keyboard extension now shares crash context with the main app via App Group
• Android crash handler captures stack trace and device model before restart
• macOS app logs crash details to application support for offline queuing
• Windows Go binary recovers from panics gracefully and queues reports for next launch
• Server-side crash dashboard enables faster triage and hotfix deployment

Read the full release notes: What's new in AiType 1.6

Infrastructure reliability & performance

Improvement Backend

• Node.js API now runs as a 4-worker cluster — 4× more CPU capacity for concurrent requests
• SQLite database upgraded to WAL journal mode with optimised pragmas — improved concurrent read performance
• HTTP/2 enabled on nginx for faster parallel asset delivery
• Static asset caching: 1-year cache for fonts, CSS, JS; 10-minute for HTML
• gzip compression expanded to include font formats (woff, woff2)
• Uptime monitor pings /api/health every 5 minutes and emails the team on failure

About 250 ms transcription and cleanup

New iOS macOS Windows

• Transcription pipeline migrated to Groq-hosted Whisper; typical transcription and cleanup now take about 250 ms, with timing that varies by device, connection, and text length
• AI cleanup now runs in parallel with transcription to reduce added processing time
• Updated handling for accented English, technical jargon, and code terms
• Updated homepage product demo shows the current voice-to-clean-text workflow

Android beta launch

New Android

• AiType keyboard now available on Google Play (beta)
• Swipe / glide typing enabled
• Voice dictation with AI cleanup on Android for the first time
• SharedPreferences-based settings sync across keyboard and main app

Team billing & Windows improvements

New Improvement Windows

• Team billing at $7/seat/month — invite teammates directly from Account
• Windows app: improved shortcut remapping, taskbar icon, auto-launch on login
• macOS: better compatibility with Stage Manager and multiple Spaces
• Smart plan: extended AI rewrite model for more nuanced cleanup

Voice history & saved clipboard

New iOS Android

• Voice history: browse and re-paste any previous dictation from the keyboard
• Saved clipboard: pin up to 20 text clips for one-tap paste
• GIF search via Giphy and Tenor integrated into the mobile keyboard
• One-tap Reply suggestions when a message is detected in the focused app

AI rewrite & macOS launch

New macOS

• AiType for macOS — hold ⌥ (Option), speak, release to paste
• AI rewrite: press and hold the AiType key to rephrase selected text
• Multi-language dictation: 98 languages supported
• Custom shortcut remapping in System Preferences integration