What’s new in Kaption

• NewRate any voice-note transcript with 👍 or 👎. After a 👎, tap the words that came out wrong.
• NewSchedule messages to group chats you post in. They go out from your own number on this computer, at most 3 group sends a day.
  • Chrome
  • Mac
  • Windows
• NewAfter you rate a transcript, a “Share this voice note with Kaption?” button lets you send that one note to help us improve. It asks every time and never shares anything on its own.
• BetterVoice notes transcribed in the cloud highlight word by word as they play. No update needed.
  • Chrome
  • Edge
  • Mac
  • Windows
• BetterIf your Kaption sign-in stops renewing, Kaption repairs it in the background right away. If that does not work, a “Sign in to Kaption again” window lets you confirm it is you with your WhatsApp.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• BetterThe Mac and Windows app runs on a newer Chromium engine. On Mac it now needs macOS 13 Ventura or later.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• FixedCall recordings that could not be transcribed in the desktop app now get their transcript.
• FixedCloud dictation and call transcripts no longer fail on a blocked request, and uploads run in parallel.
• FixedThe Windows download on our website works again.
  • Windows
• FixedWhatsApp’s “Create event” form shows its date, time and location fields again with Kaption on.
• FixedRight after you install Kaption or sign in again, on-device voice-note transcripts wait a few seconds for sign-in to finish instead of failing.

Chrome is on 0.95.8 and Mac and Windows on 0.95.10. The changes marked for Mac and Windows only came in 0.95.9–0.95.10 and reach Chrome with the next store update. Edge gets them after store review.

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• NewBackups for everyone (from 0.94.7): Kaption saves an encrypted backup file of your chats in a folder you choose, with Export now and hourly backups on Pro.
• NewThe AI assistants window now has tabs with icons and the real Claude and ChatGPT logos.
• NewClaude and ChatGPT can send messages from this computer by default, with a one-time notice the first time. Turn it off any time in AI assistants › Connections.
• BetterAfter a restart, Claude and ChatGPT get answers within a second, from the copy stored on your computer.
• BetterWindows app: every program file it installs is signed.
  • Windows
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT: creating a WhatsApp list works, attachments upload wherever sending works, and reading a chat no longer marks it as read.
• FixedScheduled messages from this computer: old unread messages no longer hold a send back.

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• NewScheduled messages can go out from your own WhatsApp number, from this computer, with send limits and a one-time consent. On for everyone with Kaption 0.87.2 or newer, Chrome included.
  • Chrome
  • Mac
  • Windows
• NewCall recordings have their own screen, opened from a button at the bottom of the left rail.
• BetterWhatsApp Web stays quicker with Kaption on: far fewer background refreshes on busy accounts.
• BetterThe desktop app installs a downloaded update by itself, and shows a new plan right after you buy it, without a restart.
• FixedVoice notes are transcribed in the language spoken, never translated by mistake.
• FixedHTML chat export works for Chinese-language users, and Settings no longer spins forever.
• FixedWorks with WhatsApp Web 2.3000.1052x, and Windows updates no longer stop on a slow signature check.

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• NewTelegram in the desktop app: add your Telegram accounts to the left rail and use them next to WhatsApp, in the same window.
• BetterVoice Dictation pastes your words at once and puts your clipboard back the way it was.
• FixedCalls recorded live no longer fail to transcribe.
• FixedKaption steps aside in WhatsApp’s Calls section, and older recordings stay listed.
• FixedThe desktop app no longer loops on an update, and dictation types into Notepad on Windows.

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• NewVoice Dictation on Mac and Windows: hold your shortcut, talk, and Kaption types the words where your cursor is, in any app.
• NewA guided setup helps you pick a key and opens the right Mac permission panes.
• BetterSeparate shortcuts for hold-to-talk and press-to-start, modifier-only keys, and fn/Globe on the Mac. Pick your microphone from the dictation pill.
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT get a clear reason when a message can’t be sent, and can download video notes.

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• BetterThe help buttons in Your Plan send your message to Kaption Support at once, and priority support needs no form.
• BetterEmail support works in the desktop app, and “Check for plan updates” shows its result.

The Chrome Web Store has served 0.90.1 since 1 November, which also brought every change from 0.87.1 to 0.90 to the extension.

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• NewPick “Off” as a summary style to keep transcripts without summaries. The style picker is in the browser too.
• BetterClaude and ChatGPT see every message: Kaption no longer skips messages it missed, and re-reads the last 14 days once.
• BetterChat statistics for AI assistants come back much faster.
• FixedOn-device speech and translation models download again after Hugging Face changed its download servers.

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• BetterWindows: about 4 seconds less per voice note transcribed on your computer.
  • Windows
• BetterKaption checks the AI assistant connection far less often, which saves battery and data.
• FixedNew desktop installs can download speech and translation models again.
• FixedSummaries work for voice notes transcribed on your computer, and cloud summaries are never blank.
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT summarize the chat you asked about, and list groups with their names and members.
• FixedScheduled attachments send again on current WhatsApp, and the message due first goes first.

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• NewA new Home beside your chat list: every Kaption feature as an icon, with one search box.
• NewCalendar: your reminders and scheduled messages by month or week.
• NewKanban: your chats as cards, grouped by WhatsApp list or label.
• NewConversation tabs get a New tab page with Chats, Kanban and Calendar, and Settings and support move into one screen with Updates and diagnostics.
• BetterWindows: voice notes transcribed on your computer are several times faster.
  • Windows
• BetterIf on-device transcription can’t run, Kaption uses the cloud by default. You can switch that off.
• Fixed“Building cache…” no longer gets stuck on new accounts, so the AI assistants switch shows up.
• FixedA transcript in progress no longer scrolls the chat, and profile pictures show in tabs.

Includes the work built as 0.83 to 0.85, which first reached users in 0.86.6.

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• NewAdd Kaption to Claude or ChatGPT with a one-time connect code instead of your phone number, from a one-button AI assistants screen.
• BetterKaption steps aside outside WhatsApp’s Chats tab, and shows scheduled-message counts on the Kaption bar and on each chat.
• BetterThe connect page opens in the language you use Kaption in.
• FixedIn group chats, Kaption’s buttons next to the message box no longer overlap.

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• BetterKaption starts faster on large accounts, and AI assistants never see your locked chats.
• BetterDesktop app: Cmd/Ctrl+W closes the active tab, and the Mac tab strip moves the window again.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• FixedSnoozed chats come back reliably, and times typed in any language (“tomorrow at 9”, “amanhã às 9h”) are understood again.
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT can download photos and other media from chats again, and chat lists show a phone number, never WhatsApp’s internal id.

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• BetterWindows: translation on your computer starts faster and runs on a quicker engine.
  • Windows
• FixedThe extension never opens the phone-pairing page by itself.
• FixedPairing requests from AI assistants are no longer lost.

Edge Add-ons serves 0.80.2, so Edge users have every change up to this one.

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• NewDesktop app: transcribe voice notes on your computer, with Local and Cloud settings side by side.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• NewTranscribe video messages too: click the transcribe button on any video note.
• NewConversation tabs: keep the chats you are working on open as tabs.
• BetterCall recordings light up each word as they play, and silence is no longer transcribed.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• FixedMac: on-device transcription keeps each voice note in its own language instead of your Mac’s.
  • Mac

The Chrome Web Store carried this line as 0.77.1 until the 0.82.0 update.

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• NewKaption for Windows 10 and 11: WhatsApp with Kaption built in, as a desktop app.
  • Windows
• NewRecord WhatsApp calls in the desktop app, with a transcript of each side.
  • Mac
  • Windows
• FixedCustom notification sounds play in the desktop app, and ⌘, opens Settings on the Mac.
  • Mac
  • Windows

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• NewPick a notification sound for each chat, or one for the whole account. It plays instead of WhatsApp’s own tone.
• NewConnected apps: see which AI apps are connected to your WhatsApp, when each was last used, and disconnect any of them.
• FixedPaying users see their plan and Manage Plan again, the screen lock opens reliably, and chat summaries generate again.
• FixedA transcript on the newest message stays in view instead of growing below the fold.

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• NewKaption for Mac (Apple silicon): WhatsApp with Kaption built in, with several WhatsApp accounts in one window.
  • Mac
• FixedVoice notes download and transcribe again after a WhatsApp change.
• FixedTranscripts appear reliably in group chats, and transcribing more than 10 voice notes at once works.
• FixedThe cloud connection for Claude and ChatGPT connects reliably.

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• FixedTranscription, the Aa button and live translation work again on WhatsApp Web 2.3000.1043.
• FixedPrivacy blur no longer turns itself off.
• Fixed“Fix session” no longer leaves you signed out.
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT can search your voice-note transcripts again.

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• NewWhen an update is waiting, the Kaption buttons say so. Reload from there and Kaption reopens the chat you were in.
• BetterThe Claude and ChatGPT connection reconnects by itself after it drops, and the AI assistants window shows why a reconnect failed.
• FixedOn WhatsApp Web 2.3000, transcripts sit inside the voice-note bubble again, with the Aa button in its place.
• FixedForwarded voice notes and audio files get the Aa button and the Copy and Draft buttons under their transcript.
• FixedOn current WhatsApp Web, privacy blur covers the messages in an open chat again, the Kaption side panel loads, and the reminder and schedule buttons no longer cover the microphone.

Includes 0.64 to 0.66.4, which carried mostly behind-the-scenes work.

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• NewSnoozed chats go into a “Snoozed” list or label, so you can find them on your phone too. They leave it when they wake up.
• FixedTranslating text messages works again on WhatsApp Web 2.3000.
• FixedThe reminder and scheduled-message buttons show next to the message box again on the new WhatsApp Web.
• FixedAfter reinstalling Kaption, reminders and Claude and ChatGPT work without “Fix session”, and “Building cache…” no longer hangs when your chats are already stored.
• FixedClaude and ChatGPT can add chats to your WhatsApp lists and remove them again.

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• NewExport any chat as one HTML file that looks like WhatsApp, with its photos, audio, video and transcripts inside, or as a CSV. In groups you can export the member list too. Turn it off in Settings if you don’t need it.
• BetterSnooze now offers “15 minutes” for a quick break, and clicking a Kaption voice-note notification opens that chat at the message.
• FixedPrivacy blur hides your chat list again on the new WhatsApp Web, and the Kaption side panel shows on the welcome screen again.
• FixedTranscripts that never appeared when WhatsApp redrew a message while you scrolled now show up, and Kaption’s sign-in check message reaches you at most twice a day.

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• NewSnooze a chat: Kaption archives it and brings it back at the time you pick, from presets or a time you type. Turn snooze on or off in Kaption’s settings.
• NewDownload your contacts as CSV or JSON, all of them or only the ones saved in your phone, and download the members of a group.
• NewClaude and ChatGPT can look up your contacts and groups, including who is in a group and who its admins are.
• BetterThe button under a transcript now pastes the text into the message box as a draft, so nothing goes out by mistake. Shift+click still sends it right away.
• FixedVoice notes that spun for almost a minute and then showed “Failed to get audio” now load, or stop within seconds when WhatsApp no longer has the file.

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• NewConnect WhatsApp to Claude and ChatGPT: ask them to find a chat, read voice-note transcripts, summarize a conversation or set a reminder. On for everyone since 6 May.
• NewKaption is available in Japanese, and Japanese is a translation language in chats.
• BetterReminders and scheduled messages understand times typed in all nine of Kaption’s languages, like “tra 5 minuti”, “5 dakika sonra” or “明日の3時”.
• FixedLive translation works again on the 2026 WhatsApp Web, in Chrome and Edge.
• FixedScheduled messages reach chats that WhatsApp now identifies by a private ID instead of a phone number.
• FixedIf you forget your screen-lock password, the unlock code from the Kaption bot works again.

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• FixedVoice-note summaries show under the message again after a WhatsApp Web change had hidden them.
• FixedA voice note with its transcript uses the full width of the message again instead of shrinking into a narrow box.

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• BetterThe Kaption bar fades away while WhatsApp’s voice-note player or a pop-up notice is on screen, so it never covers them.
• FixedTranscripts and the Aa button show on voice notes again after WhatsApp Web changed how messages are built (from 0.50.4).
• FixedWhatsApp’s search box finds your voice-note transcripts again, and clicking a result jumps straight to that voice note.

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• NewVoice-note notifications show the transcript (🎤) or its summary (🤖) instead of a plain “voice message”. Turn it off in Kaption’s settings.
• FixedKaption keeps working after a March WhatsApp Web update that had broken opening chats and sending messages (from 0.45.6).
• FixedThe date and time pickers for reminders and scheduled messages open on top of the window instead of hiding behind it.

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• NewA Feature Tour shows new users what Kaption does: transcription, summaries, live translation, reminders, scheduled messages, privacy blur and screen lock. Open it from the Kaption bar.
• BetterKaption fits WhatsApp Web’s new 2026 layout, and the previous layout keeps working.
• FixedLive translation: a translated reply goes out as a reply to the message you picked, and pressing Enter on an emoji shortcode like :smile picks the emoji instead of sending.
• FixedLive translation translates both parts of a message that quotes another, instead of skipping the main text.
• FixedPrivacy blur: hovering over a message reveals it again.

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