1.4.1 (2026-10-27)

Bug Fixes

• i18n: fit the russian store description in 132 characters (#196) (890b6dc)

1.4.0 (2026-10-26)

Features

• add discard to the desktop recording card with a trash icon on both apps, and match the extension on capture more and mic resume (6c2da28)
• add github cards to desktop settings and record what you type to the extension (2a3c2f7)
• add russian to the desktop app and bring the russian strings up to this branch (e6fbb64)
• add the record keys setting to the extension, off by default like the desktop (732194e)
• choose whether ai writes step descriptions and guide titles (97d2bf6)
• core: give the capture machine an armed state, step removal and an area pause (e139779)
• desktop: ask for macOS permissions first, open the guide on finish and trim the tray menu (464d00f)
• desktop: capture the focused window, the whole screen or a drawn area (1e41792)
• desktop: general settings, branding cards and the navy palette (6b7d307)
• desktop: keep screenshots as files behind a swappable guide store (8f2c656)
• desktop: narrate recordings, and rewrite smart blur and step naming (bf0ef44)
• desktop: read controls, typing and shortcuts from the accessibility tree (b159e79)
• desktop: record on macOS, ask for its permissions and open .mimik files (3c7de34)
• desktop: recording card, tray state, area editor and loading screen (b889a02)
• desktop: show shortcuts with macOS symbols and in a chip inside key steps (199be3a)
• desktop: show what's new after an update, with the extension's notice now shared (c1a9320)
• desktop: take screenshots natively so Wayland sessions work (ca5755f)
• desktop: Windows installer, desktop CI, one key per provider and shared onboarding (960511c)
• desktop: zoom steps toward the click, with shared settings cards and state hooks (74ffcd5)
• discard on desktop, a choice of what AI does, Russian and hardened builds (1b07042)
• extension: open the thank-you letter once for existing users (ad27128)
• give the options page a section list, one section at a time (d73b10e)
• i18n: add Russian localization for UI and AI descriptions (a8bed0c)
• name the field in typing step titles on both apps (bef3fe9)
• redesign the onboarding for the extension and desktop (a9c44b0)
• share one GitHub card and add an About section to the options page (e560d14)
• share the description queue, capture more steps and move the dashboard to a sidebar (c11b56d)
• share the saved badge and the guide page, and group narration and voice-over under ai in the extension settings (5a7b14f)
• show sites' favicons and apps' own icons on the desktop, and a dash where a guide has no place (57aa5a9)
• ui: compact the top bar to fit narrow windows (1d48b2c)
• ui: fill the library page and its thumbnails (65c0a99)
• ui: line up the API key rows and put the check after the provider's name (24608e1)
• ui: open search near the top with recent guides and library-style rows (4ceb748)
• ui: share the voice narration card with an access row and a live meter (bbe1490)
• ui: show key checks as pills in the field and flag a provider with no key (f5301c1)
• ui: show the app's version beside Settings in the sidebar (c3f1d20)

Bug Fixes

• ai: send nothing to the provider for steps when AI is off for steps (6be35e8)
• build page overlays from elements instead of html strings and translate the blur picker button (0e3ddd5)
• capture-native: look past chromium's empty tab-strip layer to the control under a click on macOS (aef0a98)
• capture: apply typing, key and colour settings to a running recording in the extension (c295bc8)
• capture: name shortcut steps with the held keys on both apps, as Ctrl+K (8afc202)
• deps: clear the critical dompurify advisory blocking ci (1baecde)
• desktop: ask macOS for the microphone in onboarding's voice step (6e31b3d)
• desktop: install into Programs\Mimik as Mimik.exe (761c3ae)
• desktop: keep whether the mic was on before a pause on the state machine (fccd017)
• desktop: list the poppins font the overlay and splash import (4076c20)
• desktop: macOS fixes for framing, typing, icons, the Dock and narrow windows (c58ae79)
• desktop: name a guide after the app most of its steps happened in (931e8c3)
• desktop: narrate and finish a guide the way the extension does (dbbad57)
• desktop: package the app as Mimik, not the workspace's scoped name (69d54a1)
• desktop: reword the macOS permission cards (1b3ede8)
• desktop: reword the permissions intro (2a141cd)
• desktop: translate the recording card and give its buttons the extension's words (fed5ddf)
• drop the repeated section heading and match the dashboard background in settings (e5b5f54)
• extension: declare Poppins so dev mode loads the font (79e2bb9)
• extension: keep a click made just before pause or finish (75f2e46)
• extension: make discard delete the recording instead of finishing it (6d93708)
• extension: number a new step from the steps that exist, so a deleted one leaves no gap (02a50e7)
• give exports their own brand color, separate from the click highlight (7de05ce)
• i18n: add the missing Russian strings and cover Russian in the locale check (10d1529)
• i18n: format dates in Russian (94ef80d)
• i18n: give Russian its own AI instruction and prompt examples (8e0d180)
• i18n: say mac is coming in the desktop announcement (b999c02)
• make shortcut steps, quick clicks, mic refusal, settings and what's new match on both apps (bf225ff)
• never inject into the Chrome Web Store (73e7638)
• point the readme language links at .github/readme (4d91d6c)
• settle what testing the desktop branch turned up on both apps (3764269)
• start a new capture from the dashboard's Start capture button (23f1371)
• ui: let the shared stylesheet find its own classes from either app (df883d7)
• ui: list state setters as hook dependencies and mark the key checks that run once (2c4b56e)
• ui: move the API key status under the provider name in narrow cards (6f81eb9)
• update fflate and the ai sdk past their security advisories (4a1b44b)
• voice: end a narration that heard nothing with the calm note on the extension too (42b49d1)
• voice: switch narration off in the extension when the microphone is refused, as the desktop does (b50fa7a)
• wait for narration before naming or merging, share narration handling in core and let the background turn the mic off (f388a30)

1.0.0 (2026-10-26)

The first public release of Mimik Desktop, for Windows.

• Record a workflow in any app on your computer, not just the browser. Each click, key and typed field becomes a step with a screenshot and a description.
• Capture the window you click, the whole screen, or an area you draw, from a small card that stays out of the screenshots.
• Edit and export guides as in the extension: PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML, GIF, video, or a .mimik file someone else can import.
• AI descriptions and voice narration are optional and use your own key.
• Everything stays on your computer. No account, no telemetry.
• A signed installer that keeps itself up to date.

Changes:

• Guides can be exported as a .mimik file and imported into someone else's Mimik
• Blurred areas are erased from a shared guide's images, and text you typed is stripped from it
• Video exports can be narrated with an OpenAI or ElevenLabs voice
• Narration keeps its full transcript, and a step can get back what you said after you edit it
• The transcript can be deleted on its own, and never leaves your browser
• Guides can be duplicated
• Recording can be paused and resumed
• Speech while recording is paused no longer lands on the next step
• Pages that load during blur mode no longer start capturing on their own
• Checkboxes and radio buttons are captured in the state you clicked them into
• Dropdown options built from ARIA roles are captured as clicks
• Typing descriptions follow the interface language
• Guide titles stay on one line
• Without an AI key, the guide title appears as soon as recording stops
• Blurs cover text to their edges
• The video player in the export preview has its own controls, with play, mute and fullscreen

Changes:

• Added DeepSeek and OpenRouter as AI providers
• Any AI provider can now point at your own OpenAI-compatible server
• API keys are stored per provider instead of one key shared across all of them
• Checking an API key lists the models that provider offers, and says when the key has no credits left
• An API key can be revealed in settings, so a wrong one can be fixed without retyping it
• A step description that fails now says why, instead of silently retrying
• Each step shows where its description came from
• Guides can be exported as an animated GIF
• Simplified Chinese interface
• PDF export draws non-Latin text with the system fonts, so Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are no longer clipped
• Typed passwords no longer reach the guide
• Values of blurred fields no longer reach the guide
• Smart Blur matches UK phone numbers, and no longer mistakes reference numbers for them
• A blurred field reveals on click instead of on hover
• Guide Me waits for a real change on input steps that have no saved value
• Settings controls share one height and one text size

Changes:

• Mimik now tells you when it has updated itself, with a link to what changed