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What is live, what is active, and what is likely next.
Cleft 1.15.0 is coming in the next few days, not released yetLast updated
Planned
Strong candidates for upcoming work.
Recipes inside Cleft
Bring the Cookbook's proven workflows, styles, and automation recipes into the app.
Send notes to your task manager
Review tasks for Reminders, Things, Shortcuts, or Markdown in a later release.
Spell names and jargon correctly
Teach Cleft your names, terms, and acronyms so they come out spelled right.
Auto-delete on your schedule
Decide how long notes and recordings stay before Cleft deletes them for you.
Capture from the command line
Start a note or send text into Cleft straight from your terminal.
Smarter summaries
Notes come back better written and organized, with more say over the result.
Word-perfect shared playback
On any shared note, the highlight lands exactly on each word as it's spoken.
Hand off between your devices
Start a note on one device and pick it up on another with Apple Handoff.
Keep notes open in their own windows
Open several notes side by side in their own windows on iPad and Mac.
Active
1.15.0 highlights are being prepared for release. Active does not mean available on the App Store.
Choose your transcription model
Choose Base, Small, Large v3, or Apple Speech, with safe on-device fallback.
Record from your watch face
Start a voice note in a chosen style from a configurable watch complication.
Built to work offline
Cleft 2.0 keeps your notes on your device, in sync, and intact when you upgrade.
Read along on shared notes
Press play on a shared note and the words highlight as they're spoken; tap to jump.
Get started with fewer steps
Start with clearer setup, language choice, and a guided first note.
Keep sign-in on your device
Keep sign-in and provider keys in the device Keychain, outside synced settings.
Send notes to more places
Send to Drafts or Bear, or export to a folder automatically or one note at a time.
Send notes anywhere with Webhooks
Send completed notes as JSON to your HTTPS receiver with Plus Webhooks beta.
Shape the files you export
Preview Markdown, choose metadata profiles, and rewrite older exported files.
Do more with Shortcuts
Search notes, export notes, get summaries, and add or remove tags with Shortcuts.
Save the Views you use
Save scopes and tag filters as Views, with pinned notes and a Favorites library.
Read your library offline
Open saved notes first, with more of your library prepared automatically on Wi-Fi.
Choose where audio lives
Keep recordings locally, upload future audio with Plus, or delete audio alone.
Let AI tools read your notes
Connect AI apps on Mac to read and search local exports or your Plus library.
Shipped
Release highlights back to Cleft 1.10. Full release history lives in the changelog.
Start typed notes faster
Long-press New Note to write immediately, then save or discard when ready.
Richer Zapier note data
Your Zapier automations get more detail from every note, with no need to reconnect.
Choose each note style
Pick Structured, Structured Prose, or Clean Transcript from the recorder.
Set a rule for every note
Set one instruction once and it applies to every note you make.
Record from anywhere on Mac
Start recording with one keyboard shortcut, no matter which app you're in.
Watch records through Bluetooth
Use paired Bluetooth audio when recording from Apple Watch.
More transcription languages
Speak in more languages and the finished note comes back in the same language.
Need what works today? See the product page
Want to try what's in preview? Get preview access with Cleft Plus
Looking for what already shipped? See the full changelog