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v1.37.2

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Improvements

  • •Improved language detection when multiple writing languages are enabled

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue that could prevent suggestions from being applied in some Apple Mail messages

v1.37.1

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue that could prevent suggestions from being applied in some apps when macOS was set to a language other than English

v1.37

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New Features

  • •Added a global Snippet Picker for quickly searching, previewing, pasting, or copying snippets without leaving your current app
  • •Simplified model selection with one default model and optional overrides for Grammar, Fluency, Explanations, Translation, and Rewrite. Grammar and Fluency can also use different models for automatic checks, manual checks, and the Floating Editor
  • •Added a menu bar action to restore Refine Assistant in apps and on websites where it was previously hidden

Improvements

  • •Improved compatibility with Apple Mail, Outlook, Firefox, Zen, Chromium-based apps, and rich-text editors
  • •Suggestions now stay visible and actionable more reliably while scrolling, editing nearby text, or applying another suggestion
  • •ChatGPT Subscription sign-in now offers a device-code fallback when browser sign-in stalls

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed Firefox suggestion highlights disappearing or becoming misplaced after scrolling
  • •Fixed some multi-part suggestions applying only partially, rewriting too much text, or incorrectly reporting a failure

v1.36

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New Features

  • •Added ChatGPT Subscription support
  • •Added AI-provider token statistics, stored locally on your Mac

Improvements

  • •Improved local-model download speed
  • •Made applying suggestions more reliable across apps
  • •Writing checks now better preserve Markdown footnotes, speaker labels, display math, multi-sentence dialogue, read-only content, and Obsidian comments marked with %%

v1.35.1

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where an already downloaded model could be reported as incomplete or corrupted

v1.35

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New Features

  • •Added Obsidian and Neovim plugins
  • •Custom prompts can now be limited to specific apps and websites
  • •Added Active Prompts to the menu bar, showing which grammar and fluency prompts apply to what you are writing
  • •Suggestion cards now show which custom prompts produced the suggestion
  • •Added Apply All and a Copy action to the Refine Assistant panel
  • •The assistant card can now be pinned so it stays open while you write
  • •The checking status shown in the Refine Assistant icon can now be turned off
  • •Added support for Slovenian

Improvements

  • •Markdown and LaTeX documents are now checked by logical paragraph, so wrapped lines are read as one paragraph and line breaks are kept where they matter
  • •Refine now checks the text at your cursor and on screen first, so suggestions appear where you are writing before the rest of the document
  • •Redesigned the Refine Assistant panel, with results grouped by check type
  • •Improved compatibility across supported apps and websites

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed suggestion highlight positioning around punctuation and multiline text

v1.34

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New Features

  • •Added quick access to Refine while writing in supported apps, including writing check status, Rewrite, Translation, and text-to-speech
  • •Added a Setup Guide for configuring the local model, writing languages, privacy options, and Accessibility permission
  • •Added Offline Activation for activating Refine when an internet connection is unavailable
  • •Added an option for language shortcuts to check only selected sentences
  • •Model assignments can now be changed directly from the menu bar and Floating Editor, including models for Translation and Rewrite
  • •Added an option to customize suggestion card translucency

Improvements

  • •Improved suggestion highlight positioning while scrolling and editing
  • •Simplified the settings for choosing which languages Refine should check or ignore

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where local models might hang while starting
  • •Fixed an issue where writing statistics could count the same checks more than once
  • •Fixed various suggestion display issues

v1.33

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New Features

  • •Added an Academic rewrite preset to the Rewrite feature
  • •Added a chart to writing statistics
  • •Added support for Afrikaans

v1.32

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New Features

  • •Refine's interface is now available in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
  • •Added a Rewrite feature to the Floating Editor
  • •Added support for more Gemma 4 models, including QAT and MTP variants
  • •Added writing statistics, tracked locally on your device

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed a crash introduced in version 1.31

v1.31

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New Features

  • •Added support for snippets
  • •Added options to customize which status indicators appear in the Floating Editor footer, including word count, character count, and check status

Improvements

  • •Suggestion cards now show hidden whitespace characters
  • •Improved compatibility with Microsoft Word and the Mail app

v1.30

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New Features

  • •Suggestions can now be applied without opening the suggestion card first (this can be turned off in Settings)
  • •Added support for changing highlight styles

Improvements

  • •Improved format preservation for LaTeX and Markdown
  • •Text inside quotation marks is no longer checked by default (this can be turned off in Settings)
  • •Improved support for right-to-left languages

v1.29

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New Features

  • •Added support for Catalan
  • •Added Appearance settings for customizing suggestion card size, style, and diff colors
  • •Added support for choosing separate action keys for dismissing and applying suggestions
  • •Added an option to ignore sentence-ending punctuation suggestions for standalone sentences

v1.28

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New Features

  • •Added validation when launching a local model to make sure the downloaded model is complete

v1.27

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New Features

  • •The Floating Editor now supports edit history, text translation, and text-to-speech
  • •Added an option to automatically disable "Check Writing Automatically" when using battery power

v1.26.1

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed a startup crash from the previous release

v1.26

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New Features

  • •Added support for more local models, including Gemma 4 E2B, Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen 3.5 4B, and Qwen 3.5 9B

v1.25

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New Features

  • •Added support for assigning different models for Grammar Checks, Fluency Checks, and Explanations

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue with Microsoft Word integration where suggestions might use a stale text location after scrolling

v1.24

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New Features

  • •Explanations now support explaining grammar and fluency changes in different languages
  • •Dictionary now supports ignoring all changes for a specific word

Improvements

  • •Reduced memory usage when idle

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where the Settings window might open unexpectedly
  • •Fixed an issue where the Floating Editor would not paste back when activated by PopClip
  • •Fixed an issue where suggestions might flicker unexpectedly

v1.23

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New Features

  • •Added support for PopClip integration

Improvements

  • •Improved stability of model downloads

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where suggestions would sometimes flicker

Troubleshooting

  • •Added a guide for solving the issue where text is mistakenly replaced with "a"

v1.22

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New Features

  • •Added the "Explain" feature
  • •Added support for checking text in floating apps (requires manually adding those apps in Troubleshooting settings)
  • •The Floating Editor can now be pinned and resized

Improvements

  • •Improved suggestion popover UX: the popover is now draggable, and suggestions can be ignored by clicking the highlighted changes

Other

  • •Various small fixes and improvements

v1.21

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where the model might not launch when opening the app

v1.20

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Improvements

  • •Added support for dismissing suggestions with the Escape key

Troubleshooting

  • •Added support to verify the SHA-256 checksums of the downloaded model

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where applying a suggestion in Slack could unexpectedly delete surrounding text
  • •Applying text from the floating editor now preserves whitespace

v1.19

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where grammar suggestions might not appear in some Chromium-based apps
  • •Fixed an issue where the "Check Selected Text in Floating Editor" shortcut might not check the selected text when the editor opens

v1.18

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New Features

  • •Added an option to customize right-click behavior for the menu bar icon
  • •Added an option to customize typing responsiveness
  • •Added Website Filter settings

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed a caching issue that could serve stale results

v1.17

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New Features

  • •Added the "Check Selected Text in Floating Editor" feature with a keyboard shortcut to check grammar without leaving your current app, especially useful for apps that have limited integration (e.g., Google Docs, Sublime Text, Adobe Creative Suite)
  • •BYOK now supports AWS Bedrock

v1.16

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Improvements

  • •Improved app stability and performance
  • •Reduced memory usage when using a cloud model
  • •Updated the App Filter UI/UX to avoid a misleading interface

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed a potential crash issue introduced in version 1.13

v1.15

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed a potential crash issue introduced in version 1.14

v1.14

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New Features

  • •Added support for Slovak, Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages
  • •Enhanced Language-Aware Checks: now supports mixed languages in one article and checks each paragraph in its matching language
  • •Language exclusion: ability to exclude specific languages from checks
  • •BYOK now supports Ollama and LM Studio
  • •Custom shortcut support for toggling the "Check Writing Automatically" setting
  • •Added troubleshooting settings to fix integration with Chromium-based browsers like Arc and Dia

Improvements

  • •Should now be compatible with Intel-based Macs

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed integration with Anthropic
  • •Fixed an issue where applying suggestions in some apps like Messages might remove an extra space

v1.13

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New Features

  • •Language-aware checking: automatically detects the language you're writing in and checks grammar and fluency accordingly
  • •Added model switching from the status bar menu
  • •Live checking indicator: the status bar icon shows progress while checks run

v1.12

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed misconfigured prompt template issues that could cause incomplete or incorrect suggestions in some contexts

v1.11

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New Features

  • •Added Dictionary to persistently ignore specific suggestions (e.g., keep 'Btw' without suggesting 'By the way')
  • •Added Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support (Beta)
  • •Added custom prompts for personalized suggestions (Beta)

Improvements

  • •Improved suggestion card stability and added Tab key support
  • •Enhanced grammar checking performance
  • •Expanded fluency suggestions to apply to entire paragraphs

Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed settings window not appearing on app launch

v1.10

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed integration with Microsoft Word

Improvements

  • •Improved integration with Bear app
  • •Grammar and fluency checking now ignores code blocks

v1.9

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed integration with Bear app
  • •Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts could be duplicated when syncing across devices

Improvements

  • •Slightly improved grammar and fluency suggestions
  • •Improved the visual presentation of text changes when showing corrections

v1.8

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed unexpected whitespace suggestions

v1.7

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New Features

  • •Added keyboard shortcuts to quickly check grammar in different languages or manually trigger checks when auto-checking is disabled
  • •New toggle to enable or disable automatic grammar checking, giving you full control over when Refine assists your writing

Improvements

  • •Slightly improved grammar and fluency suggestions

v1.6

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where applying a delete suggestion would unexpectedly insert the character 'a'

v1.5

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed integration issues with Chrome, Slack, and many other Electron-based apps

v1.4

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed an issue where applying grammar suggestions could introduce extra spaces

v1.3

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New Features

  • •Expanded language support with 30+ new options including Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and many more regional variants

v1.2

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Bug Fixes

  • •Fixed integration issues with Mail.app and Obsidian.app, and improved overall app compatibility

Improvements

  • •Slightly improved grammar and fluency suggestions

New Features

  • •Settings now sync across all devices via iCloud

v1.1

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Improvements

  • •Improved grammar and fluency suggestions to be more accurate and natural, though we're still fixing some quirks

New Features

  • •Language selection with 15+ options including American, British, Canadian, and Australian English, plus German, French, Spanish, Swedish, and more

Changes

  • •Removed the dictionary feature for now; we're building something better

v1.0

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Initial Release

  • •Hello world! Refine is here to help you write better.