Changelog

Current builds— registry verified Sep 28, 2026

• REX · Windows: 1.15.35 — released Sep 28, 2026
• Lven Instant · Windows: 0.8.41 — released Sep 27, 2026
• Lven Instant · Linux: 0.8.41 — released Sep 27, 2026
• Lven Instant · Android: 0.9.56 — released Sep 27, 2026
• Lven Cloud · Windows: 0.1.30 — released Sep 27, 2026
• Lven Cloud · Linux: 0.1.26 — released Sep 27, 2026
• Lven Cloud · Android: 1.0.45 — released Sep 27, 2026
• earslate · Android: 0.5.3 — released Sep 4, 2026
• Folio PDF · Android: 1.1.8 — released Sep 13, 2026

Windows setup installs every file, one copy at a time— 2026-09-25

What changed

• Setup runs one copy at a time, never skips a file, and writes the app itself last, so an interrupted install cannot leave a half-updated app. Lven Instant 0.8.38 and Lven Cloud 0.1.28.
• The speech engine installs on Windows 10 and on user profiles whose names are not in Latin letters (Lven Instant 0.8.37).
• Installing Lven Cloud no longer closes Lven Instant (Lven Cloud 0.1.27).

Current download

Linux packages bring what the speech engine needs— 2026-09-25

What changed

• The packages depend on the bzip2 the speech engine's first-run unpack uses, so a minimal system gets it from its package manager (Lven Instant 0.8.38).
• A second click during setup no longer starts the unpack again.
• Every release is started on the newest Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE before it is published (0.8.37).

Current download

Numbers come out as said— 2026-09-23

What changed

• Spoken millions and billions stay words instead of a run of zeros, a big number stays whole, digits finish a number, and abbreviations keep their period. Lven Instant 0.8.36 on Windows and Linux, 0.9.55 on Android, and every Lven Cloud build.
• Lven Cloud returns quietly to idle when there was nothing to transcribe, and never uploads a take of pure digital silence (Windows 0.1.26, Linux 0.1.24, Android 1.0.44).

Current download

REX says what it did— 2026-09-20

What changed

• Finished work is reported as finished, in the chat, by voice and in notifications; when something did not happen, REX says exactly that.
• One request is one action: asking for a site opens it once, and a click that landed is reported as done.
• Long jobs keep going, and a job that ends with work left says what is left.
• When a provider's plan limit is reached, REX says so in plain words and what to do next.

Current download

Folio PDF shows images, tables and slides— 2026-09-13

What changed

• Word and PowerPoint files show their embedded images, and table columns line up (1.1.7).
• Text can be selected, and slides step forward and back (1.1.7).
• Slides render as pages that reflow to the phone's width, not a fixed 16:9 box (1.1.8).

Current download

earslate 0.5.3— 2026-09-04

What changed

• Reconnecting no longer loops forever when a provider accepts a session and then drops it.

Current download

Lven Instant and Lven Cloud for Linux install as packages on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE— 2026-09-15

What changed

• Both install three ways: a Debian package for Ubuntu and Debian, a new RPM package for Fedora and openSUSE, and an AppImage for everything else.
• The Debian package installs on Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13 as well as on Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 12.

Current version: 0.8.41

The floating bubble follows the field, not the app— 2026-08-15

What changed

• The bubble is a control for putting text into a field, so it is on screen only while a field is actually selected. Leave the field, or leave the app, and it goes on the same frame rather than a second or two later.
• It stays if you are recording, while a transcript is being delivered, and if the app has not been granted the permission it needs to see focus at all — in that last case there is nothing to act on, and taking the control away would be worse than showing it.
• A field selected with no on-screen keyboard still shows it. Keyboard presence used to be remembered for the life of the device, so a hardware keyboard read as the keyboard having just closed.
• The bubble no longer appears over a text box you have not selected. A screen reader's cursor was being treated as a caret; it now counts only while touch exploration is driving the device, so TalkBack users keep the bubble.
• Quitting the desktop app removes the bubble immediately. It could previously linger while the rest of the app shut down.

Good to know

• iPhone has no system-wide floating control and is unaffected.

Current version: 0.9.56

Lven for Linux ships a .deb and an AppImage— 2026-08-15

What changed

• Both products now ship three ways: the portable archive as before, a Debian package, and an AppImage. All three carry their own runtime.
• The packages register a desktop entry and icon, so Lven appears in your applications menu instead of only running from a terminal.
• Package dependencies are derived from the binaries themselves rather than written by hand, so apt can tell you what is missing before you install rather than after.

Good to know

• On Wayland the global hotkey is unavailable, so dictate from the on-screen control or bind --toggle to a compositor shortcut. Lven Instant still writes into the focused field where the application allows it and falls back to the clipboard otherwise; Lven Cloud leaves the transcript on the clipboard for Ctrl+V. X11 has the hotkey and automatic paste in both.

Current version: 0.8.41

earslate 0.4.4— Superseded by 0.5.3

What changed

• Playback no longer freezes for around half a second when a single audio packet arrives late: the buffer keeps playing and resumes the moment the next packet lands, instead of waiting to refill.
• Reconnecting after a dropped connection no longer discards the audio of the new session, and can no longer leave two playback streams running at once.
• The welcome screen now states plainly that you bring your own Google Gemini key and that no ClassEve server is in the path.
• The app no longer asks for Bluetooth permission. It never used it; earbuds work through normal audio routing.
• Fixes a fault that stopped a Gemini session from starting whenever captions were switched on, which is the default, so a fresh install could not connect at all.
• Live captions and audio no longer drop out several times a second: incoming frames that omit optional fields are handled instead of discarded.
• Stop now works while a session is still connecting; previously the button stayed on Stop and did nothing.
• Playback holds a reserve sized from the audio actually arriving, which removes the stutter that occurred roughly once per chunk.
• The bring-your-own-key architecture remains direct from the Android app to Google Gemini; ClassEve operates no session broker.

Good to know

• You bring your own Google Gemini key; Google's own pricing and limits apply.

Current version: 0.5.3

Lven Instant for Linux 0.8.10— Superseded by 0.8.41

What changed

• Paid access is verified on your own machine rather than against our servers. Previously any failed check — a dropped connection, a captive portal, a few minutes without DNS — stopped recording at the next poll. You can now work offline indefinitely.
• The archive still extracts to a folder named for its version and carries its own runtime, so a new release never lands on top of an old one and nothing depends on your distribution's libraries.

Good to know

• On Wayland the global hotkey is unavailable, and the app says so plainly. Dictate from the on-screen control; text still reaches the field where the application allows it, and otherwise the transcript goes to the clipboard and the app sends the paste. X11 has the hotkey.

Current version: 0.8.41

Lven Instant for Windows 0.8.11— Superseded by 0.8.41

What changed

• The app now runs on machines that lack a Windows runtime component every previous build required to be present, and would not start without — a great deal of other software installs it, which is why this went unnoticed. The component now ships inside the application folder: nothing extra to install, no administrator rights, no restart.
• The installer and the app report the version you actually have. Through 0.8.10 both described themselves as 0.8.9 in the file's Details tab, in Alt-Tab, and in Add/Remove Programs. The version now comes from one place, and a test fails the release if those ever disagree again.
• Paid access is verified on your machine rather than against our servers, so working offline no longer interrupts it.
• Verified for this build: clean install, upgrade over an existing install with settings and history preserved, and a launch with the system search path stripped to the install folder alone — proving the bundled runtime is complete.

Good to know

• SmartScreen can prompt on first run: More info, then Run anyway — then check the SHA-256.

Current version: 0.8.41

Lven Instant for Android 0.9.16— Superseded by 0.9.56

What changed

• Recording works after you restart your phone, with or without a connection: access is now verified on the device.
• Access is now decided in one place and verified on the device against a key built into the app. A reboot, a flight, a dead zone or a week without signal changes nothing, and a dropped connection can only ever mean “check again later”, never “you have lost access”.
• The Settings row that listed component licenses is gone; the license notices still ship inside the app.

Current version: 0.9.56

Lven Instant for Android 0.9.15— Superseded by 0.9.56

What changed

• Tapping the bubble starts recording immediately — nothing flashes first.
• Transcription is more accurate: decoding now weighs several readings of what it heard instead of committing to the first, so one unclear sound no longer rewrites the whole phrase.
• The words you teach Lven are now applied every time you dictate.
• On phones that support it, noise suppression cleans the microphone before quiet speech is amplified, instead of amplifying the noise with it.

Current version: 0.9.56

Lven Instant for Android 0.9.14— Superseded by 0.9.56

What changed

• Paid access is verified on the device against a key built into the app, so a flight, a dead zone, or a few days without signal no longer interrupts it.
• Signed with the same certificate as previous releases, so it installs over an existing copy as a normal update.

Current version: 0.9.56

Lven Instant for Windows 0.8.10 and Linux 0.8.9— Superseded by 0.8.41

What changed

• Upgrading no longer leaves part of the old version behind. The Windows installer wrote over an existing install rather than replacing it, and the Linux archive extracted into an unversioned folder, so in both cases a file the new version stopped shipping stayed on disk — and got loaded in preference to the correct one.
• The Linux download now extracts to a folder named for its version, so two releases cannot land on top of each other.
• Both are now held by a test: each Windows build installs, plants a file the new payload does not contain, reinstalls, and fails the release if that file survives.
• Carries the 0.8.9 / 0.8.8 work: the Windows installer includes the on-device speech runtime it was missing, and the Linux archive carries its own runtime rather than depending on your distribution's.

Good to know

• SmartScreen can prompt on first run: More info, then Run anyway — then check the SHA-256.

Current version: 0.8.41

Lven Instant for Android 0.9.13— Superseded by 0.9.56

What changed

• Fixes the first-run setup gate: declining the accessibility prompt is now recorded durably, so setup no longer repeats the same step on the next launch.
• Third-party notices and the runtime SBOM now ship as in-app assets.
• Keeps the 120 ms processing beat introduced in 0.9.12, which releases the newest buffered transcript at a single boundary after Stop while preview, recorder teardown, inference, and polishing continue concurrently.
• Targets Android API 36; the direct-download arm64 and 32-bit ARM builds are published as separate direct-download artifacts.
• At that release the Google Play listing was the recommended installation and update channel for supported devices. The Play and direct channels are signed differently, so an app installed from one cannot be updated by the other.

Current version: 0.9.56

Folio PDF 1.1.3— Superseded by 1.1.8

What changed

• The toolbar icons were redrawn to one optical system: rotate floated above its row, the pencil hung low, the close button and chevrons were smaller than the controls beside them, the preview eye collapsed into a slit at toolbar size, and the settings gear read as a plain disc.
• The app now fails its own build if any icon drifts off center, outside the frame, or out of scale with the rest of the set — measured from what the icons actually draw, stroke included, rather than from a sample of their coordinates.
• Carries the 1.1.1 reader work: PDF search with result navigation and page highlighting, long-press copy of the current page's text, and better zoom rendering, memory behavior on long documents, page themes, margin trimming, and screen-reader access.

Good to know

• The current release requires Android 9 or later and is on Google Play and as a direct APK on this site.

Current version: 1.1.8

Lven Cloud for Android 1.0.22— Superseded by 1.0.45

What changed

• Overlay bubble state now drives the wave and processing indicators directly, so the bubble matches the actual recording and processing state.
• Adds a short buffered pause after Stop so the newest transcript is delivered at a single boundary instead of arriving mid-teardown.
• Targets Android API 36 and ships as a signed direct-download APK.

Good to know

• Lven Cloud transcribes on our servers: audio is sent encrypted and nothing is kept after delivery.

Current version: 1.0.45

Lven Cloud for Windows 0.1.4 and Linux 0.1.3— Superseded by 0.1.30

What changed

• Upgrading no longer leaves part of the old version behind, on either platform — the same defect Lven Instant had, fixed the same way and now covered by the same test.
• The Linux download extracts to a folder named for its version, so two releases cannot merge into one directory.
• Carries the 0.1.3 work on Windows: an installer in place of the ZIP distribution, which failed with a missing runtime library when run from inside the ZIP preview. It bundles the app's runtime, installs the Windows component it depends on, and registers an uninstaller.
• The payload is checked before release against the libraries it actually loads, on a machine with nothing else installed.

Good to know

• SmartScreen can prompt on first run: More info, then Run anyway — then check the SHA-256.

Current version: 0.1.30