What's new

1.8.2 — August 2026

Downloaded videos now play in QuickTime. The app was saving files as .mp4 that QuickTime could not open, because the video inside used a newer codec Apple doesn't support. Downloads now use H.264 and AAC by default — the formats that play everywhere on a Mac and iPhone with nothing extra installed.
A new Video codec setting in Settings › Defaults. "Most compatible" is the default; "Highest quality" gets you 4K and other newer formats, which need VLC or IINA to play. The trade-off is spelled out next to the choice — YouTube only offers the compatible format up to 1080p.
In Highest quality mode, files are now named .webm or .mkv instead of .mp4, so a file never pretends to be something QuickTime can open.
Downloads are noticeably faster. YouTube slows down long single connections; the app now fetches in chunks, which measured about three and a half times quicker on the same file.

Fixes YouTube downloads failing with a "403 Forbidden" error. The cause was an out-of-date copy of the downloader engine on the Mac — YouTube changes often, and old copies get refused.
The Tools list now tells you when a tool is too old, instead of showing a green tick beside one that no longer works. Out-of-date tools get an amber warning and a one-click update — including tools installed by Homebrew, which previously offered no action at all.
Failed downloads now say what went wrong and what to do about it, rather than "yt-dlp exited with code 1".
Tools the app runs can now find their own helpers. Some downloads quietly lost the higher-quality formats because a helper program was invisible to the app.

Starting a backup while another is running now queues it. The card says "Waiting — starts when the current backup finishes", and it does, in order — even with the window closed. Cancel takes it back out of the line.
Pause means pause. Stopping the running backup also empties the queue, so pressing it actually stops all network activity — nothing sneaks in behind it.
Choose where in your account each backup lives. The destination folder — previously fixed and invisible — is now a field on the backup itself.
Two backups can no longer be pointed at the same account and folder. That setup would make each run erase the other's files; the app now refuses it when you save, and names the backup it would collide with.

Back up to more than one account on the same service. Two Google Drives, three Dropboxes — link as many as you have, name each one yourself ("GDRIVE — personal"), and pick which account every backup goes to.
Adding an account never touches the ones you already have. Existing backups, sign-ins and schedules keep working exactly as they were.
Unlink an account you no longer want on this Mac. You are told first, by name, which backups would stop running — and files already backed up stay in the cloud, untouched.
The live progress meter now survives the window. Close it mid-backup, reopen it, and the meter picks the run back up instead of going blank while the backup continues.

A scheduled backup can no longer fail silently. If a run fails — or hangs past four hours — it is stopped, you get a notification, and the app shows it in red the next time you look.
Live progress that says what is actually happening: listing files, checking what's changed, or uploading — with file counts, speed in both bytes and files per second, and the file currently in flight.
A stall warning. If nothing has moved for five minutes, the app says "possibly stalled" instead of letting "running" cover a frozen connection.
Hardened connections: a hung transfer now times out and retries on its own instead of freezing the whole run.
Scheduled backups show their progress in the app while they run, and their outcome after — even when the run happened overnight with the app closed.

Back up only the folders you choose. A drive with nine folders on it no longer has to be backed up whole or not at all — tick the ones that matter, and see what each would upload before you commit to it.
The skip list is editable in the app. "Edit skip list…" opens the actual list of what is left out, with a note when newer default rules are available to add.
Virtual machine disks, disk images and installers are skipped by default. A VM disk reports its full size even when mostly empty — one 128 GB disk file can occupy 35 GB and still cost a 128 GB upload.
Backup now suggests what else is worth leaving out — AI model weights, installers, built applications — with the exact saving measured on your own folder, and adds the rule for you in one click.
Sizes are honest about the difference between what a file occupies and what it costs to upload, and say which is which when the two disagree.
Everything skipped is named. Nothing is left out quietly.

Choose where speech models are stored. Models are half a gigabyte to over a gigabyte each — keep them on an external drive instead of your startup disk. Settings › Tools › Models folder.
Choose which speech model Subtitles uses, or leave it on Automatic. The app now tells you which one it picked and why, instead of deciding silently.
English subtitles always use a model that can actually translate. Large v3 Turbo produces text in the original language only; it is no longer chosen for English by mistake, and the app says so if you pick it yourself.
Tool and model downloads are far faster. A flaw in the downloader made large files crawl regardless of connection speed.
Live captions say up front how far behind speech they will run, rather than leaving you to work it out.
If the drive holding your models is disconnected, the app says so instead of offering to download them all over again.

First notarized release — signed with a Developer ID and stapled; macOS opens it without warnings.
One unified Download page: video, audio and direct downloads in a single flow.
Live Subtitles: on-device transcription of any audio playing on the Mac.
Text workspace: selection-aware transforms, identifier case styles.
Pro licensing: one payment, two Macs, a year of updates.