Project Folders, Native Billing, and Sequence CLI

Licensing and Billing

• New: Added support for purchases initiated through the App Store and Streamlined Purchasing

• New: Added native plan and billing information, invoice access, and subscription management

• Improved purchase restoration to avoid unnecessary App Store sign-in prompts

• Improved storefront detection and localized App Store pricing

• Improved purchase, trial, and gated-access presentation

• Improved offline license validation and recovery

• Fixed App Store purchase testing and authentication edge cases

Library

• New: Added project folders for organizing the library

• New: Create, rename, pin, collapse, sort, move projects into, and remove project folders

• New: Import media directly into a selected folder

• Improved library performance and virtualization for larger project collections

• Improved library upgrade reliability and transition into the workspace

• Improved project selection, deletion, and folder workflows

• Fixed sidebar concurrency and interaction issues

• Fixed popovers and floating controls affecting content behind them

Media and Playback

• Improved App Store sandbox access for media probing and playback

• Improved missing-media detection, relinking, recovery, and error presentation

• Improved media-package, embedded-artwork, and multi-track awareness

• Added richer audio-stream metadata, including channel layout, language, title, and timing

• Persisted analyzed audio metadata to avoid unnecessary repeat probing

• Improved Action Center navigation for projects requiring attention

• Fixed metadata analysis becoming stuck or restarting unnecessarily

• Fixed playback recovery after media access changes

Clips and Transcript

• Improved transcript filtering, follow-along behavior, and read-only states

• Improved clip cards, keyword controls, focus rendering, and contextual actions

• Added confirmation when disabling applied filler-word and profanity filters

• Fixed clip reordering incorrectly splitting two clips into three

• Fixed edited-timeline projection after transcript and clip reordering

Models and Onboarding

• New: Added clearer onboarding for the optional on-device transcription model

• New: Added model download-size disclosure and progress reporting

• Improved model installation, cancellation, retry, and readiness presentation

Sequence CLI

• New: Released Sequence CLI 1.0.4 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later

• Expanded CLI transcription, database, project, model, and media workflows

• Added transcription progress reporting

• Improved CLI installation, readiness, connection, and update diagnostics in the app

• Silenced engine logs by default for cleaner CLI output

• Improved Homebrew packaging, notarization verification, and release checks

• Fixed CLI database diagnostics, archive installation paths, and conditional help warnings

Workspace and Accessibility

• Improved focus rings and card corner rendering

• Improved icon consistency, sizing, weight, warning colors, and tooltips

• Improved missing-media wording and visual hierarchy

• Improved billing, inspector, settings, library, and project workflow presentation

• Improved keyboard-shortcut and contextual-help consistency

• Fixed pane layout and SwiftUI presentation issues

General

• Added foundational internal contracts for the future Smart Crop feature

• Improved concurrent Swift test reliability

• Improved database, project-opening, media-analysis, playback, CLI, and release diagnostics

• Improved release sandbox checks and Sentry upload retry logging

• Various reliability, accessibility, code-quality, localization, and interface improvements