Changelog
Every update we ship, newest first.
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- Major
Choose where captions sit
Captions can now take one of three shapes: the classic subtitle, a banner along the bottom edge, or a side panel that keeps earlier lines. In the browser extension, the banner and side panel can also claim their own space instead of covering the page — in Chrome and Edge the side panel opens as a real browser panel, so nothing is hidden at all.
- Minor
Captions break by sentence
When someone speaks without pausing, captions used to pile up as one block. Captions, the banner, the side panel, stage mode and the mobile app now break at sentence boundaries, and you can choose how many sentences stay on screen.
- Minor
Captions follow you across tabs
In the browser extension, moving to another tab no longer leaves the captions behind — they follow you while the audio keeps coming from the tab you started on.
- Minor
Add context while a session runs
Names and jargon that come up mid-talk can now be added to the extension's context and glossary without stopping the session; the change takes effect within seconds.
- Major
Tell a session what it is about
Beside Start there is now room to write a line or two of context — the topic, who is speaking, the product names — and to choose the glossaries you want on. Hard words come out the way you wrote them instead of being guessed. The panel stays folded until you open it.
- Minor
See which tab is being captured
Pick tab audio and the popup names the tab it will listen to, with its icon. You can move to another open tab from the same row, so what gets captured is visible before you start.
- Minor
Traditional Chinese and European Portuguese
Both now have their own interface, written in their own vocabulary rather than converted from the simplified or Brazilian text.
- Major
Translate pages with your own AI key
The extension can now translate the page you are reading with your own key from an AI provider you choose — Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Grok, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you enter yourself. The page goes straight from your browser to that provider on your account — it never passes through us, so there is nothing for us to meter, and it works on every plan including free. Your key stays on that device, and you can register several and switch between them. On sensitive sites and in private sessions translation still stays on your device.
- Major
Fix a sentence in a saved session
Any line in a saved session — the transcript or its translation — can be edited in place. Correct a name the model misheard once, and the record keeps the correction.
- Minor
Your glossary reaches the notes too
The glossary you had on during a live session now travels into the AI notes written from it, so the names and terms you set stay spelled the way you chose.
- Major
Turn a recording into notes
Upload an audio file and Newey transcribes it and writes it up — the same AI note templates you get after a live session. Add the terms and background of the recording first and both the transcript and the notes follow them. The file is deleted as soon as the transcript is done.
- Minor
The desktop app speaks 30 languages
The macOS app's own menus and windows now come in all 30 interface languages, the same set as the web.
- Milestone
Speak your language — the room hears theirs
Voice to Voice reads your captions out loud in the other language, sentence by sentence, so people can listen instead of reading a screen. You can choose a native voice model in any of 32 languages. It stays in sync with your speaking pace in real time.
- Major
Scheduled sessions
Save a session setup ahead of a conference or talk — title, languages, context, and glossaries — and start it later with one click. Reserving an audience share link issues a fixed QR you can print and hand out early: people who scan it see a “starting soon” screen and connect automatically the moment you begin, and the link survives across sessions until you delete the reservation.
- Minor
A simpler way to start
The start screen now asks how you will use Newey — in-person sound, content audio, or meeting interpreting — and picks the right input for you. Display options moved to the live screen: a new Interpretation display card previews captions, switches to the transcript, and opens any surface (floating window, new window, full screen) mid-session. Context and glossaries live in one card, stay editable during the session, and Smart context suggestions now drop straight into your context text.
- Major
The meeting interpreter now shows the meeting — and your slides
The split interpreter view can show the call itself: turn on the meeting view to see the other side right above the captions, with an optional crop-to-content mode that hides the meeting UI. And when it's your turn to present, hit Present my screen to show one of your tabs or windows inside the view — since this is the tab you share into the call, everyone sees your material and the live interpretation together, no double screen-sharing. Drag the handle to resize the video area, resume from a pause with a single click, and keep track of terms you add mid-meeting in the refreshed toolbar.
- Minor
Downloads without limits
Saving a session as text, subtitles, or Markdown works for every account.
- Milestone
AI notes for your sessions
A saved session can now be written up for you: a one-page summary, meeting minutes, a business meeting record, a talk digest, an earnings-call brief, an interview digest, a news briefing, or a recap of a film or drama. Notes are written after the session ends and download as Markdown, and you can have the one-pager written automatically every time a session is saved.
- Minor
Session records read like a script
Saved sessions now keep every spoken sentence paired with its translation instead of a stream of short caption lines. Open one and pick what to read: the translation with the original underneath, the original speech on its own, or the AI note — each with its own download.
- Major
Now on Microsoft Edge
The Newey extension is published on Microsoft Edge Add-ons as well as the Chrome Web Store. The install button now takes you to the right store for the browser you're using, so Edge users no longer have to go through the "allow extensions from other stores" banner.
- Minor
Fuller caption lines in more scripts
The floating caption window and the macOS overlay now measure the script you're actually reading before deciding where a line breaks. Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, and other non-Latin captions use the full width of the window.
- Minor
Tab audio without a gate
Captioning the sound of a tab — a video, a stream, or an online meeting — used to sit behind a gate. It is gone: pick the tab source and start.
- Minor
A guided first run for the extension
Installing the browser extension now opens a guided setup: sign in, pin Newey to the toolbar, then try it — 30 seconds of live captions from your own microphone in the language you choose, and page translation on its shortcut (Alt+T).
- Major
Sign in with Microsoft
You can now sign in with a Microsoft account, work or personal, right alongside Google and passkeys. Newey only ever receives your email address and name.
- Major
Sign in with just your email
No Google or Microsoft account? Enter your email and we'll send a one-time code — no password to create or remember. The sign-in screen now leads with email, with Google, Microsoft, and passkeys a tap away.
- Major
Newey for iPhone is in preparation
An iPhone app is in preparation. The web, the extension, and the macOS app caption what your screen plays; the iPhone app is being built for what the room says, whether that is a lecture, a seminar, or a service counter, on the same account and with the same glossary terms. /download tracks where each surface stands.
- Milestone
Chrome extension is live
The Newey browser extension is now published on the Chrome Web Store. Install it to get live translated captions right on top of whatever is playing in your tab — including browser-based presentations like Google Slides, Canva, Pitch, and YouTube, where a separate window would get in the way.
- Major
We sponsor events
Running a conference or meetup? Newey now offers full-session live interpretation as a sponsor — multilingual captions on the venue screen and on every attendee's phone, at no cost to organizers. Apply at /sponsorship.
- Major
Now in 30 languages
The whole app, landing pages and console alike, is now available in 30 UI languages, more than doubling from 14. Newly added: Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Czech, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Greek, Ukrainian, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.
- Major
Creator Partner Program
Share Newey with your audience and earn a commission on every payment from a referred subscription — and your audience gets a discount for a year. Creator-partner applications are open at /partners.
- Minor
Your language, everywhere
Error messages, toasts, the caption receiver window, and AI session titles now follow the interface language you picked, in every language Newey ships.
- Major
Share glossaries as files
Export any glossary to a .neweyglossary file and import one back — drag and drop works too. Hand a set to a teammate, or start from a glossary someone else built. Imported sets arrive as specialized glossaries, so they apply only to the sessions you choose them for.
- Major
Contact page
Reach the team directly at /contact — product support, partnership and sponsorship, or exploring Newey for your company.
- Major
Japanese joins — now 14 languages
The entire app, from the landing pages to the console, is now available in Japanese — our 14th UI language.
- Minor
Two-way interpretation, refined
The split view now shows the full current sentence with natural line breaks, groups history sentence by sentence, and keeps the original language at the bottom. Resize text with A− / A+ and add glossary terms live, mid-session.
- Major
Expert glossary packs
Eight built-in packs curated by Newey — Legal, Web3, Finance, Programming, Anime, Slang, Gaming, and Medical. Every glossary now has an on/off switch, and the glossary page was rebuilt around clear per-type tables.
- Minor
Usage at a glance in History
Your usage now sits at the top of session history, with reset times shown in your time zone. Session details open in a side panel, and each row gets a compact actions menu.
- Minor
Captions for same-language speech
When what's being said is already in your target language, captions now show the original text instead of staying blank.
- Milestone
Audience broadcast
Share a QR code and your audience follows the live captions on their own phones, each in their own language. Pre-share the code before you even start.
- Major
Desktop app for Mac
A native macOS app with a menu-bar tray and an always-on caption overlay that stays above fullscreen Keynote and slides. Sign in straight from your browser.
- Major
Command palette (⌘K)
Jump to any page, feature, or past session from a single search box.
- Major
Session history, synced to your account
Sessions you save now sync across your devices — open a transcript on any machine after you sign in. Export as TXT or SRT with an AI-generated title, or turn on Private mode to skip saving entirely.
- Major
Now in 13 languages
The entire app is available in 13 languages: Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Vietnamese, and Thai, including right-to-left Arabic.
- Major
Sign-in and passkeys
Sign in with a passkey (Face ID, Touch ID, or a security key) as well as Google. Your console is now protected behind sign-in.
- Major
Billing in the app
Choose and change your subscription right inside the app, billed monthly or yearly.
- Major
Input sources
Caption your microphone, a browser tab's audio, or both directions at once (you and the other side), chosen per session.
- Major
More ways to show captions
A picture-in-picture subtitle overlay, a fullscreen stage mode, a split two-way interpretation view, and multi-window popups for extra screens — switch between them live, without restarting.
- Milestone
Smart context and glossary
Newey pulls likely terms from the live talk and lets you add a background note, and you can lock exact translations for product names and jargon so they always come out right.
- Minor
Caption display
Choose 2–4 caption lines and resize the source-language text. Changes apply instantly, even mid-session.
- Milestone
Newey AI launches
Real-time interpretation captions from your microphone to on-screen subtitles, browser-direct — built to remove language barriers from talks and meetings.