What's new in Rubil

I'm BJ Sayer, founder of Rubil. This is where I post what I ship, as it goes out. Plain language, what changed and why it matters to you.

Chrome extension

v1.3.4May 2026

I rebuilt the recording experience around one idea: you should never have to think about where the controls are.

  • One mic, one pill. Click the mic and it turns into a recording pill right where you're working. When you finish, it collapses back to the mic. No floating window, no second surface to keep track of.
  • Your session follows you. Switch tabs or even windows in the middle of a dictation and the pill comes with you, so you pick up exactly where you left off.
  • A quick menu on the mic. Right-click it to reach Settings, your Glossary, History, and Account without leaving the page.
  • Cleaner copy to clipboard. A compact result popup replaced the old widget, so grabbing your text is a single click.

Fixes worth calling out

  • Gmail no longer delivers twice. A bug could drop your dictation into a Gmail field two times. That is fixed.
  • The onboarding pointed new users to the wrong shortcut. It suggested a key combo that triggers a Chrome page refresh, which is the last thing you want mid-setup. That one was on me, and it is exactly the kind of thing this changelog exists to own. Fixed, and I added a short walkthrough video as the first step so setup takes under a minute.

Mac app

May 2026
  • The first public build of the Mac app is live. It runs from your menu bar so Rubil works across your native apps, not only the browser. Download it from rubil.io.
  • New app icon. A 3D toucan now sits in your menu bar, because the old one was not pulling its weight.
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Want to shape what ships next? Reply to me on X or send a note from inside the app. The fixes above came from real users telling me what broke.