GeekBye v2: A Calmer, More Reliable AI Assistant

The Wi‑Fi stutters for ten seconds during a call you actually need notes from. The transcript just… stops. You don't notice until the meeting's over and half of it is gone.

If you used v1, you know that moment. GeekBye v2 is mostly about making it stop happening.

Version 1 proved the idea worked: an AI assistant that listens to your meetings, calls, and study sessions in real time and turns them into searchable notes, without taking over your screen. GeekBye v2 is about making that idea dependable enough to lean on every single day. We spent this release on the unglamorous stuff that decides whether a tool earns a permanent spot in your week. Staying connected. Staying private. Staying out of your way. Being honest about what you paid for.

Here's what changed.

It stays connected — even when your network doesn't

This is the big one.

Real work doesn't happen on a perfect office connection. You hop from café Wi‑Fi to your phone's hotspot mid-sentence. You walk into a stairwell dead zone. The conference router reboots itself while someone's mid-answer. Older notetakers tend to die quietly in exactly those moments, and the worst part is they don't tell you. The connection looks fine to the app. Nothing's actually getting through.

v2 watches for that. It actively checks that the line is alive, so when a connection goes dead behind the scenes, GeekBye catches it in seconds and rebuilds it, even if your Mac never reported that the network changed. You see an honest "reconnecting", then "live" again. You don't sit there trusting a frozen screen.

It recovers on its own, too. When the network comes back, or when you switch networks entirely, it picks the session right back up. The Wi‑Fi-to-hotspot handoff that quietly broke a lot of tools? It just keeps going now. And a long quiet stretch in a meeting won't get mistaken for a dropped line, so the session stays alive through the silence instead of timing out on you.

Fewer "wait, did it catch that?" moments. Far fewer sessions you have to restart.

Your library stays on your device

v2 leans harder into local-first.

Your transcripts, notes, profiles, and recordings live in a database on your machine. Not in a copy we hold on a server somewhere. There's no telemetry and no usage tracking wired into the app, and your sign-in is held in your Mac's secure keychain rather than left lying around.

Want a backup? You're in control of that. Connect your own cloud storage and GeekBye mirrors your recordings there, stamped with the time they were actually recorded so they land in the right order instead of bunching up under today's date. Don't want one? Then nothing leaves your library at all.

No surprise walls

Few things kill trust faster than a paid app telling you you've "used up your time" and offering to sell you the plan you already bought.

v2 fixed that. Usage states are accurate now. Paid plans behave like paid plans. And a temporary network hiccup no longer gets mislabeled as a billing cap, which was a genuinely annoying bug in the old behavior. If you subscribe, you shouldn't see an upsell, and in v2 you won't.

Lighter and quieter

A background assistant that spins up your fans is a background assistant you'll quit by lunch.

v2 moved the heavy audio work off the main thread, so the interface stays smooth and your CPU stays calm even on a long day. We also fixed a stubborn bug where audio and transcription could give out after several back-to-back sessions. Now it holds across a packed calendar. Idle CPU is lower than it was in v1, so the app sits quietly when nothing's happening instead of taxing the machine just by being open.

Smarter session handling

A handful of smaller refinements round out the release. Individually small, together the difference between a tool you fight and one you forget is running.

Clear connection-quality states

You can tell at a glance where things stand: connecting, reconnecting, or live. v2 also adds a connection-quality indicator, so a shaky line shows up as a quick visual cue before it becomes a problem you have to clean up afterward.

Automatic meeting detection

A session can start the moment a call begins, so you're not scrambling to hit record while someone's already talking.

Keyboard-first control

Start, stop, and ask a question without reaching for the mouse or breaking your focus. The overlay stays a small, draggable bar you can drag out of the way, and you can keep it off whatever you're sharing on a screen share.

Who v2 is for

v1 was for early adopters who'd forgive a rough edge. v2 is for the person who just needs it to work.

Back-to-back meetings. Hotel Wi‑Fi. A train. A one-room flat where the router is also the microwave's neighbor. It's for people who'd rather their notes sat on their own machine than in another vendor's cloud. And it's for teams who want all of that under their own brand.

The short version

Same simple promise as before: listen, transcribe, summarize, stay out of the way. The difference is the foundation under it, the part that decides whether the promise holds when conditions aren't perfect.

Stays connected. Stays private. Stays honest. Runs light.

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FAQ

Do I need to reconfigure anything coming from v1?

No. Update, sign back in if prompted, and your settings come with you. The reliability and CPU improvements are already on by default, so there's nothing to switch on. If you'd set up your own cloud backup in v1, that connection carries over too.

Is my v1 library carried over, and is it still local?

Yes on both counts. Your existing transcripts, notes, profiles, and recordings stay right where they were, in the local database on your Mac. v2 doesn't move your library off your device or quietly upload it. The only copy that ever leaves is the optional backup you choose to set up, to storage you own.

Will v2 run lighter on long days than v1 did?

That's a big part of what this release is. Audio processing now runs off the main thread, idle CPU is lower, and the old failure where transcription died after a string of back-to-back sessions is fixed. In practice that means a full day of meetings without the fans climbing or the app needing a restart to keep working.

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Try GeekBye v2 — run a real meeting on whatever Wi‑Fi you've got, and watch how it handles the moment your connection wobbles. → Get GeekBye

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