Changelog
Every release, every fix, every improvement — documented here. Avocado gets better constantly.
June 26, 2026
Minor report fixes and improvements
June 26, 2026
Introducing a dedicated session history window with progress insights, session statistics, and historical performance tracking. Added dynamic session reports featuring automated insight generation, detailed performance metrics, and deep-linking to associated scripts. Integrated an interactive performance dashboard teaser and dynamic activity heatmaps during onboarding to showcase new features.
Streamlined the main interface by consolidating toolbar items into unified menus for view options and history. Refreshed the user interface with cohesive new button styles and a standardized theme for a cleaner look. Enhanced the onboarding flow to better highlight advanced features, and optimized dashboard widgets to scale automatically across different screen sizes.
June 25, 2026
Script titles are now automatically generated in the detected language of your script, and the app now fully supports CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and Cyrillic scripts across word counts, pacing inputs, and most AI features.
Speech recognition now automatically pairs its language settings with your script for better accuracy while intelligently preserving system locales when they match, and voice words-per-minute detection and scroll pacing are now finely calibrated for CJK text segments.
Locale selection in setting to manually select your locale, otherwise will be detected automatically
June 18, 2026
Smart Cues are now generated seamlessly in the background without interrupting your workflow.
Major under-the-hood performance upgrades. Enjoy incredibly smooth scrolling during teleprompter playback and a noticeably faster, more responsive typing experience in the script editor, even when working with long documents.
Updated the script completion badges with a fresh look and changed their behavior so they remain visible until you manually dismiss them, ensuring you never miss an alert.
June 17, 2026
Text rendering sharpness and motion smoothness during teleprompting, especially when using sub-pixel accuracy on non-Retina displays. Application performance during window resizing and dragging. Core prompter initialization, cursor handling, and text layout limits across different screen sizes.
A rare crash that could occur during active scroll loops. An issue where the scroll loop would fail to initialize if microphone permissions were not granted.
June 16, 2026
Introduced new plan options for better flexibility
June 2, 2026
under the hood fixes
June 2, 2026
Resolved an issue where the teleprompter mode could fall out of sync on launch. Fixed a bug that could cause temporary notch layout distortion.
June 1, 2026
Resolved an issue where using the follow-mouse feature could cause the application to hang.
May 30, 2026
A beautifully redesigned info bar that delivers a sleek, modern look and feel to your workspace.
Massively optimized typing performance and text highlighting for an ultra-responsive editing experience, along with refreshed interface icons for enhanced visual consistency.
Glitches with multi-line paste highlighting, layout issues with notification text wrapping, and stability bugs to ensure your scripts remain perfectly intact and properly ordered.
May 29, 2026
Redesigned the Script Markers pane for a cleaner, more modern look. Improved the cues sidebar with automatic scrolling to the active marker, smoother slide transitions, and responsive resizing that remembers your preferred sidebar width. Enhanced overall button click responsiveness throughout the app interface.
May 28, 2026
A fresh, custom sidebar navigation layout for the Settings menu to make tweaking your preferences more intuitive, optimized layout dimensions for larger screens, and fully upgraded compatibility for the latest macOS features.
Eliminated the halo glow effect around the notch by suppressing window shadows, resolved potential user interface freezes during rapid mode switching, fixed scrolling behavior in manual playback modes, and stabilized multi-monitor support to keep your prompter perfectly positioned when changing displays.
May 27, 2026
Introduce Apple Intelligence powered auto-naming and intelligent tag suggestions that automatically analyze your text to keep your script library organized.
Add a secure soft-delete system featuring a 30-day trash folder, interactive editor banners, and instant keyboard undo support.
Notch closes faster now!
May 27, 2026
Launch Director Mode instantly with a convenient new dedicated button placed directly in the editor info bar.
May 27, 2026
Optimize the onboarding experience with clearer plan status indicators and helpful tips during your first session to ensure you get the most out of your teleprompter setup.
May 27, 2026
Refine application performance and apply under-the-hood optimizations.
May 27, 2026
Introduce a robust script tagging system featuring an inline editor and a flexible tag layout.
Add a searchable sidebar that filters by title or body and previews text snippets centered right on your matching keywords.
More intuitive script deletion process that supports keyboard shortcuts and helpful confirmation alerts.
May 14, 2026
A redesigned onboarding and pro walkthrough experience with a more intuitive feature walkthrough and refreshed UI layouts for a modern, cohesive look.
May 14, 2026
Refined the visual design of the onboarding interface with updated button styling for a more polished and intuitive setup experience.
May 14, 2026
Contextual upgrade suggestions to help you discover the right features at the perfect moment in your workflow.
May 11, 2026
Various under-the-hood improvements.
April 25, 2026
Smart cue markers ([pause], [breathe], [smile], [long pause]) now correctly render with their highlight colors in the Mac prompter. A stale "cheap path" color update was overwriting annotation tints on every render.
Toggling "Show Smart Cues as Symbols" in Settings now immediately updates the prompter display without requiring a script change.
[long pause] no longer corrupts to "[long ⏸ ]" when Smart Cue symbols are enabled — markers are now replaced longest-first so shorter overlapping markers don't match inside longer ones.
April 25, 2026
Teleprompter Viewer: Director Mode now serves a second page (/viewer) that turns any phone or tablet on the same Wi-Fi into a real-time teleprompter display — no app install required. Font size, colors, text alignment, and smart cue markers stay in sync with the Mac.
Mirror Text (Settings → Prompter): Flips the prompter horizontally so text reads correctly through a physical beam-splitter glass. The stats pill mirrors too so it stays legible inside the rig.
Director Mode settings now shows two QR codes side by side — one for the Director control panel, one for the new Teleprompter Viewer.
Director Mode server now returns a proper 404 for unknown paths instead of silently serving the Director HTML.
The advertised local IP now skips VPN tunnels, AWDL, bridge, and IPsec interfaces so Director and Viewer QR codes always point to a reachable LAN address.
April 17, 2026
Director Mode (Pro): Let a producer control the teleprompter from any phone, tablet, or laptop on the same Wi-Fi — no app download required. Play, pause, scrub position, adjust speed, and jump between cue markers in real time. Up to 5 simultaneous connections. Purely local network, no internet required.
April 16, 2026
Follow Mouse: Seamlessly jump across monitors without dragging. Avocado automatically leaps to the screen your mouse is on. Available for Avocado Pro users.
April 15, 2026
PowerPoint (.pptx) Notes Import: Drop a .pptx file directly into the app to instantly extract your presenter notes.
Slide Marker Automation: Each generated slide is automatically prepended with your custom Script Marker, so you can easily jump between presentation pages in the sidebar.
April 1, 2026
Under-the-hood improvements and reliability fixes.
March 28, 2026
Smart Cues: Your AI speech coach. Automatically generate perfect pacing pauses, breath marks, and smiles using on-device Apple Intelligence.
Cue Points have been redesigned and renamed to Script Markers for better clarity and organization.
March 26, 2026
Various under-the-hood improvements to the upgrade experience.
March 26, 2026
Voice-activated scrolling is now free for scripts up to 200 words — try the full smart scrolling experience before you buy.
Interactive speed and scroll mode controls in the editor bottom bar — switch between manual and adaptive speed, and toggle mouse scroll without opening Settings.
Adaptive speed now reacts faster when your pace slows down and stays conservative when speeding up, preventing the prompter from running ahead of you.
Scrolling text now starts just below the reading guide, giving a natural lead-in before the first word enters the active reading zone.
Refreshed onboarding experience that highlights what's available in the free tier.
Cue point navigation shortcut (⌘⇧C) now works correctly in Floating mode.
March 22, 2026
Smart Cue Points — mark any section of your script with a custom prefix and it becomes a visual bookmark in the Editor sidebar and Prompter.
Cue Points sidebar in the Editor, togglable from the toolbar, with an empty-state that shows you how to get started.
Onboarding now includes a dedicated Cue Points step.
Toolbar buttons are now logically grouped with visual separation between launch and sidebar controls.
Improved license management reliability.
March 18, 2026
Avocado now supports automatic updates via Sparkle. You'll be notified whenever a new version is available.
Update check runs silently in the background on launch, with a non-intrusive notification when an update is ready.
Improved notch width detection based on screen geometry for more precise notch fitting.
Fixed prompter window not gracefully handling monitor connection and disconnection events.
February 27, 2026
Floating Mode: detach the prompter from the notch and drag it anywhere on screen — even over external monitors.
Mouse scroll support in Floating Mode for manual speed control.
Pause on hover: the prompter pauses automatically when you hover the floating window.
Controls and stats fade out gracefully while presenting, reappearing on hover.
Adaptive speed model tuned for better accuracy during fast speech.
Fixed auto-scrolling occasionally stopping due to -10877 audio errors during long sessions.
February 10, 2026
Notch Prompter: a teleprompter that lives invisibly inside your MacBook Pro notch.
Voice-activated auto-scroll using on-device speech recognition — no cloud required.
Calibration flow that learns your natural speaking rate and sets scroll speed automatically.
Full text customization: font size, color, background, alignment (left, center, right, justify).
Script manager with multiple saved scripts.
Completely invisible on screen shares (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Loom).
Pro license via LemonSqueezy — one-time payment, two device activations.