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SolScribe 1.9 brings a redesigned web app

SolScribe 1.9 ships a new web design. Home replaces the dashboard and Brain opens on a map of your projects. The library shows each recording as a session card with a talk-time bar, and a recording’s page now shows the decisions Brain found in it, with playback timestamps where a quote matches a timed transcript segment. Phones get a bottom tab bar.

It went live on SolScribe Cloud on October 30, and the self-hosted images for 1.9.0.0 are published.

Session cards in the library

The old library showed transcripts as text cards with rotating excerpts. Each recording is now a session card: a plain preview, labelled quality flags and a bar that shows how much of the conversation each speaker had, in that speaker’s colour. A one-sided call and a real discussion look different before you open either.

Filter chips narrow the list, a list view fits more on screen and saved views keep the filters you use most. Saved views live in your browser, so they don’t follow you to another device yet.

Decisions on the recording page

Open a recording and the side rail lists the decisions Brain recorded from it. When a supporting quote matches a timed transcript segment, it offers a timestamp that plays from the start of that segment. The rail also lists the people and projects the recording connects to.

Brain opens on a project map

Brain now opens on a project map instead of a feed of entries. Each project already carries a status note, its history and the recordings behind it, so the map is the shortest path from “what’s going on with this” to the evidence.

Themes and speaker colours

Twilight, Light, Sunrise and Sunset all carry over, refined onto one set of colour tokens. Sunset’s buttons use darker ink and text was reworked for contrast in every theme. Light gets its sky backdrop back behind solid cards. Six speaker colours mark who is talking and are used for nothing else.

Smaller changes

  • App icons are rebuilt from the logo.
  • Phones with a notch or rounded corners now respect the safe area.
  • Looking up recordings by ID through the list API no longer reads transcript text or summaries, so Home can fetch titles it hasn’t loaded without pulling content.

For self-hosters

1.9.0.0 is also the release that brings last week’s Brain task review to self-hosted servers. The solscribe, solscribe-cuda and solscribe-parakeet images are on GHCR under the pinned 1.9.0.0 tag. If you are coming from 1.8.8, PostgreSQL deployments need migrations 48 to 52 from migrations/neon/ before upgrading. Nothing new was added on top of those for the redesign. SQLite upgrades on startup.

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