Live Session App, fully loaded.

This week’s release focused heavily on the Live Session App — making setup faster, exports more useful, transcripts more reliable, and the overall experience feel significantly more polished across web and native app surfaces.

You can now pair and set up the Live Session App in seconds, export transcripts and summaries anywhere, chat directly with captured actions, and use the app in light, dark, or auto theme modes.

Alongside the major updates, we also improved transcript quality, streamlined navigation, refined session summaries, and resolved a number of issues affecting session state, timestamps, and UI consistency.

What’s in this release

New

• Live Session App

• Pair and set up the Live Session App on first use

• Export transcripts, summaries, and chat threads

• Chat with captured actions

Improved

• Light, dark, and auto themes

• Speaker timestamps in live transcripts

• Full summaries for every session

• Project picker search and navigation

• Transcript echo cancellation

• Live Session App UI and native app polish

Fixed

• Chat activity duration no longer inflates across reloads

• Copy/download buttons now hide when sessions stop

• Stopped sessions no longer show as “Live”

• Session names and owner visibility

• Typography and interface alignment

Pair and set up the Live Session App on first use

Getting started with the Live Session App is now significantly faster and easier for first-time users.

The onboarding flow now guides users through pairing their device directly inside the app, with clearer prompts, inline instructions, and automatic pairing link generation if a code is lost.

Highlights

• Device pairing now starts directly from the welcome screen

• Pairing codes persist across browser tabs

• Inline helper text guides users through setup

• “Generate Link” instantly creates a new pairing link if needed

• First-time Live Session onboarding now explains the capture flow before a session starts

Export transcripts, summaries, and chat threads

Everything captured during a Live Session can now be exported and shared more easily.

Users can copy content directly to their clipboard, download it as a file, or move it into external tools and workflows without extra formatting work.

Highlights

• Export full diarized transcripts with speaker names and timestamps

• Export summaries, action items, and decisions

• Copy or download summaries as Markdown or plain text

• Export chat conversations with Chief about a session

• Copy action items into reusable to-do lists

Improvements

Light, dark, and auto themes

Chief now supports light mode, dark mode, and automatic system theme detection.

Speaker timestamps in live transcripts

Speaker sections now include timestamps so users can quickly jump to important moments in a conversation.

Full summaries for every session

Every completed session now automatically includes a generated summary without requiring an additional prompt.

Project picker improvements

Project switching is now faster and more reliable with improved search, retry handling, and smarter collapse behavior for previously selected projects.

Transcript echo cancellation

System audio echo is now filtered more effectively, improving transcript clarity and speaker reliability.

Live Session App and native app polish

A wide range of UI and usability improvements shipped across the Live Session App and native experience.

Included updates

• Live session breadcrumbs are now clickable

• Session UI scales correctly with zoom changes

• Live session icons are now consistent across surfaces

• Native app typography and spacing were refined

• Project context now persists through billing upgrade flows

• Download states now show progress while transcripts process

Fixes

Chat activity duration no longer inflates across reloads

Chat timestamps now correctly reflect the actual time since the last activity.

Copy/download buttons hide when sessions stop

Export controls now disappear correctly once a session has ended.

Stopped sessions no longer show as “Live”

Session state now updates immediately after capture stops.

Session names and owner visibility

Live Sessions now display the correct owner and generate clearer default session names.

Name alignment across web, app, and tools

Terminology for Live Sessions, transcripts, and capture flows is now consistent across the web app, native app, and tools.

Speaker identification reliability

Resolved issues that occasionally prevented speaker diarization from completing on some call types.