Dev notes
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Feature Preview: More Accurate Summaries with Google SearchAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesDeepSRT can now let Gemini verify factual claims against live web results while summarizing — an opt-in preview. Enabling the tool was the easy part; making it actually search took one more line.
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It's DeepSRT PRO now — the name finally caught upAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesWith 1.4.1, DeepSRT for Mac becomes DeepSRT PRO. Same app, same one-time purchase — one more word, and a family: PRO, Mobile, and News, plus caption styling, a real history panel, and captions that step aside.
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Wrong-time captions are worse than no captionsAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesThe words come back right; the timing comes back invented. How DeepSRT turns Gemini's coarse anchors into live captions that keep up — under a URL-only constraint every other project walked away from.
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No Captions? It Can Read the Video ItselfAugust 7, 2026 · DeepSRT development notesThe plan said whisper. The problem was never recognition — it was that the audio is unreachable, and we wouldn't take it the dirty way. Plus: two designs overturned by measurement.
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Built-in MCP Support Is Coming to DeepSRTAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesBuilt-in MCP support is coming: six tools, your own key, nothing leaving your Mac — plus the spec trap that made a client report zero tools with no error.
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The New DeepSRT Mac App Is Approved — and LiveAugust 4, 2026 · DeepSRT development notesFrom a browser extension to a native app on your Mac — today, it's officially on the App Store.
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Model Freedom: Custom Model Providers Are ComingAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesThe founding goal hasn't changed — dependable quality. What changed is that dependable no longer comes in only one shape.
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The App Economy's Inflection PointAugust 2026 · DeepSRT development notesWhen anyone can write an app, reputation and the ability to narrate become the only things a user can't vibe up for themselves.
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How DeepSRT Implements Accurate Bilingual CaptionsJuly 2026 · DeepSRT development notesSew the broken fragments into whole sentences, number them, hand them to an LLM — then let every translation take exactly its numbered seat. One timeline, start to finish.
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Why a Mac App, Not a Browser ExtensionJuly 2026 · DeepSRT development notesDeepSRT v1 was a heavy browser extension living inside two platforms' rulebooks. v2 moved the product into a native Mac app — here's what that buys.
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Why DeepSRT Has No ServersJuly 2026 · DeepSRT development notesDeepSRT v1 ran in the cloud, behind a pool of rotating proxies. v2 deleted all of it. Here's why your own IP is better infrastructure than any proxy fleet.