Updates, uninstall and your data
Use this page to keep Voltip up to date, to find the files it keeps on your computer, and to remove it completely.
Updates
Voltip updates from inside the app. Under Settings → General:
- Check for updates looks for a new release once, when you press it.
- Automatic updates, off by default, checks for updates 10 seconds after Voltip starts and every 4 hours while it runs, and downloads a new version in the background. When the download is done, the title bar shows Restart to update: click it to restart Voltip and finish the update. Otherwise the new version is installed the next time you start Voltip. The checks while Voltip runs only download; they never restart it on their own. Version 0.1.7 and earlier check only at start-up.
With automatic updates off, Voltip contacts the update server only when you press Check for updates. On Windows and macOS the tray menu has the same command.
On Windows the new version installs in the background without showing the installer, and Voltip opens again when it is done, including when you update from 0.1.6 or earlier. On macOS and Linux the app is replaced in place and restarts.
Before an update installs, Voltip makes an automatic backup of the history, the dictionary, the rules, the scenes and the AI presets; see Automatic backups.
On a Mac, updating from 0.0.6 or earlier asks for the permissions once more; see Install. From version 0.0.7 every release is signed with the same certificate so that later updates keep the microphone and Accessibility permissions. The first such update, from 0.0.7 to 0.0.8, has not been checked on a real Mac yet.
On an Android phone
On the phone, updates are under Settings → About, and how they work depends on where the app came from:
- Installed from Google Play, it is updated by Google Play. Open in Google Play, under Updated by Google Play, opens its page there.
- Installed from a GitHub release, Check for updates, under Updates, looks for the latest release on this site and then on GitHub. When there is a newer one, Download the new version downloads its installer in the browser; open it when it is done to update. Your pairing, settings and history are kept. Check automatically, off by default, checks each time Voltip starts.
Android only installs an update signed like the version you have. When this site cannot be reached, Voltip asks GitHub, which answers a limited number of queries per hour from each network address; when the message says so, try again later.
Voltip 0.0.50 does not check for updates, and its About page has no Updates section. Google Play updates a copy it installed; for a copy from a GitHub release, download Voltip_<version>_android_arm64.apk from the new release and open it: it installs over the old version. Voltip 0.0.49 and earlier find the new version with Check for updates as above.
When the relay asks for an update
The relay between phones and computers may ask for a newer Voltip. When a version is too old, the relay status in the computer's sidebar shows Update needed with the version required, and its button updates to the new version or checks for updates; the phone's pairing page shows Update Voltip, and paired computers read Cannot connect · update this phone. Until the update, pairing is not possible and paired devices cannot reconnect; dictation is not affected. Open Voltip again after the update and everything resumes. Versions 0.1.9 and earlier say that the version is not compatible and ask for an update when you pair.
If a check fails
The text after Update failed names the cause, for example that the connection timed out, was refused or could not be secured. Voltip gives up when a connection to the update server takes longer than 15 seconds to open, or when the server sends nothing for 30 seconds.
Voltip looks for updates on this site first and downloads them from here; this site serves the same files as the GitHub release, and Voltip checks every package against its signature before installing it. When this site cannot be reached, Voltip asks GitHub instead. Update checks and downloads go through the proxy set under Settings → Network: the system's by default, or a proxy server you enter. Voltip 0.1.3 and earlier do not use the proxy set in the Windows or macOS settings and read only environment variables such as HTTPS_PROXY.
Voltip 0.0.52 and earlier ask GitHub only.
Where your data is kept
Settings, the history, the dictionary, the rules, the scenes, the kept recordings and the downloaded models are stored in one folder per user:
| Platform | Folder |
|---|---|
| Windows | %APPDATA%\voltip\Voltip\data |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/dev.voltip.Voltip |
| Linux | ~/.local/share/voltip |
By default the models are in the models folder inside it and usually account for most of its size; they can move to another drive, see Where the models are saved. Deleting a model from the Speech models page removes its files. The kept recordings are in the audio-cache folder, 200 MB at most by default; delete them under Settings → Privacy and history, in Recording cache, see Recognise or polish again. The automatic backups are in the backups folder unless you chose another one, see Automatic backups.
Keys for cloud providers and this computer's device identity are kept in the system keychain — Windows Credential Manager, the macOS keychain, or the Secret Service on Linux — under entries whose names begin with dev.voltip.desktop.
Uninstall
- Quit Voltip. On Windows and macOS, choose Quit Voltip from the tray menu; closing the window only hides it there.
- Remove the app:
- Windows: Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Voltip → Uninstall. For the portable version, delete its folder.
- macOS: move Voltip from Applications to the Trash.
- Linux, .deb:
sudo apt remove voltip. - Linux, AppImage: delete
~/.local/bin/Voltip.AppImageand~/.local/share/applications/voltip.desktop.
- To remove your data as well, delete the folder listed above, and the keychain entries whose names begin with
dev.voltip.desktop. When the models or the automatic backups are saved elsewhere, delete those folders too.