September 3, 2025 - Beeper 🤖 Android - 4.31.1
New Features ✨
- Searchable voice note transcriptions
- Transcribed voice notes are now indexed for search along with your other messages
- Mentions in chats are now highlighted
- Labs: Toggle WhatsApp community display
- This toggles whether or not WhatsApp communities display in the navigation drawer or not
- ⚙️ → Labs → WhatsApp communities as spaces
Developers 👩🏻‍💻
This release marks one small step forward for Beeper Android in better supporting the broader developer/tinkerer community. If you’ve got ideas or suggestions for integrations that require data to be exposed, let us know!
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Incognito mode can now be toggled externally via Intent
- Can be integrated in your own apps, Tasker, or used via CLI
adb shell am broadcast -a com.beeper.android.TOGGLE_INCOGNITO_MODE \\
--ez enabled true \\
-n com.beeper.android/com.beeper.ext.ExternalBroadcastReceiver
Improvements, Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Moved “Sign out” and “Delete account” options to the Profile screen
- Fixed a case where avatars in notifications could be completely missing
- Fixed a case where starting a new chat with someone could open an existing, incorrect, chat
- Added Show More / Show Less to very large text messages and long transcriptions
- Reduced “Strong Video” compression bitrate in Data Saver Mode to address a crash in the video encoder
- Allowed hyphens when typing usernames
- Improved media service startup for more reliable voice note playback
September 2, 2025 — Beeper 💻 Desktop v4.1.169
✨ New
- Edit existing contacts by right-clicking the user in the Chat Info panel in DMs
- When you have multiple accounts from one chat network, you can switch between them by hovering over your avatar in the chat composer