Settings & data
Updates
updated
Signed over-the-air updates that verify themselves before installing, and the ordinary drag-to-Trash uninstall when you want Oris gone.
Oris checks for updates automatically — once a day, in the background. When a new version is available, it lets you know with a quick prompt that shows a short “What’s new” summary of what changed; one click downloads the cryptographically verified update and installs it. You don’t need to visit a download page or run a script.
What updates, what stays put
The update replaces the app and refreshes the Obsidian plugin bundled with it (see below). Your notes, recordings, configured providers, API keys, and the on-device models are all untouched. Oris’s promise that it never sends your audio anywhere carries forward unchanged through every update.
Keeping the Obsidian plugin in sync
The Obsidian plugin ships inside the app, so each app build carries a matching plugin. When you launch the app it keeps your vault’s plugin matched to the installed app — normally that means copying in a newer plugin after an update, but it also means restoring the matching plugin if you ever roll the app back, so the plugin and the app version it talks to never drift apart. You don’t reinstall anything. Obsidian keeps running the previously loaded plugin until it’s reloaded, so the next time you’re in Obsidian you’ll see a quick “Oris updated — reload to apply” prompt with a Reload now link. One click swaps in the matching plugin; until then, recording keeps working with the version already loaded.
Verification
Every update is code-signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple before it’s published. On top of that, Oris uses Sparkle’s Ed25519 signature scheme: each download is signed with a private key that never leaves the maintainer’s control, and the app verifies the signature cryptographically before installing anything. A tampered or corrupted file is rejected.
Checking manually
Both controls live under Settings → General → Updates: an Automatically check for updates toggle, on by default, and a Check for Updates… button for checking right now. The same manual check sits in the Oris menu → Check for Updates…. Either one contacts the update server, tells you whether a new version is there, and offers to install it.
Turn the toggle off and Oris stops checking on its own; the manual button still works whenever you want it.
Removing Oris
Oris is an ordinary Mac app, so removing it is the ordinary thing: quit Oris, then drag Oris from your Applications folder to the Trash. Nothing else has to be undone first.
Your notes and your recordings are not part of the app. They are your own files, they live in your vault and in the recordings folder, and they stay exactly where they are. Uninstalling removes the tool that produced them, not the work.
What stays behind. Two things outlive the Trash. The Obsidian plugin stays installed in the vault, where you remove it the way you remove any community plugin, under Settings → Community plugins in Obsidian. And your Oris settings are kept outside the app, deliberately, so that an update never loses them. If you reinstall later, the app opens straight to its home window with everything as you left it rather than starting the walkthrough again.
Clear your API keys before you uninstall, not after. Those settings include any provider keys you pasted in, and they survive the app being deleted. So if you’re passing the Mac on, selling it, or just done with a provider, do this while Oris is still installed: open Settings → Summarization, empty the API key field on every provider card you filled in, and wait for the Settings saved confirmation. There’s no Save button, so clearing the field is the whole action. Then quit and drag the app to the Trash. Doing it in that order is the difference between a key that’s gone and a key that’s still sitting on a machine you no longer own.
If something is wedged, start with the walkthrough. A full uninstall is rarely what you actually want. Settings → General → Re-run walkthrough steps you back through vault, plugin, permissions, and models without touching a single setting, and it fixes most of what a reinstall would have fixed. See Guided walkthrough.
Making macOS ask about the microphone again. Removing the app does not remove the permissions you granted it. If you want the microphone and system-audio prompts to appear from scratch, reset them explicitly: see Permissions.