Posted By Paul Kafasis on September 12th, 2025

With our recent update to Fission, all Rogue Amoeba applications now support MacOS 26 (Tahoe). If you’ve updated your Mac to Tahoe, just download our latest versions to get going.

Consider Delaying Your Upgrade

However, while our products are ready for Tahoe, Tahoe itself comes with a few caveats. It’s always wise to be cautious in upgrading your Mac’s operating system, but this year, there are particular reasons to take things slow.

Unfortunately, Tahoe contains two significant bugs which can lead to lost audio. We’ve created a support article which provides full details on the problems, as well as information on working around them. Click below to read:

The necessary fixes for both of these bugs must be made in a future update to Tahoe itself. We’re in contact with Apple about these issues, and we’re hopeful fixes will arrive in the near future. We also expect that most users have setups which will not run into these issues.

Still, if you’re able to delay upgrading your Mac to Tahoe, we currently recommend doing so. Sticking with MacOS 15 (Sequoia) is a sure-fire way to avoid problems at this time.

More to Come

As soon as new betas of Tahoe arrive, we’ll be testing them to determine when these OS bugs have been fixed. We’ll keep you apprised via this blog, as well as our always helpful Status page.

Of course, while we await further MacOS updates, we’ll also be busy improving our own apps. We’re hard at work on some big new features which we’ll be releasing in the months ahead.

For now, though, we’re pleased to have completed the work to support Tahoe across our product line. As always, to ensure you have our latest versions, download right from our site or select Check for Updates from within the app.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on September 10th, 2025

Today, we’re releasing a free update to our audio editor Fission. You’ll find a lovely interface refresh in the new version 2.9, as well as a handful of small bug fixes and support for Apple’s forthcoming MacOS 26 (Tahoe). Read on for more details, or update immediately by selecting “Check for Update” in the Fission menu.

Look at What’s New

The first change you’ll notice with the new Fission is its new app icon. That icon has been updated in accordance with changes Apple has dictated in MacOS 26 (Tahoe).

Once you open Fission, you’ll spot many more changes. In fact, the entire application has been given a virtual fresh coat of paint. You’ll spot updates to the Start window, the editing window, and the Batch Converter.

We polished many parts of the app for this update, while still making sure Fission’s powerful functionality stays at your fingertips. Most notably, the light theme has been refreshed to lean into the app’s gold coloring. As well, art assets throughout the app have been improved, to make Fission look better than ever.

Fission also works better than ever. There are a handful of minor bug fixes in this free update, plus some improvements to accessibility for our VoiceOver users. Of course, as always, we’ve got comprehensive release notes you can check out.

Initial MacOS 26 (Tahoe) Support

Apple has announced that the new MacOS 26 (Tahoe) will be shipping on September 15, 2025. With this update, Fission now offers initial support for Tahoe. As you can see on our helpful Status page, there are no known issues when using Fission on the new OS. Whether you’re already running Tahoe, or you’re planning to update soon, Fission is ready.

Get Fission 2.9 Now

If you’re already a Fission user, get the latest by selecting Check for Updates from the Fission menu.

If you’re not yet using our fast and easy-to-use audio editor, visit the product page to learn more and download the free trial today. You’ll be glad you did.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on August 21st, 2025

In the realm of computers, bugs are generally a bad thing. Every year, our team ships dozens of free updates to eliminate bugs that are an inescapable byproduct of the countless variables in software development. Rarely, though, a bug can be beneficial. Back in 2002, a software bug saved Rogue Amoeba.

It started when we shipped the very first version of Audio Hijack. We wanted to give potential customers the ability to fully test the app prior to purchase, but we weren’t sure how best to limit that free trial. Our initial download provided 15 full days of completely unlimited usage.

The app’s functionality only became constrained after that 15 day trial period had elapsed. Our documentation at the time explained what would happen:

After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Additionally, the recording feature will be disabled.

We hope that before your 15 days are up, you’ll want to register Audio Hijack, so you won’t have to worry about this.

Unfortunately for our business, what we hoped for seldom came to pass. Sales were middling. Though we knew we had a useful tool, it seemed unlikely Rogue Amoeba could ever be more than a side project.

Still, we continued developing the software and shipping new versions, eventually releasing Audio Hijack 1.6. It was a relatively minor update, without any eye-catching new features. Given that, we were shocked when we saw sales jump to a new (and viable!) level. Then, they stayed there.

As days of sustainable sales turned into weeks, we were thrilled but confused. Initially, we couldn’t figure out what had happened. Eventually, though, we tracked down the change. It was a bug! In version 1.6, we accidentally broke the intended 15 days of unrestricted usage. Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording. After that, all trial users were confronted with this dialog:

Compared to giving away two-plus weeks for free, this stricter limitation led to dramatically higher sales. We had unwittingly created a vastly superior trial. It’s stuck around, too. Though we’ve refined things further, our current trial limitations directly descend from this rogue idea we stumbled into.

With this change, our low sales rose to a level where it was worth continuing to work on and improve Audio Hijack. Within a year, Rogue Amoeba became a full-time job for the three founders, and our company now employs a dozen people. If not for this fortunate mistake, it’s very likely we’d eventually have given up long ago. It’s no exaggeration to say that this bug saved both Audio Hijack and our company.

Footnotes:

1. That tagline existed because the fair-use right to time shifting was not yet well-established. Given that, we focused our early marketing on the audio adjustments the app made possible. While Audio Hijack can still help with that, nowadays, we recommend SoundSource as the best solution for applying effects to any audio on your Mac. ↩︎

Posted By Paul Kafasis on August 7th, 2025

As you may already know, I relish the chance to celebrate employee milestones. Making outstanding audio tools requires an outstanding team, and we’re honored to work with such stellar staff. We’re particularly proud that so many of our employees have long tenures with us. Today, I’m delighted to induct the first member into Rogue Amoeba’s 15 (!) year club: Chris Barajas.

Looking Back at Fifteen Great Years

Way back in 2010, Chris joined us to handle all of our front-line support. In that role, he answered countless emails and assisted tens of thousands of users in getting the most out of our products. That work alone is worthy of much acclaim, but it’s only part of how Chris has contributed to Rogue Amoeba’s successes.

In 2017, our lone Support position grew into a two-person team. Chris and Robert Charlton worked side-by-side, but Chris’s years of experience enabled him to take the lead on many things. For several years, Chris and Robert acted as a fantastic tag team. In 2020, however, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 lead to a huge uptick in usage.

At that point, our Support team grew to three. Soon after, Chris was promoted to the new position of Support Manager. He’s been officially leading the Support team ever since, continuing to answer customer emails while also guiding our renowned Support operation. Chris now works on a wide variety of related tasks, from streamlining tools to help customers to refining our marketing. His direct contact with customers continues as well, making him an invaluable part of our product development cycle.

For fifteen years and counting, Chris has helped shape Rogue Amoeba. We couldn’t be more pleased to celebrate him today.

The Watch Anniversary

In honor of this anniversary, we recently presented Chris with some gifts. Everyone appreciates a nice monetary bonus, and the custom cards our designer Neale creates are always tremendous as well:

To commemorate his decade and a half with the company, we also wanted to provide Chris with a special object. Knowing that 15 years is the watch anniversary, we decided an Apple watch would do nicely. Do note the capitalization there, though, because we’re not talking about a smartwatch. Instead, we tracked down the original Apple watch:

Here’s a closer look:

This strange beauty was a promotional giveaway way back in 1995. And speaking of capitalization, this watch’s original band even correctly uses an uppercase “M” in “MacOS” (or maybe that’s “Mac OS”? Still good!):

That text is actually rather incongruous, because the Mac’s operating system was still called “System 7.5” in 1995. That didn’t change until 1997, with the arrival of Mac OS 7.6.

Odd branding aside, this watch is both a functional timepiece and a charming reminder of years gone by. Chris’s career has been tied to Apple and the Mac, and this memento is a tribute to his fine work over many years. We hope it brings a smile to Chris’s face, whether he’s wearing it or just glancing at it on a shelf.

Three Cheers for Chris

Chris’s tenure spans almost two-thirds of Rogue Amoeba’s existence, and his impact in that time has been immeasurable. In countless ways, Rogue Amoeba is better because of Chris. So on behalf of the entire Rogue Amoeba team, I want to express our tremendous appreciation. It’s been a privilege to work with Chris since 2010, and we hope for many great years to come!

Posted By Paul Kafasis on June 9th, 2025

Apple has now announced MacOS 26 (Tahoe), the next major OS update for the Mac. Though we’ve only just received the initial version of Tahoe, we’re already hard at work on updates for our entire product line. We expect to have full support for Tahoe ahead of its release in the fall.

Current Status

Our helpful Status page always provides information about support for new operating systems. Give it a look and you’ll see that all of our current releases already run on Tahoe! That’s the result of a lot of hard work, including the transition to our new ARK backend. We hope our users who install MacOS betas will appreciate it.

It should be noted, however, that our apps are not yet well tested on Tahoe. The current versions of the apps will warn you of that fact:

As you can see, Apple’s decision to increase the OS version by 11 instead of 1 was unexpected.

That testing has begun, and will continue throughout the summer. Even when it’s complete, however, we always recommend sticking with officially released versions of MacOS for production environments.

The Road Ahead

In the coming weeks, we’ll issue test releases that run without showing a warning on Tahoe. You can opt into those now, then you’ll be alerted once they’re available.

Those test releases will eventually be followed by full releases with official support for Tahoe. That will come later in the MacOS beta cycle, when Apple is less likely to make breaking changes.

Stay Informed

You can always check the aforementioned Status page to get the latest information. You might also subscribe to this blog via RSS and follow us on social media as well.

As for us, we’re off to do more testing. Stay tuned for more soon.