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This meeting cannot go outside

A call under NDA, a patient visit, an incident review, an interview. You need the notes, and you cannot upload the recording to someone else’s cloud — and that is usually where the conversation ends.

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Text in the video

Components are on this Mac

Menu → Settings → Components.

Audio saving is on for this demonstration.

Record locally without internet

Wi-Fi is off. All external connections are inactive.

Menu → Record Meeting.

Check the languages.

This is a local file. There is no internet call.

Hallo, Maria. Vielen Dank, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben.

This is a local file. There is no internet call.

Recognition and translation work without a network.

End the recording.

Your demonstration in History

Menu → History.

All — every kind of record.

Dictation — the text you dictated.

Subtitles — records from the learning video.

Meetings — conversations. Choose your own example.

Read the original.

Read the translation.

Or read both languages.

Copy the text with the native button.

Seek to the spoken part and play the saved audio.

What it looks like

  1. 1Press once to start recording. Press again to stop.
  2. 2Audio comes from your microphone and the call app.
  3. 3Recognition runs on your Mac.
  4. 4The transcript is saved in local history, ready to copy or export.

What stays with you, item by item

Audio and text are processed on your Mac. Your meeting needs no cloud recognition service.

AudioSaved to disk only if you enable saving and choose a folder.
TranscriptProduced by a model on your Mac without sending speech to the cloud for processing.
Local historyOpen a past meeting and return to its text.
Copy and exportCopy the passages you need or export the transcript.
An account for licensingYour account holds your right to features, not your meeting history.
OfflineAfter downloading the required models, recording and recognition work offline with a valid entitlement.

Next to what teams use

They all take good notes. The question is not note quality — it is where the recording sits afterwards.

Granola10.2026Cloud providers transcribe the audio; transcripts and notes are stored in the cloud. Meeting audio is not stored.
Otter10.2026Processes audio and stores transcripts and recordings in the cloud.
Fathom10.2026An online meeting recording and transcription service; storage and access follow its own terms.

Where is the recording processed? On your Mac. Transcription happens locally and meeting history stays on your device.

What it costs

Meeting recording is a paid feature, opened by the 30-day trial that starts by itself once you sign up in the first-run setup. Plain dictation — your language in, your language out — stays free forever.

$0Plain dictation, forever
30 daysMeeting recording, on the trial

Processing on your Mac

Recognition and translation run on your Mac. Audio and text are not sent to the cloud for processing. The full list of network requests is published separately.

What exactly leaves your Mac, address by address

Dictate in your language into any app. No word cap, no card — forever.

1 month free after you sign up in the app — no card

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