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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Screencast: meeting recorded, summary written, network off
Not filmed yet. The frame holds its place and shows the size.

What it looks like

  1. 1Press once — recording starts. Press again — it stops.
  2. 2Audio comes from your microphone and from the call app, on two tracks.
  3. 3Transcription and the summary are computed right here, on your machine.
  4. 4The finished summary lands in your history. Nothing goes out.

What stays with you, item by item

This is not a promise about a retention policy. There is simply nowhere to send the recording: the product has no server that could receive it.

The audioNot saved at all unless you turn saving on and pick a folder. Then it is a file on your disk, and you are the one who deletes it.
The transcriptProduced by a model sitting on your disk. Not one outbound request for the length of the meeting.
The summaryWritten by a local language model on your machine. Not Apple Intelligence, not somebody’s API.
No account holding meetingsThe account exists for licensing and holds your right to features, not your conversations.
Nothing to subpoenaWe have no copy of your meeting. A court order served on us comes back empty — there is nothing to hand over.
Works with no networkPull the cable for the whole meeting: the recording and the summary come out the same.

Next to what teams use

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

Granolachecked 08.2026Keeps the recording and transcript on its own servers.
Otterchecked 08.2026Same: the meeting leaves in full.
Fathomchecked 08.2026Same, plus an account that owns your meetings.

When security asks where the recording goes, every other answer begins with “to our servers”. This one reads differently: nowhere. That is not a privacy toggle somebody can switch off by accident — it is how the product is built.

What it costs

Recording a meeting and the summary that follows are paid features. They are opened by the 14-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 and needs no account.

$0Plain dictation, forever
14 daysRecording and summaries, on the trial

Your speech never leaves the Mac

Recognition, translation and the summary all run on your machine. Not one request carrying your audio or your text goes out for the length of the meeting. If you need the full list of what does go out, it is published, address by address.

What exactly leaves your Mac, address by address

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