Early Access · 1.1.0-beta.4
Live transcripts of every meeting. Entirely on device.
It notices the call has started, writes down what everyone says as they say it, and files the result where you keep your notes — on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Transcripts 1.1.0-beta.4 · macOS 14 or later · 9 MB
or brew install --cask hatcher-ltd/tap/transcripts
The phone and iPad app runs through TestFlight for now. It is not on the App Store yet.
Readable while it's still happening
The transcript is written to a plain file, turn by turn, as people speak. Point an AI assistant at it during the call — "read the live transcript and draft the follow-up" — before anyone has hung up. It's a file, so there's no integration to set up and no key to paste.
It knows when the meeting started
On the Mac, Transcripts watches for Teams, Zoom, Webex and Meet. When a call begins it starts recording on its own, capturing your microphone and the other participants as separate tracks — and stops when the call ends. You don't have to remember.
Summaries as deep as you want
Apple Intelligence writes the title, the TL;DR, the key points and the action items on-device. Point it at a local Ollama server instead and you can run a far larger model. If neither is available there is a built-in summarizer that always works, so a recording is never left unprocessed.
Who said what
Your side of a call arrives on its own track, so it is never in doubt. Turn on voice attribution and the other side is split into individual people and named — from the transcript when someone is addressed, and by voiceprint once you have confirmed them. Wrong guesses are correctable, and each correction teaches it.
It can start without you
Transcripts adds Start Session and End Session to Shortcuts, so a weekly game or standing meeting can record itself — arrive at the place, on the evening, and it begins. Sessions group a whole evening's recordings under one name, file them together, and run an action of yours once when it's over.
A pipeline you can open up
Every recording moves through five stages — encode, transcribe, summarize, classify, persist — and you can replace any of them with a script of your own. Most people never will. It is there because the alternative to an escape hatch is a rewrite.
Your files, in your folder
Ordinary .m4a audio with plain-text transcripts beside it, in
a folder you choose — iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox, or just this Mac. No
library to escape from, nothing to export. Point the phone at the same
folder and the two halves join up with nothing configured.
What Early Access means here. Transcripts has been in daily use for months, so it is not raw. What it has not had is users — only a handful, all of them me and people near me. That is the gap this stage exists to close: your microphone, your accent, your way of running a meeting may be the first of their kind it meets. If something misbehaves, please report it.
1.0 on the Mac. The Mac app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it installs without argument — by download or by Homebrew — and updates itself from there.
TestFlight on iPhone and iPad. The same version, handed out through Apple’s testing programme rather than the App Store. It goes to the App Store at 1.1; until then the TestFlight link above is the way in, and it is free.
Recording laws vary by country and state, and some require the consent of everyone in the conversation — Transcripts gives you a recorder, and the rest is yours.