VoiceCatcher for Mac

Dictation, screen capture and meeting notes.
One app. Paid once.

Talk, and your words land wherever you’re typing. Take a screenshot mid-sentence, and it lands in your text right where you took it. Take a call and get notes, with no bot in the room. It all runs on your Mac.

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No subscription. No cloud. Your audio never leaves your Mac. Verify it yourself.

Recording…Transcribing…Done!

Double-tap ⌘, talk, double-tap again. The words land where your cursor is.

Nothing appears while you talk. Your words land when you stop.

It runs from your menu bar, so it works in every app, window closed.

Stop renting the tools you talk to.

  • No cloud.

    The speech, the notes and the summaries are all made on your Mac. Verify it.

  • No subscription.

    $29 once for one person, on every Mac you own. Every 1.x update is included, and your copy never expires. See the price.

  • Private.

    Nothing is uploaded, so there’s no server copy of your words. No account to make.

  • Easy.

    Double-tap ⌘ and talk. It runs from your menu bar and works in every app.

Dictation · 01

Talk for hours.
It lands where you’re typing.

Double-tap ⌘ in any app and talk. Your words are pasted where your cursor is, and stay on your clipboard.

  1. ⌘⌘ Recording starts, in your notes, your email, a chat.
  2. Talk Say one sentence, or think out loud for an hour.
  3. ⌘⌘ The text lands at your cursor.

Screen capture · 02 · Screenshots

“Let me show you.”
The screenshot lands after your words.

Press ⌘ and ⌥ together while you talk, drag over what you mean, and keep talking. When you stop, each screenshot is pasted right after the words you said, named from what you were saying.

  1. ⌘⌥ Drag over anything, mid-sentence.
  2. Keep talking Take as many as you need.
  3. ⌘⌘ Words and screenshots land together, in order.

Switch screenshots on once, in setup or Settings.

Screen capture · 03 · Scrolling capture

A whole page.
One tall picture.

Choose Scrolling on the capture bar, drag over the part that scrolls, and scroll at your own pace. Press Return and one tall picture is on your clipboard, with no pointer in it.

  1. Scrolling On the bar at the bottom left of your screen.
  2. Scroll Down or up; the picture grows as you go.
  3. Return Saved like a screenshot, and on your clipboard.

Screen capture · 04 · GIFs and narrated video

Show how you do it.
Your voice and captions come with it.

Choose GIF or Video on the same bar, drag an area or pick a window, and press Return. A video carries your voice and a captions track viewers can switch on, and it’s named from what you said.

  1. Size 1280 × 720, 1920 × 1080, 1024 × 768, 1080 × 1080, or your own.
  2. Return 3, 2, 1, recording.
  3. Return Saved, on your clipboard, and in History.

GIFs have no sound and stop at one minute; videos run up to 2 hours.

Meeting notes · 05

Notes from your calls.
No bot joins the meeting.

Double-tap ⌘ once you’re on a Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack or FaceTime call, and it records a meeting: your voice and theirs, labelled Me and Them. When more people speak, they become Speaker 1, Speaker 2, worked out on your Mac.

  1. ⌘⌘ on a call It sees the call app using the mic; nothing to choose.
  2. Speaker 1 · Sam? A name said aloud is offered, and used only if you say Yes.
  3. History Saved there, never pasted.

Needs the 574 MB meeting model, downloaded once; until then meetings wait in History. macOS 14.4 or later, speaker labels 15. Let people know you’re recording.

Meeting notes · 06 · Summaries

What did we decide?
Every note shows the words it came from.

Apple’s on-device model turns each meeting into notes grouped by topic, with decisions and action items. Show quotes puts the exact lines under each note, and a note that doesn’t match its line is dropped.

  1. Click a note See the words it came from.
  2. Show quotes The lines under every note.
  3. Action items Collected in History; tick them off.

Needs macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence.

History · 07

Find what you said.
Every dictation, meeting and capture, in one place.

Dictations, meetings, screenshots, recordings and action items all wait in History. Press ⌘K, type a word you remember, and Return copies it.

  1. ⌘K Search everything you said.
  2. P Pin what you need at the top.
  3. ⋯ Save as text or Markdown; a meeting as subtitles (.srt).

History · 08 · Recovery

A crash costs seconds.
Not the recording.

Audio is saved as you record. If VoiceCatcher quits partway through, the recording is transcribed again by itself, and a Recording Recovered card tells you.

  1. Card “Recording Recovered.”
  2. History The text is there.
  3. Clipboard The latest one is there too (meetings aren’t).

What stays on your Mac

No cloud. No server copy of your words.

Don’t take our word for it. Turn on a firewall and watch.

  1. 01

    Your audio never leaves your Mac.

    VoiceCatcher records and transcribes on your Mac and never sends your audio or text anywhere. Nothing about how you use it is collected.

  2. 02

    It works with no internet.

    Speech becomes text on your Mac, and summaries are written on your Mac too. Meetings work with no internet once the Large model is downloaded.

  3. 03

    One check, and you can switch it off.

    The only connection VoiceCatcher makes on its own is a check for updates, which you can turn off. Anything else it downloads, it downloads only when you ask.

  4. 04

    Check it yourself.

    Use a firewall app that lists each connection while you use VoiceCatcher. Then read what we keep, and where.

    Read the privacy policy →
  • VoiceCatcher only sees your screen when you take a screenshot or record a GIF or video.
  • You decide how long audio is kept: 30 days by default, or 7, 90 or forever.

Requirements

What each part needs.

Every row needs a Mac with Apple Silicon. No Intel, Windows or iPhone version.
What you want to do macOS Extra download Language
Dictation 12 or later None English. Other languages need the Large model (574 MB) and paste about 5× slower
Screenshots, GIFs, video 14 or later (on 12-13, screenshots use Apple’s crosshair) None. Switch screenshots on once Same as dictation
Meetings 14.4 or later Large model, 574 MB, one time (or Apple’s engine on macOS 26, English only) 99 with the Large model
Speaker labels 15 or later None —
Summaries, titles, action items 26 with Apple Intelligence on an eligible Mac None 15. Action items not yet in Japanese, Korean, Turkish or Vietnamese

It’s yours

Pay once. Use it on every Mac you own.

No subscription, no account. Your privacy matters, and so does your pocketbook.

It’s yours. Every 1.x update is included, and your copy never expires. If there’s ever a 2.0, it’s optional, and owners get an upgrade price.

Personal

$29

  • For one person.
  • Every Mac you own, at home and at work.
  • No account to make, no key to type.
  • Needs a Mac with Apple Silicon.

Business

$49 per seat

  • One seat for each person who uses it.
  • Each person gets the same app on their own Macs.
  • No account to make, no key to type.
  • Buy as many seats as you have people.

Coming soon. There’s nothing to buy yet. Leave your email and we’ll tell you when you can.

Changed your mind? You get your money back within 30 days, no questions.

We use it to tell you when VoiceCatcher is on sale, and to reply if you write. Netlify, our host, keeps a copy. Ask and we’ll delete it. How we handle it.

Already testing the beta? You keep VoiceCatcher free. No need to join the list.

Questions

Asked honestly, answered honestly.

Is it a subscription?

No. Buy it once. It’s yours. Every 1.x update is included, and your copy never expires. If there’s ever a 2.0, it’s optional, and owners get an upgrade price.

Why is the orange mic dot on whenever VoiceCatcher is open?

The mic stays ready so your first word is never clipped, and macOS shows the orange dot while any app holds the mic. The last 1.5 seconds are kept in memory only, never saved or sent. An option to release the mic between recordings is planned but not built.

What languages does it understand?

Dictation is English out of the box. With the optional Large model (574 MB), transcripts work in 99 languages, at about 2 seconds per minute of speech. Summaries come in 15 languages, while spoken punctuation, the app and its Help are English only.

Does it work on an Intel Mac or an older macOS?

No Intel: it needs Apple Silicon. Dictation runs on macOS 12 and later, and the table above shows what each feature needs. On a Mac without Apple Intelligence you get everything except the AI.

What leaves my Mac?

Never your audio. Only the update check (you can switch it off), downloads you ask for or approve, and anything you send yourself, like a report you read before it goes. Any firewall will show you exactly that.

Do I have to tell people I’m recording a call?

Yes. No bot joins the call to announce it, so it’s up to you as the person recording to tell the others. The recording stays on your Mac.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Recording, transcription, summaries and History work with no internet. Meetings need the one-time 574 MB Large model download first.

Does everything paste where I’m typing?

Dictations do, once you give macOS Accessibility permission, and they always stay on the clipboard. Meetings, dropped audio files and recordings stopped by a check-in or the time limit go to History and the clipboard instead.

Do screenshots work straight away?

They work after one step in setup or Settings. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission, and asks again after each app update.