NotchLivePrivate by design
Speech recognition runs on your Mac with WhisperKit and CoreML. NotchLive does not send audio to its own cloud transcription service.
Official NotchLive app for macOS
Download NotchLive for Mac.
This is the official NotchLive download page. NotchLive gives your Mac private live captions, on-device Whisper speech recognition, real-time translation, local transcripts, and speech-to-text notes.
v1.5.1 - macOS 14 Sonoma or later - Free captions forever - Pro is a one-time purchase.
No meeting bot
NotchLive captions audio already playing on your Mac. It does not join Zoom, Meet, Teams, or calls as a participant.
Free to start
Use live captions, AI models, system audio plus microphone capture, keyboard shortcuts, and unlimited captioning for free.
What is included
NotchLive is for people who want spoken audio to become readable text without sending every call through a cloud meeting bot.
- Real-time live captions for Mac apps.
- System audio, microphone audio, or both.
- On-device Whisper AI models.
- Caption bar for notched and non-notch Macs.
- Global keyboard shortcuts.
- Auto language detection.
- Pro real-time translation.
- Pro session recording and transcript export.
- Pro Voice Notes with Raw and AI-cleaned views.
- Pro Saved Notes and NotchPad handoff.
Install in three steps
Download the DMG
Get the latest NotchLive release from the official public release file.
Move to Applications
Open the DMG and drag NotchLive into your Applications folder.
Choose audio access
Grant the Mac permissions NotchLive needs for the audio source you want to caption.
Privacy note
NotchLive is a local-first captioning and transcription tool, not a legal, healthcare, or compliance product. Users remain responsible for consent, recording rules, workplace policies, and how they store or share exported transcripts.