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FeaturesCaptions, dictation, meetings, translation, notes, sharing, and accessibility tools. PricingFree, Pro, Team Packs, and education pricing. TeamsTeam Packs for global calls and shared activations.

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Use CasesPrivate captions, dictation, translation, and transcripts for real work. Zoom Captions on MacCaption Zoom without host settings or meeting bots. Hearing AccessibilityPrivate captions for Mac audio, calls, and lectures. Legal TranscriptionLocal-first captions and transcripts for legal work. Research InterviewsFollow interviews and keep local transcripts.

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GuideSet up captions, translation, audio modes, and exports. Compatible AppsSee which Mac apps and audio sources NotchLive can caption. BlogGuides for live captions, translation, and private transcription. Best Live Caption AppsCompare private and cloud caption tools. Release NotesSee what changed recently. AboutLearn who makes NotchLive and why it exists.
Official NotchLive app for macOS

Download NotchLive for Mac.

This is the official NotchLive download page. Caption Mac audio privately, separate remote speakers locally on Apple silicon, review the transcript, measure the conversation, and keep the meeting record under your control.

Download NotchLive Free Unlock Pro - $24.99

v1.13.1 - macOS 14 Sonoma or later - Free captions forever - Pro is a one-time purchase.

Need a fallback? If v1.13.1 causes an issue, download one of the two previous builds.
v1.13.0 v1.12.1
NotchLive app for Mac
Official NotchLive download Private live captions, speaker-aware transcripts, Meeting Analytics, translation, and local meeting records for Mac.

Private by design

Speech recognition runs on your Mac with WhisperKit and CoreML. NotchLive does not send audio to its own cloud transcription service.

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 unlimited live captions, local speech models, system audio plus microphone capture, and automatic remote-speaker labels on Apple silicon for free.

Everything included in NotchLive.

Start with unlimited private captions. Pro adds private Dictation and turns the live stream into a meeting record you can review, measure, save, export, and query locally.

Free forever

Read the conversation as it happens.

  • Live captions for Mac audioCaption system audio, your microphone, or both in Zoom, Meet, Teams, videos, lectures, and other Mac apps.
  • On-device speech recognitionChoose from local Whisper models, switch models when needed, and keep captioning without a NotchLive cloud transcription service.
  • Focus and Live TimelineFollow the current line or scroll back through finalized captions while the conversation continues.
  • Automatic speaker labels on Apple siliconSeparate remote voices into anonymous, meeting-local speakers while microphone captions remain assigned to You.
  • Meeting context and participant overviewChoose Auto, 1:1, or Group context and inspect the read-only participant list.
  • Caption controls that fit your MacUse global shortcuts, automatic language detection, and caption windows for notched and non-notch Macs.
Pro · one-time purchase

Turn captions into a record you own.

  • Private Dictation in supported Mac text fieldsHold a shortcut, speak, and release to insert locally recognized text into standard, non-secure fields. Recent results stay recoverable on your Mac.
  • Translated Dictation and Personal DictionaryOn macOS 15 or later, speak in one supported language and insert another. Add vocabulary and spoken-to-written replacements for names and specialist terms.
  • Participant review and Clean transcriptsRename, merge, reassign, split, remove, or leave uncertain speech unresolved while preserving the Raw transcript.
  • Meeting AnalyticsMeasure words, turns, speaking time, pace, conversation share, balance, and speaker-label coverage from the reviewed record.
  • Recording, history, and reviewed exportSave sessions and export reviewed transcripts as TXT, Markdown, or JSON.
  • Translated speech and Meeting IntelligenceTranslate compatible language pairs or generate focus, key points, questions, actions, and summaries on supported Macs.
  • Voice Notes, Saved Notes, and NotchPad handoffDictate, clean, save, share, and move spoken notes into your wider text workflow.
  • Portable data and live agent contextMove your library with versioned data bundles and explicitly enable read-only MCP access for Codex, Claude, or another MCP-capable host.

Install in three steps

1

Download the DMG

Get the latest NotchLive release from the official public release file.

2

Move to Applications

Open the DMG and drag NotchLive into your Applications folder.

3

Choose audio access

Grant the Mac permissions NotchLive needs for the audio source you want to caption.

Privacy and responsibility

Your audio stays on your Mac.

Speech recognition, automatic speaker attribution, participant corrections, and Meeting Analytics run locally. NotchLive does not create a cloud meeting workspace or upload your audio to a NotchLive transcription service.

NotchLive is not a legal, healthcare, or compliance product. You remain responsible for consent, recording rules, workplace policies, and how you store or share exported transcripts.

Read the full privacy policy

Start with private live captions.

Download NotchLive free for live captions and automatic speaker labels on Apple silicon. Upgrade once when you need Dictation, Translated Dictation, participant review, Meeting Analytics, saved meeting records, exports, and local AI connections.

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macOS 14+ · Speaker attribution requires Apple silicon · Meeting Intelligence requires supported Apple Intelligence setup