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. 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.
v1.9.0 - 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 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 turns the live stream into a meeting record you can review, measure, save, export, and query locally.
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.
Turn captions into a record you own.
- 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.
- Real-time translation 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 local AI connectionsMove your library with versioned data bundles and explicitly enable read-only MCP access for Codex or Claude Desktop.
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 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 policyStart with private live captions.
Download NotchLive free for live captions and automatic speaker labels on Apple silicon. Upgrade once when you need participant review, Meeting Analytics, saved meeting records, translation, exports, and local AI connections.
macOS 14+ · Speaker attribution requires Apple silicon · Meeting Intelligence requires supported Apple Intelligence setup