For the Mac · nothing joins the call

Meeting notes without a bot in the call.

It records your microphone and what your Mac plays as two separate tracks, transcribes both on the Mac, and writes the notes when you ask. Nobody sees a participant appear. Your audio never leaves the machine.

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2 hours of recording a month free, no account. Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later · signed and notarised by Apple

Notey's window during a recording. A red dot and a running clock read 01:34 beside the Stop button. Two level lanes, You and Them, show who is talking, and the transcript below attributes each line to one side as it is spoken.

The floating island while recording: a red dot, the clock at 00:05, level meters for You and Them, and a stop square.

The window, the island and the menu bar carry the same red dot and the same clock. That is the recording indicator, and it is never hidden.

Notices a call in

Zoom
Microsoft Teams
Google Meet
Slack huddles
FaceTime
Citrix Workspace
Horizon
Windows App
Amazon WorkSpaces
Parallels
Chrome
Safari
Arc
Edge

Anything with sound works the same way, because it records whatever the Mac plays. For the rest, press record.

Bot-free

The usual notetaker joins your call. This one doesn't.

A notetaker bot

Appears in the participant list and has to be let in.
The other side sees it, and their IT may refuse it.
Your audio is uploaded to be transcribed somewhere else.

Notey

Records what your Mac already hears: your microphone on one track, the call on the other.
The other people install nothing and see nothing.
Transcribed on the Mac. No Screen Recording permission, ever.

01 · In the meeting

It asks before it records, and shows while it does.

A call starts; the island asks. Nothing is saved until you press Allow. From then on a red dot and a running clock stay on screen — in the window, in the menu bar and on the island.

Two tracks, kept apart. Your microphone on one, what the Mac plays on the other. Every line of the transcript knows which side it came from.
Never without you. Arm the next call ahead of time, or tick “always record” for one app. Either way the rule is shown before it acts and can be withdrawn where it is listed.
One click stops it from the menu bar, where a circle turns red with the clock while it records. Discard on the island throws the recording away rather than keeping it.
Told while it still matters. If a side stops arriving, a mark appears after the clock, and a recording missing a side is marked incomplete — never passed off as whole.

The island when a call starts: “Call in Chrome started. Notey is hearing this call. Nothing is being saved yet.” with an “Always record calls in Chrome” tick, Not now and Allow. — A call starts. It asks.

The island while recording: red dot, the clock, and two level meters — Them lit, You quiet. — Recording. Both sides metered, because both are captured separately.

The island when the call ends: “Call in Chrome ended. Finishing this meeting in 54s.” with Keep recording and Finish now, the red dot and clock still running. — The call ends. Finish now, or keep recording — meetings overrun.

02 · Who said what

Your side, their side, and their names.

“You” and “Them” come from which track the audio arrived on, so nobody's voice has to be learned to tell the two apart. When the other side is several people, you mark where each one starts speaking.

Name someone once, in any meeting. Notey learns their voice from that meeting, on your Mac.
Recognised next time. In later meetings their name goes on their voice when Notey is sure — marked “Recognised by voice”, with “Not them” one click away — and it asks when it is not.
Off until you switch it on. Voices are kept only for people you named yourself; “Forget this voice” deletes them. If you sync, names and voices travel sealed, like everything else.

A finished transcript. The speaker row reads You, Them, Priya Shah, Tom Becker, then Ana Ruiz labelled “Recognised by voice” with “Not Ana Ruiz” beside it. Each line is headed by a name, and “from here” marks where a person starts speaking. — Named in place. Recognised later only if you switched it on — and labelled when Notey did the naming.

The People screen: the “Recognise people across meetings” switch with its explanation, then a card for Priya Shah — known since September 16, 3 minutes of voice from 5 meetings, recognised by voice in 3 meetings — with Rename and Forget this voice. — People: everyone remembered, which meetings contributed, and the switch that turns it all off.

03 · After the meeting

Notes when you ask. Labelled when they arrive.

Press Summarise and the transcript's text — only the text — goes to the AI. What comes back is marked as the AI's work wherever it appears. Edit a line and it is marked as yours instead.

A short summary and action items that are real: who agreed to do what. If nobody committed to anything, it says so.
Minutes topic by topic, each heading carrying where it began in the recording. Tough questions, where you differed, and a follow-up email ready to send.
Ask Notey about any meeting: “Who is holding the release?” The answer comes from that transcript, labelled, and says plainly when the transcript does not cover it.
On your terms. Ask per meeting, or tick one box and a finished meeting is written up as it ends.

The Notes tab of a finished meeting called Pricing review. The title and the summary each carry an AI-generated label. The strip above reads Length 34 min, Words 263, Your words 30%, Their words 70%. Beside it, Ask Notey answers “Who is holding the release, and on what?” with a labelled answer and an Add to to-do button. — The Notes tab, with Ask Notey beside it. Every answer and every note says who wrote it.

04 · Notes and to-dos

Every meeting's action items, on one list.

A meeting ends with things to do. Add them to the list with one click each — from the action items, or from an answer in Ask Notey — and the list says where each one came from.

The Notes screen: one to-do list of six open items, each naming the meeting it came from with the project's mark and a priority chevron. To the right, a month calendar and today's page listing the day's meetings with their action items, each with a plus to add it to the list.

One list, your order

Priorities from Highest to Lowest, drawn as Jira draws them. File a to-do under a project, or let it follow its meeting's. Sort by priority, project or age; a ticked to-do goes to the archive, with Undo for a moment.

A page per day

A small calendar turns the pages. Each day shows its meetings with their action items offered as to-dos, and a free note you write about the day.

Ask Notey beside the list

Drag a meeting onto the panel, or pick one, and ask about it without leaving the list. “Add to to-do” under the answer puts a line on the list with that meeting as its source.

05 · Then do the thing

From a to-do to a prompt for Claude.

Open a to-do as a document. It has the meeting it came from, a description, and a prompt built in three short steps — so what you hand to Claude already knows what the meeting knew.

Ask me. The AI asks two to four questions, written from the to-do and the meeting, each with answers to click. “Other…” for one of your own.
The prompt. Written from the title, the description and your answers. Labelled as the AI's; edit it if you like, or write it again.
Give it to Claude. Copy the prompt, or open it in Claude. The prompt goes to Claude only when you open it there.

The wand beside a to-do does the smaller version: a better title and a short description, proposed and labelled, never applied by itself.

A to-do opened as a document: “Send Northwind the signed purchase order before Friday”, filed under Northwind, linked to the vendor call, priority Highest. A description written by AI, then “Prompt for Claude — 3 of 4 answered”: three questions answered with a click, a fourth with its choices showing, and the prompt itself, labelled Written by AI. At the foot, Copy prompt and Open in Claude. — Three answered with a click, one to go, and the prompt already written.

Also in the box

The parts of a working day.

Projects

File a meeting under a client, a team or a product. Each project has a colour, an emoji or a logo, shown before every meeting and every to-do. Archive one and its meetings stay.

Meeting stats

A day, a week or a month: how many meetings, how long, and how much of it was you talking. Across all your Macs when you are signed in; counted on this Mac, nothing sent.

Disk stats

What the recordings on this Mac take, meeting by meeting. Remove one recording and keep its transcript, notes and names.

Crop a meeting

The scissors in the header keep the part that was the meeting; the transcript, the notes and the numbers are about that part only. Nothing recorded is deleted, and one click undoes it.

Search every meeting

⌘K finds a meeting by when it happened or by what was said, and shows the line it matched.

Sync across your Macs

Sign in on another Mac, enter the recovery key, and your meetings, notes, to-dos and names are there — sealed on the Mac before they leave. Recordings stay on the Mac that made them.

Export and copy

Any note as Markdown, the transcript as plain text, or everything at once. The labels for what the AI wrote go with the notes.

Updates that wait

A corner notice when a new version is ready. It installs when you say so, and never during a meeting.

Where your audio goes

Your audio has one destination: your disk.

Recorded to your Mac, transcribed on your Mac, read from your Mac. It is never uploaded — not to be transcribed, not for sync, not encrypted. The only thing that ever leaves is text, and only when you ask.

Your Mac

MicrophoneTrack 1 — you

What the Mac playsTrack 2 — them

Transcribed on this MacApple's on-device recognition, live, both tracks kept apart

Your diskRecording, transcript, names, search. No account, no network.

Notes AI-generatedA summary, action items, minutes, an answer to a question, a prompt — each labelled.

Never
Your recordings

Written to your disk and read from there. No fallback, debug flag or crash report sends them, and a check in the build fails any code path that reads a recording for upload.
When you ask
Transcript text

When you ask for notes, an answer, or a prompt — or leave write-ups on for finished meetings. That is what the AI reads. The audio is never part of it.
If you make an account
Your email

Needed only for the AI notes and for sync. A usage record for billing counts minutes — no title, no participant, no text of what was said. A short diary of what the app does, never what was said, is sent unless you turn it off.
If you turn sync on
Sealed text

Each meeting is encrypted on your Mac with a key that exists only on your Macs before it goes to your other ones. We hold ciphertext we cannot read. Recordings are never part of it.

Without an account, nothing leaves at all. Recording, transcribing, naming, reading back and search work with no network.

Read the privacy policy

Pricing

Free to record.
You pay for the writing.

Recording, transcribing and search run on your Mac and cost nothing to serve. The free plan records 2 hours a month; every paid plan records without a cap, and they differ in hours of AI notes a month.

Free

no account needed

2 hours of recording a month
Transcripts, speakers, search, to-dos
No AI notes, no sync

Download

Light

$6.99/mo

per month, billed yearly

16 hours of AI notes a month
Recording without a cap
Sync between your Macs

Start the trial

Most room

Full

$16.99/mo

per month, billed yearly

100 hours of AI notes a month
Recording without a cap
Sync between your Macs

Start the trial

Team

$12/seat/mo

billed yearly · 5 seats min

100 hours each, one bill
Recording without a cap
Larger teams priced per agreement

Talk to us

Every new account starts a 3-day trial of the paid features — AI notes, questions, the prompt for Claude and sync — with 2 hours of AI notes, once. No card. When it ends you are on the free plan, and nothing you recorded goes anywhere.

Hours are what is counted — never a title, a participant or a word of what was said. Change or cancel from Settings → Plan & billing in the app; it opens in your browser.

Questions

Before you download.

Do the other people need to install anything?

No. Notey records what your Mac can already hear: your microphone on one track and the sound the Mac plays on the other. The people you're talking to install nothing and see no extra participant.

Where does my audio go?

To your disk, and nowhere else. Recordings are written to your Mac and read from there. They are never uploaded — not to be transcribed, not for sync, not encrypted. The only thing that ever leaves is the transcript's text, and only when you ask for notes or an answer.

Which apps does it work with?

Any of them. Notey records the sound your Mac is playing, so Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack huddles, FaceTime, a phone on speaker or a video all work the same way. The floating button notices a call in Zoom, Teams, Slack, FaceTime, Chrome, Safari, Arc, Edge, Citrix Workspace, Horizon, Windows App, Amazon WorkSpaces and Parallels and offers to record; for anything else, press record.

Does it work inside Citrix or a virtual desktop?

Yes. A call inside Citrix Workspace, Horizon, Windows App, Amazon WorkSpaces or Parallels reaches your Mac as sound the client plays, and that is what Notey records. The transcript is written on the Mac as for any other call.

Does it record by itself?

Not without a choice you made first. When a call starts it asks, and nothing is saved until you press Allow. You can arm the next call ahead of time, tick “always record” for one app, or choose calendars; in every case the rule is shown before it acts and can be withdrawn where it is listed. Every recording is announced on screen with a red dot, a running clock and Stop beside it.

Do I have to tell people I'm recording?

That depends where you are, and in many places yes. Notey shows a red dot and a running timer whenever audio is being kept, and neither can be hidden or styled away — but whether to tell the room is your call to make, and the law's.

Does it need Screen Recording permission?

No, and it never asks. System audio comes from a Core Audio process tap, which needs no such permission. Notey cannot see your screen.

Does it work without an account, or offline?

Yes. Recording, transcribing, naming speakers, searching and reading your meetings back need no account and no network. An account is needed only for AI notes, questions and sync. The free plan records 2 hours a month, counted on your Mac; a meeting in progress is never cut off, and the next start past the cap is refused in plain words until the 1st of the month.

Which languages, and which Macs?

Live transcription uses the on-device speech recognition in macOS 26 and follows your Mac's language. Apple supports ten languages for it today: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese. The better transcript written after a meeting is English only. Notey runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later; Intel Macs are not supported.

Can I use it on more than one Mac?

Yes, on a paid plan or its trial. Sync keeps your meetings, notes, to-dos, names and settings the same on each of your Macs, sealed on the Mac before they leave with a key only your Macs hold. Recordings stay on the Mac that made them. On the free plan everything stays on one Mac.

How do I cancel?

From Settings → Plan & billing in the app, which opens your subscription in the browser to change it, update your card or cancel. Your meetings stay on your Macs whatever the plan does.

Try it on your next call.

2 hours a month free, no account, and nothing joins your meeting.

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Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later · signed and notarised by Apple