Audio, without a bot
Records meeting audio straight from your Mac (system sound and your mic together), so it works with every app: Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime, even the person across the table. Nothing ever joins the call.
Record every meeting.
Without the bot.
Noted lives in your menu bar and records the audio and video of any call on your Mac, without sending a bot to join it. Transcription, speaker names, and diarization run entirely on-device, on Apple-Silicon models built for the Neural Engine.
Download for Mac
Free · macOS 26 · Apple Silicon
First-party Live roster, real speaker names, and mute detection.
- Zoom
- Google Meet
Everything else Any call that makes sound, recorded right on your Mac.
- Microsoft Teams
- Webex
- FaceTime
- Slack huddles
- In person
In your browser Meet and other browser calls run in both.
- Chrome
- Firefox
Video, without a bot
Captures the call's video too, from Zoom or any browser-based meeting, and saves it as a clean MP4 on your disk. Still no extra face in the participant list.
Tracks the whole room
Follows the live participant list (who's talking, who's muted) and turns “Speaker 2” into real names from your calendar invitees, voiceprints it remembers across meetings, and on-device diarization. No bot in the call, yet it still knows who said what.
Live transcription
A transcript writes itself as people talk, powered by on-device speech models. Read along mid-call; search every word for as long as you keep the file.
Knows a weekly when it sees one
Recordings of the same repeating meeting (the Monday sync, the Tuesday 1:1) group into a series automatically, straight from your calendar. Tell each series to record always, ask first, or never, and stop re-answering the same prompt every week.
The agenda carries forward
Every series keeps a rolling agenda, right next to what's still open from last time. Jump back to the previous occurrence in one click, and Noted can write the agenda into the next calendar invite, so everyone walks in prepared.
It writes the transcript.
You own every word.
Focus on the meeting, not on note-taking. Noted transcribes every word as people talk, labels who said what, and saves the whole conversation as a plain Markdown file on your Mac. Everything runs on-device, so nothing is uploaded and no account is required. Your words stay yours: a text file in a folder you control, to keep, search, or delete.
- Every word, kept. Most tools hand you a tidy recap and bury the rest. Noted keeps the whole conversation, yours for as long as you keep the file.
- Ask Claude across every meeting. Noted runs a local MCP server. Connect Claude Desktop in one click, or any MCP client, and ask questions across all your transcripts, or across a whole series: “what did we decide over the last month of standups?” It stays read-only and never leaves your Mac.
- Straight into the tools you use. When a call wraps, Noted can trigger a script with the meeting's files and details. Ready-made ones send it into Obsidian, Apple Notes, or Notion, and because everything is plain text, you can point any editor or workflow at the folder.
Maya Chen3m 12sDavid Kelso2m 40sSam Ortiz1m 05s
Maya Chen0:12 Can we still ship the onboarding change this week?
David Kelso0:41 Yes, copy's done, it goes out Thursday.
Sam Ortiz joined1:02
Maya Chen1:08 Perfect. Sam, anything blocking the beta?
Sam Ortiz1:20 Just the billing bug. The fix is in review now.
What's still open from the last month of product syncs?
Just the billing bug Sam flagged on Jun 24. The fix is in review, the onboarding change shipped, and pricing copy is on next week's agenda.
Everyone skips the bot now.
Few skip the cloud.
Botless recording has gone mainstream, but most “private” notetakers still ship your audio to a server to transcribe and summarize it. The rare thing is doing the whole job on your Mac.
| No-bot audio i | No-bot video i | Mac-first i | On-device i | Recurring series i | Speaker ID i | Free i | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noted | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Granola | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Anarlog | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Cluely | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | Unconfirmed | Yes |
| Fathom | Partial | No | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Otter | Partial | No | Partial | No | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Grain | Partial | No | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Circleback | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | No |
| Fellow | Partial | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Krisp | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | Yes | Partial |
| Wave | Yes | No | Partial | Unconfirmed | No | Yes | Yes |
Yes Partial No Unconfirmed
Compiled from public sites and pricing, July 2026. Features and prices move, so check before you commit.
Your next meeting,
noted.
No account, no subscription, no upsell. It all runs on your Mac, so there's no bill to pass on to you. Noted is free to download and use.
Download for Mac
Free · macOS 26 · Apple Silicon