MAC MENU BAR APP · 100% ON-DEVICE

Audio in. Text out.
Nothing leaves your Mac.

Meetings, lectures, voice memos, Zoom calls, web links — drop them on the menu bar and get clean, timestamped text back in seconds. Apple's on-device speech engine, running entirely on your Mac.

Download on theMac App StoreFirst 5 transcriptions free (30 min each)
then $19.99/year · unlimited

No account. No upload. No per-minute meter.

Watch it work.

live demo — click a step

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TranscribeAnythingon-device · Apple speech engine

Drop audio, video, or a linkMP3 · WAV · M4A · FLAC · MP4 · MOV · web links

Record micSystem audio

Everything is transcribed on this Mac. No account, no upload.

Fast as your MacApple's speech engine runs up to 80× realtime on Apple silicon. An hour of audio transcribes in under a minute.

Unlimited by defaultTranscribe eight hours a day if you like. Flat $19.99 a year — no minutes, no caps, no surprise bills.

Nothing to uploadEverything runs on your Mac's own chip, so your audio stays where it already is. Privacy included, by construction.

What people feed it.

Anything with a voice becomes text you can search, quote, or hand straight to an AI.

Then hand it to AITranscribe a call, lecture, or video, then paste the text into ChatGPT or Claude — instant summaries, action items, and study guides from anything you heard.

School & lecturesRecord every class; a whole semester becomes searchable study notes before you've packed your bag. A 90-minute lecture is text in five minutes.

MeetingsZoom, Meet, Teams — capture system audio live, or drop the recording in afterward. Minutes and action items without a bot in the call.

InterviewsWord-level timestamps make pulling quotes painless — for journalists, researchers, and user interviews alike.

Live captionsTurn on subtitles for anything playing on your Mac — a call, a video, a livestream — in real time, on-screen.

Web linksPaste a direct link to an audio or video file. Read it instead of playing it — then feed the transcript to an AI.

Voice memosEvery half-formed idea in your Voice Memos library, finally readable and searchable.

PodcastsFull episode transcripts for show notes and SEO, SRT captions for clips.

The spec sheet.

EngineApple on-device speech engine · up to 80× realtime

SourcesFiles · web links · mic · system audio (Zoom, Meet, any app)

Formats inMP3 · WAV · M4A · AIFF · FLAC · MP4 · MOV · and more

Formats outTXT · SRT · VTT · Markdown · PDF · DOCX · HTML · CSV · JSON

Languages10 languages · 30 regions · auto-detected

InterfaceMenu bar popover · live captions overlay for anything playing

NetworkApp updates and web-link fetch only — audio never uploads

RequiresmacOS 26 · Apple silicon

A NOTE ON PRIVACYWe didn't build a privacy feature. There's just nothing to upload — transcription happens on your own chip, so your audio stays private the same way your desk drawer does. No setting to enable, no promise to trust. It simply never leaves.

Nineteen ninety-nine. A year.

Cloud transcription charges by the minute because their servers cost money by the minute. Yours don't.

Try itYour first 5 transcriptions, up to 30 minutes each — no account needed

Free

UnlimitedEvery source, every export, every update — one license, all your Macs

$19.99/year

Download on theMac App Store

Questions, answered.

How accurate is it?TranscribeAnything uses Apple's latest on-device speech engine — the same technology behind system-wide live captions and dictation on macOS — with punctuation, casing, and timestamps built in.

Does it work offline?Yes. macOS downloads a small speech model once per language, then everything runs offline. Only web links need a connection to fetch the file.

Can it transcribe Zoom, Meet, or Teams calls?Yes. System audio capture hears whatever your Mac plays, live from any app — or drop in the recording afterward.

What languages does it support?English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese — 10 languages across 30 regions, auto-detected.

Why is it so much cheaper than cloud tools?Cloud services pay for servers by the minute, so they charge you by the minute. Your Mac does this compute for free.

Is my audio really private?It never leaves your Mac. No account, no telemetry on your content, no servers to leak from — we couldn't see your audio if we wanted to.

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