DesktopAudio records whatever your Mac is playing and saves it as an m4a on your Mac. Podcasts, live streams, webinars, calls: if you can hear it, you can keep it.
Local always: local recording, local files, no cloud, no account. It never touches your microphone and never asks for mic permission.
It's also the missing half of macOS screen recording: Cmd+Shift+5 captures video but no system audio. Run DesktopAudio alongside it and you have both.
$19 one-time. No subscription.
AudioTap is a macOS app I built for recording calls. It captures input and output audio natively and can transcribe and diarize locally.
For me (a non-native English speaker) during work calls I find myself trying to understand accents and different tones of voice. So I figured a non-intrusive recorder could help me keep track of what was said.
Telling people you're recording is your responsibility, consent depends on where each person is located, not where you are.
