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1mo ago

NotchLive - Live captions, transcription, and dictation. Local on Mac.

Follow calls and videos with live captions, revisit recordings, or dictate into Mac apps. Speech recognition runs on your Mac, without a meeting bot. Review and correct speaker labels, then choose whether compatible AI tools can read your saved context or live captions through optional MCP access. Live captions are free; Pro is $24.99 once.
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2mo ago

NotchLive 1.9: speaker-aware meetings, still local

NotchLive 1.9 is live.

The app started as private live captions for Mac. This release turns those captions into a meeting record you can actually review and use.

On Apple silicon, NotchLive can now separate remote speakers locally. After a meeting, you can rename participants, merge duplicate speakers, reassign or split incorrectly attributed speech, and leave uncertain parts visibly unresolved.

The reviewed record powers Meeting Analytics, speaker-aware exports, portable meeting data, and optional read-only local MCP access for Codex and Claude.

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3mo ago

What’s changed in NotchLive since launch

When I launched NotchLive on Product Hunt, it was mainly a Mac app for private live captions and translation.

It has grown quite a bit since then:

  • A dedicated microphone engine called K kako for clearer, more responsive microphone captions

  • Meeting Intelligence with summaries, decisions, and action items

  • Voice Notes

  • Saved sessions, exports, and Live Timeline

  • Ghost Mode for screen-sharing workflows

  • Team Packs for multiple users

  • A redesigned interface across the app

The original idea remains the same: speech recognition runs on-device, no meeting bot joins your calls, and free live captions remain free.

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7mo ago

NotchLive - Live captions and translation, powered by on-device AI.

NotchLive turns your MacBook notch into a live caption bar. It captures any audio on your Mac. Zoom calls, YouTube, podcasts, lectures... and transcribes it in real time using on-device AI. Switch to Translate mode for real-time translation across 11 languages. Hit record to save a session transcript. Everything runs locally. No cloud, no bots, no accounts. Free forever for captions. Pro upgrade $14.99 one-time for translation and sessions.