NotchLive

Private live captions and speaker-aware meetings for Mac.

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Private live captions and speaker-aware meetings for Mac.

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NotchLive captions system and microphone audio locally on Mac without adding a meeting bot. On Apple silicon, it separates remote speakers, lets you review and correct participant attribution, and turns the reviewed record into Meeting Analytics, exports, portable meeting data, and optional read-only local MCP access for Codex or Claude. Live captions stay free. Pro is $24.99 once, with no subscription or cloud transcription workspace.

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NotchLive

Launching today

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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Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Artificial Intelligence

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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Oncel, the developer of NotchLive. I have ADHD, and I built NotchLive mainly for myself. It started with live captions at the top of my Mac screen. Since the first launch, it has grown into an app for following speech, revisiting recordings, transcribing files, and dictating into Mac apps. It works on Macs without a notch too. Here's a workflow you can use today: follow a call with live captions, choose to save the session with audio, then replay a passage beside its transcript when you want to check what was said. Already have an interview or lecture recording? Import the audio or video and transcribe it locally. The principle behind it is simple: AI should help me use my information while I stay in control of the record. Automatic speaker labels can be wrong. On supported Macs, you can review and correct them, and those corrections carry through to analytics, exports, and AI access. The video shows Codex following NotchLive's Live Timeline through MCP and translating captions into multiple languages. AI access is optional and read-only, with separate switches for saved content and live captions. It cannot start recording or change your NotchLive records. The connected AI app controls how it handles shared text, so this external workflow is not necessarily entirely local. NotchLive doesn't upload your audio to a cloud transcription service or join your calls as a meeting bot. Live captions are free. Pro is $24.99 once, including recording, file import, dictation, export, supported translation, and MCP access. macOS 14+ is required; Apple translation needs macOS 15+ and a supported language pair. Since the product is evolving rapidly, happy to hear your thoughts, recommendations, where it breaks and where it shines.

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1d ago

Previous NotchLive Launches

NotchLiveLive captions and translation, powered by on-device AI.

Launched on March 17th, 2026

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1mo 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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2mo 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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