Hi Product Hunt,

I'm Can, founder of ByteHawk, a startup from Düsseldorf, Germany, that builds Kalima.

Kalima is professional software for real-time transcription and translation, with focused AI features that turn every conversation into clear notes, tasks and answers. Use it for any conversation, anywhere: online meetings, phone calls, lectures, interviews or face to face. It runs in the browser, on Windows, Mac and Linux, and on iPhone, iPad and Android.

Privacy and data security come first: recordings and transcripts are encrypted in transit, stored on servers in Germany and never used to train AI.

Kalima is made for three moments most of us know:

You're busy taking notes in a conversation that matters and miss half of what's said.
Someone speaks a language you only half follow: a professor, a doctor, a customer abroad, your partner's family.
A week later you need that one sentence, and it's buried somewhere in an hour of audio.

What you get, on every plan:

While you talk

Live transcription and translation in 60 languages, with the highest accuracy and an average latency of 200 ms
Two-way translation, so two people can talk across languages
Automatic meeting detection in the desktop app
No bot in your call: the desktop app records the sound of any app

On your phone

Record sound from other apps, like a YouTube video or a podcast
Keeps recording in the background and with the screen locked
Share a voice message from WhatsApp and get it transcribed

After you stop

AI summary with tasks, decisions and chapters
Speaker identification
Chat with your transcript
Click any word to hear that moment

Share and connect

Share a recording by link, with a password if you like
Invite people to a project and work on it together
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code and ask questions about everything you've recorded

Launch week: 30% off your first payment, monthly or yearly, until November 21, taken off automatically at checkout. The Free plan needs no credit card.

Try it on your next real conversation and tell me where it falls short. I'm here all day and read every comment.