I used Voibe in the past, and it kept crashing and just didn’t perform well. So I tried Snaply, and it’s been great, at least for English. Like I said, there are other tools that work well for Spanish, but Snaply does an excellent job transcribing English. Great job, Snaply team.
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Do you notice any accuracy drop compared to cloud-based tools, especially in noisy environments?
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@oliver_hayes1 Hey Oliver. Thanks for the great question!
Accuracy in transcription and note-taking actually surprised me, and I think it's on par with cloud models, especially for English.
For other languages like Portuguese, some of my users said they were pretty impressed with the results. Cloud models were still slightly better, but they still prefer this option because the privacy and cost benefits outweigh this small drop in quality. Hope it helps :)
the "no cloud" claim is the part i actually care about — most "private" ai tools quietly send a transcript somewhere for "analytics". how do you do the dictation locally on mac without it being a 4gb model download? whisper-small? mlx?
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@qifengzheng the transcription is done completely offline on your MacBook. You just download the app first and then download a 500MB model that does the transcription. This way you generate your transcript locally without sending it anywhere else.
If you then want to generate the meeting notes, you can also download a local LLM that runs on MLX
@venier 500mb transcription model that ships day one + optional mlx-llm for notes is the right ladder — small first, big-and-private later. which llm did you land on for the local notes path? phi-4-mini? llama-3.2? curious if there was a quality cliff below 4b.
Free and private with on-device processing is exactly the bar this category needed. Rooting for Mac-only focus too, half of the meeting-notes apps fall apart when they try to be everything. Question: how do you handle multiple speakers when the mic only captures one side of the call?
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Hey@whateverneveranywhere! Thank you for the nice words. The app actually records both the microphone and the system audio, so it captures all the sounds coming in and out of your MacBook, providing you with a complete picture of the entire meeting.
How well does it handle different accents or mixed-language conversations?
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Hey @noah_bennett5!
The app supports 26 languages, including English and all the major European languages such as Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Russian, among many others.
Generally, there are no problems with accents. For example, it easily understands Brazilian, Portuguese, or strong English accents, and it handles conversations mixing languages without issue. However, currently, the app does not support transcribing meetings in Asian or African languages.
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@lakshminath_dondeti Hey!
The application does not join the meeting. Instead, it runs locally and provides you with a transcript and generates meeting notes.
No video is recorded; only the audio is stored. You should ask for permission from the other meeting participants before recording.
Local processing for meeting notes is the right call most people don't think about what they're sending to the cloud during sensitive calls. Does it work fully offline or need an initial connection?