NotchLive

Private live captions and speaker-aware meetings for Mac.

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Private live captions and speaker-aware meetings for Mac.

17 followers

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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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Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Developer Tools

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Hey everyone, I made another notch app. This one does live captions and translation. The notch sits right below the camera, exactly where you look during calls. So I put captions there. On-device AI, no bots joining your meetings, no cloud, no accounts. Just works. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, even Spotify... Basically anything as long as your MacBook receives an audio.

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6mo ago

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Hey again everyone,

NotchLive grew bigger since the launch. It's now used by thousands of people daily, featured on accessibility blogs and more importantly, I made its own microphone engine. It's called Kōkako and designed to make microphone captions, translations, Voice Notes and Meeting Intelligence clearer and more responsive.

Check it out here:
https://notchlive.app/kokako

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1mo ago

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15d 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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1mo 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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