Launching today
QuickQuill
Private, on-device meeting notes for Mac
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Private, on-device meeting notes for Mac
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QuickQuill records your meetings and turns them into transcripts and summaries, and nothing is ever sent to the cloud. No bot joins the call, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off, which is how the demo video was recorded. It also shows live subtitles with translation while you record, and there's push-to-talk dictation for any app. No account, no subscription. Dictation is free forever, and a single $49 purchase unlocks the full meeting workflow. Requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.
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Recording the demo with Wi-Fi turned off is probably the best possible proof for this product :) I have never really liked meeting bots sitting in the participant list either, especially when the conversation may include private product or business details. keeping the recording, transcription, translation, and summary entirely on the Mac feels like the right trust model.
The one-time price is refreshing too. Curious how QuickQuill reliably captures both sides of a call across different apps without installing a virtual audio driver, and how well speaker separation works when several people are talking?
Congrats on the launch, @QuickQuill @taisei_ide ! The "bot fatigue" in modern meetings is incredibly real, and relying on cloud infrastructure for private conversations is a massive friction point for most operators.
From an engineering standpoint, grabbing system audio without forcing users to install clunky virtual audio drivers (like BlackHole) is a huge usability win. Since you are utilizing the new macOS 26 capabilities, I’m curious if QuickQuill relies on Apple's native SpeechAnalyzer framework for the local transcription and voice activity detection, or if you had to package a custom local model (like Whisper) directly into the app bundle to support the offline translations?
Recording the demo with Wi-Fi completely disabled is the ultimate flex. Great work!
"Nothing appears in the participant list because nothing joins the call" is the line that sells it for me — a bot sitting in the roster is a nonstarter for anything sensitive, and Wi-Fi-off recording proves the point better than any privacy policy. Two genuine questions: on a long, rambly meeting, how does the on-device summary hold up against the cloud notetakers, and which model is doing that work locally? And can I export the transcript plus summary as plain markdown? I live in Obsidian, so an export path matters more to me than an in-app archive.
The Wi-Fi-off demo is the right kind of proof, and the no-account / one-time-price call is one I really respect — we build free, no-signup tools in a different corner (consumer fraud) for the same reason: the moment you gate the thing behind an account, you've asked the user to trust you to be exactly what you're protecting them from.
One thing I keep turning over, from the other side of the table: with a cloud bot, everyone at least sees it sitting in the participant list — an ugly but honest "you're being recorded" signal. QuickQuill's best feature is that nothing joins the call, which also means the other people lose the one cue that told them. Do you think about that side at all — anything that surfaces "this is being captured" to the room, or is that squarely the recorder's call to make?
Foyer
recording the demo with wifi off is the whole pitch in one move. on-device is the only trust model that makes sense once real business talk is in the room
Ran the demo video with Wi-Fi off and it actually worked, which is a nice change from apps that quietly phone home. The live subtitle translation while recording is the kind of feature I didn't know I wanted until now.