Start recording, Hearsay does the rest
Transcripts, summaries and answers about your recordings. No bot joins the call. Speech recognition runs on your MacBook.
Transcripts, summaries and answers about the recording
Before, during and after recording
Click New recording
You grant microphone and app audio access once.
The call isn’t interrupted, you hear everyone.
Your voice and app audio are recorded
Zoom, Teams, Meet or any other app. You hear everyone as usual.
A finished transcript
Lines by speaker with timestamps, a summary, answers to questions, Markdown export.
No bot in the call
Hearsay doesn’t join the call as a participant. It records audio on your MacBook: your voice separately, everyone else by speaker.
Pricing
On the Mac App Store, Pro is billed by Apple at your local price, with a 3-day free trial.
On Free, recordings aren’t cut off: the audio and the full transcript are saved.
Private by default
Speech recognition runs on your MacBook. Audio isn’t sent anywhere.
Questions and answers
Voice Memos records only audio, and Notes only text. Hearsay records the microphone and app audio at the same time, separates speakers, adds timestamps and answers questions about the recording.
They also transcribe on your Mac, but they’re built for dictation and files. Hearsay records two streams at once (your voice and the other people), merges them into one conversation in time order and has an assistant for questions about the recording.
Otter and Granola are cloud services: your audio is sent to their servers for transcription. Hearsay transcribes on your MacBook, and the audio stays there.
Yes. Recording, transcription and speaker separation work fully offline. You need the internet only for AI summaries and questions to the assistant.
Nowhere. Audio and transcripts are stored on your MacBook. Only the transcript text goes to the cloud, for summaries and assistant answers.
Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14.4 or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported: app audio capture and on-device recognition need newer APIs and the Neural Engine.
Nothing is cut off: the audio and transcript are saved in full. Text after minute 30 is hidden until you get Pro. Once you do, it appears.
Yes. Rename “Speaker 1” to “Dan” or “Lecturer” with one click in the participants list. The name is used throughout the recording.
English, French and German, with automatic language detection on the fly, so a meeting that mixes languages is transcribed correctly.
A website subscription is canceled with the link in your email from Paddle or at paddle.net. An App Store subscription is canceled in your App Store subscriptions. After you cancel, Pro keeps working until the end of the paid month, and your recordings stay with you.
Yes. You can get a full refund for a website purchase within 14 days of payment, no questions asked. See the refund policy. App Store purchases are refunded by Apple.
Paddle.com, our reseller. Paddle is the Merchant of Record for all website orders: it takes the payment, handles taxes and sends the receipt. We never see your card details.
