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The search field looks through every meeting's title and summary, not just its name.
Built with Apple Intelligence
The whole meeting,as a document.
Record your microphone and your Mac's audio, watch the transcript in your Mac's language as it happens, and finish with a summary you can really edit. None of it leaves your Mac.
Apple silicon Mac, macOS 26 or later. Summaries need Apple Intelligence.
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- Mic and Mac audio
- Live transcript, in your Mac's language
- Summary by Apple Intelligence
What it does
What was just talk,is text now.
One meeting, start to finish
You don't have totranscribe anything.
Four steps, and none of them is your work: pressing a button, pasting a quote somewhere, hand-formatting a document.
- 00:00Press RecordYour mic and your Mac's audio land in the same recording. You can carry on working — the panel stays docked at the bottom of the window.
- +0 minThe text shows upThe transcript scrolls in the panel while the meeting is still going, timestamped per segment. Whoever is in the room follows along in text.
- When it endsAsk for the summaryApple's on-device model writes the sections and builds the task table, with the exact minute each item came from.
- AfterEdit it however you likeThe summary opens as a document: type, select, format, edit the table cells. It saves itself, and the colours stay put.
And after
Small moments,done properly.
Rename it
Straight from the context menu. No odd dialog, no leftover confirmation.
Mark the moment
Every transcript line carries its exact minute, the same one that reaches the file.
Highlight a line
The system highlighter, in whatever colour you like. Colours and highlights survive saving.
Fix the table
Every cell is an editable field. The wrong owner gets corrected in place, not rebuilt.
Undo and redo
⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z work on the summary, like a real text editor.
Regenerate whenever
The ✨ button writes a new summary — and warns before discarding what you edited.
Throw it away
The meeting and its files go to the Finder Trash together, and you can bring them back.
The whole point
Your meeting is notsomebody else's business.
Not an opinion — the architecture. Listener sends no audio, no transcript and no summary anywhere, because there is no server to send them to.
Runs on your Mac
Transcription is Apple's Speech. The summary is Apple's on-device model. No third-party API is involved.
No account, no login
There is no sign-up, no e-mail to register, nothing tying your licence to a server.
Works offline
Recording, transcribing and summarizing are all local. With the Wi-Fi off, it behaves the same.
Real SwiftUI
No dependency, no Electron, no framework. A native app, wearing the system's materials and behaviour.
Compare
The same meeting.Without the cloud in the middle.
| Listener | Cloud recorder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio recorded | yes | yes |
| System audio (what your Mac plays) | yes | — |
| Transcript made on your Mac | yes | no |
| Summary made on your Mac | yes | no |
| Editable summary, with tables | yes | no |
| Works offline | yes | no |
| Needs an account | no | yes |
| Price | One-time | Monthly |
Compared with meeting recorders that process on a server. Each entry is what that product says about itself — check before you decide.
Pricing
Pay once.It's yours.
Listener
Lifetime licence
$8
one-time payment
No renewal, no subscription, no ad in the middle.
- Everything on this page
- Free updates, with one Terminal command
- No account, no subscription, no ads
- Native Swift, built only for macOS
Full refund within 7 days, no reason needed.
After you pay, the licence key appears on the next screen. Install with one Terminal command, or by downloading the DMG.
Apple silicon Mac, macOS 26 or later. Summaries need Apple Intelligence.
Install
Free trialon your Mac.
Download Listener and record or import up to 3 meetings — no account, no subscription, nothing sent over the internet. A licence unlocks unlimited meetings after that.
Apple silicon Mac, macOS 26 or later. Summaries need Apple Intelligence.
Transcription follows your Mac's language; if Apple has no model for it, the app falls back to English or Portuguese to match the system.
Installation
Recommended
Paste in Terminal on your Mac (recommended). The script downloads the app without the quarantine flag browsers put on a DMG:
curl -fsSL https://www.getlistener.xyz/install.sh | shAlternative: download the DMG in your browser
Download Listener (.dmg)If macOS blocks Listener
The app is ad-hoc signed, not notarized by Apple. Opening a browser-downloaded DMG may show “Listener was not opened” or that Apple could not verify the developer.
- Click OK on the alert.
- Open System Settings.
- Go to Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom.
- Click Open Anyway next to Listener.
- Open Listener again.
After the trial, buy once to record and import without limits: Get Listener
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Yes. You pay once, there is no renewal and no account to create. The app is yours, and it keeps working without a single network call.
Yes: you can record or import up to 3 meetings on this Mac, with no account and nothing sent over the internet. After that, the app asks for a licence before new recordings or imports; meetings you already have stay open to read, edit and export. The trial is per install on this Mac — deleting and reinstalling resets the counter.
An Apple silicon Mac on macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. Summaries need Apple Intelligence, the same requirement the system itself has for the local model. The installer only continues on Apple silicon with macOS 26. The app tells you if the system or Apple Intelligence is missing.
Your Mac's language. Transcription asks Apple's recognizer for the system language. If that language has no model, it falls back to English — or to Portuguese, when the Mac is set to Portuguese. The interface follows the Mac's language, in Portuguese and English. The summary language is a separate choice in Settings: automatic (the Mac's), Portuguese or English.
The licence key, on the next screen. That is what activates the app: there is no account to create. You install with a Terminal command, or by downloading the DMG. The app is not notarized yet. If macOS blocks it, go to System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Open Anyway.
Yes. By default, Listener writes the summary as soon as a recording ends. If you prefer to request it manually with the ✨ button on the meeting toolbar, you can turn automatic summaries off in Settings ▸ General.
Yes. In Settings ▸ Privacy you can keep the system default or pick a specific microphone for your recordings.
It separates your microphone (“You”) from your Mac's audio (“Others”). Among the people on the other side of the call, Apple's transcription does not separate individual voices — the summary only assigns a name when it is spoken in the conversation.
Yes. Recording, transcribing and summarizing all run on your Mac. Turning the Wi-Fi off changes nothing.
A native Swift app with no bundled runtime. It costs what the system costs, plus the on-device model while a summary is generating.
Ready whenyou need it.
Installed in a minute. After that you barely remember it's there — until you do.
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