For macOS · Apple Silicon
Your Mac remembers the conversation.
Dictate into any app, capture your meetings, and build a searchable memory of what was actually said — running entirely on your own machine. No cloud processing. No bot in the call. No recording leaves your Mac.
Requires macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
Hold one key. Talk. It types.
Dictation that works in every app on your Mac — your editor, your email, your terminal. Punctuation and cleanup handled, in every language including code-switching. Unlimited and free, forever.
No bot joins your call.
noteOwl captures the audio on your machine, separates who said what, and writes the summary and the action items. Nothing is uploaded, and nobody on the call sees a guest participant appear.
Every conversation, searchable.
What people told you, what you promised, what is still open — built up across meetings into a memory you can ask questions of. It gets more useful the longer you use it.
Some conversations can't go to a server.
Client calls, patient sessions, legal strategy, unannounced plans. The usual answer is to trust a vendor's retention policy. noteOwl's answer is that there is no vendor to trust: the speech recognition and the AI model both run on your Mac, so your audio has nowhere to go.
Your recordings and notes never reach a server of ours. Buying Pro or starting a trial uses an email address to hold your licence; nothing you record goes with it. After the one-time model download, the app works with the network off.
Read the privacy policy →Dictation is free. Pay once for the rest.
Unlimited dictation and voice notes cost nothing and always will. noteOwl Pro unlocks meetings, speaker labels, summaries, action items, and the searchable memory — a single payment, not a subscription.