Speechmark — Private, on-device AI meeting notes for Mac

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For macOS · Private · Public beta<br>Private meeting notes —<br>memory your own AI can read.<br>speechmark sits in your menu bar, turns each meeting into a clean note — decisions, action items, the words that mattered — and keeps it on your Mac, where Claude Desktop and other MCP-aware AI can read and search your past meetings on demand.<br>Download for MacSee how it works →<br>Free during the public beta · $79 $49 at launch·macOS 14.2 Sonoma+·Apple silicon·Recordings stay on your Mac

How it works<br>Three things, done well. Nothing else.<br>01 · Capture<br>It lives in your menu bar.<br>One click to record. The mic, the meeting audio, both — speechmark handles the routing. No browser extension, no bot joining the call.

02 · Listen<br>It hears who said what.<br>Speakers are separated automatically and labelled the first time you confirm a name. After that, every transcript reads like a script.

03 · Write<br>It writes the note you would have written.<br>Decisions, action items, and a brief recap — in plain editorial prose. Pick the model that fits your privacy bar: Apple Intelligence, a local Ollama model, or your own OpenAI / Anthropic key. Click any line in the note to jump to the exact moment it was said.

New · Works with Claude<br>Ask your meetings anything.<br>Connect Speechmark to Claude Desktop and your transcript folder becomes a memory your own AI can reason over — privately, on your device. No competitor can hand you this, because their notes live in their cloud. Yours live on your Mac.<br>01One click to connect. Settings → Assistant → Add to Claude Desktop. It installs as a Claude extension — no config files, no terminal, no API key.

02Grounded in your meetings. Claude answers from your own notes — decisions, action items, attendees — and cites the meeting it came from.

03Stays on your Mac. The connector reads your notes locally and makes no network calls of its own. You decide what any question surfaces.

speechmark · connected to Claude<br>What did we decide about pricing across my Acme calls?

Across three Acme calls you landed on annual billing at a 15% discount , with the per-seat floor still open. Two follow-ups are unresolved:· Send Acme the revised annual quote — you<br>· Confirm the discount with finance — Danafrom: Acme pricing review · Acme onboarding kickoff

Why Speechmark<br>The private alternative to cloud recorders.

Otter.ai<br>Fireflies<br>Speechmark

Audio stays on your Mac

On-device transcription

No account or login

No bot joins your call

One-time pricing

BYOK — use your own AI key

Competitor data reflects their cloud-first defaults. Features may vary by plan.

I used to leave meetings with three pages of bullet points and no idea what we'd actually agreed. Now I leave with a paragraph that reads like a memo from someone who took it seriously.

Mira K.<br>Director of product · early access

Who it's for<br>Built for people whose meetings matter.<br>Product managersLegal & complianceConsultantsFounders & execs<br>01 / 04<br>Capture decisions and action items — not a wall of bullet points your team won't read.<br>Speechmark tracks who said what and when, so your sprint retros, PRD updates, and stakeholder readouts practically write themselves. Stay in the conversation instead of racing to keep notes.

Privacy<br>Your meetings stay on your machine.<br>Recordings and transcripts stay on your Mac. The only things that can ever leave are ones you switch on yourself — a cloud AI model (transcript text only) or anonymous usage stats. Both are off by default, and you control them.

Pick the AI model that fits your privacy bar — Apple Foundation Models (on-device, default), a local Ollama model (fully on-device, no API key), or your own OpenAI / Anthropic key — only the transcript text is sent, never the audio.<br>•Recordings & transcripts stay on your Mac<br>•Transcription runs on-device<br>•No bot dialed into your call<br>•No account, no login, no sign-up<br>•Usage stats: opt-in, off by default, yours to control<br>•BYOK cloud model — only transcript text is sent<br>Read the full privacy policy→

Questions<br>Common questions, answered plainly.<br>Does Speechmark upload my meeting audio to the cloud?No. Recording and transcription happen entirely on your Mac, and the audio never leaves the device. If you pick a cloud AI model for the summary (OpenAI or Anthropic, with your own key), only the transcript text is sent — never the audio. You can also stay fully on-device with Apple Foundation Models or a local Ollama model.<br>How is it different from Otter.ai, Fireflies, or Granola?Those are cloud-first: your audio is uploaded to their servers and you pay a recurring subscription. Speechmark keeps audio and transcription on your Mac, needs no account, doesn't send a bot into your call, and is a one-time purchase instead of a subscription.<br>Does a bot join my call to record it?No. Speechmark records the microphone and meeting audio directly from your Mac’s menu bar. Nothing joins the...