Better Voice — dictation & AI meeting notes for macOS, saved to Apple Notes
Free · On-device · macOS<br>Talk, and Better Voice types. Record, and it’s in Apple Notes.<br>Better Voice replaces your dictation app and your AI meeting notetaker<br>with one app that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a single key to<br>dictate into anything. Record a meeting or drop in a recording and get a<br>clean, speaker-labeled summary delivered straight to Apple Notes, where<br>it’s already waiting on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription.<br>Your privacy intact.<br>Download for macOS Notarized · macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple silicon
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Meetings 2<br>Jun 18th - Q3 Roadmap Sync 9:03 AM Priya, Sam, and Jordan reviewed the Q3 roadmap. The API migration is unblocked…<br>Jun 18th - Q3 Roadmap Sync (Transcript) 9:02 AM Priya: I think we can ship the beta by Friday if the API work lands…<br>Meetings Share<br>Jun 18th - Q3 Roadmap Sync<br>Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 9:03 AM · 27 min<br>Priya, Sam, and Jordan reviewed the Q3 roadmap. The API migration is unblocked<br>now that the auth refactor landed, and the team agreed to ship the beta by<br>Friday.<br>Key points<br>Auth refactor is done — Priya's API migration is unblocked<br>Beta ships Friday<br>Error-rate dashboard needs a look before launch<br>Action items<br>Sam — send the updated spec<br>Priya — review the error-rate dashboard
Every meeting shows up as a titled note in Apple Notes, ready to search, edit, and share.
One app instead of three subscriptions<br>The usual setup: pay for a dictation app, pay for an AI notetaker, and<br>keep your meetings in yet another company’s cloud. Better Voice does both<br>jobs on your Mac and hands the results to the notes app you already use.<br>The usual way<br>A dictation subscription<br>An AI notetaker like Granola or Otter<br>Your meetings in their app, on their servers<br>A monthly bill for each
With Better Voice<br>Hold-to-talk dictation in every app<br>Records and summarizes your meetings<br>Everything in Apple Notes, on every device you own<br>Free, and nothing leaves your Mac
Two things, done locally<br>Dictation<br>Press your hotkey and talk. Better Voice transcribes on-device, tidies<br>the text, and drops it wherever your cursor is — email, chat, code,<br>notes. No window to switch to, nothing uploaded.
Meeting notes<br>Start a recording from the menu bar, drop in a file, or paste a<br>transcript — Better Voice transcribes it, figures out who said what,<br>names the voices, and writes a clean summary. It lands in Apple Notes<br>as a titled note, transcript included. No new app to check: your<br>summary is a normal Apple Note already in your exisitng workflow. Mac native just like you are.
What you get<br>Dictation in any app<br>Hold your hotkey, speak, and release. The text is cleaned up and inserted at your cursor in whatever app you’re in. Local private AI fixes recognition errors and drops filler words.
Meetings become Apple Notes<br>Three ways to capture a meeting: start a recording from the menu bar and Better Voice records the call straight off your Mac, no bot to invite or drop in a recording you already have or paste a transcript. All three end the same way: transcribed, speakers named, summarized, and added straight to Apple Notes, transcript included.
Bring your own model<br>Dictation cleanup and meeting summaries are configured independently. Each can use Apple on-device (zero setup) or a local model server you run yourself, for people who want more control or more accuracy.
Private by default<br>Transcription and speaker recognition happen entirely on your Mac. Your audio never leaves the machine and the notes it produces sync the same way any other Apple Note does, through your own iCloud account.
Learns your speakers<br>Name a voice once and Better Voice remembers it, later meetings suggest the same name automatically, so naming gets faster over time.
Updates in-app<br>Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it installs by drag-and-drop. New versions arrive in-app via Sparkle, and your permissions carry across updates.
Your audio never leaves Apple<br>AI notetakers upload your meetings to their servers to transcribe and<br>summarize them. Better Voice does all of that on your Mac. The only<br>thing that ever leaves is the finished note and only to your own iCloud, the same way every other Apple Note syncs. We run no servers.
Download<br>Better Voice 1.0.0<br>Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple silicon<br>Download .dmg<br>How to install<br>Open the disk image and drag BetterVoice2.app into your Applications folder.<br>Grant permissions when asked — Microphone, Input Monitoring<br>(for the hotkey), Accessibility (to type at your cursor), and Automation<br>for Notes (so Better Voice can add meeting notes and open them for you)<br>— then quit and reopen once so macOS applies them.<br>Pick your Apple Notes folders this is where your notes<br>and transcripts will be stored.