Click record in your menu bar
Dictanta lives in your Mac's menu bar. It auto-detects Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack, and your browser, and pre-selects "This meeting" — the call's audio plus your own mic. No bot joins the call.
Records Zoom · Teams · Meet · Webex — right from your Mac's menu bar
Meeting notes that don't need a bot — or the cloud.
Dictanta records your video call from your Mac's menu bar — the meeting audio plus your own voice, with no bot joining and nothing uploaded. Click stop, and the summary, action items, and decisions write themselves. iPhone and iPad cover every meeting away from your desk.
3 recordings free — try everything
Audio never leaves your device
Lifetime option · $149.99 once
How it works
Record. Be present. Done.
There is nothing to set up and nothing to learn. If you can click a menu-bar icon, you can leave every call with clean notes.
Just be present
Live captions stream while you record, and your transcript saves every 30 seconds. Nobody on the call sees an extra "[Your Name]'s Notetaker" attendee.
Click stop. The notes write themselves.
A short TL;DR, action items — who agreed to do what, and by when — the decisions, and open questions. Hover a line that shows a timecode and the audio jumps to that moment.
Download on the App Store Dictanta — free download
Free download — your first 3 recordings are on us.
Why Dictanta
Private where cloud notetakers can't be.
Three reasons to pick it over a cloud notetaker.
No bot in your meeting
On a Zoom, Teams, or Meet call? Dictanta on Mac captures the meeting audio plus your own voice — without ever joining the call as a bot. Nothing for the other side to see.
Audio stays on your device
Recording, transcription, summaries, even translation run on-device. Your audio never leaves it — not to us, not to anyone.
Check a line against the audio
Hover a summary line that shows a timecode (tap it on iPhone) and the audio plays the moment it came from. Lines it can’t source stay unmarked instead of guessing.
Features
Built for people in back-to-back calls.
Every feature serves the same job: capture the conversation, surface the decisions, and let you check what was said against the audio.
Records your video calls — no bot, no cloud
Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex — captured right from the menu bar: the meeting audio plus your own voice. Pick your source (My voice · This meeting · Another app), and paste a ready-made consent line into the meeting chat with one click.
Notes that write themselves
A short TL;DR, action items with owners and deadlines, decisions, and open questions — written on-device by Apple Intelligence the moment you stop recording.
Never lose a word
Your transcript saves every 30 seconds while you record, so even a mid-recording restart can’t erase it. Long meetings are summarized part by part into one recap — up to about 2.5 hours of audio.
Search everything, jump anywhere
Search titles, transcripts, and summaries from your library. Titles and transcripts show up in Spotlight too. Press ⌘F to find any word in a transcript and jump hit to hit.
Import, translate, share
Import M4A, MP3, WAV, or AIFF audio and get a transcript automatically. Translate any transcript into 8 languages, on-device. Share as PDF, Word, SRT, Markdown, or JSON.
iPhone and iPad, for everything away from your desk
Record in-person meetings, lectures, and interviews with one tap — live captions in the Dynamic Island, recording from the Action Button or Lock Screen, even with the screen locked. Transcripts and summaries sync back through iCloud.
The Dictanta wedge
Tap a bullet. Hear the moment.
AI notes are only useful if you can trust them. Summary lines that show a timecode link to the moment they came from — hover one on the Mac (or tap it on iPhone and iPad) and the recording plays from there. Lines Dictanta can't source show no timecode instead of a guess.
And because the recording never leaves your device, checking a line never means uploading the meeting.
Meeting summary · Q2 product sync · 28 min
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Maya is owning the migration; deadline is May 22.
12:04 → 12:38 · "let me take that one"
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Pricing experiment paused until legal review.
18:11 → 18:42
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Open question: are we double-counting trial conversions?
23:50 → 24:31
Privacy by default
Your audio never leaves your device. Not even to us.
Dictanta records audio only — never video, and never a pixel of your screen. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, no crash reporting.
iCloud syncs your notes and transcripts — your audio is never copied to iCloud. It stays on the device that recorded it.
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On-device transcription
Apple SpeechAnalyzer
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On-device summaries
Apple Intelligence
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No trackers
Zero analytics, zero ads
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No bot in the call
Mac system-audio capture
Guides
Step-by-step guides for your calls.
Walkthroughs for the meetings people record with Dictanta: Zoom, Teams, Meet, and the rest, with no bot and no upload.
- Record meetings on Mac — no bot
How to Transcribe Zoom Meetings on Mac — No Bot, No Cloud
Transcribe Zoom calls on your Mac with no bot in the participant list and no cloud upload — on-device with Apple's speech models. Free for your first 3 meetings.
- Record meetings on Mac — no bot
How to Record a Microsoft Teams Meeting on Mac Without a Bot
Record and transcribe a Teams call on your Mac with no bot in the attendee list and no Teams Premium license. The audio stays on the Mac; the notes write themselves.
- Record meetings on Mac — no bot
Transcribe Google Meet on Mac: No Bot, No Workspace Upgrade
Transcribe any Google Meet call on your Mac without a bot joining or a Workspace upgrade. Dictanta records the call itself, and the audio never leaves the Mac.
- Record meetings on Mac — no bot
Meeting Recorder for Mac With No Bot in the Call
Looking for a meeting recorder for Mac with no bot? Dictanta records Zoom, Teams, and Meet locally — both sides of the call, no bot joins, nothing uploaded.
- Switching from a cloud notetaker
Otter Alternative for Mac: No Bot, No Cloud, No Minute Caps
Shopping for an Otter.ai alternative on Mac? Dictanta records meetings with no bot and transcribes on-device — no cloud, no minute meter, honest tradeoffs included.
- Switching from a cloud notetaker
Granola Alternative for Mac: On-Device Notes You Can Replay
Granola transcribes in the cloud and keeps no audio. Dictanta records with no bot, writes the notes on your Mac, and plays the moment behind each cited line.
- On-device and private
On-Device Meeting Transcription: How It Works on a Mac
On-device meeting transcription records and transcribes calls locally with no cloud. Here's how it works on macOS 26 and why it beats cloud notetakers.
- Record meetings on Mac — no bot
How to Record System Audio on a Mac for Meetings (No Bot)
Four ways to record system audio on a Mac, and the one that gets you a transcript: per-app capture on macOS 26, on-device, with no bot and no cloud upload.
Apple-native
One purchase. Every Apple device you own.
Capture a Zoom call on your Mac, read the summary on your iPhone — transcripts and summaries sync through your iCloud, while the audio stays where it was recorded. Dictanta needs Apple Intelligence turned on (iPhone 15 Pro or later; iPad with M1 or A17 Pro or later; Mac with M1 or later).
- Mac macOS 26.4+ Video-call audio, no bot
- iPhone iOS 26.4+ Dynamic Island, Action Button
- iPad iPadOS 26.4+ 3-column split view, shortcuts
- Vision Pro visionOS 26.4+ Same app, same purchase
Pricing
Try everything free. Then pick how you pay.
Your first 3 recordings unlock every feature — see your own meeting come back as clean notes before you spend anything. After that: monthly, yearly, or once.
Free
$0 / 3 recordings
Try everything on your own meetings. No account, no credit card.
- Every feature unlocked
- On-device transcription + summaries
- Tap-to-verify audio anchors
- All export formats
Most flexible
Pro
$9.99 / per month
Or $79.99/year (save 33%). Cancel anytime.
- Unlimited recordings
- No-bot Mac meeting capture
- Audio-anchored summaries
- iCloud sync for transcripts
- 8-language on-device translation
Lifetime
$149.99 / one-time
Pay once. No auto-renew. Yours forever.
- Everything in Pro
- No subscription, ever
- One purchase for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- Restore on any device
Be in the meeting. Let the notes write themselves.
3 recordings free — try everything. Then $9.99/month, $79.99/year, or $149.99 once. Cancel anytime from your Apple ID.