No bots. Just notes.
A no-bot meeting recorder that captures system audio, links to your calendar, and turns rough notes into clean summaries — using your choice of local or cloud AI.
See Meeting Recorder in detailNo-bot capture
Records system audio directly on your device. Nothing joins your meeting.
Meeting-aware auto-start
Detects calls, auto-starts, links to the right calendar event, and prompts for notes.
Enhanced notes
Rough notes become clean summaries when the meeting ends, using your chosen AI.
Summary templates
Built-in and custom templates for discovery calls, 1:1s, standups, and more.
Catch-me-up
Three-bullet summary of the last five minutes, available mid-call.
Folders and library
Sidebar folders, per-folder defaults, filtering, and smart move-to-folder flows.
Speaker diarization
Color-coded transcripts by speaker, with optional relabeling.
Relink and unlink meetings
Fix wrong meeting matches from the recording detail view.
To: Sam
Subject: Project update
Hope your week is off to a good start. I was talking to Cheyenne earlier, but the reception was really bad — I think they're going to handle the first part of the project, but I'm not totally sure.
I also told the team the new timeline should be ready by Friday, although it might slip. Can you check in with them and see if the notes from yesterday's meeting were sent out?
...should be ready by Friday, although it might slip. Can you check in with them
Speak anywhere you type
Hit a hotkey, speak, and clean text lands at your cursor — in any app, with a dedicated Dictation Bar, a notch UI, a snippets library, and optional cleanup.
See Dictation in detailGlobal hotkeys
Hold, tap, or double-tap to dictate anywhere. Reliable and customizable.
Dictation Bar and Notch
Compact bar and notch UI show live transcription without blocking work.
Cleanup
Removes fillers, adds punctuation and paragraph breaks, with custom instructions.
Snippets library
Quick dictation clips saved and searchable from a dedicated Snippets view.
Auto-paste
Clean text lands at your cursor in any app, with guidance when permissions block it.
Multilingual
Works across languages, with warnings when a model doesn't match.
Capture your screen. Keep the file.
Native macOS screen recording with system audio, powered by ScreenCaptureKit. No account, no watermark, and no external service in the path.
See Screen Recording in detailScreenCaptureKit
Native macOS screen recording with low overhead and a clean source picker.
System audio
Records audio coming out of your Mac alongside the screen capture.
Saved to your library
Lands next to your meetings and dictation snippets in the same sidebar.
Your choice of engine — every step
Transcription, AI chat, and cleanup can each run locally or on a cloud provider. BYO key traffic goes straight from your Mac to the provider — BuildBetter isn't in the path.
Apple Intelligence
On-device foundation models on macOS 26+. Zero setup, zero network.
whisper.cpp
Runs Whisper natively on your Mac. Pick a managed model, or drop your own .bin file — any Whisper-compatible model works.
llama.cpp
Drop any GGUF file (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, DeepSeek — whatever you want) and run local chat and cleanup without a server.
Parakeet
NVIDIA's fast on-device transcription engine. Models download and manage from inside the app.
Ollama
Point the Recorder at your local Ollama server (OpenAI-compatible) and use any model you’ve pulled — Llama, Qwen, Mistral, DeepSeek, and more.
LM Studio
Point at your LM Studio OpenAI-compatible server for private local inference with a GUI model manager.
OpenAI
Bring your own key for GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and more via your own account.
Anthropic
BYO key for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus. Top-tier summaries and chat.
Groq
Ultra-fast inference. BYO key for live transcription and chat.
Deepgram
Low-latency cloud transcription with strong multi-speaker accuracy.
BuildBetter
Sign in to use BuildBetter-hosted AI across transcription, chat, and cleanup.
BYO cloud keys route traffic from your Mac directly to the provider — BuildBetter is never in the path. For local models, drop a .bin (whisper.cpp) or .gguf (llama.cpp) file and it just works.
Works where you do
macOS
Full-featured desktop app
- All three products
- Apple Silicon native
- Universal binary
Windows
Full-featured desktop app
- All three products
- Intel & ARM builds
- 100% local & private
iOS
Meeting notes on the go
- On-device transcription
- AI chat with recordings
- Phone call capture
Android
Meeting notes on the go
- Meeting notes
- On-device transcription
- AI chat
Yours, start to finish
Local by default. Everything else is opt-in. If you want the strictest compliance posture available, run everything offline.
Local-first
Everything runs on your device by default. Cloud use is explicit and opt-in.
No telemetry pipeline
No account required. No background sync. No shadow upload.
Flexible storage
Pick your recording location, set per-folder defaults, optionally compress.
Upload when you choose
Share to BuildBetter on demand — never as a background sync.