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A local speech model, running on-device. No servers, no accounts, and nothing you record ever leaves your Mac.
Meeting transcripts that never leave your Mac.
Meeting transcripts that never leave your Mac.
Trace captures your microphone and system audio, transcribes locally on your Mac, and hands you a markdown transcript with flagged moments inline.
No accounts. No cloud. No meeting bots.
Requires macOS 14 or later and Apple silicon.
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Microsoft Teams
Out of the way until you need it.
One keystroke brings Trace up over any application: Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, anything. No app to open, no window to place.
Mark the moment. Keep talking.
Hit ⌘K mid-call, type a short note, hit Enter. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. You stay in the meeting, and any AI reading the transcript later sees exactly what mattered.
36:42
Markdown you can paste anywhere.
Into Notion or Obsidian for the vault. Into ChatGPT, Claude, or any model you like for a different take. Trace hands you clean, contextual markdown for whatever comes next.
Notion
Obsidian
ChatGPT
Claude
Anywhere
Catch up without leaving the flow
Missed something? Peek at the last few minutes.
Press ⌘? and the pill grows upward into a live transcript of the last two minutes, interleaved with every key moment you flagged. Runs entirely on-device, same as the final transcript. No uploads, no audio sent anywhere.
ready · 36m 48s
A summary in one press, written on your Mac.
When a meeting ends, one press turns the transcript into a tidy summary, with an overview, the decisions, and the follow-ups. It runs on your Mac with Apple Intelligence, and the moments you starred during the call are always folded in.
# Dundies 2026 planning
Locked in this year's Dundies, from the venue to the host to the awards to hand out.
Decisions
-Venue is booked
-Michael to host again
Action items
-Send the save-the-date
-Confirm the catering order
Starred moments
★36:44·Venue confirmed: Chili's
★42:14·Host: Michael G. Scott
Needs a Mac with Apple Intelligence.
Every transcript, one click away.
The menu bar keeps a quiet list of your sessions. Copy, reveal in Finder, or re-open without switching apps.
Your meetings, from the command line.
tracecli reads your past transcripts and summaries straight off disk, and drives the live app with commands to start, stop, summarise, and more. It is built to be scripted, so the terminal and your AI agents can reach Trace the same way the menu bar does.
Install with Homebrew. Everything it reads stays on your Mac, the same as the rest of Trace.
$tracecli list
1 Design review just now
2 Dundies 2026 planning 2m ago
3 1:1 with Paige yesterday
$tracecli summarise 2
Summarising "Dundies 2026 planning" on your Mac…
summary.md written, copied to clipboard
Fast. Private. Out of your way.
Meeting
14:22
Transcribed
~3.0s
Seconds, not minutes
Transcribes meetings in seconds on Apple silicon. No upload, no queue, no spinner while a cloud catches up.
- ⌘RRecord
- ⌘KKey moment
- ⌘?Recap
- ⌘PPause
- ⌘HHide pill
Keyboard-driven
Record, flag, recap, pause, hide. Every action has a shortcut. Remap any of them to match your muscle memory.
~/Application Support/Trace/2026-04-16-sync-with-alex
- mic.wav1.2 MB
- system.wav1.5 MB
- transcript.md4 KB
- transcript.json12 KB
- meta.json1 KB
Yours, locally
Every session lives in Finder as plain audio and markdown. Move them into your vault, version them in git, or delete them. They're yours.
Flag what matters, live.
Hit ⌘K mid-recording to mark a moment. Add a note while the conversation keeps going. Key moments sit inline in the transcript exactly where they happened, so you can scan to them in one pass.
**Alex**
Sure, does the 15th work for you?
**Paige**
Works for me. Lock it in.
36:44·Next meeting date decided
**Paige**
Perfect. I'll send a hold now.
Meeting-aware.
Connect your calendar and every recording picks up the event title automatically. A quiet reminder appears one minute before the meeting starts, offering to record. Use your Mac's calendar, on-device and covering any account, or link Google directly. Opt-in, read-only, off by default.
**Alex**
Should we ship the Friday build?
**Paige**
Yeah, the build succeeds and the tests pass.
Speaker-aware.
Trace splits the call by voice and labels each one. After the meeting, put real names to them and merge any it double-counted. Name a voice once and Trace recognises it in your next call.
- Start recording
- Get last transcript
- Summarise last meeting
Shortcuts & Spotlight
Yours to automate.
Trace shows up in Shortcuts and Spotlight, with actions to start, stop, pause, flag a key moment, or grab the last transcript or summary. Have it run a Shortcut of your own the moment a transcription finishes.
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Speaks your language.
Both engines support multiple languages. The accurate model can understand over 99 languages and the faster model covers the major European languages.
Not another cloud tool.
No servers, API keys, accounts or telemetry. Your audio and your transcripts never touch a machine that isn't yours.
macOS asks for System Audio Recording permission so Trace can capture audio from your other apps. Trace never accesses your screen.
What you get
A clean, formatted transcript
Key moments that you flag sit inline, right where they happened. Your future self, your teammates, and your AI of choice can scan straight to what mattered.
Compare
See how Trace stacks up.
Honest, on-device comparisons for the people who do not want a bot in the call or their audio in the cloud.
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Record on your Mac with no bot in the call, transcribed on-device.
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Everything stays on your machine, and it works with the network off.
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The same record-the-meeting simplicity, without the cloud notebook.
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Capture system audio with no extra participant in Zoom, Meet or Teams.
Read more →Start capturing.
No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
