For macOS · Private · Public beta

Private meeting notes —
memory your own AI can read.

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.

Free during the public beta · $79 $49 at launch·macOS 14.2 Sonoma+·Apple silicon·Recordings stay on your Mac
How it works

Three things, done well. Nothing else.

01 · Capture

It lives in your menu bar.

One click to record. The mic, the meeting audio, both — speechmark handles the routing. No browser extension, no bot joining the call.

02 · Listen

It hears who said what.

Speakers are separated automatically and labelled the first time you confirm a name. After that, every transcript reads like a script.

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03 · Write

It writes the note you would have written.

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

Ask your meetings anything.

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.

01

One click to connect. Settings → Assistant → Add to Claude Desktop. It installs as a Claude extension — no config files, no terminal, no API key.

02

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

03

Stays 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
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
· Confirm the discount with finance — Dana
from: Acme pricing review · Acme onboarding kickoff
Why Speechmark

The private alternative to cloud recorders.

Otter.ai
Fireflies
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.
Director of product · early access
Who it's for

Built for people whose meetings matter.

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Capture decisions and action items — not a wall of bullet points your team won't read.

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

Your meetings stay on your machine.

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.

  • Recordings & transcripts stay on your Mac
  • Transcription runs on-device
  • No bot dialed into your call
  • No account, no login, no sign-up
  • Usage stats: opt-in, off by default, yours to control
  • BYOK cloud model — only transcript text is sent
Read the full privacy policy
Questions

Common questions, answered plainly.

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.

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.

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 meeting, and other participants see no recording bot.

How much does it cost?

Speechmark is a one-time purchase of $79 per Mac, with no subscription. It’s currently a free public beta you can download and run today; buying now locks in a founding-customer price below the launch price.

What do I need to run it?

macOS 14.2 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple silicon Mac.

Can I ask my meetings questions with Claude?

Yes. Speechmark installs a local connector for Claude Desktop in one click — no API key, no config. Claude then answers from your own meeting notes and cites which meeting each answer came from, while the notes stay on your Mac.

Try it on your next meeting.

Free during the public beta. No account, no credit card, no waitlist — download and run it right now.

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