AUDIO NOTES FOR MACOS · 100% ON-DEVICE

Meeting notes, without the cloud.

Parlote records your microphone and your system audio, transcribes on your Mac's own silicon, and writes the summary locally. No account, no upload, no network — your words stay yours.

6 HOURS FREE · MACOS 14.4+ · APPLE SILICON

A depiction of the Parlote app: a library of four notes on the left, and the note “Launch check-in — pricing v2” open on the right with its summary, action items and transcript. The recording, the transcript and the summary in this illustration are invented.
Library/Launch check-in — pricing v2
  • Launch check-in — pricing v2
    Today · 14:02 · 12 min
    Campaign pushed by a week, visuals to sign off before Friday.
  • Candidate interview — Product design
    Yesterday · 10:30 · 47 min
    Strong on systems, less comfortable with user research.
  • Sprint 24 retro
    28 Jul · 16:00 · 31 min
    Too many tickets open at the end of the sprint; we are cutting the intake batch.
  • Client call — Nordwind
    27 Jul · 09:15 · 22 min
    Renewal likely if the CSV export ships before September.

Launch check-in — pricing v2

30 JUL · 14:0212 MIN 04MIC + SYSTEM2 VOICES
00:06 / 00:31
Regenerate ↻

The launch stays on the 14th; the campaign slips by a week.

The visuals must be signed off before Friday — the only blocker.

Lea is redoing the pricing page alongside the rest.

Support cover confirmed: Yanis and Sofia, 14th to 21st.

Action items
Get the visuals signed off
Camille · Friday
Pricing page v2
Lea · Monday
Recap in the channel
Marc · today
Lock in the support cover
Camille · done

An illustration of Parlote recording: a floating panel showing a running timer, two live audio levels for the microphone and the system, the sentence currently being transcribed, and a running summary that grows as the meeting goes on.

ZERO NETWORK

Parlote makes no requests. It works the same with Wi-Fi off.

ZERO ACCOUNT

Download, open, record. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to leak.

PLAIN FILES

Notes are Markdown on your disk. They outlive the app.

01 — RECORD

Capture both sides of the call

Your microphone catches what you say. System audio catches what you hear — the call, the webinar, the screening. Each device becomes its own track, and the whole conversation lands in one note.

  • Start from the menu bar, or from anywhere with ⌥⌘R
  • The transcript is written live, word by word

An illustration of Parlote’s menu-bar panel: a running timer, live levels for the microphone and the system, the sentence being transcribed, and lists of input and output devices with tick boxes that decide which ones are recorded.

02 — TRANSCRIBE

Know who said what

Transcription runs on your Mac's own silicon while you talk. Speakers are told apart automatically, so the transcript reads like the meeting actually went.

  • Live, offline, and fast — no server in the loop
  • Click any segment to hear that exact moment again

An illustration of a Parlote transcript: six exchanges between two speakers, each with its timestamp and name, the line currently being spoken shown at full strength while the others fade.

03 — SUMMARISE

An hour of talk, five lines you act on

Parlote summarises the moment the transcription is finished — decisions, action items, owners, deadlines. The model runs locally, like everything else.

  • Regenerate with your own instructions, in plain words
  • Pick how deeply it rereads the transcript before writing

An illustration of Parlote writing a summary on the device: a card that shows a progress animation, then the four summary points and the first two action items of the meeting.

AND THE REST

Small things, done properly

Fix a word once

Teach Parlote the names it gets wrong. Corrected everywhere, remembered in the glossary.

Export to Markdown

⌘E writes the summary, action items and transcript as a plain file any editor can open.

Audio retention, your call

Keep the raw recording for five days, ninety, or not at all. The note stays either way.

Start from anywhere

A global shortcut starts and stops the recording. Hold-to-talk if you prefer.

Slate by night, paper by day

A dark and a light theme, both designed — or follow the system.

Search every word

Titles, summaries and full transcripts, searched together, instantly.

  1. Press ⌥⌘R

    Or click the menu bar. The pill appears; Parlote is listening.

  2. Have the meeting

    Transcription runs live in the background. Forget it is there.

  3. Read the summary

    It is waiting when you stop — decisions, actions, owners.

PRICING

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  • No account, no card
  • Notes stay readable after the trial
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  • Unlimited recording and summaries
  • Runs without an AI subscription
  • Yours for good — it never phones home to check
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FAQ

Fair questions

No. Recording, transcription and summarising all run on your Mac. Parlote makes zero network requests — it works exactly the same with Wi-Fi off.

Your next meeting, remembered.

Six hours of recording, free. Open the download and press record — there is nothing to set up and nobody to sign in as.

MACOS 14.4+ · APPLE SILICON · 0 NETWORK REQUESTS