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Meeting notes for Macthat tap you on the shoulder when it's your turn.

Earshot writes down every word of your calls, on your Mac. And when someone says your name and asks you something, it shows you the question and what led up to it.

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One-time licence for up to 3 Macs. No subscription, no account, no bot in your calls. macOS 14+, Apple silicon.

Earshot is a meeting note taker for Mac (macOS 14+, Apple silicon) for people who spend the day on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams calls. It transcribes you and everyone else on your Mac, names people from the calendar invite, never records audio, and saves notes as Markdown with a summary at the end. It costs $39 once.

Tuesday, 10:20 · Launch sync ↓

10:42 · Twenty-two minutes in

“Sam, what do you think? Should we move the launch to Monday?”

Ana Petrova · Launch sync · Google Meet

You were there. Camera on, nodding. But for the last four minutes you were in Slack, answering something that felt urgent. Now four faces are waiting, and you have no idea what “Monday” is about.

01 On your Mac, the whole time

It was listening.
Nobody saw it.

You pressed ⌥⌘E when the call started. Since then, Earshot has been writing down the meeting in a see-through window floating over the call, words appearing as people speak.

  • Your micis you.
  • Your Mac's audiois everyone else, the same sound you hear.
  • On this MacParakeet turns each sentence into text in about 0.1 s. 25 languages.

No bot joined the call. No “Earshot Notetaker” tile, no host asking who invited the recorder.

Launch sync · Meet
AAna Petrova
MMarko Ilievski
LLena Hart
SSam (You)
Earshot · live22:14
Ana Petrova10:39

QA found two issues in the export flow, both in the CSV path.

Marko Ilievski10:40

If we fix them tomorrow we can still ship on Thursday.

Lena Hart10:41

Support wants a day for the help docs first.

Ana Petrova10:42

Sam, what do you think? Should we move the launch to Monday?

02 It knew who was talking

Not “Speaker 2.”
Ana.

Earshot tells voices apart by how they sound, and names them from the people on the calendar invite. No browser extension, so it works where your company blocks them.

Name a voice once and Earshot knows it next time. So the notes say who promised what.

On Google Meet, the optional Earshot for Google Meet extension for Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi fills in names straight from the call and stops Earshot when you hang up. It talks only to Earshot on your own Mac.

Speaker 1→Ana Petrova
Speaker 2→Marko Ilievski
Speaker 3→Lena Hart
Microphone→You

From the calendar invite · 3 people · 2 voices remembered

03 · The cue · 10:42, two seconds later

Your name, a question.
A tap on the shoulder.

You told Earshot your name, and the ways people say it: “Sam, Sammy.” It heard both, and a question mark. So an amber card slid over Slack.

  1. 1

    The question

    Word for word, so you answer what was asked.

  2. 2

    Who asked

    From the voice, with the name from the invite or a voice it remembers.

  3. 3

    What led up to it

    Summed up by Apple Intelligence on your Mac when it's there. Otherwise, the lines themselves.

  4. 4

    An answer to start from

    A suggested reply, built from what was said.

04 You answer

You answer
like you never left.

Three seconds of reading. No “sorry, could you repeat the question?”, no scrolling back through a chat you weren't in.

The card stays out of the way of the call, floats over every app, and goes away on its own or with a click.

Earshot · live22:31
Ana Petrova10:42

Sam, what do you think? Should we move the launch to Monday?

You10:42

Monday works for me. Marko fixes the CSV export tomorrow, QA gets a full pass, and Lena's team gets a day for the docs.

Marko Ilievski10:43

Works for me. I'll have the fix up by noon.

Ana Petrova10:43

Great. Monday it is.

05 11:00 · The call ends

The call ends.
The words stay.

You leave the call. Once the meeting's time is up and the call goes quiet, Earshot stops on its own, keeps the last sentence, and saves a Markdown file in ~/Documents/Earshot: who was there, a summary with the decisions and action items, the cues you got, every line with a name and a time.

And not one second of sound. Earshot never records audio. Speech becomes text in memory and the sound is dropped within seconds. Nothing is uploaded, because there's nowhere to upload it to.

2026-10-27 Launch sync.md
# Launch sync
Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 10:20–11:00 · Google Meet
People: Ana Petrova, Marko Ilievski, Lena Hart, You

## Summary
The launch moves to Monday so QA gets a full
pass and support has a day for the help docs.

## Decisions
- Launch on Monday instead of Thursday.

## Action items
- Marko: fix the CSV export by noon tomorrow.
- Lena: help docs ready before Monday.

## Cues
- 10:42 Ana Petrova asked you: “Should we move
  the launch to Monday?”

## Transcript
10:41 **Lena Hart:** Support wants a day for the
help docs first.
10:42 **Ana Petrova:** Sam, what do you think?
Should we move the launch to Monday?
10:42 **You:** Monday works for me. Marko fixes…

● Saved · 41 KB of text · 0 bytes of audio

One shortcut.
Every meeting, written down.

Earshot lives in your menu bar with your next meeting and a Join and transcribe button. The window keeps the live transcript, your cues and every meeting you've had.

Earshot's main window: the shortcut to start, the next meeting with Join and transcribe, the live transcript with speaker names and a cue from Ana Petrova

Earshot on a Mac. Real app, sample meeting.

For the curious

0.1 s
to turn a sentence into text, on your Mac's Apple silicon
25
languages, with the Parakeet speech model
0
bots in your calls, and seconds of audio saved
⌥⌘E
starts and stops it from any app
.md
plain Markdown notes in a folder you own
$39
once. No subscription, no account

A transcript that floats

A see-through window over the call. Move it, resize it, read along as words appear.

Cues on your name

Pick the trigger words. When one comes with a question, the amber card shows up over every app.

Your next meeting, one click

The menu bar shows what's next on your calendar, with Join and Join and transcribe. When a meeting starts, Earshot offers to transcribe it.

Names from the invite

Voices get the names of the people on the calendar invite. No extension needed; the optional one for Google Meet fills names from the call.

Voices it remembers

Name a voice once and it's named in later meetings. Only a numeric fingerprint is kept, on your Mac, never audio.

A summary at the end

Decisions and action items at the top of the notes, written by Apple Intelligence on your Mac.

Clean, correct words

Fillers like “um” and “you know” are taken out, and a dictionary teaches it the names it mishears.

Any call app

It hears what your Mac plays, so Zoom, Teams, Slack huddles and FaceTime work too, with voices told apart.

Private by design

No servers, no account, no analytics. Audio never touches the disk. The text is yours, in plain files.

No bot. No upload.
No monthly bill.

Most cloud note takers either send a bot into your call, upload your meeting to their servers, or charge every month. Usually more than one of the three.

EarshotOtterFirefliesGranola
Where speech becomes textOn your MacTheir cloudTheir cloudTheir cloud
A bot joins the callNeverUsuallyYesNo
Cue when you're asked a questionYes, with context and an answerNoNoNo
Summary, decisions, action itemsYes, written on your MacYes, in their cloudYes, in their cloudYes, in their cloud
NotesMarkdown files you ownWeb appWeb appApp and web
Price$39 onceSubscriptionSubscriptionSubscription

As of October 2026, in general terms; plans and features change, so check each product's site for the details. Free plans with limits exist for some of them. Names are trademarks of their owners.

$39, once.
Yours to keep.

One price, no subscription, no account. Try it free for 7 days with everything unlocked. There's no server to pay for: your Mac does all the work.

Earshot for Mac

$39 one-time licence
  • Unlimited meetings and hours
  • On-device transcription in 25 languages
  • Cues with context and a suggested answer
  • Speakers named from the calendar invite, no extension needed
  • Voices you've named, remembered in later meetings
  • A summary with decisions and action items
  • Markdown notes, the floating live transcript, ⌥⌘E
  • Up to 3 Macs
Buy Earshot — $39

or try it free for 7 days, everything unlocked

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon (M1 or later)

Questions,
answered.

Something else? Ask me.

Does Earshot record my meetings?

No. Earshot never records audio. Speech from your microphone and your Mac's audio is turned into text on your Mac, in memory, and the sound is dropped within seconds. No audio file is written to disk or sent anywhere. The only thing Earshot saves is the text, as Markdown files in ~/Documents/Earshot.

Does a bot join the call?

No. Nobody on the call sees an extra participant and the host doesn't have to approve anything. Earshot listens to your microphone for your side and to your Mac's audio for everyone else, the same sound you already hear, so it works with Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles and other call apps.

How does Earshot know someone is asking me a question?

You set trigger words, usually your name and the ways people say it, such as "Sam, Sammy". When someone says one and asks a question, an amber cue pops up over every app with the question, who asked, what led up to it and a suggested answer. Apple Intelligence on your Mac writes the summary when it's available; otherwise the cue shows the lines that led up to the question.

How does it know who said what?

Your microphone is you. Everyone else is told apart by how their voice sounds and named from the people on the calendar invite, so no browser extension is needed. When you name a voice, Earshot remembers it in later meetings. Anyone it can't name yet is labelled Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on. On Google Meet in Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge or Vivaldi, the optional free Earshot for Google Meet extension fills in names straight from the call and stops Earshot when the call ends.

Does Earshot store my colleagues' voices?

No audio, ever. When you name a voice, Earshot keeps a voice fingerprint: a short list of numbers that describes how that voice sounds, stored with the name you gave it. It isn't a recording and can't be played back. It stays on your Mac and is never uploaded. You can turn this off, or forget one voice or all of them, in Settings → Speakers.

Which languages does Earshot understand?

Earshot understands 25 European languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Ukrainian. It uses the Parakeet speech model, which runs on your Mac's Apple silicon and turns a sentence into text in about a tenth of a second, so words show up while people are still talking.

How much does Earshot cost?

Earshot costs $39 once, for up to 3 Macs. There is no subscription, no account and no limit on meetings or hours. You can try it free for 7 days with everything unlocked before you buy. Because the transcription runs on your Mac, there is no server bill to pass on to you: you pay once and use it for as many calls as you like.

What do I need to run Earshot?

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The first time you start, macOS asks for the microphone and for Screen & System Audio Recording, which is how a Mac app hears call audio; no video is kept. Cue summaries written by Apple Intelligence need a Mac where Apple Intelligence is turned on.

Where are my notes saved?

Each meeting is saved as one Markdown file in ~/Documents/Earshot, or a folder you choose, every 30 seconds and when you stop. The file has the meeting title, the people, a summary with decisions and action items, the cues you got and the full transcript with a name and time on every line. Plain text opens in any editor, Obsidian or Notes.

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Never say “sorry,
could you repeat that?”

Earshot for Mac. $39 once, and your meetings stay on your Mac.

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