Does Whisperer join my meeting as a bot?

No. Nothing joins the call. Whisperer records on your Mac, so the other people see no bot, no extra participant and no recording notice from a third party. You are responsible for telling people you take notes where the law asks for consent; Whisperer shows a short reminder before your first recording.

Which meeting apps does it work with?

Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack huddles, Webex and FaceTime, plus calls in Chrome, Safari, Arc, Edge and other browsers. Whisperer records the call audio and your microphone, so it captures both sides whether you use speakers or headphones.

Do I need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No. Whisperer includes its own AI model (Qwen3.5 4B) that writes notes and answers questions on your Mac, offline and free. If you already pay for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, you can sign in and Whisperer uses that plan instead, with no extra bill. You can also paste an OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini API key.

Is my meeting audio sent anywhere?

Audio never leaves your Mac. Recording, transcription and speaker detection all run locally. Only if you choose a cloud AI such as Claude or ChatGPT is the text transcript sent to that provider to write the notes, and you can keep any meeting local with one switch.

What is the MCP server for?

MCP lets AI apps use tools. Whisperer's server runs on your Mac and lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, VS Code and Windsurf search your meetings and dictations, read summaries and transcripts, and add notes. It is off until you turn it on, and only apps on your Mac can reach it.

How much does it cost?

Whisperer is $2.99 on the Mac App Store and includes dictation. Pro is a $14.99 in-app purchase that adds meetings, calendar sync, AI notes, your own AI and the MCP server. Both are one-time. There is no subscription and no minute limit.

Which languages does it understand?

97 languages for dictation and meetings with the Whisper engine, and it detects the language as you speak. Meeting notes are written in the language of the meeting.

What do I need to run it?

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 Tahoe. The speech model is about 550 MB and the built-in AI model about 3.2 GB; both download the first time you use them.

For everything you type and every call you take

Dictation and meeting notes for Mac, in one app

Hold Fn and talk, and your words are ready to paste into any app. Join a call, and Whisperer writes the notes, with every speaker named. Both run on your Mac, with no subscription.

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$2.99 app, Pro $14.99, paid once·No account·Works offline·97 languages

Slack

Northwind

general

launch

design

random

launch

Maya Levin 10:38

Where are we on the beta build?

Message #launch

Listening English

Quick update: the build is green and I'm

fnHolding

Your voice in every app, your notes from every call

Most people start with dictation and keep Whisperer for their meetings. The two work together: hold Fn mid-call to send a quick message, and the recording pauses until you let go.

Dictation

Hold Fn in any app and talk. Words stream in as you speak, and the text is ready to paste when you let go.

Live preview in 97 languages
Learns names and words you fix
Offline, on the Mac's GPU

See dictation

Meeting notes

Starts when your call starts. Both sides recorded, every speaker named, notes ready when you hang up.

Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack and Webex
Summary, decisions, action items
Written by your own AI or the built-in one

See meeting notes

Dictation that writes like you type

Speak into Slack, Mail, Notion or any text box. Whisperer adds the punctuation, drops the ums and spells names the way you taught it, so the text is ready to paste when you let go.

97 languages

Live preview in the language you speak, detected as you talk.

Words while you speak

Text streams in under the cursor as you talk, then a final pass cleans it.

Learns your words

Fix a name once and Whisperer spells it right from then on.

See dictation features

Fast Polish

WHAT YOU SAID

um so the the build is green and uh i'm sending it to beta testers this afternoon new paragraph can you check the release notes before four

WHAT YOU PASTE

The build is green and I'm sending it to beta testers this afternoon.

Can you check the release notes before four?

Fillers removedRepeated word fixedPunctuationParagraph break

Whisperer

Dictionary

Learn from my corrections

Next dictation

Scale the Kubernetes nodes before the launch review.

YOUR WORDS

Kubernetesheard as “cooper netties”Learned

Gleanheard as “glean, clean”

Priya Shahheard as “Pria Shaw”

Northwindheard as “north wind”

Starts taking notes when your call starts

Whisperer sees which app opened the microphone, so it knows a Zoom call from a voice memo. It asks once, or records on its own for meetings on your calendar.

Zoom
Microsoft Teams
Google Meet
Slack huddles
Webex
FaceTime

See how meeting notes work

Zoom WorkplaceTue 10:00

00:04

MLMaya Levin

DODan Ortiz

PSPriya Shah

MEMe

Zoom call started

Mobile launch review · on your calendar

Not nowTake notes

Notes, decisions and action items when the call ends

Every meeting lands in Meeting Studio with a clean transcript, named speakers and a summary you can ask questions about.

Names every speaker

Voices are told apart on your Mac, and names come from the calendar invite.

Maya Levin 02:14

Beta feedback is in. Onboarding is the only thing people keep tripping on, the rest is solid.

Dan Ortiz 02:20

Then we fix onboarding first. If we cut the account step we can still ship on the 24th.

Writes the action items

Owners and due days are pulled out of what people actually said.

Rewrite the first three onboarding screensPriya

Cut the account step from onboardingDan

Keep the press embargo where it isMe

Answers with sources

Ask "When is launch now, and why did it move?" and get the answer with the moments it came from.

Searches every meeting

Find the call where pricing came up, jump to the second it was said.

Pauses for dictation

Hold Fn mid-call to dictate a message. The meeting pauses, then picks up again.

Your calendar tells Whisperer what to record

Connect Google Calendar or Outlook. Before each meeting you get a card with Join & Record, and the notes are named after the invite.

Google Calendar

Outlook

See calendar sync

Calendar

Reminds you before each meeting and records in one click.

Google Calendar Connected

Outlook Connected

TODAY

10:00

10:30

NOWMobile launch review

Maya, Dan, Priya and you

Join & Record

13:30

14:00

Design crit: onboarding v2

Priya, Maya and you

2 min before

16:00

16:45

Weekly sync with Northwind

Dan and you

2 min before

Read-only. Events come straight from Google or Microsoft, sign-in tokens stay in your Keychain.

Notes written by the AI you already pay for

Sign in with your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan and Whisperer uses it for notes and answers, with no extra bill. No plan? The built-in Qwen3.5 4B model writes them on your Mac, offline.

First-year cost for one person¹

Granola Business$168

Fireflies Pro$120

Otter Pro$100

Whisperer with Pro$17.98 once

See every AI you can connect

LLM

The AI that writes your meeting notes and answers your questions.

Written by Claude

If it's unavailable, this Mac takes over

On this Mac

Private and offline. Uses the built-in model.

Ready

YOUR AI SUBSCRIPTIONS

Claude

Uses your Claude Pro or Max plan

Ready · Claude plan

ChatGPT

Uses your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan

Ready · ChatGPT plan

Codex

Uses your ChatGPT plan through Codex

Ready · ChatGPT plan

Gemini

Uses your Google AI Pro or Ultra plan

Ready · Google plan

API KEYS

OpenAI API

Billed to your OpenAI API key

Key in Keychain

Anthropic API

Billed to your Anthropic API key

Key in Keychain

Claude

What did we decide in Tuesday's launch review? Make me a checklist.

whisperersearch_meetings“launch review”

whispererget_meeting“Mobile launch review”

From your Whisperer notes for Mobile launch review (Tue 11 Nov):

Launch moved to 24 November
Priya rewrites the first three onboarding screens by Thursday
Dan cuts the account step from onboarding before the 24th
The press embargo stays where it is

Reply to Claude…

Ask Claude about last Tuesday's meeting

Whisperer runs a small MCP server on your Mac. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex can search your meetings and dictations, read the notes and add their own. Turn it on, pick the app, click Connect.

See the MCP tools

Your meetings stay on your Mac

Recording, speaker detection and transcription never leave the machine. You decide whether any AI outside it ever sees a transcript.

Recorded and transcribed on your Mac

Audio and transcripts are saved in your Library folder, not on a server.

No account, no tracking

No sign-up, no analytics, no ads. The App Store lists it as Data Not Collected.

Works with Wi-Fi off

Transcription and the built-in AI run offline. Cloud AI only runs when you choose it.

Keys in your Keychain

API keys and calendar sign-ins are stored by macOS, never in a file.

Pay once. Keep it.

No subscription, no account, no minute limits. Buy Whisperer on the Mac App Store and add Pro inside the app.

Whisperer

Dictation

$2.99once

Dictation in any app with Fn
Live preview in 97 languages
Every speech engine, best model by default
Personal dictionary and history
File transcription

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Whisperer Pro

Everything

Meetings, your AI and MCP

$14.99once

Everything in Base
Meeting notes with named speakers
Meeting detection and auto-record
Google Calendar and Outlook sync
AI notes, action items and Ask AI
Use your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan
MCP server for Claude, Cursor and more

Get Whisperer Pro

Pro is an in-app purchase. Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26 Tahoe. Compare plans

Meeting notes for your whole company, paid once per Mac

No per-seat subscription, no bot in customer calls, and notes written with the AI accounts your company already has.

See Whisperer for teams

250 employees, 3 years

Granola Business$126,000

Otter Business$179,910

Whisperer with Pro$4,495

Questions people ask

Your next meeting writes its own notes

$2.99 app, Pro $14.99, paid once. Runs on your Mac with the AI you already have.

Get it on the Mac App Store

¹ Public prices for one seat checked in November 2026, using annual billing where it is offered. Granola Business is billed monthly only. Whisperer is the $2.99 app plus the $14.99 Pro purchase, both one-time.