Speechmark records and summarizes meetings on your Mac with no bot or account. One-time price from $49. See features, pros, cons, and FAQs.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Speechmark is a macOS menu bar app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your Mac. It produces a note containing decisions, action items, and a short recap, along with a speaker-attributed transcript. It needs no account, sends no bot into the call, and is sold as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
The product is published by ChakraBit Solutions LLP and positions itself as a private alternative to cloud recorders such as Otter.ai and Fireflies. Its central claim is that audio never leaves the device, and that transcript text leaves only if you choose a cloud model for the summary.
Speechmark follows three steps. First, it captures your microphone and the meeting audio together from the menu bar with one click, handling the audio routing itself. No browser extension is needed and no bot joins the call, so other participants see nothing unusual during the meeting.
Second, it transcribes on-device on Apple silicon and separates speakers automatically. Third, it writes the note: decisions, action items, and a short recap in plain prose. You choose the model, whether Apple Intelligence, a local Ollama model, or your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini key.
The core features are menu bar recording, local transcription, and automatic speaker separation. Speakers are labeled the first time you confirm a name, which makes later transcripts read like a script. Every line in a note is clickable, taking you to the exact moment it was said in the recording.
The newest feature is the Claude Desktop connector. It installs from Settings in one click as a Claude extension, with no config files, terminal, or API key. Claude then answers from your own notes, cites the meeting behind each answer, and the connector makes no network calls of its own.
Speechmark is a macOS menu bar app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings on your Mac. It produces decisions, action items, a short recap, and a speaker-attributed transcript. It uses no account and no call bot.
Speechmark is a one-time purchase with no subscription. The founding-customer price is $49 for the first 200 customers, then $79. One purchase covers up to 3 of your Macs.
The company says you can download and try it free, with no account, credit card, or waitlist. The sources do not describe any limits of the trial.
No. Recording and transcription happen on your Mac and audio never leaves the device. If you choose a cloud model such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini with your own key, only the transcript text is sent.
No. Speechmark records the microphone and meeting audio directly from the Mac menu bar. Other participants see no recording bot.
It offers a local connector for Claude Desktop. For notes it works with Apple Intelligence, local Ollama models, and your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini API key.
You need macOS 14.2 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple silicon Mac.
According to Speechmark, Otter and Fireflies are cloud-first, upload audio to their servers, and charge per seat. Speechmark keeps audio, transcripts, and notes on your Mac, needs no account, and is a one-time purchase.