Pawscribe

A quiet meeting companion for your Mac. Records, transcribes, and AI-summarizes every meeting — and lets you ask questions across your entire history.

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What it does

Pawscribe sits quietly in your menu bar and records every meeting you join — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, or anything else playing through your Mac. It captures the remote audio and your microphone as separate tracks, transcribes both with real-time captions, and turns the result into a clean, searchable record.

When the meeting ends, AI takes over: a summary, decisions made, action items, even a follow-up email — drafted in seconds. Pick the AI you trust: on-device Apple models, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and a dozen others.

And once you have a library of past meetings, the Meeting Brain lets you ask anything across all of them — with citations that jump straight back to the original audio.

Highlights

Dual-track recording. System audio (the room) and your mic (you) are recorded as separate tracks, so transcripts can tell who said what.
Real-time bilingual captions. Live subtitles while you speak, with each track independently set to its own language. Long meetings keep flowing without dropouts.
Auto meeting detection. Pawscribe notices when a meeting app starts using your mic and offers a one-click recording prompt — no setup, no missed openings.
AI summaries that read well. Summary, decisions, action items, and a follow-up message — ready the moment your meeting ends.
12 AI providers, your choice. AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Azure, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, plus on-device Apple Foundation Models — bring your own key, or stay fully local.
Meeting Brain. A floating window you summon with ⌘⇧A from anywhere — ask questions across your entire meeting library, with citations that jump back to the original audio.
Cross-meeting action items. Every to-do extracted from every meeting, in one place. Check them off as you go.
Speaker diarization. Local FluidAudio CoreML separates speakers on the remote track. Name them once and the names follow into transcripts and exports.
Built-in player with subtitle sync. Click any line of the transcript to jump to that moment in the audio. Edit subtitles in place. Follow along as it plays.
History, search, and projects. Browse every past meeting. Full-text search across transcripts and notes. Organize recordings into projects with color tags and drag-and-drop.
Echo cancellation. WebRTC AEC3 (the algorithm Chrome and Google Meet use) keeps your mic clean even when you're on speakers.
Whisper transcription, optional. Run OpenAI's Whisper locally for higher-accuracy re-transcription. Translate any meeting to English in one click.
Markdown export. Transcript + notes + AI summary, exported as a clean .md file in one click.
Privacy when you need it. A single "Never leave local" switch disables every cloud path at once — useful for sensitive meetings.
Quiet by design. No bouncing icons, no recording notifications broadcast to your menu bar during screen shares. It just works.

Privacy & data

Recordings are saved as standard .m4a files in ~/Documents — open them in Finder, back them up, or delete them anytime. No proprietary lock-in, no accounts, no telemetry.

Cloud AI providers are opt-in: you bring your own credentials, and a single "Never leave local" switch disables every cloud path at once whenever you need it.

Requirements

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Apple Silicon or Intel
macOS 26+ recommended for Apple Intelligence on-device summaries
Permissions: Screen Recording (for system audio) and Microphone

Pricing

Personal license — one-time payment, use on up to 2 of your Macs.
Family license — one-time payment, up to 5 Macs.
Free trial — full features, time-limited.

Final pricing announced at launch. Pay once, own it. No subscriptions.

Download

Pawscribe is launching soon. Email maxnaturalemergence@gmail.com to be notified when the trial is available.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or feature requests — maxnaturalemergence@gmail.com.