Altypist Memo records the meeting, writes down what was said, works out who said it, and drafts a summary you can check line by line. All of it on this machine — there is no server to send anything to.
7 days free. No card, no account, nothing to cancel.
macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon. A 25 MB download; the models it needs arrive on first use.
14 days to change your mind, no reason needed Read the refund policy →The team agreed to move the database migration to Saturday night and to notify customers today. Audit-record retention is unresolved.
Speaker 1
0:04The migration is scheduled for the fourteenth, and we still need sign-off from the security review.
Speaker 2
0:11Security came back with two findings. Both minor.
Speaker 3
0:24The support team was never told about the migration window.
Each finishes and is written to disk before the next begins. Close the laptop halfway and you keep everything done so far — the rest continues when you open Memo again.
Straight to a file, with no limit on length. An hour is about 115 MB, and it keeps going with the window closed.
Whisper, on this Mac. Long meetings are read in overlapping windows, so no word is lost at a seam.
Who spoke when, on the Neural Engine — about 45 seconds for an hour of audio.
What was discussed, decided, assigned and left open — every point with the timecode it came from.
Every other meeting-notes tool uploads the room to somebody's data centre and asks you to trust their retention policy. Memo has no server to upload to. Turn off the network after the first run and it still records, still transcribes, still separates the speakers, still writes the summary.
Two things touch the internet, both optional and neither carrying your audio: the models download the first time you use them, and the app checks your licence key.
Worth knowing before the first meeting rather than after it.
One folder per recording, holding the audio, the transcript and the summary. Open, move, search or back them up without this app — and delete them without asking it.
Default~/Documents/Altypist Memo/, changeable.
The heaviest and most sensitive file need not stay. One day, three days, a week, never keep it, or keep it for ever. The transcript and the summary always stay.
Deleting audio cannot be undone, and shortening the setting applies to recordings you have already made.Memo works out that three people spoke; it does not learn who they are. Nothing travels between recordings, so renaming “Speaker 2” to “Client” affects that meeting and nothing else.
A stored voiceprint is biometric data under Article 9 of the GDPR; a count of who spoke when is not. That is why the distinction is built in rather than offered as a setting.A model small enough to run on a laptop summarises less well than a large one in somebody else's data centre. Memo labels its summary a draft and always keeps the full transcript beside it — and every point links to the moment it came from, so checking one is a click rather than a search.
Asked twice, it answers the same way: generation is deterministic, so a summary can be quoted.Many places require everyone's agreement before recording. Memo shows an indicator the whole time it runs, so telling people is easy — but the decision is yours, not ours to answer.
No subscription. A licence is a number of Macs, not a number of meetings — record as many as you like, for as long as you like. macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon only.
Own the dictation app? Memo is 70% off, and the other way round too — send us your key and a code comes back. Both apps on one Mac count as one Mac. Buying for more than ten? Volume licensing.
A few minutes on an M-series Mac, most of it transcription; speaker separation is about 45 seconds. It runs in the background, and quitting partway loses nothing — each step is saved before the next starts.
Usually. Clearly different voices separate reliably; two very similar ones can be merged into a single speaker. Renaming fixes a label, not a merge — so with a group where several people sound alike, read the transcript rather than trusting the count.
Transcription covers the languages Whisper does, including English, German, French, Spanish, Serbian and Russian. Summaries are best in English at the model sizes that fit on a laptop.
Recording stops. Everything you recorded during the trial stays readable, for ever, with or without a licence — your notes are not held hostage.
Only if you want Memo on its own. Meeting notes are also available inside Altypist for anyone whose licence covers them, on a separate shortcut. This app is the same thing without the dictation half.