Altypist Memo records the meeting, transcribes what was said, separates the speakers and creates a draft summary with timecodes. All of it on this machine — there is no server to send anything to.
Altypist is for dictation. Memo is for meetings. Altypist puts your spoken words into the app you are using; Memo preserves the whole conversation so you can review it.
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.
Many cloud-based meeting-notes services upload the recording or the transcript to their own servers and ask 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 separates the speakers and counts them; it does not learn who they are. Nothing travels between recordings, so renaming “Speaker 2” to “Client” affects that meeting and nothing else.
Memo does not create or retain voiceprints. Speakers are labelled within a single recording only, and never identified by name. That 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.Recording laws vary by jurisdiction. Before recording, make sure you have any consent required where you and the other participants are located. Memo shows a recording indicator the whole time it runs, so telling people is easy — but obtaining consent is your responsibility.
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.
Dictation and meetings on one key. Altypist puts your spoken words into whatever app you are using; Memo records the conversation and gives you the transcript, the speakers and a timecoded draft summary.
Already own one of them? Send us your key and you pay the difference, not the full price again. 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.
They do different jobs. Altypist is for dictation: you speak, and the words appear where your cursor is. Memo is for meetings: it records the whole conversation, transcribes it, separates the speakers and drafts a timecoded summary you can check against the audio. Meeting notes are also reachable from inside Altypist for anyone whose licence covers them; this app is the standalone version, and the reason to buy it is wanting meetings without dictation — or both, for which there is a bundle.