Guide
Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Meeting tools are usually a subscription and an upload. Voz records the call on your own machine and transcribes it there.
The short answer
Voz captures the meeting's system audio and your microphone, mixes them, and transcribes the result on your Mac. No bot appears in the call and no audio is sent anywhere.
It is the same app as the dictation — this is a tab, not a separate product, and the same $2.99 covers it.
Nothing joins your call
Most meeting recorders work by adding a participant: a bot appears in the call, everyone sees it, and the audio goes to a server to be transcribed. That is visible to the other side and it is a conversation you have to have with them.
Voz records what your Mac is already playing, using ScreenCaptureKit, plus your own microphone as a second source. Nothing is added to the meeting. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission the first time, because that is how the system gates access to another app's audio — Voz never captures your screen.
What it costs, against the usual
| Price | Where audio is processed | |
|---|---|---|
| Voz | $2.99 once | On your Mac |
| Otter | Free to 300 min/mo · $8.33/user/mo Pro · $19.99 Business | Cloud service |
| Granola | Free tier · $14/user/mo Business · $35 Enterprise | Cloud service |
Both of those have genuine free tiers, so "cheaper" is not the whole story. The difference that does not change with the tier is where the recording goes.
What you get afterwards
- A transcript, kept locally and searchable alongside your dictations and file transcripts.
- Your own notes on the meeting, typed or dictated.
- Optionally, a summary and a list of follow-ups, produced by a language model that runs on your Mac. You download that model once if you want the feature; it is off until you turn it on.
Where it is weaker than the subscriptions
Worth knowing before you buy
It does not label speakers by voice. When you ask for a separated transcript, the local model infers turns from the wording — useful, and not the same thing as knowing who spoke. There is no calendar integration, no shared workspace, no mobile app, and no timestamps or subtitle export. If your team needs shared meeting notes with attribution, the subscription products do that and Voz does not.
What it does instead is record a meeting without telling anyone's server about it, for the price of a coffee, once.