Trace
Standalone app

Trace

Your meetings, your machine

From $9.99. Trace app only.

  • Mac


  • Version 2.5.1


  • macOS 14.4 or later


  • 30.6 MB


  • 1 languages

Trace — local meeting recorder and transcriber for Mac. It captures your mic and system audio, transcribes everything on-device using Apple silicon, and delivers a clean Markdown transcript with your flagged moments right where you left them. No bots join your calls. No accounts to create. Nothing you record ever leaves your machine.

  • Record any call without cloud accounts

  • Flag key moments live, mid-conversation

  • Get meeting summaries on your Mac

  • Export transcripts to Notion or ChatGPT

Trace features


Stays out of the way — until you need it

One keystroke brings Trace up over Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, or anything else you're running. There's no window to place and no app to open. It's just there when you need it, invisible when you don't.


Fully on-device, fully private

A local speech model runs right on your Mac. No servers, no cloud sync, no accounts. Whatever you record stays on your machine — period. It's the meeting recorder for people who mean it when they say "private."


Flag what matters, live

Hit a shortcut mid-call, type a quick note, keep talking. The moment gets pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. When you're done, you can scan straight to what actually counted — no rewinding, no guessing.


Summaries without the wait

When a meeting wraps up, one press turns the transcript into a tidy summary: the overview, the decisions, the follow-ups. Summaries run on-device, so there's no uploading and no waiting on a server.


Speaker-aware transcripts

Trace splits the recording by voice and labels each speaker. Assign real names afterward and Trace will recognize those voices in your next call — no re-labeling needed.


Markdown that goes anywhere

Every session is saved to Finder as plain audio and a Markdown file. Drop a transcript into Notion, Obsidian, or straight into Claude or ChatGPT for a deeper summary. Move it, keep it, delete it — it's yours.

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Trace
Standalone app

Trace

Your meetings, your machine

From $9.99. Trace app only.