GlossOne
On-device live transcription and bilingual subtitles
GlossOne launched on June 30, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Meet GlossOne, a native macOS menu bar app that turns live speech into instant text and bilingual subtitles, from your mic or any app's audio. Everything runs on-device by default, so your conversations never leave your Mac. Float captions over Zoom or any call, caption videos and podcasts, transcribe files, keep a searchable history, and export to SRT, VTT, TXT or Markdown. One time purchase, free trial, no subscription.
Turn live speech into text and bilingual captions on your Mac. Microphone or any app
Live transcription and bilingual captions, right from your Mac menu bar. Turn live speech into instant text and bilingual subtitles, from your microphone or any app's audio. Float the captions over Zoom and any meeting. Recognition and translation run on-device by default. Native, sandboxed, privacy-first. The actual GlossOne popover, running live on this page. Go ahead, click around. Start, pause, resume and stop a transcription with a single click. Switch between microphone, system audio or both — and pin the spoken language mid-meeting. A live preview running right in your browser. Nothing leaves this page. GlossOne lives in your menu bar with no Dock icon. Three steps from a live voice…from glossone.app
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