HyNote for Mac
Free local transcription that is 100% Private
HyNote for Mac launched on August 20, 2026 with 368 votes, #51 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
HyNote for Mac is a free, privacy-focused note-taking application that records and transcribes meetings, interviews, and classes directly on a user's device. It captures system audio from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other Mac applications without requiring a bot in the meeting. The software performs transcription and AI processing locally on Apple silicon Macs, ensuring confidential discussions remain private and never transmitted to external servers. It also generates summaries, identifies speakers, and extracts key decisions and action items from recorded content.
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Solving the three biggest pain points in meeting software: privacy, friction, and cost. By running speech-to-text entirely on-device, your confidential discussions never leave your hardware, ensuring total data privacy. It operates invisibly without sending an awkward bot into your attendee list, capturing system audio directly across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
Free Mac meeting recorder with unlimited recording time and on-device transcription. No meeting bot.
Record meetings, lectures and interviews for free, with unlimited recording time and on-device transcription. In local mode, your recordings stay on your Mac. Record conversations, follow live transcripts and create useful notes — free on your Mac. Built on Apple's speech recognition and Apple Intelligence, so there are no large AI models to download. Works best on Apple silicon. Capture system audio and your microphone for calls, lectures, interviews and voice memos. Follow a searchable transcript as you record, with speech processed directly on your Mac. Separate speakers after recording and name them. HyNote suggests the name next time. Turn transcripts into clear summaries, decisions…from hynote.ai
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