NotchLive
Live captions and translation, powered by on-device AI.
NotchLive launched on March 17, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,340 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
What it does
NotchLive turns your MacBook notch into a live caption bar. It captures any audio on your Mac. Zoom calls, YouTube, podcasts, lectures... and transcribes it in real time using on-device AI. Switch to Translate mode for real-time translation across 11 languages. Hit record to save a session transcript. Everything runs locally. No cloud, no bots, no accounts. Free forever for captions. Pro upgrade $14.99 one-time for translation and sessions.
Private live captions, dictation, reviewable meeting records, and translated speech in one local-first Mac workspace. No meeting bot or subscription.
Follow speech live, recover what you missed, and turn important conversations into speaker-aware meeting records you can review, measure, translate, export, or query from your own AI tools. How Live Captions Work - Open any meeting, video, or podcast. NotchLive captures system audio or your mic via ScreenCaptureKit, transcribes speech with on-device Whisper AI, and displays live captions near the top of your Mac workspace. Speaker-aware meeting records - Version 1.9 adds local speaker attribution on supported Apple silicon Macs and Participant Review for correcting speaker labels before using the transcript. Governed participant ontology - Automatic diarization provides meeting-local…from notchlive.app
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