{"slug": "show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call", "title": "Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call", "summary": "Trace, a new macOS app, provides on-device meeting transcription and flagging without cloud uploads, requiring no accounts or servers. It captures microphone and system audio, transcribes locally on Apple silicon, and allows users to flag moments mid-call with keystrokes, generating markdown transcripts for integration with tools like Notion or ChatGPT.", "body_md": "### On-device only\n\nA local speech model, running on-device. No servers, no accounts, and nothing you record ever leaves your Mac.\n\nTrace captures your microphone and system audio, transcribes locally on your Mac, and hands you a markdown transcript with flagged moments inline.\n\nNo accounts. No cloud. No meeting bots.\n\nRequires macOS 14 or later and Apple silicon.\n\nOne keystroke brings Trace up over any application: Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, anything. No app to open, no window to place.\n\nHit `⌘K` mid-call, type a short note, hit Enter. The moment lands in your transcript at the exact timestamp. You stay in the meeting, and any AI reading the transcript later sees exactly what mattered.\n\nCatch up without leaving the flow\n\nPress `⌘?` and the pill grows upward into a live transcript of the last two minutes, interleaved with every key moment you flagged. Runs entirely on-device, same as the final transcript. No uploads, no audio sent anywhere.\n\nInto Notion or Obsidian for the vault. Into ChatGPT, Claude, or the AI of your choice if you want it summarised. Trace hands you clean, contextual markdown for whatever comes next.\n\nThe menu bar keeps a quiet list of your sessions. Copy, reveal in Finder, or re-open without switching apps.\n\nA local speech model, running on-device. No servers, no accounts, and nothing you record ever leaves your Mac.\n\nTranscribes meetings in seconds on Apple silicon. No upload, no queue, no spinner while a cloud catches up.\n\nRecord, flag, recap, pause, hide. Every action has a shortcut. Remap any of them to match your muscle memory.\n\nEvery session lives in Finder as plain audio and markdown. Move them into your vault, version them in git, or delete them. They're yours.\n\nHit `⌘K` mid-recording to mark a moment. Add a note while the conversation keeps going. Key moments land inline in the transcript exactly where they happened, so you can scan to them in one pass.\n\nConnect your calendar and every recording picks up the event title automatically. A quiet reminder appears one minute before the meeting starts, offering to record. Use your Mac's calendar, on-device and covering any account, or link Google directly. Opt-in, read-only, off by default.\n\nTrace identifies who's speaking on the call and gives every participant a unique identifier.\n\nNo servers, API keys, accounts or telemetry. Your audio and your transcripts never touch a machine that isn't yours.\n\nmacOS asks for System Audio Recording permission so Trace can capture audio from your other apps. Trace never accesses your screen.\n\nWhat you get\n\nKey moments that you flag land inline, right where they happened. Your future self, your teammates, and your AI of choice can scan straight to what mattered.\n\nCompare\n\nHonest, on-device comparisons for the people who do not want a bot in the call or their audio in the cloud.\n\nRecord on your Mac with no bot in the call, transcribed on-device.\n\nRead more →Everything stays on your machine, and it works with the network off.\n\nRead more →The same record-the-meeting simplicity, without the cloud notebook.\n\nRead more →Capture system audio with no extra participant in Zoom, Meet or Teams.\n\nRead more →No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call", "canonical_source": "https://traceapp.info", "published_at": "2026-06-13 20:41:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-14 20:10:32.302696+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Trace", "Apple", "Zoom", "Microsoft Teams", "Google Meet", "Slack", "Notion", "Obsidian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trace-offline-mac-meeting-transcripts-you-can-flag-mid-call.jsonld"}}