Apple Intelligence · iOS 26 / iPadOS 26 / macOS 26

Meeting notes that don't need a bot — or the cloud.

Dictanta records your meetings, calls, and interviews on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, then transcribes and summarizes them on-device — so audio never leaves your machine.

Download on the App Store Dictanta for iPhone, iPad & Mac How it's different

3 recordings free No cloud upload Lifetime option · $149.99

Why Dictanta

The anti-Otter.

Three things Dictanta does that the cloud-bot category doesn't.

No bot in your meeting

Dictanta uses macOS ScreenCaptureKit to record system audio directly — no Otter or Granola attendee joining your call.

Audio stays on device

Transcription and summarization run on Apple Intelligence locally. Your recordings never leave your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Verify every summary

Tap any bullet in the AI summary to scrub the recording to that exact moment. Audio is the source of truth, not the AI.

Features

Built for people in back-to-back calls.

Every feature designed around the same constraint: capture the conversation, surface the decisions, never trust the AI blindly.

Record meetings, interviews, lectures, voice notes

Capture from microphone, system audio, or imported files — MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV, FLAC, OPUS, AAC. Live partial captions stream during the recording.

macOS system audio without a meeting bot

Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex — Dictanta records the audio Mac hears, with a global hotkey and menu-bar UI. Nothing visible to the other side.

On-device transcription via Apple SpeechAnalyzer

iOS 26 / iPadOS 26 / macOS 26. 55% faster than Whisper v3 Turbo per Apple. Falls back to WhisperKit on older hardware.

AI summaries you can actually trust

On-device Foundation Models produce TL;DRs, action items, decisions, and open questions. Every bullet anchors back to the audio waveform.

Live captions, anywhere

Lock Screen Live Activity on iPhone. Dynamic Island word-ticker. Menu-bar caption on Mac during a meeting. No more "wait, what did they just say?"

Sync transcripts, not audio

CloudKit syncs your transcripts and summaries across devices. Audio stays on the device that recorded it (opt-in iCloud Drive backup if you want it).

The Dictanta wedge

Tap a bullet. Hear the moment.

47% of executives have acted on hallucinated AI content. Dictanta makes that impossible: every summary bullet links to the exact audio span it came from. Hover, scrub, verify — in one motion.

Otter and Granola summarize, then leave you guessing. Dictanta summarizes, then proves it.

Meeting summary · Q2 product sync · 28 min

Maya is owning the migration; deadline is May 22.

12:04 → 12:38 · "let me take that one"
Pricing experiment paused until legal review.

18:11 → 18:42
Open question: are we double-counting trial conversions?

23:50 → 24:31

Privacy by default

Your audio never leaves your device. Not even to us.

No third-party analytics SDKs. No crash-reporter telemetry. No ads. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" — because that's true.

Recordings auto-delete after 7 days (your setting). Transcripts sync via CloudKit if you turn it on; the audio itself stays on the device that recorded it.

On-device ASR

Apple SpeechAnalyzer
On-device LLM

Foundation Models
No third-party SDKs

Zero analytics
No bot visible

ScreenCaptureKit

Apple-native

One purchase. Every Apple device you own.

Record a Zoom call on your Mac, edit the transcript on iPad in Split View, share the summary from your iPhone. Mac gets the deepest feature set (system audio, menu bar, global hotkey); iOS gets Live Activities and Action Button.

Download on the App Store Dictanta for iPhone, iPad & Mac