Real-time AI captions, translation, and voice notes — right in your MacBook's notch.
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NotchLive turns your MacBook's notch into a live caption display and local speech-to-text workspace. Powered by on-device Whisper AI — everything stays on your Mac, nothing leaves.
- Live Captions — Real-time speech-to-text displayed in your notch
- 20 Translation Languages — Translate captions on the fly (macOS 15+)
- 6 AI Models — Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, Large Turbo Compact, and Large Turbo
- System Audio + Microphone — Capture any app, your voice, or both
- Auto Language Detection — Recognizes 90+ spoken languages
- Voice Notes — Dictate, clean up, translate, save, export, and send notes to NotchPad (Pro)
- Session Recording — Record sessions, keep Raw transcripts, generate AI dictation on demand, and export TXT/JSON (Pro)
- Keyboard Shortcuts — Start, stop, and switch modes hands-free
- Works Without a Notch — Caption bar appears at top center on any Mac
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Apple Silicon recommended
- Intel Macs supported
| Free | Pro ($14.99 one-time) | |
|---|---|---|
| Live captions | ✓ | ✓ |
| All AI models | ✓ | ✓ |
| System + mic audio | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyboard shortcuts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translation (20 languages) | ✓ | |
| Voice Notes | ✓ | |
| Session recording | ✓ | |
| Raw/AI transcript export | ✓ |
Team Pack license keys are available for teams that need 5, 10, or 25 activations.
All speech recognition happens locally using Whisper AI via CoreML. No cloud audio processing, no account required, and audio/transcripts stay on your Mac.
- Download the latest
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- Grant Screen Recording and Microphone permissions when prompted
- Pick an AI model and start captioning
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
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