How Listenr works.

Nothing to record. Capture, transcription and speaker recognition run on your Mac and are free forever, as are notes from a local model or your own API key. Pro is $19 a month — or $15 a month billed yearly, saving 21% — and adds notes from a model we host, Notion delivery, browser share links and the hosted MCP connector. Team is $39 per user a month, or $29 per user a month billed yearly, and is coming soon.

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No. Listenr records the audio your Mac is already playing plus your microphone, so there is no extra participant, no “…has joined the meeting”, and nothing for anyone else to admit. The optional Zoom reader and the Google Meet browser extension only read what is already on your side of the call, and nobody in the meeting is told.

Not unless you choose OpenAI cloud transcription, which is one of five transcription backends and not the default. The other four run on your Mac, and recordings stay in your local library either way. Writing the notes is a separate choice: the model you pick gets the transcript, the meeting chat, the participants’ display names and your own notes, never their email addresses. Pick a local model and none of that leaves either.

No, but you always can. On Pro we run one for you and keep it current, so notes work the moment you sign in. On any plan you can instead use a model that runs entirely on your Mac, Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, or your own Anthropic or OpenAI account. Notes stream into the app as they are written, whichever you pick.

Any app that plays call audio on your Mac. Listenr detects calls in Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet in any major browser and offers to record; FaceTime, Slack huddles, Webex and Discord calls are detected too. Listenr names speakers in the Zoom desktop app (an opt-in setting), in Google Meet through the Listenr browser extension, and in Microsoft Teams. In Zoom in a browser and other apps the voices are labelled Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on.

Your microphone is you. Everyone else is told apart by voice, on your Mac, and labelled Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on when the meeting ends. Listenr puts names on those labels in Zoom (from its participant list, an opt-in setting that uses Accessibility), in Google Meet (through the Listenr browser extension) and in Microsoft Teams, or, if you turn it on, from names people say in the call. When the evidence is unclear, the label stays Speaker N rather than guessing.

Yes. Listenr records a Google Meet call in any browser, because it captures the audio your Mac plays. To get speaker names and the meeting chat, install the Listenr browser extension for Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc or Safari; it reads Meet’s participant list, who is speaking and the open chat panel, and passes them only to Listenr on the same Mac.

Yes, for Google Meet. It is on the Chrome Web Store (it installs in Chrome, Brave and Arc, and in Edge once extensions from other stores are allowed), and a Safari version ships inside the Listenr app for Safari 18.4 or later. It runs only on meet.google.com, reads no audio, video or captions, stores nothing, and sends participant names and chat only to Listenr on your Mac.

No. Listenr takes no screenshots and does no text recognition on your screen. With the Screen Recording permission it reads window titles to notice that a meeting has started, and it can use that permission as a fallback path for call audio; without it, meeting detection still works from which app is using the microphone.

Often yes, and the rules genuinely differ by country and by state — some places require everyone on the call to consent. Listenr does not announce itself, so telling people is on you. Check what applies where you and your participants are, and when in doubt, say you are taking notes.

A Mac with Apple Silicon running macOS 15 or later. Listenr needs Microphone and System Audio Recording to record the call, and asks to send notifications for meeting reminders. Speech Recognition is needed for Apple’s transcription, which is the default. Screen Recording is optional; Calendar, Accessibility (for the Zoom reader) and Automation (for Apple Notes) are asked for only when you turn those features on.

Not yet. Listenr is a Mac app today, and an iPhone app and an Apple Watch companion are on the roadmap. The same principles will apply there: on-device where possible, and nothing leaves the device unless you share it.

Recording and on-device transcription do, once the models are downloaded. Writing the notes needs a model: a local one keeps you fully offline, while our hosted model and your own API keys both need a connection. A meeting recorded on a plane transcribes on the plane and can be written up later.

In a Listenr folder inside your Mac’s Application Support directory, readable only by your account. Nothing syncs anywhere unless you share it. Deleting a meeting removes it from your Mac. A meeting you shared also has a copy on our server, which deleting it locally does not touch; deleting that uploaded copy, for example with the listenr team remove command, stops its link working.

Apple’s transcription, the default, works in one language you set. Download Parakeet Ultra in the app and Listenr transcribes 25 European languages on your Mac and detects which one is spoken; SenseVoice adds Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and Whisper covers 99 languages. Notes are written in the language of the meeting, or in any language you pick.

Share links are a Pro feature, also included in Team. A share link uploads a copy of the meeting and gives you an unlisted address with a long random token. Anyone holding the link sees the meeting’s title and time, the participants’ names and email addresses, both sets of notes and the full transcript; search engines are told not to index it. Links do not expire and there is no revoke button yet. Deleting the uploaded copy, for example with the listenr team remove command, ends its links; deleting the meeting on your Mac does not.

Yes. Export any meeting as Markdown, send notes straight to Obsidian, Apple Notes or Notion, or on Pro share a link that opens in any browser. Your library is plain data on your own disk, so you are never locked in.