Retranscript
Retranscript records your Teams, Zoom, Meet, Slack and FaceTime calls, has some of the most accurate models transcribe them and runs your prompts on each, all on its own once set up. No bot joins the call.
Free app, no subscription. An hour of call costs 3¢ to 39¢ to transcribe, with your own OpenRouter or Gemini key.
For macOS 14.4 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notarized by Apple.
Turn on the three switches in the Recording menu once. From then on, every call records itself, is transcribed a minute after it ends, and gets its summary written, without you opening the app.
Rather stay in charge? Leave them off: the Mini Recorder appears when a call starts, and recording is one click.
Google Meet started in Chrome. With calendar names turned on in Settings, the recording takes the name of the event in your calendar, “Weekly sync”.
Your microphone and everything your Mac plays, each on its own track, lined up to the sample.
Both tracks are mixed into one .m4a file in your Documents folder.
It starts after a one-minute countdown in the Mini Recorder, in case you'd rather not.
44 minutes, 4 speakers, every word timed, by Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Written by Claude Opus 5.5 and saved next to the recording, because it's the prompt you chose to run after every call. The follow-up email is one click on Ask away.
Frontier models do the listening. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe tells the voices apart and times every word. Prefer another? Choose any of OpenRouter's 24 transcription models, from Deepgram Nova-3 to Whisper, for every call or for just one.
| Model | Speakers | Word timing | Word error rate | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAI-Transcribe 2 Microsoft | Yes | Yes | 2.0% | $0.10 |
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google, the default | Yes | Yes | 2.6% | $0.39 |
| Voxtral Mini Transcribe Mistral | Yes | Yes | 3.6% | $0.18 |
| Grok STT 1.0 xAI | Yes | Yes | 4.0% | $0.10 |
| Whisper Large V3 OpenAI | No | Yes | 4.1% | $0.03 |
| Deepgram Nova-3 Deepgram | Yes | Yes | 5.2% | $0.26 |
Prices with your own OpenRouter key, as OpenRouter listed them on 30 September 2026. Retranscript shows the current ones when you pick a model.
Word error rates from Artificial Analysis's accuracy ranking, about eight hours of conversations, earnings calls and speeches, checked on 1 October 2026: the lower, the more accurate. * Whisper Large V3's rate is as fal.ai serves it. Artificial Analysis hasn't measured the hosts OpenRouter uses, and measured 10.1% on another.
Write a prompt once for what your work needs: a summary, the decisions, notes for your CRM, an interview scorecard, the follow-up email. Or start from Summary and Follow-up Email. Each prompt can use its own model: Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, any of the 464 text models on OpenRouter, or the Claude Code you're already logged into.
Summary
The launch on the 14th holds if the client signs off on Tuesday and the product photos arrive by Friday. Jo is chasing the photos; Malik is preparing a fallback.
Decisions
Action items
The app is free. What you pay for is the models, at their price: an hour of call costs from $0.03 to $0.39 to transcribe, depending on the model.
Connect OpenRouter in one click: approve a key in your browser and it comes back to the app, with every model on OpenRouter behind it. Or paste a Gemini or Anthropic key, or let Retranscript use the Claude Code you're logged into. You pay each provider directly, and your keys stay in your Mac's Keychain.
No accounts to open with model providers, no keys to copy. Sign in with your email, add credit, and every model is ready. Audio and transcripts pass through without being stored.
No account to create with your own keys, no cloud library, no server of ours in between. Here is everything that leaves your Mac, and when.
Free app, no subscription. An hour of call costs 3¢ to 39¢ to transcribe, with your own OpenRouter or Gemini key.
For macOS 14.4 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notarized by Apple.
Retranscript is written in Swift with Apple's own frameworks, and follows the Human Interface Guidelines down to the menus. It behaves like the apps that came with your Mac.
No. Retranscript records on your Mac, from your microphone and from the sound your Mac plays. Nobody sees a new participant, and nothing needs to be installed in Zoom, Teams or Meet.
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack huddles, FaceTime and WhatsApp, and calls in Chrome and Safari, where it tells Google Meet from Teams by the tab's address. You choose which apps it watches.
Yes. Retranscript doesn't announce itself in the call, and recording laws differ between countries and states. Let people know, and ask for their consent where the law requires it.
A Mac with macOS 14.4 or later, and one model to transcribe with. Connect OpenRouter in one click, or paste a Gemini key from Google AI Studio. For summaries, you can also use an Anthropic key or the Claude Code you're already logged into.
The app is free. You pay for the models you use, at the provider's price when you bring your own key. An hour of call costs about $0.03 to transcribe with Whisper Large V3, $0.10 with Grok STT or MAI-Transcribe 2, and $0.39 with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Yes. File › Transcribe Audio File… takes M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC and the sound of MP4 or MOV videos. The file you chose isn't changed; a copy joins your recordings.
Yes. It records what your Mac plays, whatever you listen on, and by default the microphone the call app is using.
In Documents › Retranscript, or a folder you choose. Each call is an .m4a file, a .txt transcript and a Markdown file per answer, all with the same name, so you can open, search and back them up like any other file.
No. Retranscript is built on macOS's own audio and window frameworks, so it only runs on a Mac.
Free app, no subscription. An hour of call costs 3¢ to 39¢ to transcribe, with your own OpenRouter or Gemini key.
For macOS 14.4 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notarized by Apple.