Works with Claude, Obsidian & Shortcuts →
Record in Apple Voice Memos on your iPhone or Watch, the way you already do. A minute later it’s in your Mac’s menu bar — transcribed, every speaker named, summarized and filed where you work.
14-day full trial, no card · macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple silicon
So where did we land on the budget for Q3?
Agreed. Honestly the onboarding copy worries me more.
Files go where you already work
How it works
Voice Memos is already the best recorder on your iPhone. VoiceMemoBuddy just does everything after you hit stop.
iPhone, Apple Watch, the Action Button — wherever you hit record in Voice Memos.
Apple’s own sync drops it on your Mac. We notice the moment it lands — even after your Mac wakes from sleep.
Transcribed, speakers named, summarized, searchable and exported. You get a notification when it’s ready.
Speaker labels & voiceprints
Apple’s transcript is one long paragraph. VoiceMemoBuddy separates every voice, keeps sentences with the person who said them, and learns the people you talk to.
Everything after “stop”
A title, the key points, decisions and action items with owners — written on-device by Apple Intelligence. Templates for meetings, lectures, interviews and brain-dumps are picked for you.
“budget Dana” finds the moment Dana talked about budget and jumps right to it. Also in Spotlight.
Every sentence is timestamped. Verify a quote in one click instead of scrubbing.
Markdown with clean YAML frontmatter, written to Obsidian or any folder automatically. Re-processing updates the same file.
A built-in local MCP server. One click adds it to Claude Desktop or Claude Code.
you › what did Dana commit to last week? claude › In “Q3 budget call” (Oct 22, 00:31), Dana committed to sending the final vendor list by Friday.
Markdown, DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT/VTT and JSON. Or copy as Markdown and paste.
“Get latest memo” in Shortcuts, or post finished memos to Notion, Slack or Zapier.
Mac asleep all weekend? Everything you recorded gets processed when you open the lid, newest first.
Private by design
Transcription, speaker detection and summaries all run on Apple silicon. No account, no upload, no server of ours in the middle. Client calls stay client calls.
Pricing
No subscription, no tiers, no features held back. Every license includes every feature.
Personal license
Same license. Pay a little more to keep an indie Mac app going.
Prices in USD. Taxes calculated at checkout. Education and bulk discounts available.
No. Keep using Apple Voice Memos on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. As long as Voice Memos syncs with iCloud, new recordings show up on your Mac and VoiceMemoBuddy picks them up automatically.
To read your Voice Memos library, the app needs Full Disk Access, which App Store apps aren’t allowed to request. VoiceMemoBuddy is signed and notarized by Apple and updates itself in the background.
On first launch you choose: only new memos, the last 30 days, or your entire library. Big backfills run at low priority and pause on low battery.
Very good for two to four people in a normal room. Once you’ve named someone, their voiceprint is used to label them automatically in later memos. When it isn’t confident, it asks instead of guessing.
English and the major European and Asian languages out of the box, with automatic detection. An optional downloadable model adds dozens more, including memos that mix two languages.
Not by default. The app only contacts the internet to activate your license and check for updates. If you want, you can plug in your own Claude or OpenAI key for “Ask” — that’s your choice, per feature.
A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 26 Tahoe or newer, and Voice Memos syncing through iCloud.
Version 1.0 · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon
We’re rolling out to a small group first. Leave your email and you’ll get the download the day it opens — with the $19 launch price held for you.
No spam. One email when it’s ready.
We’ll email you the download link and your launch price as soon as 1.0 opens up.