Take notes during the call
Write bare notes the way you already do. Clipper runs quietly on your Mac — no bot joins the meeting.
Private · On-device AI · Mac-native
The AI notetaker. Processed entirely on your Mac.
Clipper captures audio from your Mac, transcribes locally, and turns rough notes into structured follow-ups — all on device.
Local AI models run directly on your Mac — transcription, summaries, and Q&A without cloud upload.
Your notes + local transcript
Jot down what matters during the call. Clipper captures audio on your Mac and enhances what you wrote when the meeting ends — no cloud processing.
Live transcript
On-device
Intro call: AllFound
100 employees, hiring ~20 in Q2
2 eng, 1 design — SF hq + austin office
current stack: tuesday.ai — v manual data entry
finance team refuses to use it, too complex
$180 / employee / year (!)
jim: "finding a better tool is top Q2 priority"
need HIPAA-grade doc sharing w/ clients
sarah — worried HR won't adopt, non-technical team
asked about onboarding + SSO
demo w/ broader team next tuesday?
AllFound Overview
- 100 employees today, planning ~20 hires in Q2
- HQ in San Francisco with a growing Austin satellite office
- Engineering team of 2, design team of 1
Current Provider — Tuesday.ai
- Data input is too manual — biggest pain point across teams
- Finance refuses to use it; workflow feels over-engineered
- Non-technical HR staff struggle with adoption (Sarah's concern)
- Current spend: $180 per employee per year
Requirements & Timeline
- Replacing Tuesday.ai is a top Q2 priority for leadership
- Must support HIPAA-grade secure document sharing with clients
- SSO and smooth onboarding for non-technical teams required
Decision Process
- Jim (VP Ops) owns vendor evaluation
- Sarah (Head of People) needs HR team buy-in before rollout
- Finance sign-off required on any contract over $15K/yr
Next Steps
- Send product overview + security whitepaper by EOD
- Schedule demo with broader team — target next Tuesday
- Follow up on SSO support and HIPAA compliance docs
How it works
Like Apple Notes, but it also transcribes your meeting — locally
Transcribe from your Mac's audio
Clipper captures your computer's audio directly and builds a local transcript with speaker labels and timestamps.
Enhance when the meeting ends
On-device AI merges your notes with the transcript into structured, searchable meeting notes — stored only on your machine.
No meeting bots
Works on Zoom, Meet, and Teams — without joining your call
Clipper transcribes your Mac's audio directly. Nothing enters the meeting as a participant. Detection is local; recording starts only when you tap Start.
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Bots in your meetings
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Audio processed on Mac
Architecture
Where does your meeting data go?
Clipper
Record audio
Transcribe on-device
AI summarizes locally
Search and chat stay local
Nothing leaves your Mac. No cloud training, no employee access, no data retention policies to worry about. Your meetings are yours alone.
Cloud notetakers
Record audio
Upload to cloud servers
AI runs on their servers
Data stored in vendor systems
Your conversations used to train models & visible to vendor employees
Your audio and transcripts leave your device. Vendors can access sensitive meeting content, use it to improve their models, and retain it indefinitely on their infrastructure.
Compare
Meetings — and everything around them
Clipper covers live calls plus the content you already have: YouTube recordings, web pages, PDFs, and saved clips — indexed and searchable on your Mac.
| Capability | Clipper | Granola |
|---|---|---|
| Live meetings | ||
| AI notepad + transcript | Yes | Yes |
| No meeting bot | Captures Mac audio | Captures Mac audio |
| Live transcription | Yes — on-device | Yes |
| Enhance shorthand notes | Yes — on-device | Yes |
| Meeting templates | Yes | Yes |
| Chat with your notes | Yes — local | Yes |
| Import & knowledge | ||
| YouTube audio import | Paste URL → transcribe & summarize locally | — |
| Web page import | Extract text → summarize & index | — |
| Web clips | Save selections → search & chat | — |
| PDF import & search | Attach PDFs → chunk, index, ask questions | — |
| Cross-source hybrid search | Meetings, notes, PDFs, clips — one index | Meeting search |
| Privacy & platform | ||
| Processing | On your Mac | Cloud |
| Works offline | Yes | — |
| Platforms | macOS | macOS + iOS |
Clipper is a local work-memory layer: meetings plus imports, in one offline search and AI workflow on Apple Silicon.
Features
Everything you need for better meetings
Live transcription, meeting detection, hybrid search, and on-device AI — all running locally on your Mac.
Meeting templates
Structured sections for takeaways, budget, next steps, and decision criteria.
Live transcription
Real-time speech-to-text with diarization, powered by on-device Whisper.
Meeting detection
A subtle banner appears when Zoom, Meet, or Teams is detected — you choose when to record.
Hybrid search
Find anything across meetings with keyword + semantic search, fully offline.
Quick notes
Capture thoughts between calls with inline local AI chat.
Key moment clips
Bookmark and revisit the moments that matter from any recording.
Local AI
Put your meetings to work — on your Mac
Local AI models built into Clipper help you finish post-meeting action items. Inference runs on-device, so transcripts and notes stay on your Mac.
Write a follow-up email
List action items
What's their budget?
List their objections
What did they say?
Who was in the meeting?
Write a summary
What's next week's plan?
Ask anything
Ask Clipper anything
Chat with your transcript to come back to a point that was made — pure gold for user research, sales calls, and product reviews. Every answer runs locally.
What objections did they raise about pricing?
On-device AI
Jim said $180/employee feels high compared to alternatives. Sarah noted finance won't approve without clearer ROI — they want cost projections before Q2 vendor selection.
Upstart Health intro call
Key takeaways
- Budget: $50–75 per employee per year
- Looking to implement within Q2
- Must integrate with existing workflows
- Finance needs ROI projections before sign-off
Next steps
- Schedule demos with top 3 vendors
- Send security whitepaper to Jim by EOD
- Present findings to leadership team
Privacy by design
Your meetings never leave your Mac
Unlike cloud note-takers, Clipper has no servers processing your audio. No model training on your data. No account required to transcribe. Export or share only when you explicitly choose to.
100%
On-device AI
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Cloud uploads
On-device processing only
- Transcription runs locally on your Mac
- Summaries and action items are generated on-device
- No server-side transcript pipeline
No meeting bots, no hidden listeners
- Clipper never joins as a participant
- You decide when recording starts and stops
- Works with Zoom, Meet, and Teams from your Mac audio
Your data, your control
- No model training on your notes or calls
- Export and share only when you choose
- Retention settings are local and configurable
Offline-capable workflow
- Core capture and note workflows run without internet
- Search and chat work against local data
- Built for privacy-sensitive teams and environments
Built for people with back-to-back meetings
Minimal, fast, no setup. Write bare notes → local AI enhances them. The ability to chat with your transcript without sending it anywhere.
"Clipper solved meeting notes for me — and I never have to think about where my data goes. It just works, entirely on my Mac."
Start taking better meeting notes — offline
Free beta for macOS. Apple Silicon recommended. No subscription required.
Download for MacmacOS 14+ · ~2 GB for models · No meeting bots · No cloud