Dictantor
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Dictantor records meetings on Apple devices and transcribes them on-device. It keeps the audio private and even works without an account or subscription.
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Dictantor is launching on Product Hunt with a simple pitch: record meetings and voice notes on Apple gear without sending the work elsewhere. It runs across Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch, and on Mac it can capture microphone input and system audio together. It also nudges you before meetings, which is a nice touch for something built around staying out of the way.
The bigger hook is what happens after the recording. Dictantor says transcription stays on device, and it supports 25 European languages. It also separates your own voice from everyone else’s, which should make meeting notes a lot less messy than the usual wall of text.
Search is built in too. Instead of just dumping out a transcript, Dictantor can take you back to the exact spoken moment you’re looking for. That matters more than it sounds like, because the difference between a searchable transcript and a useful one is often the difference between “nice demo” and “actually helps.”
There’s no Dictantor account to create, and no subscription to manage. For storage, supported recordings can sync through a private iCloud account, keeping the whole thing tied to Apple’s ecosystem rather than a separate service.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of product for people who are done shipping their meetings off to yet another cloud box and calling it productivity. On-device transcription is becoming the only sensible answer for anyone who cares about privacy more than demo-day theatrics. The bar is now embarrassingly simple: do the useful thing without being nosy.
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