Silent, both sides
Your mic and the other person, mixed into one clean file. Captured at the audio layer, so there is no beep and nothing announced to them.
Silent call recorder for macOS
A menu-bar app that auto-records your cellular, FaceTime, and WhatsApp calls, both sides in one file, with no beep and nothing announced to the other person. It transcribes on your Mac, and nothing ever leaves it.
macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · open source · free for personal use
Confirmed the deposit cleared and the invoice is on the way. Agreed to lock a Friday call for the rest.
What it does
Your mic and the other person, mixed into one clean file. Captured at the audio layer, so there is no beep and nothing announced to them.
Auto-records the moment a call goes live and stops when it ends, hands-free. Cellular and FaceTime arrive through Continuity; WhatsApp is captured directly.
A speaker-labeled transcript with clickable timestamps, and a short summary, both generated by Apple's on-device models.
Name, number, direction, and contact photo, matched from your call history and Contacts. Search across every transcript.
How it works
CallTape spots the live call and starts recording, hands-free.
It taps the call audio and your mic, mixes them, and files it away.
On-device models turn it into a labeled transcript and summary.
Private by architecture
No account, no server, no analytics. Transcription and summaries run locally, and every recording is a plain file in a folder you choose. CallTape is fully open source, so you can read every line.
Free download
Drag it to Applications, allow the microphone, and you're set.
macOS 15+ · transcripts & summaries best on Apple Silicon
Recording calls is regulated, and the rules vary by region. Use CallTape only where it is legal and get any consent the law requires.