Mic & system audio, captured cleanly.
Your mic, plus whatever's playing through your Mac: Zoom, Meet, Teams, a podcast. No virtual driver hacks.
For macOS · Local-first, by design
Meeting notes you'll actually find later.
Boswell records your meetings, transcribes them on your Mac, and writes everything to a Markdown folder you own (speakers and action items). Your audio doesn't leave the machine unless you say so.
On the record · 00:14:32
Engineering standup - Tue 10:30
Right, so the question is whether we ship the migration behind the flag, or wait for the smoke test to finish on staging.
14:08
Behind the flag. I'd rather flip a switch on Monday than roll back a deploy on Friday.
14:18
Agreed. I'll write up the rollout note this afternoon.
14:25
01 · What it does
Powerful tools, made with care.
Boswell transcribes your meetings - no bots in your calls.
Transcribed locally with Whisper.
Tiny through Large v3, your pick. Models live on disk. The audio stays on your Mac while it becomes text.
Knows who's speaking.
Speaker labels run on-device. You can rename "Speaker 2" to a real name once and it sticks.
Summaries & action items.
Apple Intelligence handles the summary on-device: no API key needed. Bring your own (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama) if you want a different LLM.
Lightning-fast Recall.
Search every transcript. Find a quote, a topic, a decision, or ask for a summary across them all.
Notes that file themselves.
Everything writes to a folder you choose: plain .md with frontmatter, links, and a sidecar audio file. Drop the folder in Obsidian and it just works.
02 · Anatomy of a meeting
Every meeting becomes a Markdown file.
Boswell records, transcribes, labels speakers, and writes the summary, all while the meeting is happening. Six minutes of automatic work, instead of twenty minutes writing it up after.
Live
While you talk.
Boswell records the mic and system audio, transcribes with Whisper, and labels who's speaking. You don't have to switch apps or watch a progress bar.
Done
When you stop.
A Markdown file lands in the folder you chose. Title, attendees, summary, action items, full transcript, and the audio. Open it in any editor.
2026-05-20 · Engineering standup.md
# Engineering standup
## Summary
Team agreed to ship the migration behind a feature flag
on Monday, with rollback documented before EOD Friday.
## Action items
- [ ] you: write rollout note (due Fri)
- [ ] ay: confirm staging smoke pass
- [x] rb: file the migration PR
## Transcript
[14:08] rb: the question is whether
we ship behind the flag, or wait for staging…
[14:18] ay: Behind the flag.
03 · Quiet by default
Nothing leaves until you say so.
Boswell ships with all the cloud features off. The mic, the model, the speaker labeling, the summary: all on-device. Want a cloud LLM to write the summary? Plug in your key. We don't store it, route through it, or see what comes out.
- Recordings, transcripts, and embeddings live in a folder on your disk. rm -rf works.
- Read the full privacy policy.
Default routing · ON
● Local
Source
Mic · MBP built-in
Transcription
Whisper Large v3 · on disk
Audio buffer
~/Boswell/audio
Speaker labels
PyAnnote · local
04 · How it works
Install, record, search. That's the loop.
Step 01 · Install
Drag Boswell into Applications.
Universal binary, around 38 MB. First launch, it asks for mic and screen-recording permission - that's it.
Step 02 · Record
Press the hotkey. Boswell listens.
From anywhere: meeting, hallway, walking. The on-air dot in your menu bar shows it's recording; press again to stop.
Step 03 · Find it
Ask, in plain English.
"What did we decide about the migration?" - Boswell finds the quote and the file. Open it in your editor of choice.
05 · Boswell vs. the bot
A note-taking bot, without the note-taking bot.
We're not going to name names. You know the ones: the apps that join your call as a fifth attendee, screenshot your slides, and send you a "happy summary".
The bot in your meeting
Cloud assistants
Joins your call as a guest. Everyone sees it.
Audio uploads to vendor servers. Retention varies.
Subscription, per seat, forever.
Notes live in a vendor's web app.
Works for video calls. Not the hallway.
You hope it's still around in 2030.
Boswell
A native Mac app
Captures from your Mac. The call doesn't see it.
Audio stays on disk. Network can be disabled.
$49.99 once.
Notes are plain Markdown in a folder you own.
Works for any audio: calls, dictations, podcasts.
The folder will outlive the app. So will your notes.
06 · Pricing
$49.99 - One-time
Start free and stay free — record meetings (system audio), voice memos, and dictation, all transcribed on your Mac with no time limit. Pro adds the intelligence and workflow layer: summaries, action items, Ask Vault, translation, and formatted export. Try Pro free for 14 days, no card — and when you buy, it's a one-time purchase, yours forever on the same Mac.
Free
$0
forever
A real, permanent free tier — capture and transcribe everything, on your Mac. No trial clock, no lock-out.
Record everything: meetings (system audio — Zoom, Teams, Meet), voice memos, system-wide dictation, and imported audio/video files
Live captions
On-device transcription, all Whisper models (Tiny → Large v3)
On-device speaker labels (diarization)
Auto-detect meetings → notification to start recording
Read, edit, and keyword-search your transcripts
Copy transcript as plain text
Pro · Recommended
$49.99
one-time
The intelligence and workflow layer — summaries, action items, Ask Vault across every transcript, translation, and formatted export.
Everything in Free, plus:
AI summaries, decisions & action items (on-device + cloud)
Live meeting summaries
Ask Vault — semantic Q&A across all your transcripts
Translation (Whisper + DeepL)
Bring-your-own-key cloud LLM & STT (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, …)
Hands-free auto-record
Formatted export — Markdown (made for Obsidian), SRT, VTT, Notion/Logseq/Roam, auto-export
14-day Pro trial, no card required
Email support, usually a same-day reply
Apple Pay
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Link
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07 · FAQ
Things people ask, before they buy.
No. Boswell captures audio directly from your Mac: your microphone and whatever is playing through your speakers. Other attendees see nothing new. There is no bot, no email invitation, no "is it okay if I record this" awkwardness.
By default, no. Whisper runs locally; speaker labels run locally; Apple Intelligence handles summaries on-device; embeddings are stored in a SQLite file on disk. If you bring your own cloud LLM key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama), that traffic goes directly from your machine to the provider, never through us.
Your transcripts are plain Markdown in a folder you chose. They'll keep opening in any text editor - no Boswell required.
macOS 26.2 Tahoe and later, Apple Silicon only. Even an M1 MacBook Air handles 60-minute meetings in real-time with the Medium model.
Yes, with caveats. Boswell needs Microphone and Screen Recording permissions; some MDM profiles block one or both.