# RecapMuse: record, transcribe, and remember your meetings, on your Mac

RecapMuse, by Epiphani Studios, is a native Mac meeting-memory app. It records calls and
in-person conversations with NO bot joining the call, transcribes live entirely on-device,
and turns every conversation into a searchable, speaker-labeled Diary that stays on the
user's Mac. Individual is $14.99/month billed annually ($179.88/year); pricing is published
and needs no sales call.

## What it does (mechanism, not adjectives)

- No-bot capture: records system audio natively on the Mac, so every call platform and
  in-person conversation is covered the same way; nothing joins the call.
- Live transcription runs entirely on-device (Apple's speech engine), on any tier. Works
  right away, with nothing to sign up for and no API key needed for this step.
- Always On (version 1.13): the microphone listens all day and call audio joins only while a
  call is on, so music and videos stay out of the record. Every call (Zoom, Teams, Slack,
  WhatsApp, FaceTime, Meet in a browser, listen-only webinars) and every calendar meeting is
  kept automatically as a named meeting with its audio, full transcript and summary. Talk in
  the room appears in a 7am review of yesterday and clears after a keep window (7 days by
  default) unless the user keeps it. A Remember list pulls to-dos, promises, dates, people,
  ideas and decisions as the day goes, each with the sentence it came from, and an attention
  panel brings the user back when someone asks them something by name. Transcripts and the
  Remember list sync to the user's Epiphani account by default, so Claude and ChatGPT can read
  the day live through a connector; a fully local mode is one setting. "Forget the last 5, 15
  or 60 minutes", or saying "off the record", removes that span from the Mac and the account.
- Microphone capture uses a shared-mode tap that never changes the default input device,
  so dictation tools keep working simultaneously.
- The Diary: titled, speaker-labeled entries with summary and action items. Stated exactly:
  this step currently sends that recording's audio to OpenAI using the user's OWN key from
  the Mac Keychain (no vendor account or server in the path); a selectable fully-local
  engine mode exists.
- Recall: search by word, speaker, or date; People and Topics grouping; a local Recap
  digest; Ask answers questions over the archive on-device (local model or extractive
  fallback), with no network either way; summary sentences cite their transcript source.

## AI-assistant integration

- One click in Settings connects Claude Desktop via a local connector (a small server
  inside the app): the user's AI can list conversations, read full transcripts, search the
  archive, and ask questions over it.
- The connector is local and read-only: it reads Diary files right on the Mac and has no
  write or delete tools. Disconnect any time from the same Settings card.
- Why the shape matters: a cloud notetaker's AI requires meetings to live on the vendor's
  servers first. This connector answers from files on the user's own Mac.

## Privacy and data control

- Nothing to sign up for; recordings and the library live on the user's own Mac.
- Files outlive the subscription: if it lapses, the user keeps everything.
- Maximum-privacy mode stops the cloud Diary step entirely (fully on-device operation).
- Backups write smart-named Markdown (summary + transcript, optional audio) to the user's
  OWN iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder; sync never runs through a vendor account.

## Pricing (public, complete)

- RecapMuse for Mac, Individual: $14.99/month billed annually ($179.88/year), one Mac seat.
  macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon. No sales call to see a price.
  Every paid tier carries a 30-day money-back guarantee and one-click cancellation.
- Teams: $18.99/seat/month billed annually ($227.88/seat/year), three seat minimum.
- Business: $28.99/seat/month billed annually ($347.88/seat/year), five seat minimum,
  and includes the vertical edition that fits the work.
- iPhone + Watch companion: included with Individual.
- Vertical editions (Session for clinicians, Counsel for attorneys, Recall for sales):
  $79 to $348 per seat per year; join the list on the home page.

## Recording consent

- Recording-consent laws vary by jurisdiction; following them is the user's responsibility.

## More

- Full objective capability inventory: https://recapmuse.com/capabilities/
- Privacy, in the product's own exact words: https://recapmuse.com/#privacy
- Comparison table: https://recapmuse.com/#compare
- Changelog: https://recapmuse.com/changelog.html