Record any conversation. Keep every word on your device.

Yes. Synopsule is a single universal app, so one $1.99 purchase on the App Store puts it on both your Mac and your iPhone. Add Synopsule Pro and that one subscription works on both devices too.

The iPhone app records through the microphone, so it's made for in-person conversations, interviews, lectures, and voice notes. The Mac app adds system-audio capture (both sides of a call, no bot) and PDF export. Everything else is the same on both: on-device Whisper, speaker labels, playback, search, and opt-in summaries.

Yes. Name a voice once and Synopsule builds an on-device voiceprint for that person, then automatically labels them when they turn up in a later recording. Correct a wrong guess and it learns from the correction. A neural voice model is bundled in the app so this works out of the box, offline, on both Mac and iPhone — and the voiceprints never leave your device. You can tune how strict the matching is, and merge or forget any voice.

Nowhere off your device. Audio is captured to a temporary file and processed by Whisper running locally. After the transcript finalizes, the temporary capture file is deleted and a playback-ready copy is kept on the device so you can replay alongside the transcript. Delete it any time. There is no upload, not to Synopsule, not to anyone.

No. Recording, transcription, playback, exports, and search all work without signing in. The only "account" involved is your Apple ID, for the App Store purchase, plus the optional Synopsule Pro subscription if you choose it.

Yes — from the very first launch. A Whisper model ships inside the app, so you can record and transcribe with no download and no connection at all. On a plane, in a basement, or with the cable pulled, Synopsule works the same way it does at your desk. Download a larger model later if you want more accuracy.

No. Capturing system audio is a Mac capability, done through Apple's Core Audio process taps. On iPhone, Synopsule records what the microphone hears, so for remote calls, run it on your Mac.

You still get the part people love — clean, re-readable notes with who said what — but everything runs on the device that recorded it. Cloud notetakers upload your audio to their servers, usually require an account, and often send a bot into your call. Synopsule transcribes locally with Whisper, labels every speaker on-device, keeps the full audio so you can replay any moment (most tools discard it), and saves notes as open Markdown any AI can read instead of locking them in an app. No bot, no account, works offline, and your audio is never uploaded. It's a one-time $1.99 universal app, not a monthly per-seat plan.

Yes — on Mac. Synopsule ships with a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Two clicks in Settings → Connect to AI Apps and Claude Desktop, Codex (app, CLI, IDE), Claude Code, or ChatGPT can list your recordings, search them, and pull a full transcript or summary on demand. The MCP server is the Synopsule app itself, launched with --mcp, so there's nothing extra to download or update. It's local-only and read-only — transcripts stay on the Mac, and audio is never exposed. On iPhone, the same Markdown exports show up in Files for sharing into the ChatGPT or Claude iOS apps.

Yes. Before you summarize, pick a template — general, one-on-one, standup, sales call, interview, lecture, clinical SOAP, legal, or user research — and Synopsule produces a structured, speaker-aware recap tuned to that format, with action items and follow-ups. Every template is free; the specialized ones (Clinical SOAP, Legal) read best with a cloud model. You can also keep time-anchored notes as you record or read: tap a note to seek straight to that moment, and your notes fuse into the summary as authoritative context.

Never the audio. AI is opt-in. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini key and transcript text goes from the app straight to that provider. On a Mac you can instead point Synopsule at a local model through Ollama, so the summary runs on-device and nothing leaves at all. Or subscribe to Synopsule Pro and summaries route through Synopsule to OpenAI. Either way, only transcript text ever leaves, never the audio. If you never summarize, nothing leaves at all.

Yes — two on-device paths. On a Mac, install Ollama, pull a model, and point Synopsule at it in AI setup; summaries are then generated entirely on your Mac, with no key or subscription. And on Macs and iPhones with Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 / iOS 26 on eligible hardware), Synopsule can summarize using Apple's on-device Foundation Models — again, nothing leaves the device. Either way, no transcript text and no audio is uploaded. (Ollama is Mac-only; if your iPhone isn't eligible for Apple Intelligence, use a BYO key or Synopsule Pro.)

A Mac on macOS 15 Sequoia or later, or an iPhone on iOS 17 or later, optimized for Apple silicon. Pick a smaller Whisper model for snappy transcription on any supported device; on Apple silicon the larger models still feel close to real time.

Word (.docx), Markdown, plain text, interactive HTML, and SRT and VTT subtitles on both devices, plus PDF on the Mac. Synopsule can also send a transcript straight into Obsidian or Apple Notes in one tap, so it lands in the notes app you already use. Speaker labels, timestamps, and the AI summary (if you made one) travel with the file, and you pick what to include.

A $1.99 one-time purchase on the App Store, covering both Mac and iPhone. AI summaries are optional: bring your own API key for free, or subscribe to Synopsule Pro for $4.99/month or $39.99/year for one-tap summaries with no key setup.