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Dictation and meeting transcription for Mac You talk, nchova writes.

On-device speech to text for any app. Meeting transcription with no bot in the call: it knows who is speaking, writes the notes and hands them to your AI assistant. Audio never leaves your Mac.

Try it free for 30 days no card, no account

macOS 26 · Apple silicon Mac

Contents

Five things. One fishbone.

  1. Dictation 01 Hold Fn, speak, let go.
  2. Meetings 02 Transcribed live, no bot.
  3. Voices pro 03 Knows who is speaking.
  4. Notes 04 Written when the call ends.
  5. AI assistants 05 Meetings inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…

01 dictation

Hold Fn. Speak. Let go.

Speech to text that runs on your Mac, even offline. The text appears where your cursor is: an email, Slack, Notion, the terminal. Any app, without switching windows.

Hold the key: dictate yourself.

02 meetings

Meetings transcribe themselves.

No bot to let into the call: nchova transcribes the meeting from your Mac. Your microphone is “Me”, the Mac’s audio is “Others”.

03 voices pro

It knows who is speaking.

It tells the other voices apart as they speak and, if it has heard them before, calls them by name.

voices.json · on this Mac only

04 notes

Notes write themselves when the call ends.

AI meeting notes: summary, decisions, who does what. Written around your own notes, by the model you choose.

Who writes the notes

WhoWhereNotesThe transcript
Apple on the Mac, with Apple Intelligence basic stays on the Mac free
Qwen3.5 4B on the Mac, 2.7 GB good stays on the Mac pro
Qwen3.5 9B on the Mac, 5.7 GB · 16 GB of RAM best on the Mac stays on the Mac pro
Your Claude Code or Codex your subscription the best, in seconds goes to their cloud pro

05 AI assistants

Your meetings, inside your assistant.

nchova runs a local MCP server: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the rest search and read your meetings, follow the one in progress, save summaries back and look across them all: the week’s recap, who has to do what, everything about one person.

Connects in one click to

Claude Claude Code ChatGPT Codex Cursor VS Code Windsurf Gemini CLI LM Studio Perplexity Raycast Zed Goose and any app that speaks MCP.

The tools

  • list_meetings lists meetings
  • search_transcripts searches transcripts
  • get_meeting reads a meeting
  • get_live_meeting follows the one in progress
  • digest recaps a week or a month
  • list_action_items who has to do what
  • find_person everything about one person
  • search_notes searches the notes
  • save_meeting_notes saves notes and action items
  • update_meeting fixes titles and voices

privacy

No servers of ours. On purpose.

Audio never leaves your Mac, and neither do voiceprints. Below, in full, everything that does.

0
servers of ours
0
seconds of audio off the Mac
0
bots in your calls

Never leaves your Mac

The audio
of every dictation and every meeting.
Voiceprints
how nchova knows who is speaking.

Leaves your Mac only in these cases

WhatGoes toWhen
Your licence key and your Mac’s name Polar when you activate Pro
Your transcripts and notes your iCloud if you turn on sync (Pro)
A meeting’s transcript Anthropic or OpenAI only if your Claude Code or Codex writes the notes
Meetings, never your dictation your AI assistant only if you connect one

Everything else only comes in: the models nchova runs and its updates.

06 price

Try everything. Then choose.

Thirty days of everything, no card and no account. After that nchova stays free, forever. Pro is €29.99, once.

NCHOVA

free, forever

  • Dictation in every app yes
  • Meeting transcripts yes
  • Notes with Apple’s models yes
  • Languages, Apple’s models 10
  • AI assistants (MCP) yes
  • Markdown export yes

Total €0.00

NCHOVA PRO

one-off

  • Everything free yes
  • Parakeet, NVIDIA’s model on your Mac yes
  • European languages, Parakeet 25
  • Other voices, told apart yes
  • Names, recognised by voice yes
  • Notes with Qwen, on the Mac yes
  • Notes with your Claude Code or Codex yes
  • Meetings on all your Macs, via iCloud yes
  • Macs up to 3
  • Updates included

Total, VAT included €29.99

Thank you, and happy dictating.

30 days of everything · no card · no account

Download and start the free trial Buy Pro

Payment is handled by Polar; your licence key arrives by email.

You need

  • macOS 26 or later
  • a Mac with Apple silicon
  • Apple Intelligence on, for the free notes and to clean up second thoughts

07 questions

Questions, out loud.

00:00:04 You Does it work offline?
00:00:09 nchova Yes: dictation and meetings run on the Mac. It needs the network to download the models the first time, for updates and to activate Pro.
00:00:27 You Which languages?
00:00:32 nchova 10 free, with Apple’s models; with Pro, Parakeet’s 25 European languages. Those only Parakeet knows, like Polish and Dutch, need Pro. You pick up to three and nchova hears which one you are speaking. The app itself is in English and Italian.
00:00:50 You Do I have to invite a bot to the call?
00:00:55 nchova No. nchova hears the call from your Mac, the way you do. Nobody joins the call.
00:01:13 You How is it different from Wispr Flow, Otter or Granola?
00:01:18 nchova Those send your voice to the cloud to transcribe it, and their paid plans are subscriptions; Otter also puts a bot in your calls. nchova transcribes on your Mac, joins no call, and does dictation, meetings and notes in one app: free, or €29.99 once for Pro.
00:01:36 You Which video call apps does it work with?
00:01:41 nchova All of them: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, in the browser too. It notices an app using the microphone and asks whether to transcribe.
00:01:59 You Where do transcripts go?
00:02:04 nchova On your Mac, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync (Pro), so they reach your other Macs. Audio never leaves the Mac.
00:02:22 You And after the 30 days?
00:02:27 nchova nchova stays free: dictation, transcripts, notes with Apple’s models, AI assistants and export. Pro adds Parakeet, voices, names, the best notes and sync between your Macs: €29.99, once, up to 3 Macs.
00:02:45 You How do I buy Pro?
00:02:50 nchova From this site: Polar handles the payment and your licence key arrives by email. No account to create.
00:03:08 You Which Mac do I need?
00:03:13 nchova A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. The free notes need Apple Intelligence turned on.

Hold Fn.

nchova writes the rest. Thirty days of everything, free.

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