Recording and transcription on your own device
Say it once.Get the document back.
Cohearo records and transcribes locally — no bot joining the call, no audio leaving your machine. Pick a template and the conversation comes back as minutes, a user story or a report.
- Free forever, no card
- Windows, macOS and Linux
- Android and iOS in early access
What if someone sat in just to listen?
Not to contribute, not to interrupt — only to catch every word and hand back the write-up. That's your co-hero. It runs on your own machine, so nothing said in the room ever leaves it.
Works with what you already use — nothing to install on the other side
Everything that matters happens on your machine
Recording, transcription and speaker separation run locally and are unlimited on every plan, forever. The cloud only steps in when you ask for a formatted document — and even then, only text travels.
Recording & transcription
Your audio never leaves the device. Record online or off, in 25 auto-detected languages, with no time limit.
Speakers
Know who said what. Voice separation runs locally, with nothing for you to configure.
Templates
Minutes, user stories, reports. Pick a preset and get the text back already structured.
AI connector
Claude and ChatGPT read your transcripts. Only the ones you choose to sync, right in the chat, over MCP.
Archive
Search a phrase, jump to the moment. Folders keep things in order as the archive grows.
Any conversation in. Any format out.
Cohearo records whatever your machine hears. Nothing to install on the other side, nothing to connect. What it hears comes back as a document, on your clipboard, or as context in the AI tool you already use.
In
If your machine can hear it, Cohearo can transcribe it — a call in any app, or the room you're sitting in. Nothing to install on the other side, nothing to connect.
Recorded and transcribed on your device
The audio never syncs. Ever.
Out
A document
Minutes, a user story or a report: pick a preset and the transcript comes back formatted.
Your clipboard
Paste into Notion, Slack, Jira, an email — anything with a text field.
Your AI tool
Claude or ChatGPT search and read the transcripts you choose to sync, over MCP.
What changes in your day
Four moments where writing it up by hand costs more than it looks.
Weekly committee
Decisions
Move the launch to Sept 30
Rafael owns the migration
Meeting minutes
From the call to a summary with decisions, owners and next steps — without rewriting anything.
COH-234
Export history as PDFCloud
Keeps speakers and timestamps
Works offline
User story
Talk the discovery through while the context is fresh and get the story back with acceptance criteria.
“Hi Ana, here's the summary from today's call”
Dictate anywhere
Global hotkey: speak, let go, and the transcript copies to your clipboard — paste it anywhere.
Write in formal English. List evidence with date and speaker. Flag anything missing as an open question.
Saved · reapplied to every recording
Report & audit
Write the prompt once, with your domain's rules, and reuse it on every recording.
Built for
Cohearo stays general-purpose. It's especially sharp for the work below.
Product managers
From a fuzzy discovery call to a written user story, without retyping a word.
Consulting & audits
Turn client interviews and site visits into structured reports.
Engineering standups
Capture decisions and action items without anyone taking notes.
Anyone in back-to-back meetings
Stop choosing between listening and writing things down.
What that means in practice
0 bytes
of audio uploaded to the cloud, on any plan
25
languages detected automatically, on-device
3
desktop systems — Linux properly supported
72 h
of local audio retention, exportable anytime
No bot. No calendar. No upload.
Most transcription tools have to join your call and keep your audio to work at all. Cohearo needs neither.
Your audio leaves the device
- Cohearo
- Never
- Meeting-bot tools
- Yes — that's how they transcribe
A guest joins the call
- Cohearo
- No
- Meeting-bot tools
- Yes, visible to everyone in the room
Needs access to your calendar
- Cohearo
- No
- Meeting-bot tools
- Usually yes
In-person conversation, no call
- Cohearo
- Works
- Meeting-bot tools
- Doesn't apply
No internet
- Cohearo
- Records and transcribes
- Meeting-bot tools
- Doesn't work
Linux
- Cohearo
- Supported
- Meeting-bot tools
- Rarely
Dictation outside meetings
- Cohearo
- Global hotkey
- Meeting-bot tools
- Out of scope
When the cloud is involved
- Cohearo
- Only for AI formatting — text, never audio
- Meeting-bot tools
- Across the whole flow
| Cohearo | Meeting-bot tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Your audio leaves the device | Never | Yes — that's how they transcribe |
| A guest joins the call | No | Yes, visible to everyone in the room |
| Needs access to your calendar | No | Usually yes |
| In-person conversation, no call | Works | Doesn't apply |
| No internet | Records and transcribes | Doesn't work |
| Linux | Supported | Rarely |
| Dictation outside meetings | Global hotkey | Out of scope |
| When the cloud is involved | Only for AI formatting — text, never audio | Across the whole flow |
Free for everything that runs on your machine
Recording, transcription and speaker identification cost us nothing to provide, so they are unlimited on every plan, permanently. You only pay for the AI that runs in the cloud.
Free/ forever
Everything on-device: unlimited recording, transcription and diarization, 25 languages, offline, global hotkey. PDF export needs Cloud mode.
$12/ user / month
Plus the cloud parts. Sync and history, realtime chat with the transcript, the MCP connector, hundreds of AI enhancements a month.
Out to where you already work
Paste into any text field, export as PDF from the dashboard (Cloud), or connect your AI assistant so it can read the transcripts right in the chat.
Sources and destinations Cohearo works with: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, In person, Any app that makes sound, Claude, ChatGPT, Notion, Slack, Jira, Linear, Obsidian, Google Docs, Confluence, Email, PDF
Claude and ChatGPT connect over MCP to the transcripts you sync. Everything else receives the text by clipboard or export — no integration to configure.
cohearo /koʊˈhɪər.oʊ/
Every hero needs someone taking notes.
You run the meeting, the interview, the discovery call — the part worth recording. Cohearo sits beside you, listens on your own machine, and hands back the write-up.
You stay the hero
No bot joins your call under our name, no assistant speaks for you. The tool stays a sidekick — it listens and writes, that's all.
Nothing said gets lost
Every word is captured and separated by speaker on your own device, so the record is yours before it is anyone else's.
Bring your co-hero to the next one.
Create a free account and record your first meeting today. Recording, transcription and speaker identification are unlimited, forever.
- Free forever, no card
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Android and iOS in early access