A totally private voice assistant for your Mac.
Record a meeting or a quick voice memo, and Whosayz turns it into notes, to-dos and records you can search. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
- Like Granola, but totally private: transcription, speakers and summaries all run on your Mac.
- Meetings become a summary, decisions, action items and who said what.
- Memos become records you can track: meds, supplements, weight, workouts, reminders.
- An hour-long meeting in under 4 minutes on Apple silicon.
- Works with what you already use: Voice Memos on iPhone and Apple Watch, or calls on your Mac. No bot joins.
Your ideas stay yours
Whatever you say to Whosayz, the next product, a business idea, a worry about your kid, a symptom you haven't told anyone about, is processed and stored on your Mac. No company, not us and not a cloud AI provider, can read it, keep it, sell it or train on it.
Work you can't share yet
Prototype reviews, 1:1s, board meetings, customer calls under NDA, the patent you haven't filed. Notes without a notetaker bot or a cloud copy.
Ideas, before anyone else hears them
The app idea on your walk, a marketing angle, the plot of your novel. Say it into your watch; it's written down and stays with you.
Family
A call with your kid's teacher, what the pediatrician said, plans with your co-parent. What was agreed, and who's doing what.
Health
Medications, supplements, symptoms like heartburn or headaches, sleep, how you're feeling. A record you control, for you and your doctor.
From recording to notes, without touching anything
Keep recording the way you already do. Whosayz watches from the menu bar and has everything ready in one window, searchable.
Record
Voice Memos on your Watch or iPhone, in person or on the go. For Zoom, Meet or Teams, click Record on your Mac.
It syncs
iCloud brings the recording to your Mac, and Whosayz picks it up as soon as it lands.
It's understood
A meeting gets a summary, action items and its speakers (name a voice once; it's recognised after). A memo gets its records.
Search and follow up
Search every note, tick off reminders, see your medication calendar, and jump to the moment anything was said.
Say it, and it's logged
Pills, supplements, your weight, a workout, a to-do: say it in a voice memo and Whosayz files it as a record, in the right list, with the time. Medication names are checked against a list of common ones, so “atorvastatine” comes out as atorvastatin. Everything stays on your Mac, in Records in the sidebar and on your iPhone.
Took my atorvastatin and lisinopril, and a vitamin D.
A row for each medication and a dot for each day you took it. A missed day stands out; point at a day to see what you took and when. From a week to a year.
Weight this morning, 172.4.
Anything with a number gets a chart: weight, blood pressure, hours slept.
Heartburn again after dinner, pretty bad. Spicy curry.
See what sets it off, and have it ready for your next appointment.
Ran three miles in 28 minutes, then 20 minutes of stretching.
Remind me to send Marcus the contract on Friday.
Action items from your meetings land here too. Tick them off as you go.
It’s Siobhan, not Shawna.
Ask in plain words, or click any word in the transcript to change just that one. Every change can be undone.
One press on your wrist. On Apple Watch Ultra, set the Action button to Voice Memos (Settings → Action Button on the watch). Press it, say what you took or did, press again. On other Apple Watch models, put the Voice Memos complication on your watch face. Or use the Whosayz iPhone app.
Install in a few minutes
Whosayz is a free beta, signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other Mac app.
Download and open
Download Whosayz, open the file and drag Whosayz into Applications. Then open it from Applications.
Allow access
Setup asks for Full Disk Access so Whosayz can read your Voice Memos, and for notifications so it can tell you when a note is ready.
Follow the setup
A setup window downloads the speech model, sets up summaries with Ollama (or skips them), asks to read Voice Memos, and lets you pick where notes go.
Before you install
- MacApple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 15 or later. 8 GB of memory or more. Summaries use gemma4:12b with 16 GB or more, and the smaller gemma4:e2b on 8 GB Macs.
- DownloadsThe app is 780 MB. On first run it downloads about 1.6 GB of speech model, plus the summary model if you want summaries (8 GB, or 4.6 GB on 8 GB Macs).
- Voice MemosTurn on Voice Memos in iCloud on your iPhone so Watch and phone recordings reach the Mac. Whosayz asks for Full Disk Access to read them.
- Meeting pagesThe click-to-listen page opens on the Mac that made the note. On your phone you get the note itself.
- AccuracyCross-talk and very short interjections sometimes land on the wrong person. Fixing one takes a click.
Questions
How does it work without the cloud?
The AI that listens, works out who's speaking and writes the summary runs on your Mac itself, using the chip's built-in graphics and AI hardware. It's downloaded once during setup (about 10 GB), so your recordings never need to go anywhere and it keeps working offline. For the curious: Whisper for speech, pyannote for voices, and Google's Gemma for summaries.
Is it OK for health notes, like medications?
That's what it's built for. Your records, transcripts and recordings are processed and stored on your Mac; nothing goes to us or to an AI service. If you use the iPhone app, your notes travel through your own private iCloud only. You can delete a recording, or a whole note, at any time.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Recordings, transcripts, voices and notes stay on your Mac. Whosayz only goes online to download the models during setup. (If you use the Whosayz iPhone app, its recordings and your notes travel between your iPhone and Mac through your own private iCloud; we never see them.) See Privacy.
Do the people in the meeting need anything?
No. It works from your own recording. As with any recording, let people know you're recording and follow the laws where you are.
Can it record Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls?
Yes. Click Record in the Whosayz window (or Record a Call on This Mac in the menu bar) and Stop when you're done. It records your microphone and the call audio directly, so it works with AirPods or any headset, with no extra audio drivers. macOS asks once for microphone and System Audio Recording permission.
Can I use recordings that aren't from Voice Memos?
Yes. Drop any audio or video file into the Whosayz Inbox folder in Documents, or onto the Whosayz icon.
Where do the notes go, and what format are they?
Plain Markdown files in a folder you choose, ready for Obsidian or any notes app. You can copy a meeting into Google Docs or Apple Notes with formatting.
What happens to a short memo?
It becomes a note like any other, just quicker: anything under a minute is taken as a note to yourself (a measurement, a reminder, an idea), transcribed and titled within seconds, in the same folder and list as your meetings. Every note also lists what it logs, like measurements or your to-dos. Recordings with no speech are ignored.
My Mac has 16 GB of memory. Will it work?
Yes. The summary model is 8 GB and runs comfortably on 16 GB. You can turn summaries off any time in Settings.
Does it work on Intel Macs or Windows?
Not right now. It needs an Apple silicon Mac.
What does it cost?
It's free while it's in beta.