HARDCOPY

Local transcription for the self-sovereign

HARDCOPY SETUP
HARDCOPY
Secure local transcription
LOCAL PROCESSING
Audio never leaves your device
ZERO CLOUD
No accounts, no telemetry
YOUR DATA
Plain markdown files you control

WHAT IT DOES

RECORD

Capture audio from your microphone or system audio. Record meetings, calls, voice notes—anything.

TRANSCRIBE

Whisper AI runs entirely on your Mac. No internet required. Your audio never leaves your machine.

SUMMARIZE

Optional AI summaries via Claude API. You provide your own key. We never see your data.

OWN

Everything saves as plain markdown in ~/Hardcopy. Portable. Searchable. Yours forever.

HOW IT WORKS

1

PRESS THE HOTKEY

Toggle recording from anywhere with a global keyboard shortcut.

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2

RECORDING RUNS IN BACKGROUND

A subtle menu bar indicator shows you're recording. Continue your meeting, call, or work normally.

3

AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION

When you stop, Whisper transcribes locally. No upload. No waiting for cloud processing.

4

MARKDOWN OUTPUT

Clean transcript saved to ~/Hardcopy/transcripts. Works with Obsidian, Notion, or any text editor.

WHY LOCAL?

Every cloud transcription service has access to your audio. Your meetings. Your private conversations. Your medical appointments. Your therapy sessions.

We think that's insane.

Hardcopy runs Whisper AI directly on your Mac's Apple Silicon. Your audio never touches a server. There's no account to create. No data to leak. No terms of service granting rights to your recordings.

The code is open source. You can verify exactly what it does. Build it yourself if you want.

Your voice. Your data. Your machine. That's it.

YOUR DATA FLOW
YOUR VOICE
YOUR MAC (WHISPER AI)
YOUR FILES (~/HARDCOPY)
CLOUD SERVERS (NEVER)

DOWNLOAD

Free and open source. No account required.

DOWNLOAD FOR MACOS

Requires macOS 14.0+ (Sonoma) and Apple Silicon