Trace — Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call. It was shared on Show HN in 2026 and received 205 upvotes on Hacker News. A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in dozens of languages. Try Trace for free Also on the Mac App Store Requires macOS 14.4 or later and Apple silicon. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. Trace provides you with clear markdown transcripts and summaries that you can use anywhere. Either copy the markdown from Trace directly or have it place the file anywhere in your filesystem. Press ⌘ / and the pill grows upward into a live transcript of what was just said, interleaved with every key moment you flagged. The live summary runs entirely on-device, same as the final transcript. AI can also follow along too with the tracecli command line tool. Trace is built to be scripted, so by using tracecli the terminal and your AI agents can reach Trace the same way you do. A local speech model runs on-device, with no cloud service and no accounts. ~/Library/Containers/info.traceapp.trace/Data/Library/Application Support/Trace/sessions/2026-04-16-onboarding-sync mic.wav 23 MB system.wav 23 MB transcript.md 4 KB transcript.json 12 KB summary.md 2 KB meta.json 1 KB Yours, locally Every session lives in Finder as plain audio and markdown. Add a note while the conversation keeps going. Trace notices when a meeting app picks up your microphone and offers to record automatically and remembers your answer per application. When the call ends, Trace offers to stop recording so you don't forget. Calendars are opt-in, read-only, and off by default. You can also have it run a Shortcut of your own the moment a transcription finishes. You booked the same venue as last year and Michael is hosting again. The save-the-date goes out once catering is confirmed.