Audient: Transcribe and search
On-device audio knowledge base
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Drop in audio or video. Audient transcribes on-device, builds a searchable knowledge base, and stays put when your LLM wants in. No cloud, no account, no syncing.
Audient is a local-first knowledge base for the audio you already make. Drop in meetings and voice memos, talks and lectures, calls and interviews — anything you record. Audient transcribes them on-device, indexes the whole archive, and makes it searchable in plain English. Nothing leaves your Mac.
WHAT IT DOES
• Local-first semantic search. Ask in plain English; Audient returns the exact passages from across every recording in your library. Embeddings are computed and stored on your Mac.
• On-device transcription. A speech model runs locally and produces word-level timestamps for everything you capture. Audio never leaves the device. Works offline — on a plane, in a basement, anywhere.
• Citations you can paste. Every result links back to the exact second in the source recording. Copy a quote and Audient pastes the verbatim line, the file, and the timestamp, ready to drop into a doc or a Slack message.
• Bring your own LLM. Audient exposes a local MCP server on your Mac. Pair it with a local LLM like Ollama to keep everything on your machine — or with a hosted one like Claude Desktop if you'd rather not run a model yourself. Audient itself stays put either way.
WHY LOCAL-FIRST
No accounts. No cloud. No syncing. No telemetry on what you said. The transcripts live in a SQLite database on your Mac, and the search index sits next to it. You can back the whole thing up by copying a folder.
WHO IT'S FOR
Anyone with a growing pile of recordings they'd like to search rather than re-listen to. Founders trying to find what a customer said three calls ago. Researchers re-reading lectures. Therapists keeping voice memos on their phone. Anyone who's already privacy-conscious enough that "send your audio to the cloud" was never going to fly.
REQUIREMENTS
• macOS 26 or later
• Apple silicon required
• 8 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB recommended
• ~3 GB free disk space (on-device model + first library)
ONE PRICE, PAID ONCE
Audient is a one-off purchase on the Mac App Store. No subscription, no usage tier, no metering. Buy once, own it.
ABOUT ASYNC DIGITAL
Async Digital builds apps for Apple platforms. Audient is its first app — a macOS app that uses on-device AI to transcribe and search the audio and video you give it.
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Reliability
• Transcription reliably returns to the fast Apple Neural Engine after a recovery, instead of getting stuck on the slower CPU path.
• Fixed library state getting out of sync after removing media or erasing all data.
Polish
• Reveal in Finder follows the original file's location.
• The on-device model compile timer keeps counting when you close and reopen the window.
• Clearer labels and a handful of layout fixes across ingestion and the player.
The developer, Async Digital Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Async Digital Ltd
- Size
- 2.9 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and Welsh
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Audient Pro $39.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 Async Digital Ltd