Lesskeys: Call & Voice to Text
Transcribe Meetings, Offline
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Record any call yourself. No bot joins it. Lesskeys turns it into a searchable transcript that knows who said what, on your Mac and offline. Free to download.
Lesskeys records your calls, meetings and screen, turns them into transcripts that show who said what, and keeps every conversation searchable on your Mac. All of it offline.
NO BOT IN YOUR CALL
Meeting assistants usually send a bot into the call and want your calendar and an account. Lesskeys does neither. You record the call yourself, on your own Mac, so nobody else on the call sees an extra guest, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.
RECORD ANY CALL, MEETING OR SCREEN
Capture what happens on your Mac — system audio, your microphone, and the screen or a single window, recorded together as one video file. A video call, a web meeting, a lecture, an interview, a browser tab, a podcast: if you can hear it and see it on your Mac, Lesskeys can record it. Lesskeys can also notice when a call starts and offer to record it. The recording is written straight to your own disk.
TRANSCRIPTS THAT SHOW WHO SAID WHAT
Every recording becomes a transcript with automatic speaker labels, produced entirely on your Mac. Lesskeys learns voices and recognizes the same people across different recordings, so you name a speaker once and that name carries over to the next recording. Click any line in the transcript to jump the video to that exact moment.
YOUR CONVERSATIONS, KEPT AND SEARCHABLE
Your recordings become an archive you can actually use later, instead of a folder of audio files nobody ever opens again. Search what was said across all your recordings — filter by speaker, by recording, or by date range, match an exact phrase, or exclude a word. Click a result and the transcript opens at that line with the video in sync. Once you have named the speakers, a plain-text transcript appears beside the recording in Finder. You can also export any transcript as a TXT file, or as SRT or WebVTT subtitles with speaker names.
DICTATION ANYWHERE ON YOUR MAC
Press one hotkey in any app and just talk. Lesskeys turns your speech into text and copies it to your clipboard, ready to paste into emails, documents, messages, notes or code — in 99 languages, with automatic language detection.
NEVER LOSE WHAT YOU COPIED
A built-in clipboard manager keeps a searchable history of your text, links and images. Pin the ones you reuse and paste any of them with a single hotkey (Cmd+Shift+V).
100% PRIVATE, 100% OFFLINE
Your audio, video, transcripts and clipboard never leave your Mac. No cloud servers, no accounts. Everything is processed on your device with Metal GPU acceleration. Switch off your Wi-Fi and all of it still works — that is the whole point.
FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE
Lesskeys is free to download. The free version includes 5 minutes of dictation every day, plus 5 audio and 5 video transcriptions in total. Lesskeys Pro is a single in-app purchase that removes those limits — no recurring fee.
EVERYTHING ELSE IT DOES
- Drag and drop audio or video files to transcribe (MOV, MP4, M4A, WAV, MP3, FLAC and more)
- Export your voiceprints to a file and import them on another Mac or after a reinstall
- Per-app settings and custom text replacements
- Automate it all with the Shortcuts app
- Localized in 30 languages, following your Mac's system language
REQUIREMENTS
- macOS 13 Ventura or later
- Apple Silicon (M1 or later) — required
- Microphone access for recording and dictation
- Screen Recording permission for call, meeting and screen capture
- A small starter model is built in; larger models download inside the app — you choose the size
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This release makes long recordings safer, handles meetings with many speakers, and fixes a crash on macOS 26.
• Long calls are safer: if a call's audio file ran into a problem, everything after the 30-minute mark could be lost. Now it's kept.
• If your disk fills up during a recording, Lesskeys now stops and saves what it has, tells you where, and lets you transcribe it once you've freed some space.
• Your recordings and settings are saved more safely, so a crash or power cut can no longer leave a half-written file behind — including while a recording is paused.
• Fixed a crash on macOS 26 when a detected call was paused.
• Fixed a case where finishing one call recording could overwrite another recording's audio.
• Lesskeys no longer asks for your keychain password at launch. If it can't read its saved data, it tells you, and one click lets you allow it.
• Call detection is more accurate: Google Meet is recognized only on real meetings, Discord calls in the browser are now detected, and “Ignore” now applies to that call only.
• Meetings with many speakers: the transcript now shows every speaker, not just the first six, and you can rename any speaker from a line's menu. Each speaker gets a clearly different color.
• Speaker names you set are kept when voices are re-grouped or verified, and “Merge selected” keeps the name you gave.
• Export and import your voiceprints: save the voices Lesskeys has learned to a file and load them on another Mac or after a reinstall.
• Export transcripts as SRT or WebVTT subtitles with speaker names, as well as TXT.
• The display you chose for screen recording is remembered, even if that monitor was unplugged for a while.
• A recording that starts with a long silence is no longer lost — Lesskeys trims the silence before transcribing, and retries automatically if a transcript comes back far shorter than the recording.
• Large V3 Turbo Q8 is in the model picker and is the default for new installs — about half the download size of full Turbo.
• Clipboard history orders entries by when you last used them.
The developer, Dmytro Tymoshchuk, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Dmytro Tymoshchuk
- Size
- 78.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 29 more
- English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lesskeys Pro $49.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Dmytro Tymoshchuk
