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The first 30 minutes of every call: the words as they’re said, a transcript, and notes written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence. On a Mac without it, the words and the transcript.
How it works
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The notch asks
When an app uses your mic and plays sound at once. Not now means nothing is written.
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0:08
Words appear
As they’re said, in a window beside the call. Jot a line, mark a moment, or pause.
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32:00
Notes are ready
Summary, to-dos, decisions, open questions and key points, with the transcript.
What you see
From the first word to the finished notes.
The notes
Every to-do links back to the moment it was said.
Launch check32 min · ZoomTo-dos
Pick a to-do
4:12 · Ana
“I’ll send it first thing.”
Ana said it, so it’s Ana’s.
4:15 · You
“Then I’ll move the launch post to Thursday.”
You said it, so it’s yours.
18:30 · Sam
“Support should hear about the prices a day before.”
Nobody took it on, so it has no name.
Notes also have a summary, decisions and open questions, saved as plain files on your Mac.
Apps
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Video calls
Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams. The notch asks as the call starts.
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Voice calls
WhatsApp, Discord, and anything that uses the mic and plays sound.
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In the room
No call needed. Press Take notes and your Mac hears the room.
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A recording
Drop it in the Calls tab. 40 minutes takes about 7.
Telling people
No bot joins your call. Just tell people.
For the first minute of every call, the notes in the notch show a Copy button with a line ready for the call’s chat. In the room, it reminds you to say it out loud.
Privacy
What stays on your Mac
Your Mac turns speech into words as the call goes. The sound itself is never saved or sent. The privacy page lists every request Airlock makes.
Stays on your Mac
- The words as they’re said, turned into text on your Mac
- Transcripts and notes, as plain files in the Airlock folder in your home folder
- Telling the voices apart on Plus and Pro. No voice is remembered after the call
- Everything, on Free or with Write notes online turned off
Leaves your Mac
- On Plus and Pro, for a call you said yes to or a recording you dropped in: the transcript and the lines you typed, so the notes can be written online. Nobody keeps them.
Settings
It starts out like this. Everything is in Settings › Voice.
- Search your calls
- ⌘F
- Save a line you jotted
- Return
- Close the live window
- Esc
No key to start: the notch asks.
- Call notesOffers to take notes when a call starts
- Write notes onlinePlus and Pro. Turn it off and your Mac writes them.
- Tell voices apartPlus and Pro. Person 1, Person 2… by sound, on your Mac.
- Language on callsSame as dictationThe language your calls are in
- Words to knowYour listNames and words your meetings use, spelled your way
Which plan
Plus
€3.99 a month
The whole call. For a call you said yes to, the notes are written online by a better model: only the words go, and nobody keeps them. Turn that off and your Mac writes them. It also tells the voices apart: Person 1, Person 2…, on your Mac.
Pro
€7.99 a month
Plus with the best model we’ve tested, and twice as many online notes each month.
It asks for: The microphone, system audio and speech recognition. Calendar and Accessibility are optional.
Compare the plans →Questions
Do the other people know?
Only if you tell them, and we think you should. Airlock doesn’t join the call or message anyone, so it keeps a sentence ready to copy into the chat: “Heads up: I’m taking notes of this call. No recording is kept.”
Does Airlock keep the audio?
No. Your Mac turns speech into words as the call goes, and the sound is never saved or sent anywhere. What’s kept is the transcript and the notes, on your Mac.
Does it know who said what?
Your words are marked as yours. On Plus and Pro, Airlock also tells the other voices apart by sound: Person 1, Person 2…, worked out on your Mac, and you can name them after. It never names anyone by itself, and no voice is remembered after the call. On Free, everyone on the other side is “Them”.
Do I need Apple Intelligence?
Not on Plus or Pro: their notes are written online, so they work on every Mac. On Free, notes are written by Apple Intelligence on your Mac. Without it, Free still gives you the words and the transcript for the first 30 minutes of each call.
Where are my notes saved?
In the Meetings folder inside the Airlock folder in your home folder: one folder per call, with the notes and the transcript as plain text files you can open in any app.
More in the notch
- Clipboard historyEverything you copied, searchable.
- Media & soundNow playing, and a level per app if you turn it on.
- DictationHold ⌃, talk, let go. It types.
- TodayYour next meetings, one click to join.
- This MacHow hard it’s working, and who’s to blame.
- Drop shelfPark a file mid-drag. Drag it back out.
- Keep awakeNo sleep while you need it.
- Coding agentsClaude Code’s questions, answered from the notch.