If you record your calls — Zoom, a local screen recording, whatever your meeting tool saves to disk — you can turn that recording into a searchable text transcript on your Mac afterward, without sending the recording to a third-party notetaking service.
One thing to be clear about upfront
igooor transcribes a recording after the meeting has ended — it isn't a live meeting bot that joins your call and captions it in real time. If what you actually need is a transcript, notes, or a searchable record of a call you've already recorded, this is exactly that. If you specifically need live in-call captions, that's a different kind of tool.
Step 1: Get the recording onto your Mac
Most video call tools can save a local recording file — Zoom's local recording option saves an .mp4 directly to your Mac, for example. However your meeting tool exports it, once the file is sitting on your drive, you're ready for the next step.
Step 2: Drop it into igooor
Hand the recording to igooor from the menu bar the same way you would any audio or video file. It transcribes the spoken audio entirely on your Mac — no upload to a meeting-notes SaaS product, no third party storing a copy of what was discussed.
Step 3: Get searchable text back
You get the full transcript, saved to your local history so you can search back through past calls later. If the meeting included people speaking different languages, igooor's automatic language detection and direct translation can help make sense of it. And if you need the recording itself captioned rather than just a plain transcript, the same pass can produce an SRT subtitle file — see the subtitle generator guide for that workflow.
Why this beats a cloud meeting-notes tool
A lot of meeting content is exactly what you don't want a third-party AI notetaker holding onto — client calls, internal strategy discussions, anything under an NDA. Doing the transcription on-device means there's no recording uploaded anywhere, no vendor with access to what was said, and no recurring subscription just to get text back from your own recordings. Try it free for 14 days, no card required.