For UX researchers
The transcript your legal team will actually approve.
Participant audio stays on the Mac it was recorded on. No DPA, no BAA, no US sub-processor. Defensible to your IRB. Exports clean to Dovetail.
Coming to the Mac App Store
Listen on your Mac.
Stay on your Mac.
Sumsight transcribes meetings, interviews, lectures, podcasts — anything playing on your Mac. Speakers are labeled, the key points are captured, and a clean summary is written for you. All on your own laptop. No accounts. No cloud. No telemetry.
The shape of the promise
0bytes of audio leaving your Mac
6EU languages, tagged per segment
$29paid once, never again
7days, free trial at launch
What it captures
Anything playing on your Mac. Nothing leaving it.
If your Mac can play it, Sumsight can transcribe it — Zoom and Webex calls, podcasts, lectures, livestreams, archival video, phone calls routed through your laptop. No bot in the meeting. No microphone needed. No cloud upload.
When you stop the session, Sumsight identifies who said what, picks out the key points, and writes a clean summary with a title, topics, and action items. In English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, or Italian — each segment tagged automatically as the speaker switches languages.
Nothing leaves your Mac. You can verify it with a tool like Little Snitch.
What Sumsight won't be
Sumsight will not have a bot that joins your calls. It will not record audio it didn't ask permission to record. It will not summarize your meetings on someone else's GPU. It will not autosend notes to your guests. It will not train on your transcripts. It will not have a subscription tier that makes the unpaid app worse. It cannot — there is no server.
Made specifically for
People whose conversations can't be uploaded.
For journalists
Source protection, built into the transcription.
Phone interviews, archival video, leaked tapes, press conferences. Captured, transcribed, summarized — with nothing sent, nothing subpoenable, nothing phoning home.
For everyone else
Therapists, coaches, lecturers, podcasters at home.
If your audio shouldn't leave your laptop — by ethics, by contract, or by preference — Sumsight is built for you. One app. One purchase. Same on-device guarantee.
Made for macOS 26
Your Mac already has the AI. We just made it useful for transcription.
Sumsight uses the on-device intelligence Apple ships with macOS — the same kind that powers features like Live Transcription and Translate. No third-party services, no extra model downloads, no accounts to create. The work happens on your laptop because it can.
Frequently asked, pre-launch
Worth answering before you sign up.
When does Sumsight launch?
We're targeting the Mac App Store as soon as the regression suite is green and Apple's review window allows. We'll send one email to confirmed subscribers when it ships. No countdown gimmicks here.
What happens to my email after I sign up?
Stored on our own infrastructure. Never shared, never sold, never enriched with third-party data. Read the full privacy notice.
How many emails will I get?
One. The launch announcement, when Sumsight ships on the Mac App Store. That's the entire deal.
How much will it cost?
$29, one-time, on the Mac App Store. There will be a 7-day free trial. There will never be a subscription. Sumsight 2.0 will be a paid major upgrade in the BBEdit / Acorn tradition — never a forced one.
Why macOS 26 only?
Sumsight relies on the latest on-device AI Apple ships, which only arrived in macOS 26. Supporting older versions would mean weaker quality, slower transcription, and a large model download on first launch. We chose to ship the cleaner version.
Is there an iOS version?
Not at v1. iOS and iPadOS are on the v2 roadmap (Universal Purchase, mic-based capture). The pre-launch list will hear about v2 first.
Last thing
Get the launch email.
Drop your email below. We'll send a confirmation link, then nothing — until the app ships.