Overview
- Wispr officially released Notetaker for Mac on August 5, 2026, a meeting assistant that records system audio on the user’s device to produce live transcripts and post-meeting summaries.
- The app links to calendars and connected apps such as Slack to brief users before calls, improve speaker attribution, and produce action items tied back to specific moments in the meeting.
- Notetaker does not join meetings as a visible participant and processes audio on-device, and the company raised the maximum recording length in settings to six hours to capture longer sessions.
- Wispr updated its Terms of Service and privacy policy to describe meeting data inputs and AI-generated outputs, added a Privacy Mode that opts data out of model training, and its CEO urged users to disclose recordings to address trust and legal risks.
- The launch places Wispr in a crowded field with tools like Granola, Otter and Fathom, and could normalize always-on meeting transcripts while prompting scrutiny of consent rules and workplace norms.