Invocal

Hold Fn
and talk.

Invocal turns your voice into text in any app on your Mac. It captures meetings and voice memos, too. And because transcription happens entirely on device, what you say stays with you.

Dictation

Wherever you can type, you can talk.

Hold fn in any app and start speaking. Let go, and your words appear right where your cursor is. Double-tap Fn to keep going hands‑free.

Terminal — claude

✻ Welcome to Claude Code!
  /help for help, /status for your current setup
  cwd: ~/Developer/Invocal
> Make the notch waveform scroll left like the app does, one bar every 85 milliseconds, and keep the springs critically damped.
  ? for shortcuts

Notes

Beta plan

Invite list is at 20 people. Build 979 is on TestFlight.

umsoSoweneedlikefive5moretestersbeforeuhfridayFriday.

Voice Memos

A separate key for your own ideas.

Hold Option‑Control to capture a memo instead. The waveform turns orange, nothing gets typed, and the thought is saved for later.

⌥⌃to capture0 today43 memos8m

Your next meeting, one tap away.

With your calendar connected, the notch counts down to each meeting and offers to record the moment it begins. It’s already named for the event.

Weekly design sync

Jane

Sam

You

Waiting for others…

0:04

Weekly design sync

End

Participants (3)

YouJaneSam+

What you say stays on your Mac.

Invocal transcribes on device with NVIDIA’s Parakeet model, accelerated by the Neural Engine. No account. No servers in between. Claude summaries and Notion sync stay off unless you turn them on, and even then, only text is sent. Never your audio.

This Mac

Optional, off by default

Your voiceMic, plus call audio in meetings

Parakeet TDT 0.6BRuns on the Neural Engine.
A 450 MB download, once.

At your cursorDictation

VaultMarkdown files

Claude summaries Through your own Claude account

Push to Notion One-way, meetings only

Only the transcript text is sent. Never audio.

0.2 s

Live Transcript latency with the fastest model

96 kbps

Stereo meeting audio, with your mic on one channel and the call on the other

30 days

Meeting audio is kept by default. Transcripts stay until you delete them.

Accounts required

Vault

Your words, in plain Markdown.

Every meeting, memo and day of dictation is saved as a Markdown file in a folder you control. Open it in Obsidian, search it, back it up. It’s always up to date.

Vault

Every recording, saved as plain Markdown you own. Point Obsidian, Claude, or any editor at the folder — it’s always up to date.

Open in Finder

What’s inside

197

Meetings

Memos

6,065

Dictations

6.9 MB

On disk

Browse

Meetings

197 files — transcript, summary, and notes per meeting

Memos

43 files — one per voice memo

Dictations

137 files — a daily journal of everything you dictated

Up to date

2026-09-26-1500-7c1e2a9f.md

---
type: "meeting"
title: "Weekly design sync"
date: "2026-09-26T19:00:00Z"
duration_seconds: 2471
tags:
  - "design"
---
# Weekly design sync
## Transcript
[00:04] Mic: Let's start with onboarding. I cut it from seven steps to five.
[00:11] System: Nice. Did the permissions screen survive?
[00:15] Mic: It did, but it only asks for the mic up front now.
## Summary
Reviewed the shorter onboarding flow and agreed to get a beta build out before Friday.

Terminal — claude

> 
⏺ invocal - search_action_items (MCP)(since: "7 days")
  ⎿  Found 3 open action items across 6 meetings
⏺Here's what's still open from the past week:
  -Send the beta build to the invite list — you, by Thursday (Weekly design sync)
  -Review the calendar pill copy — Jane (Planning, Tuesday)
  -Book the usability sessions — Sam (Standup, Wednesday)

Real numbers from the developer’s own Mac · September 2026

329,400

words spoken instead of typed.

110h 44m

recorded

6,065

dictations

197

meetings transcribed

150 wpm

speaking pace, 3.8× faster than the average typist

100h 42m

saved compared with typing at 40 wpm

3.7

novels’ worth of words

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Most of it went straight into Claude Code, the same tool Invocal was built with.

Version 1.18. Used every day.

Invocal is a native Swift app, built with Claude Code. FluidAudio runs NVIDIA’s Parakeet models on Core ML. The notch started as a fork of the open‑source Boring Notch, and the meeting bubble alone took about two dozen iterations to feel just right.

Meetings are recorded in stereo, with your mic on one channel and the call on the other. That’s how the transcript tells the two sides apart without guessing at voices.

Swift 6SwiftUIFluidAudioCore MLParakeet TDT 0.6B v2Parakeet EOU 120MNemotron 0.6BSilero VADpyannoteAVAudioEngineScreenCaptureKitWebRTC AEC3SwiftDataEventKitMetalBoring NotchMCPClaude Code

Release notes

1.18Optional screen recording for meetings

1.17A live waveform in the collapsed meeting overlay

1.16Reprocess any meeting from its saved audio

1.15First-launch onboarding

1.14The notch meeting bubble, with its dust dismiss

1.12Meetings becomes the home tab

1.10The Vault page

1.6Today's upcoming meetings, one tap from recording

1.5Calendar alerts in the notch

1.3The real scrolling waveform

1.1A choice of live caption model

1.0The “Meeting processed” toast

All projectsInvocal · for macOS 26

Hold Fnand talk.

Wherever you can type, you can talk.

A separate key for your own ideas.

Your next meeting, one tap away.

What you say stays on your Mac.

Your words, in plain Markdown.

Version 1.18. Used every day.

Hold Fn
and talk.