Caption Snap: Meeting Transcriptions With No Bot, No Model to Download, No Data Transferred and No Drain on Your CPU - Free Trial, One Time, $9.99

TL;DR: CaptionSnap is a $9.99 one-time menu bar app that saves your Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet transcripts by reading the live captions the meeting app already displays. No audio recording, no bot in the call, no cloud, no model download, and Accessibility is the only permission it asks for. Speaker names come from the platform, so attribution is a lookup instead of a guess. You have to enable captions yourself, transcripts are only as good as the platform's captioning, and it requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon. CaptionSnap Reads the Captions Your Meeting App Already Shows You Here is a list of the many things I don't like about transcription apps. Using one in a meeting often means a bot joins the call and you have to explain it to everyone. Local models require a huge download. Remote models send my conversations to somebody else's server. They require numerous privacy and security exemptions. Local models are processor intensive. Well, I found an app that doesn't do any of those…