Free forever. Pro when you need it.

The whole local app, free. Subscribe to Pro for the pro features. Or commission a custom MSI for your team.

Freeforever
CHF 0 / forever

The whole local app. No card, no account.

  • Full meetings + dictation + library. Record, label, search.
  • 300 min of recording / week. Turbo model, on-device.
  • Live dictation, 2,000 words / week. Hotkey into any field.
  • 2 AI Actions per recording. Templates or your own.
  • Custom vocabulary, 50 terms. Exports: SRT, VTT, MD, TXT, JSON.
  • 1 seat. No account, no telemetry. The only network call is the update check.

Yours forever. No expiry.

Custom MSIfrom CHF 490
from CHF 490 one-time

Your branding. Your config. Your deployment.

  • Branded MSI. Your name, logo, defaults.
  • Pre-baked config. Paths, templates, vocabulary, hotkeys.
  • Starter CHF 490 (5 seats). Team CHF 1,490 (25 seats).
  • SCCM / Intune / Group Policy. Silent install ready.
  • Public sector & volume. Managed install, named support, procurement-ready network disclosure.

Email hello@localtranscript.com. Reply within a working day.

Same app. Different things around it.

CapabilityFreeProCustom MSI
Meeting recording300 min / wkunlimitedunlimited
Live dictation2,000 words / wkunlimitedunlimited
AI Actions2 / recordingunlimitedunlimited
Large model (highest accuracy)
Semantic AI Actions across your whole library
Ask — question your whole library
Video import + export with subtitles
Custom branding + MSI
SCCM / Intune / Group Policy deployment

Free is permanent. No expiry. The Pro features unlock the moment a licence key is entered.

FAQ

Common questions.

Why charge for software that runs on my machine?

We're not charging for compute — that's yours. We're charging for the years of work bundling Whisper, building the integrated app, and shipping new versions every few weeks.

Free is the core tool — permanent, no expiry. Pro adds the features professionals need (Large model, Ask, Semantic AI Actions, video, unlimited length). Same privacy promise on both.

What's actually different in Pro?

Free transcribes single files, with caps. Pro removes the caps and turns transcripts into a system that gets more valuable the more you use it.

  • No caps — Free gives you 300 minutes of recording a week, 2,000 words of dictation, and two AI Actions per recording. Pro removes all three caps: record all day, dictate without limit, run as many Actions as you like.
  • Ask — type a question and get an answer drawn from every transcript in your library, with links back to the moments it came from.
  • Semantic AI Actions across the library — Pro Actions can reference every transcript you've ever recorded: “summarise what we decided about Acme over the last six months,” or “find the deposition where the witness contradicted herself.”
  • Large model — the biggest local model, highest accuracy, for transcripts you can't second-guess.
  • Video — import video to transcribe, and export it with burned-in subtitles.

Same app binary. Same privacy guarantees. The licence key unlocks Pro features on this machine.

What does the licence actually send?

One HTTPS POST when you activate: licence key, app version, and a one-way hardware fingerprint (a salted SHA-256 digest — not reversible). While a licence is active, the app re-checks once a day with the same fields. Never recordings, transcripts, notes, attendees, or usage counters. Every connection the app can make is listed on the security page.

Does an AI Action call an external model?

Not unless you ask it to. The models are downloaded once during setup and run entirely on this machine — pull the network cable and the result is identical. Optionally, you can connect a cloud provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Infomaniak in Switzerland) with your own API key; that stays off until you configure it.

Refund policy?

14 days, full refund, no questions asked. Cancel anytime after that — the subscription simply stops.

If the app is free, what stops me installing it everywhere?

Nothing — please do. Install the free version on every machine you own; each install stays free, forever.

The 2-seat limit applies to Pro unlocks, not installs. When you enter a Pro licence key, the app activates a Pro seat with the licence server. Two seats means Pro mode can be active on two machines at a time — enter the same key on a third machine and the server refuses, the app stays in Free mode there. The licence unlocks features, not the download.

Can I move my Pro seat between machines?

Yes. Deactivate a seat from the dashboard or from app settings; the next machine you activate picks up the freed slot. No manual approval.

Free, forever

Start with the free version.

No card. No account. Upgrade only if you need the Pro features.