Abracadabra (Aramaic) — "I create as I speak"
Your Zoom calls, voice memos, and coaching sessions are scattered across your Mac. Abra finds them, transcribes them locally, and turns every word you've ever spoken into searchable knowledge. Automatically.
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 12 MB
The problem
You know the feeling. A client mentioned something important three weeks ago. You recorded it. But finding it means scrubbing through 47 minutes of audio — so you don't. The insight dies in the gap between recording and remembering.
Zoom recordings in one folder. Voice Memos in another. Apple Notes calls buried somewhere else. Your conversations are everywhere and nowhere.
Every other tool makes you upload files, join meeting bots, or remember to press record. The friction kills the habit. Most recordings sit untouched.
"Let's follow up on pricing." You said it. You meant it. But between the meeting and the to-do list, the intention died. Your words became ephemeral.
Speech is how you think.
Now it's how you find.
How it works
No uploading. No bots. No remembering to press record. Abra watches your Mac for new recordings and transcribes them in the background. You just keep talking.
Download the app. Drag to Applications. Abra finds your Zoom recordings, Voice Memos, and Apple Notes call recordings automatically. No configuration needed.
Change nothing. Record Zoom calls. Leave voice memos. Take phone calls. Abra runs silently in the background, turning every recording into searchable text on your machine.
What did Sarah say about pricing? Search it and find it in seconds. Every conversation you've ever recorded — organized, searchable, yours.
What you get
Abra does one thing and does it completely. Auto-discovery, local transcription, smart naming, full-text search — all working together so you never lose a conversation again.
Other tools make you upload files, join meeting bots, or remember to press record. Abra watches the folders already on your Mac — Zoom, Voice Memos, Apple Notes — and transcribes new recordings the moment they appear. Zero effort.
No other transcription tool does this.
Coaching sessions, client calls, personal reflections — they never leave your Mac. Transcription runs entirely on your machine. No accounts. No uploads. No one listening but you.
Every transcript is named intelligently and saved in dated folders. 2026-04-02_call-with-Sarah.md — not audio_final_v2.m4a. You'll find things before you finish typing.
What did Sarah say about pricing in March? Search "Sarah pricing" and find it in seconds. No re-listening. No scrubbing through audio. Your recordings become a searchable memory you can rely on.
Multi-speaker recordings show labeled dialogue, not a wall of undifferentiated text. When you search for something, you'll know exactly who said it and when.
What's at stake
You already know the feeling. A client mentioned something important three weeks ago. You know you recorded it. But finding it means scrubbing through hours of audio — so you don't. And the insight is lost.
"I have hundreds of voice memos with ideas I'll never find again. They might as well not exist."
The external problem: recordings are scattered and unsearchable
Abra finds and transcribes them automatically. Every idea, searchable.
"I feel disorganized and wasteful. I record everything but use almost none of it. What's even the point?"
The internal frustration: you feel like you're losing your own knowledge
Stop recording into a void. Turn every conversation into knowledge that works for you.
"Important conversations shouldn't just vanish because I don't have time to re-listen to an hour of audio."
The deeper truth: your words deserve to be consequential
They do. And now they will be. Automatically, privately, on your terms.
Pricing
Local transcription is free, forever — it runs on your Mac and costs us nothing, so we charge nothing. If you want cloud-quality transcription, you only pay for what you actually use.
Local
$0
forever
Cloud
~$0.78/hr
add funds when you need them
FAQ
Yes. Local transcription runs entirely on your Mac using open-source AI. It costs us nothing to provide, so we charge nothing to use. No trial period. No hidden limits. No "free for 30 days." Free means free.
No. When you use local transcription, your audio never leaves your machine. When you choose cloud transcription for higher quality, audio is sent to a transcription API for processing and then deleted. You always choose which mode to use, per recording.
Zoom recordings (your local Zoom folder), Apple Voice Memos, and Apple Notes call recordings. You can also add any custom folder. If you can record it to your Mac, Abra can find it.
Otter and Fireflies are cloud-first subscription services that upload your audio to their servers. Abra is a local Mac app with no subscription, no bots, and no cloud dependency. It also watches your existing recording folders automatically — something neither Otter nor Fireflies does.
You add dollars to your balance when you need them ($5, $10, $25, or any amount). Cloud transcription costs about $0.78 per hour of audio. Your balance never expires. You see the cost before every transcription. If you only use local transcription, you never pay anything.
From Abracadabra — Aramaic for "I create as I speak." Your voice shouldn't just disappear into the air. When you speak, things should happen. That's what Abra does.
Yes. Abra is fully open source. You can read every line of code, build it yourself, or contribute improvements. We make money on the optional cloud transcription, not on the software.
Every recording you've ever made — searchable. Every conversation you'll ever have — captured. Automatically, privately, without lifting a finger.
Download for Mac — FreemacOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 12 MB · No account needed