Your microphone. Your Mac’s audio. Or both.
Choose your audio input, then start the meeting. Your Mac’s audio captures sound from apps, including audio played in the browser.
YOUR ALL-IN-ONE MAC APP
Dictate. Capture. Present.
One app.
A message to dictate, a screenshot to annotate, a demo to record. Kaptivox brings your everyday tools together. With Studio, create editable videos, transcribe meetings and recover the words in your files.
macOS 15.2+ · Apple SiliconWindows and Linux coming soon.
New · Discover the editable Studio THE EDITOR IN ACTION A Kaptivox demonstration
YOUR EVERYDAY TOOLS, TOGETHER
It all starts in Kaptivox.
From your first idea to the message you share: one app, several ways to express yourself.
Dictate your text
Messages, notes, emails. Speak and insert your text into compatible fields.
Capture and annotate
An image, an arrow, an explanation. Make a detail clear at a glance.
Show and present
Screen, camera, voice and annotations. With Studio, rework your composition even after recording.
Find the words again
With Studio, transcribe your meetings and audio or video files on your Mac.
Floating palette
Your tools, a click away.
Images, video, presentations, dictation, meetings: keep your shortcuts above your apps, even when the main window is closed. Move the palette wherever it suits you, or collapse it to a small logo.
01 / EVERYDAY DICTATION
Your ideas move fast.
Give them a voice.
An email, a note, a text to write: speak, and Kaptivox turns your voice into text on your Mac. Insert it into the compatible field where you are working, and find your dictations in the history.
- Dictation and insertion into compatible fields
- Dictation history and statistics
- Meetings and file transcription in Studio
- Export transcripts, including as SRT subtitles
Text insertion uses the macOS Accessibility permission. Always review transcripts before using them.
MEETINGS AND TRANSCRIPTION · STUDIO
Your video becomes text, too.
Use a video captured with Kaptivox, import an audio or video file, or record a meeting. Find timestamped passages, edit the text and reuse it. You can also export your video transcripts as SRT subtitles.
Compare Pro and StudioMEETINGS, WITH STUDIO
Stay in the conversation. Find the words later.
Record your meetings with your microphone, your Mac’s audio or both. Video calls, interviews or online classes: revisit the conversation in a local transcript, with timestamped passages.
Compare featuresReview, annotate, reuse.
Find timestamped passages, edit the text, add your notes and export as text, Markdown or JSON.
Transcription on your Mac, once the speech model is set up.
PRIVACY BY DESIGN
Your voice stays local.
Your choices stay yours.
Dictate, capture and transcribe on your Mac. Speech recognition processes your audio locally once the model has been downloaded. You do not need to send your recordings to a transcription service.
Model downloads and updates require an internet connection. Remote destinations and AI cleanup are separate choices.
Your files, where you choose
Keep your captures on your Mac. If you configure Nextcloud / WebDAV, SSH or SFTP, the relevant files are sent to that destination; a local copy is kept.
Optional AI cleanup you can turn off
Off by default. Enable it on demand or automatically to remove hesitations and correct punctuation. Choose your provider: OpenAI, Claude, Ollama or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, using your own credentials.
With a cloud provider or a remote endpoint, the text to be cleaned up leaves your Mac and is sent there. Ollama with a locally running model can process it on your Mac; a cloud model remains a remote service, even through Ollama. You can turn cleanup off at any time.
In your language.
French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. A choice of interface languages and automatic spoken language recognition.
YOURS TO EXPLORE
Three ways to get your idea across.
Explore the possibilities with these illustrated examples.
Yours to explore
WORKSPACE · 01
Your camera
One idea. One demonstration.Your title, your identity.
STUDIO
Build your presentation
a.workspace / projectIn progress
A clearer page.
The next detail to improve is right here.
Project contactcamille@example.com
This detail makes the difference
Show only what matters
YOUR NEXT MESSAGE
Hi Camille, I’m sending you the presentation with my annotations. Shall we discuss it tomorrow?
An example, without using your microphone
An illustrated feature demonstration. Fictional content, with no access to your screen, camera or microphone.
02 / CAPTURE AND ANNOTATE
The right detail.
Understood at a glance.
Feedback to give, a process to explain, an idea to share. Capture what matters and guide the eye.
Choose what to capture.
An area, a window or the whole screen. Screenshots are captured without a countdown.
Your explanation, on the image.
Arrows, text, shapes, numbers, highlighting and cropping. You can open existing images to annotate them too.
Take control of sensitive information.
Add a blur or a mask. For video, set up the areas to mask before recording and check the result before sharing.
A library that keeps up.
Find your captures in a list or as thumbnails, rename them, and keep your tools close at hand in the floating palette.
03 / PRESENT AND RECORD
Your screen becomes
your studio.
A tutorial, a training session, a product demo. Compose your screen, camera and visual identity in Studio. Record, then refine scenes, text and annotations until you have the version you need.
Explore the Studio illustrationExample compositions · Demo illustrations
01
Set the scene.
Your camera, your name, your topic.
YOUR CONTENT + YOU
02
Show how it works.
Screen, video inset and live annotations.
Your turn to shine. YOUR CLOSING MESSAGE
03
Leave an impression.
A consistent look from start to finish.
Camera feed or video file as an inset
Choose your microphone, Mac audio and video audio
Editable layers, visual identity and scenes in Studio
These compositions are illustrations, not screenshots of Studio. Pro includes presentations with an overlay; Studio adds projects, layers, scenes and editing after recording.
EDITABLE STUDIO · NEW IN 0.15.0
The recording ends. Your project stays editable.
Need to move a logo, fix a title or reframe the camera? Studio keeps screen and overlay sources separate. Rework the composition after recording and export a new version without recording everything again.
Compose, scene by scene.
Screen, camera, logo, images and titles become layers. Move, resize, group and arrange elements. Set scenes, transitions and their timing to give your demonstration the right pace.
Your identity, from project to project.
Bring logos, colours, backgrounds and a font together in one visual identity. Keep scene-specific variations and save compositions as templates to prepare your next tutorial faster.
Refine your explanation after recording.
Add an arrow, rectangle or text. Adjust annotations’ positions, colours and timing. Click and shortcut effects enabled before recording also remain editable.
A project to reopen and reuse.
Save your project and its media in a .kaptivox package. Reopen the linked project from the library, undo or redo edits, and prepare another version of the same video.
One project. Several formats.
Export MP4 with HD and 4K profiles. Prepare a landscape, portrait or square layout to adapt your content to its next use.
- Landscape · HD / 4K
- Portrait · HD
- Square · HD
Resolution and smoothness depend on your Mac, source media and chosen profile. Exporting at 60 fps does not recreate frames missing from a slower recording.
YOUR SOURCES, YOUR RECORDING
From desktop to camera, put your recording together.
Show what’s on your screen, add your face and let your voice be heard. Choose the sources that suit your capture or presentation.
An area, a window, a screen
Focus on the detail that matters or show your entire desktop, as an image or a video.
Camera or video file
Choose your connected camera or add a video inset. Adjust the inset’s shape, size and position.
Your microphone, your audio input
Built-in microphone, USB microphone or detected virtual input: select the source that suits your setup.
Audio from your Mac’s apps
A call, a video, a class in the browser: include audio played on your Mac, with or without your microphone.
Depends on available sources and macOS permissions. Your Mac’s audio is a global source, with no individual app audio selection.
GET STARTED
A guided first launch.
The setup assistant helps you prepare Kaptivox: your features, speech model, microphone and relevant permissions. See what is ready before you begin.
Choose your uses.
Capture, video, dictation: choose what you want to use. The assistant adapts setup to your selected features.
Prepare local speech.
For dictation and transcription, start the speech model download from the assistant. Speech processing can then run on your Mac.
Check your microphone and access.
Choose and test your microphone, then follow macOS permission requests one at a time. A short test dictation lets you check the result in the assistant.
You can postpone setup and reopen the assistant from the Kaptivox menu. Permissions still require your consent in macOS.
THE RIGHT WORKSPACE FOR YOUR IDEAS
Your everyday tools.
Or your whole studio.
Two editions. Three options to suit the way you work.
A trial lasting 7 days is planned for launch.
Preparing for launch. Purchases and downloads are not yet available.
Single Mac
Kaptivox Pro
Capture, annotate, record and dictate every day.
CHF 29.–
One-time purchase · 1 Mac
- Screenshots and video recordings
- Annotations and masked areas
- Presentations with an inset
- Dictation, history and statistics
- Local and remote destinations
Single Mac
Kaptivox Studio
Create editable videos. Add meetings and transcription.
CHF 49.–
One-time purchase · 1 Mac
- Everything planned for Pro
- Studio projects, editable layers and scenes
- Meeting recording
- Audio and video file transcription
- Transcript and subtitle export
Multiple Macs
Kaptivox Studio
Create editable videos. Add meetings and transcription.
CHF 69.–
One-time purchase · 3 Macs
- Everything planned for Pro
- Studio projects, editable layers and scenes
- Meeting recording
- Audio and video file transcription
- Transcript and subtitle export
Pro or Studio: features in detail
| Feature | Pro | Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshots and video recordings | Included | Included |
| Annotations, cropping and masking | Included | Included |
| Presentations with a video inset | Included | Included |
| Dictation and history | Included | Included |
| Local and remote destinations | Included | Included |
| Studio projects, editable layers and scenes | — | Included |
| Meeting recording | — | Included |
| Audio and video transcription | — | Included |
Studio offers the same features for 1 or 3 Macs. Licence terms will be available before sales open.
BEFORE YOUR FIRST CAPTURE
The right
questions.
Which Macs can run Kaptivox?
Kaptivox is a native app for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 chips and later), running macOS 15.2 or later. The speech models need to be downloaded before you can use local dictation and transcription. Windows and Linux versions are also planned soon.
Can I annotate an image that is already on my Mac?
Yes. Open an image in Kaptivox, add your annotations, then export the result. You can also annotate a new screenshot, crop it, add text or hide information.
What can I add to my presentations?
A camera or video file as an overlay, with adjustable shape, size and position. Choose your microphone and Mac audio. Studio adds an editable project with screen, camera, image, logo and text layers, scenes, transitions and a reusable visual identity.
Are my recordings sent to the cloud?
Captures and speech recognition can stay on your Mac. You choose a remote destination or an AI service separately. If you enable a cloud AI provider, the text to be corrected leaves your Mac. AI cleanup can be disabled.
Can I edit my video after recording?
Yes, with a Studio project that keeps screen and overlay sources separate. You can reposition the camera, change logos, text, scenes and annotations, then export again. An imported MP4 remains a flattened video: a camera already embedded in it cannot be separated. Privacy masks applied to the sources remain irreversible.
Which video formats does Studio offer?
Studio exports MP4 with horizontal HD and 4K profiles, plus vertical HD and square HD. Profiles up to 60 fps are available, depending on the source media and your Mac. Choose the format that fits your content; raising the export frame rate does not recreate frames missing from the recording.
How do I set up Kaptivox on first launch?
The assistant guides you through feature selection, an explicit speech model download, macOS permissions and a microphone test. A local test dictation helps verify setup. You can postpone these steps and reopen the assistant from the Kaptivox menu; each permission remains yours to grant.
Which languages are supported?
The interface is available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It can follow your macOS language. The speech engines automatically recognise the language being spoken; transcription does not mean translation.
How can I hide sensitive information?
Blur reduces detail without guaranteeing that it becomes unreadable. Use an opaque mask to hide information. In a video, masked areas are set up before recording and stay in place: they do not automatically track the content. Check the exported file before sharing it.
What is the difference between Pro and Studio?
Pro costs CHF 29 for 1 Mac: captures, annotations, presentations with an overlay and dictation. Studio adds editable video projects, layers, scenes, visual identity, meetings and file transcription, at CHF 49 for 1 Mac or CHF 69 for 3 Macs. Both Studio offers include the same features. Sales are still being prepared.
What happens after the 12 months of included updates?
You can keep using your version of Kaptivox without renewing. If you would like to receive new updates, optional renewal costs CHF 19 for 12 more months. The price is the same for Pro, Studio for one Mac and Studio for multiple Macs (3 Macs).
When will I be able to try or buy Kaptivox?
We are preparing for launch. A 7-day trial is planned, followed by the Pro and Studio editions. Downloads, payments and licence activation are not yet available. This page lets you explore the product and compare the planned editions.