Question 1

Does Corder send my audio to the cloud?

Accepted Answer

On the free plan transcription runs on your Mac with a local Whisper model, and the audio does not leave the Mac. There are two exceptions, both only when you are signed in: if your Mac cannot run the model, or runs it far slower than real time, that recording is transcribed in the cloud instead, up to 2 hours a month. Paid plans send the audio to the cloud for every transcript, where it is used to make the transcript and not kept by Corder; the provider holds it only for that job under its API terms. With an account, the transcript text, titles and summaries are stored in your Corder account so they can be generated and shared; the audio itself stays on your Mac. No bot ever joins the call. Corder is open source, so you can read exactly what it does rather than take our word for it.

Question 2

Is it legal to record a call?

Accepted Answer

That depends on where you and the other people are. Some places let one participant record, others require everyone to agree first. Corder does not decide this for you and does not ask anyone on your behalf, so the responsibility is yours. If you are unsure, say you are recording. Most people say yes.

Question 3

Does the other side know I am recording?

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Nothing appears on their end. Corder records the audio already playing through your Mac, so no bot joins the call and no participant tile shows up. That is a statement about how it works, not advice to keep it to yourself: see the question above.

Question 4

Is Corder open source?

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Yes, under the GPL-3.0. The capture and transcription code is on GitHub, so you can read exactly how it handles your audio and where it goes. Anyone can build it from source.

Question 5

Where does my audio live?

Accepted Answer

In ~/Library/Application Support/Corder/recordings/, in a folder named after the meeting. Browse, copy or delete them in Finder like any other file. Delete a recording in Corder and the files go with it.

Question 6

Does it record Zoom, Meet, Discord?

Accepted Answer

Anything that plays through your Mac. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, Discord, Slack huddles, a browser tab, a phone call on speaker. Corder captures your microphone and the system audio as two separate tracks, which is also how it tells you apart from everyone else.

Question 7

Which languages does it support?

Accepted Answer

Transcription covers forty plus languages and picks the language up on its own, including when a call switches between them. The app interface itself is English only for now.

Question 8

Does it need an internet connection?

Accepted Answer

Recording never needs a connection. On the free plan transcription runs on your Mac once the 1.5 GB model has downloaded, so a meeting recorded on a plane transcribes on the plane. Titles, summaries, sharing and paid cloud transcription need a connection.

Question 9

Which version of macOS does it require?

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macOS 14.2 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 and newer). Intel Macs are not supported: the on-device model needs the Neural Engine.

Question 10

Can I export the transcript?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Transcript as Markdown or JSON, the audio, the screen video, or everything as one archive. The files are yours, in ordinary formats, and nothing is locked to Corder.

Question 11

Is there a Windows version?

Accepted Answer

Not today. Corder is built on macOS audio capture, so a Windows version means writing that part again. If enough people want it, it gets written.

Question 12

What do Pro and Max cost?

Accepted Answer

Pro is $3 a month or $29 a year, Max is $7 a month or $69 a year, at the launch price shown on this page. Both add cloud transcription with a monthly allowance of audio hours. The free tier is not a trial: it does not expire and it does not cap how much you transcribe on your Mac.

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