Choose how Pear starts
Select a Mac app yourself or enable Auto-Record for the meeting apps you trust.
PearMeetings in. Useful words out.
Meeting transcription for Mac. Private by design.
Pear records the Mac app you choose and your microphone, creates live timestamped transcripts with Apple’s on-device speech recognition, and keeps every session in its local app container.
One-time purchase Local by default No account required macOS 15.5+
PearMeeting companion for Mac
Ready to captureYour next conversation
• Built for the menu bar, not another meeting dashboard.
One calm place for the conversation after the call ends.
App audioMicrophoneLive transcriptAutomatic captureHow Pear worksHow Pear transcribes
How Pear transcribes
meetings on your Mac.
Start a capture yourself or let Pear recognize a supported meeting app. Pear handles the recording mechanics, on-device transcription, and local session files while you stay in the conversation.
Capture and transcribe
Record the selected app and your microphone while Apple’s on-device speech recognition creates timestamped text.
Keep a local record
Open the saved audio and transcript files on your Mac, with recovery for interrupted sessions.
Mac meeting transcriptionWorks with the calls
Works with the calls
already on your calendar.
Use Pear with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, FaceTime, Slack, Discord, and browser-based meetings in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Brave, or Edge.
1:1s and team meetings
Capture both sides of the conversation from your meeting app and microphone in one timestamped session.
Customer interviews
Keep a local transcript of research calls without sending the recording to a Pear account or remote transcription service.
Project reviews and demos
Turn spoken walkthroughs and decisions into transcript files you can inspect, search, and keep with your work.
Private by designYour conversations
Your conversations
aren’t the product.
Pear’s normal workflow runs on your Mac. Recordings, transcripts, and session metadata remain in your local app container.
- 01 No Pear account is required
- 02 No ad profiles or cross-site tracking
- 03 Transcription runs on your Mac
Simple pricingOne useful app.
One useful app.
One small price.
Pear is available from the Mac App Store as a one-time purchase—no subscription and no account to maintain. The App Store shows the current price for your region.
Pear for Mac
Available nowOne-timepurchase
Everything in Pear 1.0, with no recurring fee.
- ✓ App and microphone audio capture
- ✓ Timestamped on-device transcripts
- ✓ Local session storage and recovery
- ✓ No Pear account required
Available nowPear is ready
Pear is ready
for your next meeting.
Download Pear from the Mac App Store and turn the conversations you choose into local, timestamped transcripts.
View Pear on the Mac App Store
Requires macOS 15.5 or later. Price and currency vary by region.
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