Live Captions & Offline Transcription for Mac

Understand Any Audio.
In Your Language.

Read live bilingual captions from Mac system audio, your microphone, or both. Transcribe local audio and video files with speaker labels, review the text, and export it. Recognition and translation run on your Mac after resources are installed.

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Local-first
Native on macOS
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Powerful features

Everything You Need for Clear Understanding

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Live Captions

Real-time captions for Mac system audio, your microphone, or both.

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Instant Translation

Read each caption in the language you understand.

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Floating Subtitle Bar

Move and resize the always-on-top bilingual window; use click-through to interact with the app beneath.

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Offline file transcription

Import local audio or video, edit the transcript and translate it on your Mac after the required resources are installed.

Speaker labels and review

Separate speakers in files, rename labels and replay the original with the current line highlighted; English also supports word highlighting.

Export and keep your text

Export SRT, VTT, TXT, Markdown, CSV or PDF. Add names and specialist terms with the custom dictionary and supported hot-word settings.

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Alison Workspace is now available on the Mac App Store.

●Download on the Mac App StoremacOS 15+ · Apple silicon

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Alison Workspace work offline?

Yes. After the required Apple language resources or local Whisper model are downloaded once, audio capture, recognition, and translation run on the Mac. Internet may be needed only for the first resource download.

Which languages are supported?

Speech recognition — 101 choices covering 100 spoken languages

Translation targets — up to 21 choices

Recognition and translation are separate settings. Translation availability is checked against Apple Translation on the user’s Mac and may vary by macOS version, region, and installed language resources.

Does it work with every app?

Caption ordinary Mac system audio, a selected microphone, or both. Protected playback and difficult room audio may behave differently.

Is my data private?

Raw audio is not saved, and text history stays on your Mac until you delete it.

Can I caption my voice and the other side of a call?

Yes. Choose microphone and system audio together for separate source labels and independent recognition and translation languages. Use headphones to reduce echo. This does not identify every remote speaker.

What is included in the free trial?

New users receive 120 minutes of live captions and 60 minutes of file transcription. Live time counts only while captions are produced; file allowance counts processed audio duration.

Is a monthly subscription required?

A one-time Pro Lifetime purchase is available alongside monthly and annual subscriptions. US reference prices are $4.99 monthly, $29.99 annually and $39.99 once. The App Store in your region shows the amount payable.

Does it automatically summarize my recordings with AI?

Alison creates editable transcripts and exports text, including Markdown. Summarization in a separate AI tool is your choice; sending text to a cloud tool changes where that text is processed.

What Mac is required?

macOS 15 or later on an Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported.

Understand Any Audio.In Your Language.