Trace
No-frills offline meeting transcripts with context
A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with a local speech model running entirely on-device. One global shortcut brings up a small bar at the bottom of your screen. It captures your mic and the system audio as separate tracks, labels who said what, and lets you flag key moments mid-call that sit inline at the right timestamp. No bot joins the call, nothing leaves your Mac, no account, no subscription.
Trace is a Notes company. It is a Y Combinator company (S25). It launched on Product Hunt on May 26, 2026, with 87 upvotes. Adamlead has 1 person on file at Trace.
Trace timeline
- No-frills offline meeting transcripts with context
People at Trace
Emails are shown masked, with whether each one has been verified. They're unlocked in the app with Lifetime access.
| Name | Title | |
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| Maker | – |
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Who works at Trace?
Adamlead has 1 person on file at Trace, including Alex Godbehere (Maker). Each email shows whether it has been verified.