Subtitles · Live captions for Slack huddles
Subtitles captions the audio your Mac is playing, so a huddle is just the Slack window making sound. There is no workspace app to get approved, nothing joins the call, and the overlay stays on top while you carry on working in front of it.
Until 31 October: $9 instead of $19 · 14-day refund
Back to the editor and the huddle keeps arriving. Nothing to install in the workspace, nothing an admin has to approve.
Hold ⇧ and drag the captions to move them, as you would in the app.
Hold ⌥ to rewind, and the last few boxes stack back up.
Click in the menu bar: items marked Try all work in this demo.
It taps what your Mac plays, so you read whoever else is in the huddle, whether it is a two-minute support question or an hour of design review. Your microphone stays closed unless you choose it in Listen To, so on a huddle the one voice it does not caption is yours.
Slack is an Electron app, so its audio does not come from the process named Slack. Point the menu bar at it and the helper processes come with it, which is the difference between captions and silence.
Huddles start mid-thought and move fast, people talk over each other, and somebody jumps in with the important part while you are still reading the thread that caused it. The last line said stays on screen, so losing the thread costs you a glance instead of a rewind.
Slack has live captions in huddles, on every plan including the free one, and turning them on takes a click. Three things still get in the way, and the first is the nature of a huddle.
The usual way to get text out of a huddle is a Slack app or a notetaker bot, and both hit the same wall before they do anything useful: someone has to approve them. In most workspaces that means an admin, a request, and a wait, at the end of which a third party has been given standing access to a workspace that is not only yours.
Subtitles is not a Slack app. It has no OAuth scopes, no workspace connection and no presence in the huddle, because it does not know Slack exists. It reads the sound your Mac is already making.
14-day refund, no questions asked.
Subtitles over a film, a stream or a tab that never had a track.
Subtitles in the language being spoken, and translation when you want it.
Captions on every app, without asking anyone to switch them on.
Captions that do not wait for the host to switch anything on.
Captions that do not depend on what your tenant’s admin allows.
On-device captions, whatever Workspace tier you are on.
macOS has this built in and free. Where it stops being enough.
Captions for the shows that never had a transcript.
Captions live, rather than once the recording is processed.
Complementary, not alternatives. Notes after, captions during.
Until 31 October: $9 instead of $19 · 14-day refund
14-day refund, no questions asked
Free for 7 days, then $19 once, every future update included ·
macOS 14.2 or later · Apple silicon
Unlimited live captions, for as long as you own the Mac. No minutes to
buy, no account, no subscription.
