Subtitles · Live captions for Microsoft Teams
Subtitles captions the audio your Mac is playing, so a Teams call is just one more thing making sound. It asks Teams for nothing, which means no meeting policy, no tenant setting and no license tier stands between you and reading what was just said.
Until 31 October: $9 instead of $19 · 14-day refund
The slide is shared, the presenter keeps talking, and you write your questions in front of it all. Nothing in the roster, nothing for the tenant 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 everyone else on the call. A customer call, a standup, an all-hands you are only listening to: the other side is what gets captioned. Your microphone stays closed unless you choose it in Listen To, so presenting is uncaptioned: you read the questions coming back, not your own answer.
Guest links open in a browser tab as often as in the desktop app. Both work: it captures the helper processes an app spawns, which is where browser and Electron audio actually comes from.
One room microphone at the far end of a table, a colleague whose accent you are still tuning to, a name you would rather read than guess at. In a call with thirty people, asking for a repeat costs thirty people ten seconds, so mostly nobody asks.
Teams has live captions, they reach the free tier, and when they are available they work. Whether they are available is not, in most companies, your decision.
The usual way to get text out of a meeting is a notetaker bot: it dials in, it appears in the participant list, and everyone can see the call is being captured. Most IT departments have an opinion about those, and in a regulated tenant the opinion is no.
Subtitles never authenticates to Microsoft, never asks for a Graph permission and never appears in the roster, because it does not know Teams exists. It reads the sound your Mac is already making.
14-day refund, no questions asked.
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.
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.
On-device captions, whatever Workspace tier you are on.
macOS has this built in and free. Where it stops being enough.
Captions with no workspace app to get approved.
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.
No live captions item, a language only the organizer can change, or captions stuck in the meeting window. One cause per symptom.
