Ideas that arrive mid-task
The best ideas show up while you're busy with something else. Catch one without abandoning your work — hold Control+FN, speak, and it's filed before you've lost your place.
Notes · macOS
Your voice notes app for Mac. One shortcut away.
Hold Control+FN anywhere on your Mac, speak, and release. Voicr transcribes the thought and saves it straight to a searchable Notes tab. Free, native, nothing to open first.
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Catch the thought before it's gone.
A good idea has a short shelf life. By the time you've found a free moment, opened a notes app, and clicked into a field, half of it has already slipped away. A voice notes app for Mac removes every one of those steps. With Voicr you hold Control+FN from wherever you already are — a document, a browser tab, a video call — speak the thought, and let go. It is transcribed and saved before you've finished moving your hand.
What sets Voicr apart is where the note goes. Most of what you say to Voicr is pasted straight into your active app. Notes are the exception: nothing is pasted, nothing interrupts what you were doing. The thought simply lands in the Notes tab and waits there for you — an idea, a reminder, or a line from a meeting you didn't want to lose.
Every note becomes a clean, written record you can return to. The Notes tab keeps them newest-first, grouped by day, and fully searchable, so a thought you captured three weeks ago is one search away. Quick capture in, organized archive out — no app to juggle in between.
How the voice notes app works
Four steps, and most of them take under a second.
- 01
Hold Control+FN
From any app, hold Control and then press and hold FN. After a brief hold, Voicr starts recording — no window opens, nothing loses focus, and your work stays exactly where it was.
- 02
Speak your thought
Say whatever you want to keep — an idea, a to-do, a quote, a detail from the call you're on. Talk as briefly or as long as you like; Voicr is listening, not your active app.
- 03
Release to save
Let go and Voicr transcribes your speech and saves it as a note. A "Note saved" confirmation appears — and nothing is pasted into the app you were in. The thought is kept, not sent.
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Find it later in the Notes tab
Open the Notes tab in the Voicr window. Your note is there — newest first, grouped by date, and searchable by its text. Read it in full, copy it in one click, or delete it when it's done its job.
What people capture with Voicr
If it's worth remembering, it's worth a five-second note.
Moments from a call
A name, a number, a decision you need to act on. Capture it mid-meeting without switching windows or typing while someone is still talking.
Reminders to yourself
Things to do, things to buy, people to follow up with. Speak them the second they occur to you instead of trusting your memory until lunch.
First lines of something bigger
The opening of an email, the angle for a post, the shape of an argument. Get the rough version down by voice, then refine it later from the Notes tab.
Things worth quoting
A line from a podcast, a phrase from a book, something a colleague said well. Save it verbatim — out of the box, a note is a faithful transcription of what you said.
Language practice that sticks
With Language Tutor Mode on, a note becomes a lesson — Voicr explains how the polished text differs from what you said. Speak a thought, save it, learn from it.
Why Voicr for voice notes
Capture from anywhere
No app to open, no record button to hunt for. One global shortcut works in every app on your Mac, so catching a note never costs more than a held key.
Searchable, organized history
Every note lands in the Notes tab — newest first, grouped by day, filtered by a search field. Find an old thought in seconds, then read, copy, or delete it in one click.
Verbatim or polished
Out of the box, a note is an exact, properly punctuated transcription of what you said. Turn pure dictation off and your Default Prompt rewrites it instead — your call.
Never a duplicate
Voicr fingerprints each note's text. Say the same reminder twice, or promote a recording you already saved, and you get one note — not a cluttered list of copies.
Promote a past recording
Anything in your Recording History can become a note. Pick a recording, choose Save as note, and a thought you spoke earlier joins your searchable archive.
Free, native, and private
Notes are included on every plan. Voicr is a real macOS menu bar app, and your notes stay local on your Mac — audio is transcribed, then immediately discarded.
Voice notes app for Mac — FAQ
Is Voicr's voice notes app free?
Yes. Notes are included on every Voicr plan, including the free one. Plans differ only in monthly word volume — the free plan gives you 5,000 words a month, with no credit card required.
How is a note different from normal dictation?
A normal FN dictation is pasted into whatever app you're in. A note — captured with Control+FN — is saved instead of pasted. It lands in the Notes tab rather than your active window, so it never interrupts what you were doing.
Where are my voice notes stored?
Every note is stored locally on your Mac, in Voicr's database alongside your recordings. Audio is sent to Voicr's backend only to be transcribed, then immediately discarded — recordings are never kept on the server.
Can I search my voice notes?
Yes. The Notes tab has a search field that filters notes by their text, and lists them newest-first grouped by date — Today, Yesterday, Last Week, Last 30 Days, Older — so old notes stay easy to find.
Can I turn an old recording into a note?
Yes. Open the History tab, select any recording, and choose Save as note. Voicr creates a note from that recording's text. If an identical note already exists, the action is disabled, so you can't save the same thing twice.
Is this like Apple Voice Memos?
Voice Memos stores audio recordings you open and play back. Voicr's notes are written text, captured by a global shortcut without opening an app, and kept in a searchable archive — built for catching thoughts, not recording audio.
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Stop losing good ideas.
Voicr's voice notes app for Mac is free, native, and ready in minutes. Install it, hold Control+FN, and catch your next thought before it's gone.
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