Use case

AI for Google Meet calls

A Mac-native overlay that hears your Google Meet, reads your screen, and feeds you the right answer before the silence gets uncomfortable. Only you see it.

**Whisply is the original real-time ai notetaker for Google Meet on Mac.** It hears the call, watches your screen, and answers in your menu bar within seconds.

  • Lives in the macOS menu bar, summoned with Cmd+Return, never appears in the Google Meet participant tile rail.
  • Hears the call through system audio and your mic, then answers in the overlay before the next sentence lands.
  • Stays out of screen sharing and recording by default. Present and share your tab without showing the assistant.

Whisply launches with Cmd+Return and renders the overlay using a system-level content protection flag, which is why it does not appear in Google Meet's Present a tab, Present a window, or Present entire screen feeds, even when you are the one sharing.

Where it breaks Google Meet calls

  • A notetaker bot in the Meet participant list makes the customer go quiet, and the transcript you get back is polite filler instead of the candid feedback you joined the call for.
  • You are presenting your screen in Google Meet and you need talking points, but pulling up a doc means alt-tabbing in front of a live audience that can see your every move.
  • The dashboard the PM just shared has the number you should already know, and you have eight seconds before the silence gets weird.
  • The customer asked a pricing question on a Meet call that ran past time, and the recap from your existing notetaker arrives an hour later when the deal is already cooling.
  • You run back-to-back Google Meets all day and your notetaker tool charges per minute of transcription, on top of a model API bill you also pay.

How Whisply handles each

Bot in the Meet participant list kills candor
Whisply never joins the call. There is no Google account to connect and no bot to admit. The host sees your name and tile only. Whisply listens through your Mac's system audio and microphone permissions, on your side of the screen, so the customer talks to a person and not to a recording.
Need talking points while presenting and cannot alt-tab
Cmd+Return summons the overlay above the Meet window. Whisply renders with system-level content protection, which is why it does not show up in Present a tab, Present a window, or Present entire screen feeds. Your audience sees the slide. You see your notes.
Eight seconds to interpret a shared dashboard
Whisply has Screen Recording permission, so it can see the dashboard the presenter just put up. Ask what changed and it reads the chart and answers in plain English in the overlay, before the silence gets uncomfortable.
Recap arrives after the deal cools
Whisply summarizes the call live and finalizes a recap with action items by speaker the moment you end the Meet. The notes stay local until you copy them into a Google Doc or email, so the customer gets a follow-up while they are still at their desk.
Per-minute transcription bills plus a model API bill
Whisply is a flat subscription. Pro is 19.99 a month, or 11.99 annual. All models are included and there is no separate OpenAI or Anthropic key to manage. Twelve Meets a day cost the same as two.

Why Google Meet calls are different from a normal AI notetaker job

Google Meet calls are short, fast, and almost always cross-functional. A 25 minute sync with three product managers, an account exec, and a customer on a flaky home connection is not the kind of meeting where you want a robot named Fireflies Notetaker sitting in the participant tile, recording the customer's voice without anyone really asking. People tense up. The call gets less honest. The notes you get back are technically accurate and practically useless.

Whisply runs only on your Mac. There is no Google account to connect, no bot to admit from the waiting room, no extra participant for the host to approve. The customer sees your name and your camera tile. That is it. The AI is on your side of the screen, listening through your machine, helping only you.

Because the overlay sits above Chrome, Arc, or whatever browser you run Meet in, it works the same whether the call is a one-off scheduled in Google Calendar, a quick meet.new link a colleague drops in Slack, or a recurring standup pinned to your dock as a PWA. You do not retrain it per meeting type.

What the overlay actually does during the call

Hit Cmd+Return and the overlay slides in over the Meet window. Ask anything in plain English, by typing or by voice. Whisply already has the audio from the past few minutes of the call and a fresh look at whatever is on your screen, including the slide the presenter just advanced to or the spreadsheet someone shared in the chat.

Three concrete examples from real Google Meet calls. The customer asks what your refund window is and you have not memorized it. Cmd+Return, ask, answer in two seconds. The PM shares a Looker dashboard for a metric you should know cold. Cmd+Return, ask Whisply to read the chart and tell you what changed week over week. The interviewer asks you to walk through the last time you handled a missed deadline. Cmd+Return, get a short prompt with the project name and the two beats that matter, then tell the story in your own voice.

Nothing posts to the meeting. Nothing renders in the chat panel. The other side sees you looking at your screen, the same way they would if you were checking notes in a Google Doc on the side.

Notes, action items, and the recap people actually read

At the end of the call, Whisply can write the summary, pull out action items by speaker, and surface the questions you said you would follow up on. Because the overlay was watching the screen too, the recap can reference the slide title and the exact metric on the dashboard, not just a transcript of who said what.

The recap stays local until you decide to send it. There is no shared workspace where the customer's quote gets indexed for someone else's product team to search. If you want to drop the notes into a Google Doc, you copy them across yourself, the same way you would paste from any other app on your Mac.

For teams that run Meet all day, this is the difference between a notetaker that produces 40 transcripts a week nobody opens and a recap you actually send to the customer before they close their laptop.

Presenting your screen without showing the assistant

Google Meet's Present a tab, Present a window, and Present entire screen all rely on the browser asking macOS for the pixels of a given surface. Whisply renders its overlay window with a system-level content protection flag, the same mechanism Apple ships for things like password autofill panels. When Chrome asks macOS for the pixels of your desktop, the overlay is not in the frame the OS hands back.

In practice, this means you can demo a product walkthrough in Present entire screen mode while Whisply is open in the corner with your talk track, and the people on the call see the demo, not the talk track. Same for Present a window when you are walking through a Figma file or a Notion page, and Present a tab when you are showing a single dashboard.

If you have ever been the person who shared the wrong tab and exposed something you did not mean to share, this is the design detail that matters. Whisply is, by default, never in the share.

Pricing for people who live in Google Meet

Free is enough to try Whisply on a couple of calls a day, with the core meeting-assist features and a daily message cap. Most people who run two or three Meets a day outgrow it inside a week.

Pro is 19.99 dollars a month, or 11.99 a month on the annual plan. It lifts the limits, keeps the live answers fast, and is the tier most account executives, recruiters, and consultants land on. All models are included. There is no separate OpenAI or Anthropic key to manage and no surprise usage bill at the end of the month.

Pro Undetected is 149.99 dollars a month, or 44.99 a month annual. It adds Computer Use, which lets Whisply act on your Mac through Accessibility permission, and the armed proctor-resistant mode for people who need the overlay to stay invisible through monitored software. Most Google Meet users do not need it. The people who do, know who they are.

Setup for Google Meet calls

  1. 1

    Install Whisply for Mac

    Download the Mac app from whisply.net/download. You need macOS 13 Ventura or later. Apple Silicon and Intel are both supported. The installer is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without the Gatekeeper override dance.

  2. 2

    Grant the three permissions Whisply needs for Google Meet

    On first launch, macOS will prompt for Screen Recording so Whisply can see the shared screen, Microphone so it can hear your side of the call, and optionally Accessibility if you are on Pro Undetected and want Computer Use to act on your Mac. System audio capture works without a virtual driver.

  3. 3

    Pin Cmd+Return as your summon hotkey

    The default hotkey is Cmd+Return. You can change it in Whisply's settings if you already use that chord in another Mac app. The overlay opens above whatever browser is running Meet, in roughly 200 milliseconds.

  4. 4

    Join a Google Meet and try it on a low-stakes call first

    Open meet.new in Chrome, Arc, or Safari and join solo, or start a quick internal sync. Hit Cmd+Return mid-call and ask Whisply to summarize the last two minutes. Once you see how the overlay sits above the Meet window without leaking into a screen share, take it into a real customer call.

  5. 5

    Set up your recap workflow

    Decide where your Meet notes live. Most people copy Whisply's end-of-call summary into a Google Doc named after the customer, or paste action items into the Slack thread for the deal. Whisply keeps the recap local until you move it, so you control where it ends up.

Related questions

Does Whisply work with Google Meet specifically, or only Zoom?

Whisply works with any meeting that runs in a browser or a desktop app on your Mac, including Google Meet in Chrome, Arc, Safari, Brave, and the Meet PWA. It listens to your Mac's audio and reads your screen, so it does not need a Google Meet integration to function. There is no Google Workspace admin step, no Meet add-on to approve, and no calendar connection required for it to start helping on your next call.

Will the other people on the Google Meet call see Whisply in the participant list?

No. Whisply does not join the call as a participant. There is no bot named Notetaker or Recording Bot to admit from the waiting room. The host and the other attendees see your name and your camera tile, exactly the same way they would if you were not running Whisply at all. Everything Whisply does happens on your Mac, on your side of the screen.

If I share my screen in Google Meet, will the overlay show up in the share?

By default, no. Whisply renders its overlay window with a system-level content protection flag that macOS honors when other apps ask for the pixels of your screen. That covers Google Meet's Present a tab, Present a window, and Present entire screen modes. Your audience sees the slide or dashboard you are presenting. They do not see the overlay.

Does Whisply transcribe the other people on the Google Meet call?

Whisply hears the call audio so it can answer your questions and write your recap, but it is designed as a personal assistant, not a surveillance recorder. The transcript and notes stay local on your Mac until you decide to copy them somewhere. There is no shared workspace where a customer's quote ends up indexed for another team to search.

How fast does the overlay actually answer during a Google Meet?

The overlay opens in roughly 200 milliseconds when you press Cmd+Return. Most questions during a live call come back in two to four seconds, which is fast enough that you can ask, read the answer, and respond before the silence on the call gets awkward. If you are reading a dashboard the presenter just shared, the answer usually arrives before they finish explaining what the chart shows.

Can Whisply act on my Mac during a Google Meet, like opening a doc or sending a Slack message?

On Pro Undetected, yes. Computer Use mode lets Whisply act on your Mac through macOS Accessibility permission, so you can ask it to open the right Notion page, paste an answer into the Meet chat, or pull up a Looker dashboard while you keep talking. On Free and Pro, Whisply answers in the overlay and you do the clicking.

How much does Whisply cost for someone who runs Google Meets all day?

Free covers a few calls a day with the core features. Pro is 19.99 dollars a month, or 11.99 a month on the annual plan, and is the tier most sales, recruiting, and consulting users land on. All models are included, so there is no per-minute transcription fee and no separate OpenAI or Anthropic key to manage. Pro Undetected at 149.99 a month, or 44.99 annual, adds Computer Use and the armed proctor-resistant mode.

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Mac only. macOS 13 or later. No bot in your calls.