Whisply for meetings

The category was defined by notetaker bots. A stranger called Otter or Fireflies or Read.ai joins your call, sits silently in the participant list, records every voice in the room, and emails you a transcript an hour after the meeting ends. That is fine for an archive. It is useless when someone asks you a question and you have eight seconds to answer.

Whisply was built for the eight seconds. It runs as a native macOS app that lives in the menu bar. You hit Cmd+Return and a small overlay opens on top of whatever you are doing. It listens through your microphone permission, watches your screen through screen recording permission, and answers in the second you need it. Nothing dials into the call. Nothing appears on the other side. The people you are meeting with see you, alert and prepared, and that is all they see.

The reason this matters has nothing to do with secrecy and everything to do with respect. A bot in the call records your client without asking. A bot in the call records the candidate you are interviewing. A bot in the call records the friend on the FaceTime. Whisply does none of that. It is a personal assistant in the older sense of the word, one that helps you and only you, while the room stays the room.

Most meeting AI is built around the recap. You finish a 45-minute call, you get a tidy bulleted summary the next morning, and you nod and archive it. The decision was made yesterday. The number you forgot is still forgotten. The recap is a log, not a tool.

Whisply is the opposite shape. The help arrives in the flow of the conversation. A client asks for the renewal pricing on the enterprise tier. You glance at the overlay and the answer is there. An interviewer asks why you left your last role. You see a sharper version of the framing you rehearsed yesterday. A teammate quotes a Q2 figure that sounds off. You ask Whisply, get the actual number, and respond before the slide changes.

The model is included. There is no API key to paste, no OpenAI account to wire up, no token meter to babysit during a long sales call. On Free you get a daily message limit that covers a normal day of standups and one-on-ones. On Pro at $19.99 per month or $11.99 annual, the limits lift and the assistant runs as long as the meeting does.

Whisply does not integrate with Zoom. It does not have a Microsoft Teams app listing. It does not request OAuth from your Google Workspace admin. That is the design. Because the assistant listens through your Mac, not through the conferencing platform, the experience is identical no matter where the meeting is happening.

Zoom on a webinar with 400 people. A Google Meet huddle with two coworkers. A Microsoft Teams call your IT department locked down so notetaker bots get bounced at the door. A Webex with a customer in another timezone. A FaceTime with your cofounder. A coffee meeting in person with your Mac open on the table for notes. Whisply hears all of them the same way and answers the same way.

In-person matters more than it sounds. When you are sitting across from someone, you cannot have a bot in the room. You can have a Mac on the table, an overlay only you can see, and an assistant that quietly pulls up the contract clause you wanted to reference. The first time it happens, it feels like a small superpower.

The most common worry people have when they first hear about a meeting overlay is the screen share scenario. You share your tab to walk through a deck. Does your AI helper show up to the room? With Whisply, no. The overlay uses macOS content protection, the same mechanism Apple uses to keep DRM video out of QuickTime recordings. By default it is invisible to Zoom screen share, Google Meet sharing, Teams sharing, QuickTime, OBS in its standard configuration, and the native macOS screen recorder.

This is the same engine that makes Whisply work in serious settings (interviews, exams on Pro Undetected, sensitive client calls) and it is on out of the box. You do not configure it. You do not flip a switch before each meeting. The /undetectability page goes deeper into what stays in frame and what does not, but the short version is that what you see on your Mac during a meeting is private to you unless you explicitly make it otherwise.

There is no cloud transcript of the meeting waiting in a vendor dashboard. There is no shared workspace where your team lead can scrub through your sales call after the fact. Whisply helps you in the moment and then stays out of the way.

Every meeting has a tail. Action items. A follow-up email. A Linear ticket. A calendar invite for next week. A quick edit to the deck before sending it over. On Pro Undetected ($149.99 monthly or $44.99 annual), Whisply gets Accessibility permission and Computer Use mode, which means the assistant can do the tail of the meeting on the Mac itself.

Tell Whisply to draft the follow-up email with the three things you agreed on, schedule the next call for Tuesday at 2pm, and add a ticket to your project tracker. It moves the cursor, clicks, types, and finishes the work. You move to the next call. The point is not to remove you from your own work, it is to remove the 20 minutes of admin that used to follow every 30 minutes of conversation.

Computer Use is opt-in, scoped to the apps you keep open, and it shows you what it is doing while it does it. You can stop it mid-action. The result is the part of meeting software that the recap-and-summary tools never quite delivered on, because they were never on your Mac in the first place.