Whisply for Teams
AI for Microsoft Teams meetings
A private overlay that hears your Microsoft Teams call, reads the shared screen, and answers in real time. Nothing joins the meeting. Nothing shows up in the participant list.
**Whisply is the original real-time AI for Teams meetings on Mac.** It lives in your menu bar, listens to the call on-device, and never joins as a participant or bot.
- Hears the Teams call through your Mac microphone and system audio without a bot in the participant list.
- Reads shared screens, slide decks, and chat in real time so answers match what the room is looking at.
- Stays out of your own screen share by default through macOS content protection, even when you present.
Whisply is summoned with a single Cmd+Return keypress and answers in under two seconds on Apple Silicon, fast enough to surface a number, name, or counterpoint while the person on the Teams call is still talking.
Where it breaks Microsoft Teams meetings
- A Notetaker bot in the Teams participant list makes the customer guarded and turns the meeting into a recording event for people who never agreed to it.
- Recap AI gives you the right number an hour after the call ended, when the decision is already made and the moment has passed.
- Tabbing between Teams, your CRM, the deck, and the customer ticket means you stop listening to the call to find the thing the call is about.
- Sharing your Teams screen risks showing the AI assistant window to the customer, which is the most awkward way to end a call.
- On a hiring panel or board update, you forget the one statistic that would have made the point land, and you cannot pull it up without obviously typing.
How Whisply handles each
- A Notetaker bot in the Teams participant list makes the customer guarded and turns the meeting into a recording event.
- Whisply never joins the Teams meeting. It is a Mac menu-bar app that listens through your microphone and system audio on your own device. No participant appears, no recording icon turns on, and no audio is sent to a third party. The customer sees the call they expected.
- Recap AI gives you the right number an hour after the call ended, when the decision is already made.
- Cmd+Return opens the overlay and answers in roughly two seconds on Apple Silicon. The answer arrives while the question is still in the air, not in tomorrow's summary email. You get to use it in the conversation, which is the only place it matters.
- Tabbing between Teams, your CRM, the deck, and the customer ticket means you stop listening to find the thing the call is about.
- Whisply already sees your screen through Screen Recording permission, including the shared deck and any windows beside Teams. Ask in plain English and the overlay pulls the answer without you switching apps. On Pro Undetected, Computer Use can also click and type for you in the background.
- Sharing your Teams screen risks showing the AI assistant window to the customer.
- The Whisply overlay stays out of screen share by default through macOS system-level content protection. When you present your screen on Teams, the overlay is private to you. The customer sees your deck. They do not see the assistant.
- On a hiring panel or board update, you forget the one statistic that would have made the point land.
- Whisply hears the question the moment it is asked and surfaces the figure, the source, or the sharper phrasing in the overlay. The judgment stays yours, the words stay yours. You just stop losing the moments where memory fails under pressure.
How Whisply sits inside a Teams call
Microsoft Teams is a closed room. The meeting window holds the video, the chat, the shared screen, and a participant list that everyone watches. Most AI tools want to be inside that room. They join as a bot named Notetaker, sit in the participant list, and record every person on the call so they can hand you a transcript an hour after the meeting ends.
Whisply works the other way around. It runs as a menu-bar app on your own Mac. The Teams window stays exactly the way Microsoft built it. No new participant appears, no recording icon turns on for the people you are talking to, and no third party gets a copy of the audio. Your colleagues see the call they expected to see.
When you press Cmd+Return, an overlay window appears on top of Teams. It already knows what is on your screen, what was just said, and what the shared deck looks like, so you can ask a question in plain English and get the answer before the next slide loads.
Real-time, not the recap
Recap tools are useful for the day after. They are useless during the actual meeting. The moments that decide a renewal, a hire, or a roadmap happen while someone is still talking, not in a summary email at 6pm. By the time the recap arrives, the room has moved on and the answer you needed is a footnote.
Whisply listens to the Teams audio through your microphone and your Mac system audio, transcribes locally, and answers in the same window of attention the conversation is happening in. Ask for the Q3 churn number while your CFO is asking for it. Ask for the customer name that goes with that logo on slide 14. Ask for a sharper way to push back on a pricing assumption without sounding combative.
The answer lands in two seconds or so, in a panel you can read without breaking eye contact with the camera. The other person sees you thinking. They do not see the assistant doing the lookup.
What it can see, what it cannot
Whisply asks for three macOS permissions, and each one is doing a specific job. Screen Recording lets the overlay read what is currently on your display, including the Teams shared screen, the chat panel, and any documents you have open beside the call. Microphone access lets it hear the call audio. Accessibility, only on Pro Undetected, lets Computer Use click and type for you when you ask it to draft a chat reply or pull up a file.
What Whisply does not do is push any of this back into Teams. It does not type into the Teams chat unless you explicitly tell it to. It does not turn on a recording. It does not send a transcript to anyone on the call. The work stays on your Mac and in your overlay.
There is also a deliberate gap in what Whisply will read. Other Whisply windows, the overlay itself, and anything marked private stays out of the Teams share when you present. That is enforced by macOS content protection at the system level, not by a checkbox you have to remember to tick.
Microsoft Teams quirks Whisply handles
Teams has a few habits that trip up generic AI tools. The chat panel collapses on smaller windows. The shared screen swaps between presenters mid-meeting. Breakout rooms move you to a new call without warning. The Together mode background changes the visual layout the moment someone toggles it.
Whisply reads the current state of your display every time you ask a question, so it does not get stuck on a stale view. When someone takes over screen share, your next question is about the new deck, not the last one. When you get pulled into a breakout, the overlay follows the audio into the new call. There is nothing to reconnect.
Captions and live transcription on Teams are handled by Microsoft inside the call. Whisply runs alongside that. If your IT admin has captions enabled, you still get them in the Teams window. Whisply just adds a private layer on top that only you see.
When Pro Undetected earns its keep on Teams
The free tier and the standard Pro tier are enough for most internal Teams meetings. You get the overlay, the real-time transcription, the answers, and the privacy from screen share. For a status update or a one-on-one, that is the whole job.
Pro Undetected adds two things that matter on harder calls. The first is Computer Use, which lets you ask Whisply to actually do work on your Mac during the meeting. Pull the renewal contract out of Notion, open the customer ticket in Linear, draft a follow-up email in Superhuman, all from a single sentence in the overlay while you keep talking.
The second is a stricter privacy posture against monitoring software some enterprises run on managed Macs. If your Teams calls happen on a tightly managed device, Pro Undetected is the tier that holds up. On a personal Mac, Pro is usually plenty.
What you actually use it for
Sales calls run on Teams in a lot of enterprises now. You are on a procurement review and someone asks how Whisply handles SOC 2 logging. The answer is two seconds away, phrased the way you would say it.
Hiring panels on Teams move fast. Five interviewers, an hour, and a candidate whose resume you skimmed once. Whisply keeps the resume, the rubric, and the previous interviewer notes within reach without you tabbing away.
Customer success calls are the ones where the recap is most often too late. The customer raises an objection at minute 12. You need the ARR data, the support ticket history, and a clean answer before minute 13. That is the loop Whisply is built to close.
Setup for Microsoft Teams meetings
- 1
Install Whisply on your Mac
Download the Mac app from the Whisply site. Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later, runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel. Drag to Applications, open once, and the icon appears in your menu bar.
- 2
Grant Screen Recording and Microphone permissions
On first launch Whisply asks for Screen Recording so it can read the Teams window and shared screens, and Microphone so it can hear the call. Both prompts go through standard System Settings. No Teams plugin, no admin install.
- 3
Open Teams and join your meeting as normal
Nothing changes inside Teams. No bot is added, no integration is configured. The meeting works exactly the way Microsoft built it. Whisply runs in the background and waits for you to summon it.
- 4
Press Cmd+Return to summon the overlay
The overlay appears on top of Teams and already knows what is on your screen and what was just said on the call. Type a question or speak it. The answer lands in a private panel only you can see.
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Turn on Computer Use if you want Whisply to act on your Mac
On Pro Undetected, grant Accessibility permission to enable Computer Use. Then you can ask Whisply to open a file, draft a reply in Outlook, or pull up a record in Salesforce during the call without leaving the conversation.
Related questions
Does Whisply join my Microsoft Teams meeting as a participant or a bot?
No. Whisply is a Mac app that lives in your menu bar. It does not dial into Teams, it does not appear in the participant list, and it does not turn on a recording indicator for the other people on the call. It hears the meeting through your own microphone and system audio. Everyone else sees the same Teams meeting they would have seen if you had no AI assistant at all.
Can the other people on the Teams call see the Whisply overlay if I share my screen?
By default, no. Whisply uses macOS system-level content protection, which means the overlay window is excluded from screen sharing and screen recording. When you present in Teams, the customer sees your deck or your browser. The Whisply window stays private to you, even though it is sitting on the same display.
Does Whisply work with Microsoft Teams live captions and transcription?
Yes, they run alongside each other. Captions and transcription that your organisation has enabled in Teams continue to work in the Teams window for everyone on the call. Whisply adds a separate, private layer on top that only you see. You can use both at once. Whisply does not need Microsoft transcription to be on, because it transcribes the audio locally on your Mac.
Do I need to install a Teams plugin or get IT to approve an integration?
No. Whisply is a standalone Mac app with no Teams integration, no Microsoft 365 OAuth, and no admin install. From Microsoft's side, nothing changes about the meeting. From your side, you grant Screen Recording and Microphone permissions to the Whisply app through standard macOS System Settings, the same way you would for Zoom or Loom.
Will Whisply work on a managed Mac that my employer issued?
Often yes, but it depends on what your employer's MDM allows. The free and Pro tiers run anywhere a normal Mac app can run. Pro Undetected is the tier built for tighter privacy on managed devices, with a stricter posture against monitoring software. If you are on a strictly managed Mac, talk to your IT team about your acceptable use policy before installing any new tool.
What is the difference between Whisply and a meeting notetaker like Otter or Fireflies?
Notetakers join the meeting as a bot, record everyone on the call, and send you a transcript and summary after the meeting ends. They are designed for the recap. Whisply is the original real-time overlay built for Mac. It does not join, does not record other participants for them, and answers in the moment while the call is still happening. They solve different problems. Some teams use both, a notetaker for the archive and Whisply for live help.
How fast does Whisply respond during a live Teams call?
Roughly two seconds for a typical question on Apple Silicon, faster for short lookups. The Cmd+Return hotkey opens the overlay instantly. The answer is in the overlay before the person on the other end finishes their next sentence in most cases. That latency is what makes it useful in the meeting instead of after.
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Mac only. macOS 13 or later. No bot in your calls.