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Everything inside BB Recorder

One app with three products and the shared plumbing that makes them work together — privately.

Meeting Recorder

No bots. Just notes.

A no-bot meeting recorder that captures system audio, links to your calendar, and turns rough notes into clean summaries — using your choice of local or cloud AI.

See Meeting Recorder in detail

No-bot capture

Records system audio directly on your device. Nothing joins your meeting.

Meeting-aware auto-start

Detects calls, auto-starts, links to the right calendar event, and prompts for notes.

Enhanced notes

Rough notes become clean summaries when the meeting ends, using your chosen AI.

Summary templates

Built-in and custom templates for discovery calls, 1:1s, standups, and more.

Catch-me-up

Three-bullet summary of the last five minutes, available mid-call.

Folders and library

Sidebar folders, per-folder defaults, filtering, and smart move-to-folder flows.

Speaker diarization

Color-coded transcripts by speaker, with optional relabeling.

Relink and unlink meetings

Fix wrong meeting matches from the recording detail view.

Dictation

Speak anywhere you type

Hit a hotkey, speak, and clean text lands at your cursor — in any app, with a dedicated Dictation Bar, a notch UI, a snippets library, and optional cleanup.

See Dictation in detail

Global hotkeys

Hold, tap, or double-tap to dictate anywhere. Reliable and customizable.

Dictation Bar and Notch

Compact bar and notch UI show live transcription without blocking work.

Cleanup

Removes fillers, adds punctuation and paragraph breaks, with custom instructions.

Snippets library

Quick dictation clips saved and searchable from a dedicated Snippets view.

Auto-paste

Clean text lands at your cursor in any app, with guidance when permissions block it.

Multilingual

Works across languages, with warnings when a model doesn't match.

Screen Recording

Capture your screen. Keep the file.

Native macOS screen recording with system audio, powered by ScreenCaptureKit. No account, no watermark, and no external service in the path.

See Screen Recording in detail

ScreenCaptureKit

Native macOS screen recording with low overhead and a clean source picker.

System audio

Records audio coming out of your Mac alongside the screen capture.

Saved to your library

Lands next to your meetings and dictation snippets in the same sidebar.

Bring your own keys

Your choice of engine — every step

Transcription, AI chat, and cleanup can each run locally or on a cloud provider. BYO key traffic goes straight from your Mac to the provider — BuildBetter isn't in the path.

Privacy & Control

Yours, start to finish

Local by default. Everything else is opt-in. If you want the strictest compliance posture available, run everything offline.

Full security breakdown

Local-first

Everything runs on your device by default. Cloud use is explicit and opt-in.

No telemetry pipeline

No account required. No background sync. No shadow upload.

Flexible storage

Pick your recording location, set per-folder defaults, optionally compress.

Upload when you choose

Share to BuildBetter on demand — never as a background sync.

See it in action

Free forever. No account required. Works on macOS.

Download for Mac
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