Transcribe client conversations on your own Mac.
Attorney-client confidentiality rules out cloud transcription for a lot of your work. Tyll does everything on your Mac — no account, no upload — even on a laptop on the train.
Client meetings
You record routinely, but then the audio just sits there, untouched. Tyll records directly, tells you who's speaking — you, your client, anyone else in the room — and gives you a searchable transcript.
Depositions and interviews
For depositions, fact-finding interviews, or background calls, you want it word for word. Tyll exports to Markdown with speaker names and timestamps — ready to drop into your case management software.
Dictation instead of typing
Briefs, notes, email replies: press the shortcut, speak, done — the text goes straight to where your cursor is. Your last three dictations stay handy, replacing the wall of sticky notes.
Why the cloud isn’t enough
Attorney-client confidentiality, professional secrecy, careful handling of sensitive personal data — cloud transcription services send your audio to their servers. Even with a data processing agreement, there’s a residual risk that data ends up stored abroad or gets pulled into a government request.
Tyll is built the other way around: no account, no upload, no quiet stream of usage data. The speech recognition lives inside the app. The installer is checked by Apple. Everything runs on your Mac — even offline.
What you end up with
- The original audio recording, kept for your file
- A transcript that labels each speaker, with timestamps
- Export to Markdown
- A searchable index of every session, all on your Mac
What Tyll deliberately leaves out
- No automatic “AI reply” suggestions
- No cloud backup or sync
- No team sharing — transcripts stay on your Mac, and you share them yourself
“Cloud transcription is off the table for sensitive matters. An app that handles the whole thing on my Mac was long overdue.”