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Transcribe Health for macOS

One universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Native microphone capture, a system-wide dictation shortcut and a menu bar item, signed in with your existing account.

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The desktop app is almost ready

We are finishing the first release. Until it ships, Transcribe Health works in your browser with the same account, and this page will offer the download as soon as it is published.

Open the web app

Using Windows? Get the Windows version.

System requirements

  • macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
  • Apple silicon or Intel, one universal build
  • A microphone (built-in or USB)
  • Internet access to transcribe.health

Install in three steps

  1. 1

    Open the disk image

    Double-click the downloaded .dmg file. A window opens with the Transcribe Health icon and an Applications folder.

  2. 2

    Drag it to Applications

    Drag the Transcribe Health icon onto the Applications folder, then eject the disk image. You can delete the .dmg afterwards.

  3. 3

    Open it and sign in

    Open Transcribe Health from Applications or Spotlight. Sign in with the account you use on the web, including Google or your clinic's single sign-on.

Permissions and network access

Microphone

macOS asks for microphone access the first time you record. Audio is held in memory while you record and streamed to transcribe.health; it is never written to the disk.

Accessibility, only for dictating into other programs

Typing a transcript into another program requires the Accessibility permission. macOS asks for it the first time you use the shortcut outside the app, and until it is granted the transcript stays inside the app. Recording inside the app does not need it.

Network

The app connects only to transcribe.health and its subdomains over HTTPS (port 443). It accepts no inbound connections and makes no other outbound requests, so allowing that domain in your firewall or proxy is enough.

Check that it is working

  1. 1Open the app and sign in. The window shows the same home page you see on the web.
  2. 2Start a recording. The level meter moves when you speak, which confirms the microphone works.
  3. 3Click into a text field in another program, press Cmd+Shift+D, say a sentence and press it again. The text appears where your cursor was.
  4. 4While a recording is open, the menu bar icon shows a dot, so a hidden window never records without a visible sign.

Updates

  • The app checks for an update each time it starts and downloads it in the background.
  • The update is installed the next time you open the app, never in the middle of a visit.
  • The app is installed per user, so updates need no administrator rights.
  • Every update is signed by us and the app refuses anything that is not.

Uninstall

  1. 1Quit Transcribe Health from the menu bar icon.
  2. 2Drag Transcribe Health from the Applications folder to the Trash.
  3. 3To remove its settings as well, delete the health.transcribe.desktop folder in ~/Library/Application Support.

Verify your download

The checksum will appear here once a release is published.

Code signing

The app is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper opens it without a warning.