⌥⌘S
Capture the screen
One keystroke hands your display to the model. The slide someone skipped, the dashboard, the spec you were just asked about.
- macOS · signed by Apple
- No bot joins your call
- $99 once · 14-day money back
Your notes, on screen.
Not in the recording.
Ocly listens to both sides of your call on your Mac, writes the notes as they happen, and answers your questions in a panel pinned to your screen. Screen shares, recordings and screenshots never get it — macOS leaves the window out of the capture stream entirely.
macOS 12 or later · $99 once, not per month · 5 Macs · every future update free
Your screen
you see everything
Q1 migration — cutover plan
Schema backfillMar
Read-repair jobApr
Dual-write cutoverApr
Legacy shutdownMay
RMRana M.
DKDan K.
AOYou
Ocly
Listening
Heard“…still good for March if the backfill slips two weeks?”
March holds. The backfill runs behind a flag, off the release path.
What slips is the read-repair job, and that blocks cutover.
Decision logged: ship March, cutover moves to April.
⌥⌘S capture·⌥⌘↩ send
What the recording sees
Zoom · Meet · Teams · ⌘⇧4
Q1 migration — cutover plan
Schema backfillMar
Read-repair jobApr
Dual-write cutoverApr
Legacy shutdownMay
RMRana M.
DKDan K.
AOYou
Nothing here
The panel never entered the stream.
Same call, same second, two different pictures. The panel is on your Mac and nowhere in the capture.
Sits on top of the call you already run
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Microsoft Teams
- Webex
- Slack huddles
Use it on your next few calls. If it isn’t for you, I refund it.
Fourteen days from purchase, one email to hello@oclyapp.com, money back in full. No form, no reason required, no “let me tell you about our other plan”. You keep whatever notes it already wrote for you.
The invisible panel
Answers on your screen, invisible to theirs.
macOS lets an app mark a window as protected content. When the window server assembles the frame it hands to a capture stream, a protected window is simply not in it. Ocly’s panel is marked that way from the moment it opens, so there is nothing to switch on and nothing to remember halfway through a call.
- Excluded from Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, QuickTime and ⌘⇧4
- Enforced by the macOS window server, not by Ocly
- Works the same whether you share a window or the whole display
- Still perfectly visible to you, at full resolution
What it is not. Invisible to capture is not invisible to people. Anyone sitting beside you sees the panel exactly as you do, and a phone pointed at your screen records it fine. Ocly is built for meetings you are part of — not for anywhere assistance is against the rules.
Q1 migration — cutover plan
Schema backfillMar
Read-repair jobApr
Dual-write cutoverApr
Ocly
On your screen only
MarkedProtected content — excluded from every capture stream.
You read this at full resolution.
The recording beside you has an empty rectangle where it sits.
See it in motion
Watch the panel appear on one screen and not the other.
Thirteen seconds, no narration. The left is a Mac with Ocly open; the right is the exact stream Zoom, Meet, Teams and QuickTime receive at the same instant.
Left: your Mac. Right: the stream everyone else on the call receives.
How it works
Three keys. No bot. No setup call.
Install it, paste an API key, and it is ready on your next meeting. Nothing joins the call and nobody is told you are using it.
⌥⌘A
Hear the room
System audio and your microphone together, transcribed live, so the notes cover what everyone said and not just you.
⌥⌘↩
Get the answer
Decisions, numbers and follow ups land in the panel as they are said. Ask a question mid call and the answer arrives there too.
Your keys
There is no Ocly server.
No account, no sign in, no usage dashboard, because there is nothing to meter. You paste your own API keys into the app, they stay on your Mac, and every request goes straight from your machine to the provider you picked. We never receive a prompt, a screenshot or a transcript.
- Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT or MiniMax, switchable mid session
- Speechmatics for live transcription of the call
- Keys stored in your macOS Keychain, never sent to us
- Your rate limits, your spend cap, your bill
- Anthropic ClaudeReasoning, code and long context
- OpenAI GPTThe fast fallback
- MiniMaxCheap enough to leave running
- SpeechmaticsReal-time transcription
The API key question
Yes, you bring your own key. Here is exactly what that means.
It is the thing people ask about most, so it gets a section instead of a line of small print. Two facts up front: it takes about four minutes, and it is the reason there is no monthly bill.
- Open your provider’s console. console.anthropic.com or platform.openai.com, signed in with an email you already have.
- Create a key and add a little credit. Most people start with $5 and stop thinking about it. Set a monthly spend cap on the same screen while you are there.
- Paste it into Ocly’s Settings. It goes into your macOS Keychain. Add a Speechmatics key the same way for live transcription.
Built for
The calls where you are the one on the spot.
Anywhere you have to keep talking and keep track at the same time, and a bot in the corner would be the wrong look.
- Sales & discoveryObjections, numbers and next steps captured while you stay in the conversation, not typing through it.
- Consulting & client callsEvery decision logged as it is made, so the follow-up email writes itself and nothing is misremembered.
- Product & user researchLive transcript of both sides, with the quote you needed already pulled out by the time the call ends.
- Standups & planningAction items and owners land in the panel as people speak, ready to paste into the tracker.
- Screen-shared reviewsShare the whole display without sharing your notes. The panel is the one window the recording cannot see.
- Back-to-back daysNo bot to admit, no dashboard to open. A keystroke starts it and the notes are waiting afterwards.
Compare
Ocly against a meeting bot.
Most meeting AI works by sending a bot into your call. Everyone watches it arrive, and the recording lives on someone else’s server.
| Property | Ocly | A meeting bot |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | $99, once | A subscription, monthly |
| Who joins the call | Nobody | A bot, visible to everyone |
| Where transcripts live | Your Mac | The vendor’s servers |
| Which model answers | The one you pick | Whichever they chose |
| Answers you mid call | Yes, on your screen | A summary afterwards |
| Account to sign into | None | Required |
Who you are buying from
One person, one app, a real email address.
Ocly is not a funded company with a support queue. It is a macOS app I built because every meeting tool I tried either dropped a bot into the call or shipped my transcripts to somebody else’s server. There is no growth team here and no upsell waiting after checkout.
That cuts both ways, so here is the honest version: this is version 1, macOS 12 and later, and Windows is still being written. If something breaks, the person who wrote the code reads the email and answers it.
— Abdullah · hello@oclyapp.com
- Signed and notarised by AppleIt opens on the first double click — no right-click dance, no “unidentified developer” warning to talk yourself past.
- Nothing to sign intoBuying does not create an account. A licence key activates the app, and that is the whole handshake.
- Payments handled by PolarCard details never touch this site. Receipts, re-downloads and licence seats live in their customer portal.
- 14 days to change your mindOne email and the money goes back in full. That is the entire refund process.
Pricing
One payment. Yours forever.
The usual deal is a bill every month and your transcripts sitting on someone else’s server. This is one payment, and there is no server for anything to sit on.
$99
one time, not per month
macOS 12 or later
Apple Silicon and Intel
- The full macOS app, signed and notarised, nothing held back
- Live transcription of both sides of every call
- Notes, answers and diagrams in a panel the call cannot see
- A licence key that runs on five of your Macs
- Every future version, Windows included, at no extra cost
- No subscription, no seats, no usage caps, no account
14-day money back. Email hello@oclyapp.com and it is refunded in full.
Not included: API credits. You pay Anthropic, OpenAI or Speechmatics directly at their prices, usually cents per session. We would rather not stand in the middle and mark it up.
Not on a Mac
Windows is being written. Leave an address and I’ll tell you when it ships.
One email, when the Windows build is out. Nothing else, ever.
Questions
Straight answers.
Is it genuinely invisible on a screen share?
To software, yes. The panel is marked as protected content, so the macOS window server leaves it out of every capture stream: conferencing apps, screen recorders and screenshots alike. To a person standing behind you, obviously not. It is invisible to capture, not to eyes.
What if I buy it and it is not what I expected?
Email hello@oclyapp.com within 14 days of buying and you get the full $99 back. No form to fill in, no reason to give, no save attempt. Refunds go to the card you paid with, through Polar, and normally land within a few working days.
Where should I not use this?
Anywhere assistance is not allowed. Proctored exams, certification tests, and any assessment whose rules forbid outside help. Ocly is built for meetings you are part of, not for passing yourself off as unaided. Recording consent is law in some places rather than etiquette, so check your local rules.
It transcribes me but not the other people. Why?
Screen Recording permission is off. macOS routes system audio through the same API as screen capture, so without it Ocly reaches only your microphone. Turn it on in System Settings, Privacy and Security, Screen Recording, then restart Ocly. The app tells you when this is the problem rather than leaving you guessing.
How long does setup actually take?
Four to six minutes. Open the app, paste your licence key, grant Screen Recording and Microphone in System Settings, paste an API key. No onboarding call, no workspace to create, nobody to invite.
Does it work on Windows?
Not yet. Today it is macOS 12 or later, universal, so Apple Silicon and Intel both. The Windows build is in progress and lands as a free update on the same licence — there is a form further up this page if you want an email when it does.
What does a session cost to run?
Whatever your provider charges. Screenshots are the expensive part. An hour of meeting with a mid-tier model and live transcription typically lands between a few cents and a couple of dollars — about $3–6 a month at four calls a week. You set the spend cap in your provider’s console, not here.
Can you see my screen or my transcripts?
No. There is no backend to send them to. Screenshots and audio go directly from your Mac to the API you configured, and sessions are stored in a local file.
I already pay for Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus. Enough?
No. Consumer subscriptions and API keys are billed separately by the provider. You want a key from console.anthropic.com or platform.openai.com. Both take a couple of minutes and bill per use.
Will this become a subscription later?
Not for anyone who already bought. The licence you buy today covers every future version. If pricing changes, it changes for new buyers.
Your next meeting starts soon.
Install it, paste a key, let it take the notes. If it is not for you, you have fourteen days to say so.
Get Ocly for $99One payment · five Macs · lifetime updates · 14-day money back