Leave the call knowing who does what.

Two things, and you can count both. A blind-spot scan is one pass the assistant makes over the conversation on its own, looking for what was not said — a missed objection, a claim nobody checked. An assistant prompt is one thing you ask it, typed or by button.

They are separate so a long meeting watching itself cannot eat the answers you saved for afterwards. Recording and on-device transcription are unmetered and draw on neither.

Capture and transcription do. Cruxwing records system audio and your mic natively and transcribes on-device with Whisper sized to your chip, so a flight or a locked-down network changes nothing about getting the transcript.

Live blind spots and managed AI actions need a connection. They resume when you are back online, against the transcript captured without them.

Not by capture any more — Granola, Otter and Fireflies all record bot-free now, and all three answer questions mid-call if you ask. Their bet is the archive.

Cruxwing bets on the room, while the decision is still reversible. It speaks first — a blind spot that has to quote your transcript — and writes what the team confirmed into an append-only ledger. It is also the only one here that transcribes fully on-device. Row by row, including the rows Cruxwing loses: the comparison table.

Krisp wins on price and on habit: $16 a month, or $8 billed annually, against our $19, plus noise cancellation — a reason to open an app daily that we have no equivalent for. Both of us run on Mac and Windows.

Two rows go the other way. Krisp puts on-device transcription behind Enterprise; ours is free, unlimited and offline — on a Mac, which is the honest limit. And Krisp writes notes, not an append-only ledger of what a human confirmed. Decide on that; on notes the two are close.

No. It transcribes in the language being spoken — you pick that language — but it does not translate speech, produce translated audio, or convert accents.

That is your choice, per meeting. Choose on-device transcription and the audio never leaves your Mac. Choose a managed engine and audio is streamed to that provider for processing; the privacy policy names every sub-processor, what it receives, and where it is.

AI answers go to the model provider you select; the privacy policy names those providers and what they receive. Sign-in credentials are sealed in the macOS Keychain.

Nothing stops recording. Recording and on-device transcription carry on, because on-device capture is unmetered on every plan. When your blind-spot scans are used up the assistant stops watching on its own; when your assistant prompts are used up it stops answering. The two run out independently.

The app is told once and stops asking, so background watching goes quiet instead of retrying against an empty allowance. You get one plain message naming which of the two ran out.

Every blind spot has to quote your transcript, and the quote is checked against what was actually recognised — if it does not appear, the card is discarded rather than shown to you unsourced. A model that paraphrases instead of quoting produces nothing.

Structured output gets a second gate: owners and dates are checked back against the transcript, and an unverifiable owner becomes an open question rather than a name. That is also why a quiet meeting produces a short answer — silence is a real result.

Each billing period starts with your plan's full allowance, and the floor never drops to nothing: on-device transcription is unlimited on every plan, including Free.

Annual plans save two months: Live Copilot is $190, Power is $490, and High-volume is $990, each equal to ten monthly payments.

No. Pick the recording type — meeting, lecture, podcast, tutorial, interview, presentation, or your own label — and the output contract changes with it. A lecture comes back as concepts, evidence and open questions rather than a decision log.

On automatic it reads the visible window titles and proposes a type; your manual choice overrides it. The ledger never changes — a lecture takeaway is never filed as a team decision. the recording type sets what changes.