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Free for Windows · No trial, no expiry

The meeting copilot that never leaves your side — or your PC

Captain transcribes both sides of every call on-device, suggests what to say next, catches every decision and deadline, and drafts your follow-up email — before you've even left the room.

FREE · LOCAL-FIRST · WORKS OFFLINE · BRING YOUR OWN AI, OR RUN IT FULLY LOCAL
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Captain — Live Meeting REC 00:00
Live transcript
THEMSo pricing needs sign-off before the pilot starts, right?
MEYes — legal wants the MSA finalized first.
THEMAnd can your team ship the integration by the 28th?
MEWhich systems does the integration need to cover?
Rolling summary updated · 2 action items · 1 deadline
AI copilot
⚑ Action item — finalize MSA before pilot
⏰ Deadline detected — “the 28th”
Suggested response
Confirm scope before committing — ask which systems the integration must cover.
How it works

Three steps to never taking meeting notes again

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Pick what to capture

System audio for the other participants (“Them”), your microphone (“Me”), or both at once. Works with any meeting app — Teams, Zoom, Meet, anything your PC can hear.

02

Start listening

Ctrl+L — or Ctrl+Alt+L from any app, thanks to the system tray — and Captain transcribes live on your device with Whisper. AI suggestions, strategy prompts, and risk/decision/deadline alerts appear as the conversation unfolds.

03

Stop — and it's done

A polished summary with sentiment, talk-time ratio, decisions, and action items is generated instantly — plus a ready-to-send follow-up email, drafted in one click.

Features

Built for the meetings that matter

Interviews, sales calls, client consultations, 1:1s, standups — Captain adapts its focus with per-meeting roles and templates.

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Two-sided live transcript

Your voice and theirs, tagged Me / Them — with optional on-device speaker separation.

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Real-time suggestions

Responses, follow-up questions, and strategies: clarify, agree, challenge, request detail, summarize.

Nothing slips past

Instant alerts for risks, decisions, deadlines, and action items — keyword heuristics plus AI detection.

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One-click follow-up email

Drafted from the summary, decisions, and action items the moment the meeting ends.

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Roles & templates

Interviewer, Candidate, Manager, Sales, Consultant — plus editable templates for 1:1s, standups, retros.

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Global history search

Search every meeting's title, transcript, and summary. Export to PDF, Word, Markdown (Obsidian-ready), or JSON.

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Private AI chat

A side conversation with the AI during the meeting, grounded in the live transcript.

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Sentiment & talk-time

Every summary carries a tone read and a talk-time ratio, so you know how the room felt.

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One-click local AI

No API key? Captain can install a local model for you from inside the app and run 100% offline — no account, no cloud.

Action items, everywhere

A single view of every commitment across all your meetings — who owes what, by when.

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Pre-meeting briefing

Before the call, see what carried over from the last time you met these people — open items, decisions, promises.

Stop instantly

End a meeting the second it ends; the summary and follow-up draft finish in the background while you move on.

Privacy

Local-first, by design

🔒 Audio never leaves your PC

Transcription runs on-device with Faster-Whisper. After the one-time model download, it works fully offline.

🔑 Your AI, your key

Only transcript text goes to the provider you choose — OpenAI, Claude, Azure OpenAI, or install a local model from inside Captain — one click, no account — for 100% offline use.

🛡 You stay in control

Consent gate before recording, retention auto-delete, per-meeting delete, and API keys stored in the Windows Credential Manager.

Captain is free. Install it today.

No trial, no expiry, no signup. Transcription works without any API key — and local AI needs none either.

Download Captain for Windows
WINDOWS 10/11 (64-BIT) · ~96 MB INSTALLER · PER-USER INSTALL, NO ADMIN RIGHTS
Heads-up on Windows SmartScreen: you may see “Windows protected your PC” — click More info → Run anyway. Captain is signed by Vadix but not yet with a paid publisher certificate, so Windows flags it as uncommon. It never needs admin rights and installs only for your user.
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