Beta · for Mac 💛
A floating caption bar that follows you across every desktop, live multilingual captions, and visual alerts for doorbells, alarms, and more — all private, on your Mac.
Download EverHeard for Mac Free · version 0.1.0 (beta) · about 2 MB · Apple-notarizedDouble-click EverHeard.dmg, then drag EverHeard into your Applications folder.
Launch it from Applications (or Spotlight). The first time, it downloads its language model — a moment, just once.
Click Allow when asked — that's how it hears speech and sounds. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
On-device Whisper turns speech into text — and auto-detects the language, so it captions Spanish, French, and more in their own words.
A caption bar that stays on top and follows you across every desktop. Drag it anywhere; lock it to click through.
A banner and a screen flash when it hears a doorbell, knock, alarm, phone, and more — a whole-screen flash for urgent ones.
All speech and sound processing runs on your Mac. Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded.
Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer, Apple-silicon Mac. Works best with a good microphone. This is a beta — please tell us what you find: alexbalmaseda@gmail.com. In the app, Menu → Save diagnostics writes a log to your Downloads you can send us.