EverHeard Sounds & Captions · Mac App Store 💛
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.
Get it on the Mac App Store Free · available on the Mac App Store as “EverHeard Sounds & Captions”Get EverHeard Sounds & Captions free from the Mac App Store.
Launch it from Applications. 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. Please tell us what you find: support@everheard.app. In the app, Menu → Save diagnostics writes a log to your Downloads you can send us.