Nothing joins the call. Nothing leaves your laptop.
A card appears while you are still talking, quoting the line that triggered it: the objection you talked past, the question you skipped, the signal you missed. Then a scored review of how you ran it, about forty seconds after you hang up.
Live transcript both sides · on device
Live insight feed 0 cues
Hover a card to see the line it quotes
The difference, in one block
Your notetaker
Discussed pricing and timeline.
The client raised some budget concerns and asked about the rollout schedule.
Agreed to follow up next week.
Send updated pricing to the client
Follow up next week
Positive
Every line of that is accurate. Not one of them tells you what to do differently.
HuddleOwl · scored against your role
Call ended on let’s stay in touch
. No date, no owner.
It’s a lot for a team our size
went unanswered.
You moved to price 40 seconds after they said budget
, and never came back to what the delay costs them.
Practise this next
Ask what a problem costs before you price the solution.
A notetaker makes the meeting legible. HuddleOwl makes you better at the next one.
Also a notetaker
HuddleOwl is not instead of your notetaker. It is one, and then it keeps going. Transcript, summary, decisions, action items with owners, a follow-up email in your voice: all of it, on a machine you already own, for nothing per call.
Notes elsewhere
$170 to $240
a year, per seat, for the transcript and the summary. Every call goes to somebody else's server to get there.
Notes here
$0
in API costs, on device. No per-minute transcription, no per-token summary, no per-seat markup. And then it scores how you ran the call, which none of them do.
Four things nothing else does
Everything that coaches you live is cloud. Everything that runs on your machine is a notetaker. HuddleOwl is the only one that is both.
While you are talking
A note you read tomorrow changes nothing about today. HuddleOwl watches both sides of the call as it happens and puts a card in front of you when there is something to do about it: a question you skipped, an objection you talked past, a buying signal you did not pick up. The signal scores move as the call moves, so you can see it slipping before it has slipped.
About 40 seconds after you hang up
Not a summary. A scored rubric for the role you were playing, a verdict, and the one next step that matters. Sales is graded on discovery depth, listening, objection handling, value framing and next step. PM, recruiter and product each get their own. A dimension the call never tested is left unscored, never quietly given a zero.
It reads the entire call
Most tools summarise whatever fits in one context window, which on a 40 minute call means the last few minutes and a confident tone. HuddleOwl map reduces the whole transcript, and the chunking never splits a speaking turn, so a quote is never half a sentence.
The part that makes it trustable
The scorecard does not tell you to work on discovery. It says 3 out of 5, and here is the line you said. Click any dimension on the web and it opens the reason and the quote. You can disagree with a score, which is the whole point. You cannot disagree with a transcript.
Objection handling · 2/5
Were objections answered, or absorbed?
You cut the temperature alerts from $2,600 to $1,800 in one sentence and asked for nothing back. Elena had not pushed on price yet. Tom had.
“Look, I can do the alerts at eighteen hundred.”
Visible to you, invisible to screen share
Not dimmed, not minimised. The overlay does not appear in the recording, the Zoom share or the Loom. Clicks pass straight through to whatever is underneath, so you keep working with it sitting on top, and Cmd Shift H brings it back from anywhere if you lose it.
Move your pointer across the call. The circle is your eyes. Everything outside it is the share.
No account. No API key. No network.
Live transcription, live coaching, the brief, the follow-up email. Download a model once and HuddleOwl needs nothing from anyone. This is not a degraded offline mode: same rubric, same evidence quotes, roughly 40 seconds to a brief.
Where this is true today
The on-device engines ship on macOS. On Windows, HuddleOwl runs against a cloud model of your choosing while the local engines are being built. This page will say so the day that changes, and not before.
Or bring your own
Prefer a cloud model anyway? Point HuddleOwl at over 100 providers or at your own endpoint and pay your provider directly. There is no per-seat AI markup from us.
Where it sits
Read the four locked rows and the two coaching rows together. Nobody else has both columns.
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✓ full support · ● partial, or paid tier only · − not available. Compiled from public information, August 2026. Verify anything you plan to rely on.
Who it is for
Nobody is listening to your calls. Nobody is going to tell you that you priced in the first four minutes, again.
The coaching a sales manager gives, without the sales manager, and without a recording going to a vendor.
Scored on role fit, ownership signal, skill confidence and red flags, with the answer that earned each one.
Legal, health, HR, anything under an NDA. The wifi can be off and nothing about the coaching changes.
How it works
No account, no email, no key. It opens straight into the app and asks you nothing.
One line about what this call needs to achieve. That single line is what you get scored against.
Cues while you talk, and a scored brief about 40 seconds after you hang up.
Free forever
Not a trial and not a freemium ladder. If you use HuddleOwl for your own calls, it is yours. No card, no account, no seat count.
Apple Silicon · Intel Mac 214 MB · Checksums · Will macOS let me open it?
Free for one person, permanently. It is built and paid for by one person too, so if it earns its place on your machine you can support the work.
Teams, early access
Every person on the team gets the full app at no cost, with no cap on how many of you there are. We are taking on a limited number of teams, because the point of this round is that we actually talk to each one and build the team features around what you tell us. When that stops being possible, it closes.
FAQ
No. There is no bot, no extra participant and no calendar connection. HuddleOwl listens to your microphone and your system audio on your own machine, so nobody on the call sees anything different.
On a Mac with the on-device models selected, no. Nothing, at all, including when the wifi is off. If you choose a cloud model instead, your transcript goes to the provider you picked, using your key, and never passes through us.
Yes, for individuals, permanently. No card, no trial clock, no feature held back to sell you later. Teams will eventually pay for team features that do not exist yet.
The app runs on Windows 10 and 11 and captures both sides of the call through loopback audio. The on-device engines are macOS only today, so on Windows you currently point HuddleOwl at a cloud model of your choosing. Windows local engines are being worked on, and this page will say so the day they land.
A Whisper-family transcription model and a local coaching model, both downloaded once from inside the app. Together they are about 3GB and want 8GB of RAM. Or point it at any of 100+ cloud providers, or at your own endpoint.
It hides the coaching overlay from your screen share so the person you are talking to does not watch you being coached. It does not hide that you are recording, and it does not touch anything on their side. Recording law is yours to follow where you are.
In a folder on your disk that you can open from inside the app. Transcripts, cues, briefs and draft emails all live there. Delete the folder and there is nothing left anywhere, because there is no server holding a copy.
Yes. Drop in an audio file you already have and it comes back with the same transcript, the same rubric and the same evidence quotes as a live call.
No. From 0.4.0 the Mac build is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple. On first launch macOS asks once whether you are sure, the same as it does for any app you download, and it says Apple checked the file and found nothing. Click Open and it never asks again. If you are on 0.3.0 or earlier, macOS called those builds damaged because they were not notarised; xattr -cr /Applications/HuddleOwl.app was the fix, and downloading the current build is the better one.