For students & creators

Essays, notes & scripts —
by voice alone.

A page of writing in the time it takes to talk it through. Lectures captured, fully searchable, never uploaded. The first draft is the hard part — Kargoo gives it to you.

Download · Free
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

Three ways to use it

In class

Record the lecture.

One click in the menu bar. Captures the room or the Zoom call. Gives you a searchable transcript + AI summary the moment it ends. Nothing uploaded.

Zoom · in-person · podcasts · interviews
At the desk

Draft the essay out loud.

Open a fresh doc. Hit fn fn. Talk through the argument the way you’d explain it to a friend. Edit later.

Pages · Notes · Notion · Docs · Scrivener
On the move

Catch the idea before it’s gone.

Walking to class with a thought you can’t lose? Talk it into the Notes app. Don’t type — speak it.

Notes · Reminders · Bear · Day One

Private by design — for sensitive material

Interviews for a thesis. Therapy session journals. Personal voice memos. Things you record but don’t want sitting on a startup’s S3 bucket. Kargoo runs entirely on your Mac — there’s no server to leak.

Search a 2-hour lecture in seconds

"That part where the prof talked about the supreme court ruling…" → type those words, jump straight there.

One file per session

Audio, transcript, AI summary — together in ~/Documents/Kargoo. Sync with iCloud, back up with the rest of your work.

14 days free, then $8.99/mo

Or $89.99 for a full year — save 15%. The free tier covers 30-min recordings and 10 hours per month.

Try it for the next meeting.

Free to download. Free 14-day trial. No account required.

Download for Mac · Free
v1.0 · 12 MB · macOS 13 Ventura+