Press
Boilerplate, assets, and a direct line to the founder — everything needed to write about Heliotype without waiting on a reply.
Boilerplate
Heliotype is a macOS menu-bar app that records meetings without a bot joining the call. It captures system audio through a CoreAudio process tap and the user's microphone, names each recording after the meeting on the user's calendar, and writes a speaker-labeled transcript beside the recording. Transcription runs on AssemblyAI under the user's own API key. Heliotype does not summarize meetings or extract action items — it hands clean, diarized text to whatever the user already uses for that, typically Claude or ChatGPT. There is no account, no telemetry, and no cloud dashboard: recordings and transcripts stay in a folder on the user's own Mac. Heliotype is a one-time purchase ($29 launch, $39 list) with a 14-day trial, requires an Apple Silicon Mac, and is available as a direct download at heliotype.app.
132 words. A shorter, one-sentence version: "Heliotype is a macOS menu-bar app that records meetings without a bot in the call and turns each one into a named, speaker-labeled transcript on your own disk."
Fact sheet
Assets
Cleared for editorial use with attribution to Heliotype.
Menu-bar recording, the named result in Finder, and a sample diarized transcript, at full resolution.
Contact
For interview requests, review copies, or questions about how Heliotype works, email hello@heliotype.app directly — it reaches the founder.
