Screen, system audio and microphone, with live proof each source is recording. Transcripts are made on your Mac.
Recording health
Finishing an important meeting and wondering if the other side was captured is the worst way to find out. Vida confirms each source as it reaches the file.
Vida is still waiting for the first samples from that source. It normally turns green within a second of the countdown.
Frames and audio from that source are reaching the recording. Real meters show the actual system and microphone levels.
A selected source stopped arriving. You see it during the meeting, while there is still time to fix the setup.
Capture the full display with both sides of the conversation. Save as MP4 or MOV.
System audio, your microphone or both, as compact M4A or uncompressed WAV.
Paused time is removed from the file instead of being saved as silence or a frozen frame.
Recorded
Saved file
No limit
Free recordings have no duration cap. The only limit is your disk.
A floating pause and stop panel plus a menu bar indicator. Vida leaves its own windows out of the capture.
Speech recognition and speaker identification run on your Mac. Export the result for notes, documents or captions.
Spoken languages
Recording: Onboarding feedback.mp4 Recorded: Sep 22, 2026 at 10:04 AM Duration: 0:00:27 Recording Type: Screen + Audio Sources: System Audio and Microphone Language: English Speakers: SPEAKER_01 and SPEAKER_02 --- [00:00:00] SPEAKER_01: Thanks for joining. Let's go through the onboarding feedback first. [00:00:05] SPEAKER_02: Most testers finished setup in under two minutes. Two got stuck on permissions. [00:00:12] SPEAKER_01: Which step, exactly? [00:00:14] SPEAKER_02: Screen Recording. They missed the switch in System Settings. [00:00:19] SPEAKER_01: Then let's add a clearer hint there and test it again on Thursday.
Sample export of a fictional meeting, in Vida's exact output format.
Privacy
App Store
Purchase and restore of Vida Pro, handled by Apple.
Speech models
A one-time download from Hugging Face the first time you transcribe.
Nothing else
The app has no Vida server, no account and no analytics SDK.
A complete recorder, not a trial.
€0Free forever
Everything in Free, plus the complete transcription workflow.
€29.99One-time purchase
€29.99 is the price in Spain. The App Store shows the price for your country. No subscription. Family Sharing included.
Yes. Vida Free is a complete meeting recorder: unlimited recording of any length, every output format and full recording reliability. It has no ads, watermark, account or duration limit.
No. Vida Pro is a one-time App Store purchase. Family Sharing is supported.
No. Vida records from your Mac. It never joins the meeting as another participant.
No. Recordings and transcripts are processed on your Mac. The app only connects to the internet to download speech models and to talk to the App Store.
No. Vida has no accounts or sign-in. Purchases use your existing Apple Account, which Vida never sees.
Yes, in every transcription, including your five free ones. Speakers are labeled and can be merged into readable paragraphs.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Apple Silicon recommended for transcription.