AnswerPrompter for Mac Free
They ask. You answer. Without looking away.
When someone on your call asks you something, a short answer from your notes appears right under your camera.
- Answers from your notes
- Transcribed on your Mac
- Hidden from screen sharing in the apps we've tested
For Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later.
Ready in 30 seconds
Three steps, and no account.
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Add your notes
Prices, product facts, your bio, a plan for the call. Choose them in the Welcome or the menu: PDF, Word, Markdown or plain text.
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Start listening
Click the waveform in the menu bar, choose Start Listening, and allow the microphone and system audio. The first start may download Apple's speech model. No notes yet? Choose Use the Sample Notes to try it.
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Read the answer
In Auto, each question the other side asks gets a short answer under your camera in about a second; without a key, each one your notes match. In Manual, press a hotkey when you want one.
AnswerPrompter transcribes everyone on the call. Tell the people on your call, and get their consent where the law requires it.
It's free
AI answers are optional, with your own key.
AnswerPrompter
$0
Free on the Mac App Store, coming soon. No account, no subscription, nothing to buy in the app.
- Answers from your notes, right under your camera
- Auto, for each question the other side asks, or Manual, on a hotkey
- Transcribed on your Mac, in English, Spanish and Turkish; audio is never recorded or saved
- Hidden from screen sharing in the apps we've tested; check yours once before an important call
- Hotkeys in any app to step back through answers, hide them or pause listening
- Text size, opacity, width and height of the answer, and Ghost Mode
- Sample notes, to try it before your first call
AI answers, with your own key
Optional: Claude from Anthropic, or a model through OpenRouter, such as DeepSeek or Gemini. You pay the provider directly; a question usually costs a fraction of a cent, researching a call about 6 cents with Claude. With a Claude key, it can also research who you're meeting and add a short brief.
Nothing is sent until you add a key and allow it. The privacy policy says what is sent, and to whom.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. AnswerPrompter will be free on the Mac App Store, with no account, no subscription and nothing to buy in the app. AI answers are optional and use your own key, which you pay the provider for.
Do I need an AI key?
No. Without one, you see the line of your notes that matches the question, found on your Mac, and nothing leaves it. With a key, answers come in 5 to 9 words you can read aloud, and when your notes don't cover a question about you or your offer, it says so rather than inventing a number.
What does an AI key cost?
You pay the provider directly, at its prices. A question usually costs a fraction of a cent; researching a call, about 6 cents with Claude.
What is sent, and to whom?
Nothing until you add a key and allow it. Then your notes and, when the other side asks a question or mentions your notes, or you press Answer Now, the last minute of the call's transcript go to the provider you chose. Research before a call sends who the call is with and your notes to Anthropic, whichever provider answers. Never audio. See the privacy policy.
Does it answer my own questions?
No. It answers the questions the other side asks, heard through the call's audio. What you say into your microphone is transcribed too, to know what was asked and answered, but questions you ask aren't answered.
Does it record audio?
No. Speech is transcribed on your Mac as it is heard, and audio is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere. The call's text is kept in memory while AnswerPrompter runs, and goes when you quit.
Do I need to tell the people on the call?
Yes. AnswerPrompter transcribes everyone on the call, and with an AI key their words go to your provider too. Tell the people on your call, and get their consent where the law requires it.
Which languages and Macs?
English, Spanish and Turkish, on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later.
What about a Mac without a notch?
On a display without a notch, the answer sits at the top centre of the screen.
No answers appear.
Check the menu bar icon's menu: it says whether AnswerPrompter is listening to the call and to you. If it can't hear the call, turn on AnswerPrompter in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen & System Audio Recording. Answers need notes, or an AI key.
The people on my call can see the answer.
Hiding depends on how each app captures the screen. Tell us which app and how you share, and try the other way in the meantime.
Support
Questions, problems or ideas: write to us. Please include your macOS version, the call app you use and, for screen-sharing questions, how you share: whole screen or one window.