Speak anywhere.
It lands on your Mac
A tiny menu-bar app that files your voice captures as Markdown notes, sorted into folders like Tasks, Ideas, and Journal. Capture a thought from anywhere; your Mac has it the next time it wakes and syncs.
Two ways in. One folder out.
Both paths run on Apple infrastructure you already trust
Siri texts over iMessage
Your phone is locked, across the room. Say "Hey Siri, send a text to me saying rent is due on the 5th." The Mac watches your own Messages thread, files the capture as a Markdown note, and replies "Saved" in the chat.
Needs Full Disk Access on the Mac to read your Messages history. The app walks you through it on first launch.
The Rapture iPhone app, through your iCloud
Turn on the Rapture Mac destination in the iOS app and every capture is handed to your own iCloud Drive. Your Mac files it the next time it is awake and syncing. No pairing, no NoiseMeld server, nothing to babysit.
Needs both devices signed into the same Apple account with iCloud Drive on. No special Mac permissions. The menu-bar counter confirms what arrived today.
The folder is the whole integration
Each capture becomes a Markdown note in a folder you pick. Out of the box the sorting is deterministic: links file under Links, everything else under Notes. Turn on AI triage and voice notes are refined into Tasks, Ideas, and Journal with smart titles, using Apple Intelligence on your Mac when available or your own Anthropic key. Your verbatim words are always kept in the note.
No database, no proprietary format, no lock-in. Point Claude, ChatGPT, a local model, or your own scripts at the folder and your spoken thoughts become something they can read.
Notes that sort themselves
Deterministic filing out of the box. Everything smarter is a toggle you control.
AI triage, only if you want it
Off by default. Turn it on and notes get sorted and titled by Apple Intelligence on your Mac, or by your own Anthropic API key. Captures file instantly without it, so nothing ever waits on AI.
Reminders and Calendar handoff
Say "remind me to call the plumber" and a Reminder appears. State an appointment with a date and time and a calendar event does. Opt-in, and the app only ever creates entries; it never reads or edits your existing ones.
Link enrichment
Capture a YouTube link or an article and the app can fetch the transcript or readable text into Links/Media, renaming the note to its real title. Opt-in and best-effort; the note is complete without it.
Works with a drive that comes and goes
Filing to an external drive? While it's unplugged, new captures queue inside the app and the menu bar shows how many are waiting. Plug it back in and they file automatically, in order, with their original capture times.
Two minutes, four steps
You'll need an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later. Intel? You can build from source on GitHub.
- 1
Download the DMG and drag Rapture into Applications, then eject the DMG.
- 2
Open it from Applications. macOS asks once to confirm an app you downloaded; click Open. The app is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, so there's no warning to work around.
- 3
Grant Full Disk Access when the app asks (it opens the right Settings pane for you), then let it quit and reopen. macOS applies the grant only to a freshly launched app, so this one relaunch is part of the deal. You do it once.
- 4
Look for the Rapture glyph in the menu bar at the top of the screen. There's no Dock icon; the menu bar is the whole app.
From then on the app updates itself in place, which keeps your permissions. Drag-replacing the app by hand makes macOS forget the Full Disk Access grant, so let the built-in updater do the work.
Local by default
The app collects nothing about you. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporter, no backend. It can make exactly three kinds of outbound connection, each one yours to control: the auto-update check (on by default, easy to turn off), the bring-your-own-key Anthropic call for AI triage (off until you paste a key), and link-enrichment fetches (off until you flip the toggle). Turn all three off and the app makes no network connections at all.
Notes sent from the iPhone app travel through your own iCloud, the same way Siri-texted captures already travel through Apple's iMessage service. The Mac app just reads the synced folder on your disk.
You can check all of this yourself: it's open source, and outside the updater, a grep for networking APIs turns up exactly three files: the two AI-triage files and the link fetcher.
Read the full privacy policy →Check your download
Every build is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple. Before you open the DMG, both of these should succeed:
After install, updates arrive on their own. Each one is checked against a signature baked into the app plus Apple's notarization before it can install.
Put a folder at the end
of every thought
Free, open source, and yours. Download it and send yourself a note.