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RAPTURE FOR MAC

Speak anywhere.
It lands on your Mac

A tiny menu-bar app that files your voice captures into plain text files in a folder you choose. Capture a thought from anywhere; your Mac has it the next time it wakes and syncs.

✓ Free and open source
✓ macOS 14 or later
✓ Zero outbound network
✓ Updates install themselves
HOW NOTES ARRIVE

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 text file, 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 timestamped .txt file in a folder you pick. Audio files can ride along when you turn that on. 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.

# ~/Documents/Rapture Notes/
2026-07-06T15-14-42Z Grocery Ideas.txt
2026-07-06T18-02-11Z Rent is due on the 5th.txt
2026-07-07T09-31-58Z Standup Prep.txt
PRIVACY

Nothing phones home

The app makes no network connections of its own. No telemetry, no analytics, no backend. The one exception is the optional update check, which reads public release files from GitHub and sends nothing about you.

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 the claim yourself: outside the updater, a grep of the source for networking APIs comes back empty.

Read the full privacy policy →
VERIFY

Check your download

Every build is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple. Before you open the DMG, both of these should succeed:

xcrun stapler validate ~/Downloads/Rapture-*.dmg
spctl --assess --type install ~/Downloads/Rapture-*.dmg

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.