Turn recordings of client calls, interviews, hearings and meetings into clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcripts - processed entirely on your own machine. No cloud uploads. No third parties. Just an installer.
Some recordings are privileged, off-the-record, or simply none of a cloud vendor's business. Quietell was built for the people who can't risk an upload.
Client calls, witness interviews, hearing audio and prep sessions - transcribed with timestamps and speakers, without sending privileged material to a third-party service.
Internal, corporate, insurance and private investigations. Keep evidence and interviews on the machine that handles them, with an originality hash on every transcript.
Protect your sources. Transcribe sensitive interviews and long recordings locally, so nothing about your reporting ever leaves your laptop.
Drag any audio or video file (or a whole folder) onto Quietell - mp4, mkv, mov, mp3, wav, m4a and most other formats. If it plays, it probably transcribes. Or record a call or your screen right inside the app.
Run fully on your computer for total privacy, or use the cloud (with your own free key) when speed matters and the content isn't sensitive.
A timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript appears next to your file. Review, fix low-confidence words, rename speakers, and export to TXT, DOCX, SRT or VTT.
Other tools promise encryption and compliance badges - but your audio still leaves your control. Quietell's private mode is different: the file is transcribed on your own CPU and never uploaded anywhere.
In private mode, transcription runs locally with an on-device model. The audio is never sent over the internet.
Turn on Private-Only and the cloud engine is fully disabled - there's no way for a file to leave the machine by accident.
No account required to transcribe. No training on your files. An optional originality hash lets you prove a transcript wasn't altered.
Designed to help professionals meet their own confidentiality obligations. You decide, per file, whether anything is ever sent to the cloud.
Start free with your own Groq key. Upgrade when you need more - and know exactly what you're paying for.
Cloud transcription with your own free Groq key.
The full toolkit, cloud edition.
Everything in Cloud - plus full privacy.
Prices shown in USD and adjusted by region; VAT is added at checkout where applicable. Already on Cloud? Upgrade to Pro later for just the difference. Every paid plan includes a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Download Quietell and run 2 full private transcriptions with everything unlocked. Test the accuracy on your real recordings before you decide. No card, no account.
Windows 10 / 11 · ~1 minute install · 30-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans
In private (on-device) mode, yes - your file is transcribed locally and never uploaded. If you turn on Private-Only, the cloud engine is disabled entirely, so nothing can leave the machine. The optional cloud mode only sends a file when you explicitly choose it for that file.
Don't take our word for it - that's why your first 2 private transcriptions are free. Run them on your own real recordings and judge the accuracy yourself before paying. You can flag low-confidence words and fix them in the built-in review editor.
One thing: privacy. Cloud ($30) gives you the entire toolkit - speakers, batch, all exports, recording, editor - using cloud transcription. Pro ($99) adds fully private, on-device transcription that works offline and never touches the internet. If you handle confidential material, you want Pro.
No. Both Cloud and Pro are one-time purchases. The cloud engine uses your own free Groq key, so there's nothing recurring to pay. Optional yearly updates may be offered later, but your version keeps working.
No. Quietell is a normal Windows app with an installer. Everything it needs is bundled. If you can install a program, you can use it.
30+ languages including English and Hebrew. Accuracy varies by language and audio quality - which is exactly why we let you test free on your own files first.
Video: mp4, mkv, mov, avi, webm, wmv, flv, mpeg, mpg, 3gp, m4v, ts. Audio: mp3, wav, m4a, flac, ogg, aac, wma, opus, aiff, amr - and most other audio/video formats. Quietell decodes files with the bundled ffmpeg, so if it plays, it probably transcribes.