You’re sharing a window with the candidate — slides, the take-home prompt, the IDE. Quietly puts no chrome on what they see: no banner, no bot tile, no recording dot of its own. The indicator stays in your menu bar.
Share a window — your slides, the prompt, the IDE — and the candidate sees only that window. Quietly draws no banner, no bot tile, no recording dot of its own. The indicator lives in your menu bar.
Whisper large-v3 runs locally. The candidate’s voice never leaves your laptop. One outbound network call per day — a license check. That’s the entire surface area.
Notes save as plain Markdown with front-matter (candidate name, role, date, duration). Copy any section into your ATS — it’s just text. No proprietary export window.
Captures system audio via virtual audio loopback. The candidate sees you, not a fourth tile labelled “Otter Notetaker”. No consent flow to explain on top of the actual disclosure.
Reads your Google or Apple calendar. The interview event title becomes the note title. Five candidates back-to-back never get mixed up.
One-time license. Cheaper than three months of any subscription transcription tool. Use it across every interview cycle.
Two-party-consent jurisdictions (CA, FL, IL, WA, plus most of the EU under GDPR) require you to disclose recording. Quietly doesn’t change that. What it does change: once you’ve disclosed and the candidate has agreed, the recording indicator stops being a visible artefact in the slides, take-home prompt, or coding pad you’re sharing. The candidate isn’t looking at a red dot the whole interview. You aren’t apologising for one either.
7-day trial, no card. 30-day refund. macOS 13+.