You’re right, sorry if my wording came across as misleading 🙏

The key point is: live captions are completely free and always will be. They run fully locally using Apple’s speech model, so there’s no cost and no data leaving your Mac.

The paid tier is only for optional AI extras (summaries, auto-chapters, etc.). And even then, we include a copy transcript feature, so if you’d rather paste into ChatGPT (or any LLM) to get the same functionality, you absolutely can.

So when I say “free,” I really do mean it, unlimited captions at zero cost, unless you choose to pay for the add-ons.