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Weekly product review
Today · 10:30Ana, Sam
notes/2026-09-15 1030 Weekly product review.md
Summary
Launch moves to 6 October so onboarding ships with it
Pricing page copy is agreed
Action items
Ana: send the revised launch plan by Thursday
Sam: book three user interviews
Why Sloth
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No meeting bot
Nothing joins your call. Sloth listens to your Mac’s microphone and call audio, so it works with Zoom, Meet, Teams or any call app.
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Plain files you own
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Your own AI
Write notes with your Claude API key, your Claude subscription via Claude Code, ChatGPT or Ollama. Or use Apple Intelligence on your Mac, free.
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Private by default
Transcription runs on your Mac. No account, no telemetry. Meeting content leaves only if you pick a hosted AI for notes.
Two jobs, one app
Dictation
Hold Right ⌥, speak and let go. The text appears where your cursor is, in any app. Double-tap the key to go hands-free.
Everything Sloth does
25 features, all free. Pick a topic to narrow the list.
New · Claude shortcuts
Annotate anything, then hand it to Claude
Stop copying and pasting between tabs. Collect what you're looking at with your voice, then send the whole batch to Claude in one go.
- ⌥AHighlight and speak. Tap ⌥A, say your note, tap again. Sloth keeps the page address, the quote, your note and a screenshot.
- ⌥ARepeat. Each note joins a small panel at the top right. Expand it to read everything back.
- ⌥CTell Claude what to do. Tap ⌥C and speak. Your request and every note go to the Claude app or Claude Code. Or click Copy all for any other agent.
- ⌥QReply to a quote. Highlight part of a Claude answer and press ⌥Q. It lands in the reply box as a quote, ready for your reply.
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Meetings
No meeting bot
Nothing joins your call, so nobody gets a bot in their grid. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, FaceTime or any call app.
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Reminders before calendar calls
A pop-up 5 minutes and 1 minute before meetings with a join link. One click joins and starts notes.
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Spots calls you didn't schedule
Call detection notices a call starting in your browser or a call app and offers to take notes.
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Knows who was there
Attendees come from your calendar invite and show up by name, not email address.
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Meetings
Live text, nothing to download
Words appear as people talk, using the speech engine built into macOS 26. No model download, and the audio stays on your Mac. Prefer a different model? Download Parakeet or Nemotron in Settings.
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Works on laptop speakers
Sloth removes the call's echo from your microphone, so you don't need headphones for a clean transcript.
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Speaker labels without training
Your voice is labelled You. The call side is split into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on.
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Pause, stop or discard in one click
A small floating pill controls the recording and shows the recent transcript on hover.
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Notes
Your jottings, kept word for word
Anything you type during the call goes into the notes as written, next to the summary and action items.
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Notes
Templates for each kind of meeting
1 to 1, customer discovery, hiring, stand-up and weekly team, or write your own.
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Notes
Follow-ups remember last time
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Notes
The AI you choose
Your Claude API key, your Claude subscription through Claude Code, ChatGPT, Ollama, or Apple Intelligence for free.
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Notes
Re-run any meeting
Apply a different template or provider to a past meeting without recording it again.
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Dictation
Dictate into any app
Hold Right ⌥, speak and let go. The text lands where your cursor is. Double-tap for hands-free.
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Dictation
Gets your words right
A dictionary of names and jargon, with replacements, so terms come out the way you write them.
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Your clipboard survives
Sloth pastes through the clipboard and puts what was there back straight after.
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Dictation
Highlight and Edit with ⌥E
Highlight text in any app, tap ⌥E, say how to change it and tap again. Or hold it while you speak. The rewrite replaces your selection. With nothing highlighted, it writes new text at the cursor. Runs on Apple Intelligence by default, with no download; Qwen, Gemma or a cloud provider are alternatives.
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Claude shortcuts
Annotate anything with ⌥A
Highlight text on any page or app, tap ⌥A, say what you think and tap ⌥A again. Or hold it while you speak. Sloth saves the URL, the quote, your note and a screenshot, and batches them for Claude.
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Claude shortcuts
Talk to Claude with ⌥C
Tap ⌥C, speak and tap again, or hold it while you speak. The request, plus any annotations, is sent to the Claude app or Claude Code in your terminal.
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Claude shortcuts
Quote and reply with ⌥Q
Highlight a passage in a Claude chat and press ⌥Q. It drops into the reply box as a quote, ready for your answer. No more copy and paste.
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Your data
Plain Markdown files
Every meeting is saved in ~/Documents/Sloth. Open it in any editor, AI tool or sync service.
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Your data
Transcribed on your Mac
Speech models run locally, so your audio is never uploaded to transcribe it.
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Your data
No account, no telemetry
You never sign up, and Sloth sends no usage data.
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Your data
Recordings only if you ask
Audio is deleted after transcription unless you choose to keep it.
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Your data
Free, signed and notarized
No plans, note limits or history caps. Notarized by Apple and keeps itself up to date.
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Try the beta
Free, signed and notarized by Apple. Needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14.2 or later. Sloth updates itself.