noise removal, EQ for voice clarity, and on-device transcription in 20 languages. Every model runs on your Mac; nothing leaves the device.
Configure your audio inputs. Record system audio, microphone, or both simultaneously.
A few honest limits worth knowing before you record.
Using AirPods, a Sonos Ace, or any Bluetooth headset as your microphone makes Bluetooth switch it to low-quality call audio, and that also lowers the headset’s own music quality while it’s in use. This is how Bluetooth works on every app, not just OwnClip. For full quality, connect the headset with a cable, or use your built-in or a USB mic and keep listening on Bluetooth.
Both clean up your voice and never alter the system-audio track. Noise removal is tuned so it can knock down steady background noise (fans, hum, hiss) without ever cutting your voice out. If it ever sounds over-processed on a particular setup, just switch it off. Clean Voice (Apple’s on-device voice isolation) is available on the built-in microphone.
Splitting the two sources separates what your MICROPHONE heard from what your COMPUTER played. So speaker bleed — your own speakers being picked up by your own mic — lives on the mic track and can be muted away entirely. What it cannot undo is anything that was already blended into the incoming audio before it reached your Mac: that arrives as one signal, and no amount of track separation on this side can pull it back apart.
Your mic and computer audio are kept apart at the moment of recording, whenever both are switched on. That is why it needs no setting and always works — but it also means an older recording, made before this existed, has the two already blended into one track and cannot be split afterwards.
To show the system-audio bars move while you tune the EQ before recording, macOS asks for Screen & System Audio Recording permission and shows its recording indicator while the Audio panel is open. It never changes your playback. During an actual recording the meters are always live.
That means macOS is sending no audio from it. Usually a Bluetooth headset has taken over the mic, another app is holding it, the input is muted in System Settings → Sound → Input, or the audio system needs a quick restart. Tip: confirm the mic in Voice Memos; if it’s silent there too, it’s a system issue, not OwnClip.