Crest · Take · Minutes · for macOS

A recorder, a notetaker, and the notch that runs them both.

Three native Mac apps that talk to each other instead of the cloud. Pay once, $49.99 for all three, and nothing you record ever leaves your Mac. The black notch above is the real Crest panel: hover it.

No card for the trial, no subscription ever · macOS 14+ · see what each app does

How they fit

One meeting, through all three.

One standup, one Mac, nothing uploaded. Watch it move.

90 seconds, drawn from the real interfaces. Sound on for the story.

01

Crest sees the call coming.

The notch names the meeting and offers to record it. Nothing starts until you tap.

That surface is the Minutes row in the panel inside the notch at the top of this page. Open Work mode and try it.

02

Minutes writes it down.

Both sides of the call, transcribed and summarized by the models already inside macOS.

Use it right here. Play the meeting; catches wait for your tap, exactly like the shipping window.

03

The notes land in Crest.

One tap on Send to Crest Notes, and the summary files itself into the notch under Meetings. It moved between two apps and never left the machine.

04

Take picks up the demo.

The walkthrough records from the same notch and arrives already staged.

Use the editor right here. Scrub the timeline and the canvas follows; what you are watching is the exported file.

No cloud between them. The apps talk over a local bus on your Mac and file their work into one folder all three can read.

The apps

Each one earns its place alone.

Buy the one you need, or take all three.

Crest: the control room.

Music, calendar, todos, system stats, clipboard, and Claude Code approvals, one glance up.

$19.99 once · free tier forever Get Crest Pro Everything it does
  • Lives where your eyes already are. Glance up, act, get back to work.
  • Answers Claude Code from the notch. Allow or Deny without switching windows.
  • Free tier forever. Pro unlocks every module, once.

Twelve of the modules, drawn live on this page. Hover any tile. The whole catalog is on the Crest page.

Take: the recorder.

Recordings that land already edited, and the preview you scrub is exactly the file you export.

$24.99 once · 7 day trial Get Take See Take in depth
  • Staging solved from your clicks. Zooms and idle skips are placed for you.
  • Edits are objects on a timeline. Drag, retime or delete them, with no render step.
  • Plain .mov files. No watermark, no library to escape from.

The editor itself is live in the story above: scrub it, drag a zoom, toggle the camera.

Minutes: the notetaker.

Meeting notes written on your Mac by Apple's built-in models, so there is nothing to upload and nothing to leak.

$29.99 once · 7 day trial Get Minutes See Minutes in depth
  • Two voices, kept apart. You and them, by audio channel, so nothing is misattributed.
  • Catches wait for you. An action item reaches Calendar or Reminders after you tap Add.
  • Markdown on disk. One folder you own, readable in any editor, forever.

The meeting window is live in the story above: play it and watch the catches arrive.

Every feature of all three, written down honestly

Why own it

Pay once. Everything stays on your Mac.

The apps this replaces are rented; these are owned.

The usual way

  • A subscription per app, renewing forever
  • Recordings and meeting audio uploaded for processing
  • Your notes live in someone else's database
  • Cancel, and the archive stops opening
  • Three separate accounts, three separate sign-ins

The Crest way

  • One payment. Nothing renews, so nothing can lapse.
  • On device. Staging, transcription and summaries run on your Mac.
  • Plain files. .mov recordings and Markdown notes in open folders.
  • Quit anytime and every file you made still opens.
  • One account for all three, on the email you buy with.

Curious how each one stacks up against what you use now? Take vs Screen Studio · Minutes vs Granola · Crest vs Boring Notch

Pricing

Pay once. Keep it.

Every price below is a single payment with free updates. Every app has a free 7 day trial and Crest also has a free tier that never expires.

Crest Pro

$19.99 once

The notch control room. Every Pro module, on 2 Macs, forever.

Free tier included, so you can keep using it either way.

Try Pro free for 7 days

Take

$24.99 once

The screen recorder. Staged captures, live editing, unlimited exports.

macOS 14+, universal. No watermark, ever.

Try free for 7 days

Minutes

$29.99 once

The meeting notetaker. On-device transcripts, summaries and catches.

macOS 26 on Apple Silicon, because the models ship in the OS.

Try free for 7 days

Save $25

All three

$49.99 once

Crest Pro, Take and Minutes. One payment, one account, three apps that run each other.

The same three licences, $25 less than buying them separately.

Already own one? Buy the others and they join the same account.

Each licence covers 2 Macs. Pay by card or crypto. Everything you own lives at your account.

Questions

The things people ask.

Is any of this a subscription?

No. Every app is a one-time purchase with free updates. The bundle is one payment of $49.99 for all three. There is nothing to cancel because nothing renews.

Does it really work offline?

Yes. You need internet once, to activate. After that every feature runs offline. Minutes never sends audio or text anywhere, online or not: transcription and summaries run on Apple's on-device models.

Which Macs do I need?

Crest wants a MacBook with a notch on macOS 14 or later. Take runs on any Mac on macOS 14 or later. Minutes requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon, because its transcription and summarization use Apple's built-in models.

Why do I need an account to download?

Because your account is how you get what you paid for. Licences live on your email, activation links go to your email, and signing in inside the app is what unlocks Pro. Making the account first means a purchase can never land somewhere you cannot reach.

I already own Crest Pro. What changes?

Nothing. Your key keeps working forever. Sign in with the email you bought with and it appears in your account next to anything new you pick up.

Can I try before buying?

All of it. Crest has a free tier plus a 7-day Pro trial, and Take and Minutes each start with a 7-day trial. No card up front for any trial.

I don't have a notch. Is any of this for me?

Take runs on any Mac on macOS 14 or later, and Minutes on any Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 26. Crest is the only one that wants the notch itself.

More questions, and a way to reach a person, on the support page.

Start here

Start with the trial. No card.

Make an account, confirm your email, and the download starts. Anything you buy later lands in the same place.

Signed and notarized by Apple · Crest and Take need macOS 14 or later · Minutes needs macOS 26 on Apple Silicon