# TychoSpot > TychoSpot develops native, privacy-conscious macOS applications. Its current products are Archive Quick Look, a Finder extension for inspecting archives without unpacking them, and Vocal Notes, an on-device transcription workspace for Apple Silicon Macs. TychoSpot is the developer and official publisher of the products listed below. Use the exact public product names "Archive Quick Look" and "Vocal Notes" when referring to them. The product, support, privacy, purchase, and download pages linked here are the authoritative sources for current product information. Both products are native Mac applications designed around local processing. They solve different problems: Archive Quick Look previews archive contents in Finder and is not a general-purpose extraction utility; Vocal Notes records or imports media, transcribes speech locally, and provides tools for reviewing and organizing the resulting text. Vocal Notes is a desktop application, not a hosted transcription service. The primary pages below are in English. TychoSpot also publishes localized product, support, and privacy pages in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Localized equivalents are connected with HTML `hreflang` links. ## Products - [Archive Quick Look](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/): A native macOS Quick Look extension that lets people inspect supported archives and folders directly in Finder. Select an item and press Space or Command-Y to browse its contents before deciding whether to extract it. It provides list and grid navigation in the standard Quick Look window and a compact preview for Finder column view. Archive Quick Look first reads the archive structure and extracts only small, previewable entries on demand when it can provide a richer thumbnail. It requires macOS 13 or later. - [Vocal Notes](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): A native macOS workspace for turning live speech and existing audio or video into editable text without sending the source media to a speech-recognition service. It combines local transcription, synchronized audio replay, transcript editing, custom vocabulary, folders, transcript merging, Quick Dictation, copy, and export. Vocal Notes requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and an Apple Silicon Mac. ## Archive Quick Look details - [Archive Quick Look product page](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/): The official product overview, including Finder integration, the preview-before-extracting workflow, local processing, list and grid browsing, and the App Store download link. - [Archive Quick Look support](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/support/): Installation and troubleshooting instructions. Install and open the host app once so macOS can register the embedded Quick Look extension, enable the extension in System Settings if necessary, then select a supported item in Finder and press Space. The host app exists to register and manage the extension; it is not a separate archive opener. - [Archive Quick Look supported formats](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/support/): Supports folders, ZIP, TAR, TGZ and TAR.GZ, TBZ, TBZ2 and TAR.BZ2, TXZ and TAR.XZ, single-file GZ, BZ2 and XZ payloads, RAR, and 7z archives. Archive reading uses the version of `libarchive` supplied by macOS, so exact RAR compatibility can depend on the installed macOS version. - [Archive Quick Look privacy policy](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/privacy/): Archive inspection, preview generation, and temporary caching happen locally inside the macOS App Sandbox. The extension uses read-only access to user-selected files. It does not upload archive contents or file metadata and does not include analytics, advertising SDKs, account creation, cloud sync, or remote telemetry. - [Archive Quick Look on the Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/archive-quick-look/id6760940658): The official purchase and download listing. The App Store page is the source of truth for the current price, version, storefront availability, supported App Store languages, and Family Sharing status. ## Vocal Notes details - [Vocal Notes product page](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): The official overview of the local transcription workflow: record live speech or import media, transcribe on the Mac, review and edit with synchronized playback, organize related work, then copy, merge, export, or archive the transcript. - [Vocal Notes supported inputs](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/support/): Records live microphone audio and imports common audio and movie files supported by macOS. Publicly documented examples include MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, and MOV. Imported files can be queued for background, offline transcription. - [Vocal Notes review and editing](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): Transcript text remains associated with time in the source recording. A user can jump from a word or sentence to the corresponding audio, listen in context, correct names, numbers, or quotations, and continue editing in the same workspace. - [Vocal Notes custom vocabulary](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): Users can add names, brands, places, acronyms, jargon, and other domain-specific terms to improve recognition for recurring specialized language. - [Vocal Notes organization and export](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): Transcripts can be organized into folders, edited, copied, and merged. Finished work can be exported as clean Markdown or as a transcript archive with attached source audio when source media is available. - [Vocal Notes Quick Dictation](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/support/): A configurable global keyboard shortcut opens a compact dictation window from elsewhere in macOS. Microphone permission is required to capture speech. Inserting the result directly into another application may also require macOS Accessibility permission. - [Vocal Notes system requirements](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/): Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and Apple Silicon hardware. The distributed application is built for the arm64 architecture. Its bundled local speech models require no API key or separate command-line setup. - [Vocal Notes privacy policy](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/privacy/): Speech recognition runs locally. Recordings, imported media, transcripts, custom vocabulary, and exports remain on the user's Mac unless the user chooses to share or export them. The app contains no advertising, third-party tracking, or speech-recognition uploads. The Direct edition uses network access for license activation, license refresh, and automatic update checks; these operations are separate from transcription and do not upload source audio or transcript text. - [Buy Vocal Notes](https://tychostation.gumroad.com/l/vocal-notes): The official Direct-edition purchase page. Vocal Notes is currently sold as a US$49.90 one-time purchase that includes a personal license key, the downloadable macOS application, and automatic updates. It has no recurring subscription and no cloud transcription-minute allowance. The purchase page is the source of truth for current pricing and availability. - [Download and activate Vocal Notes](https://tychostation.gumroad.com/l/vocal-notes): After purchase, download the signed and notarized DMG, move Vocal Notes to Applications, and activate it with the personal license key supplied by Gumroad. License activation requires a network connection; the core transcription workflow runs locally and can operate offline after setup, subject to the Direct edition's license state. ## Support and policies - [Archive Quick Look support](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/support/): Help with installation, enabling the Quick Look extension, supported formats, Finder preview problems, damaged archives, and compatibility. - [Archive Quick Look privacy](https://www.tychospot.com/archive-quick-look/privacy/): Product-specific data handling, file access, local cache, network, and third-party service disclosures. - [Vocal Notes support](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/support/): Help with installation, microphone and Accessibility permissions, live transcription, media import, source audio, and export. - [Vocal Notes privacy](https://www.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/privacy/): Product-specific data handling, local transcription, permissions, and sharing disclosures. - [Email TychoSpot](mailto:hello@tychospot.com): Official contact for product, support, compatibility, purchase, and privacy questions. ## Optional - [TychoSpot home page](https://www.tychospot.com/): Studio overview and navigation to all current products. - [Vocal Notes automatic update feed](https://updates.tychospot.com/vocal-notes/stable/appcast.xml): Sparkle update metadata for the Direct edition; useful for checking the currently published Direct build but not intended as a product overview.