Support
Life Capture Studio is a private, Apple-native journal for your Mac. Below are answers to the most common questions. If you do not see yours, email greg@gregstoltz.com and a real person will get back to you.
Open Life Capture Studio on your Mac and import a capture. It reads your photos, voice notes, and typed notes, transcribes the audio on-device, and composes each day into a story you can read. Browse by Days, Places, Tags, or Posts — and at the end of the month, open the Magazine.
Everything stays in a local archive on your Mac — plain folders, JSON, Markdown, and your original files. Nothing is uploaded to a server. See the privacy policy for the full posture.
No. Life Capture requires no account and works offline. Transcription and photo understanding run on your Mac with Apple's on-device frameworks.
Transcription uses Apple Speech on your Mac, which needs a supported macOS version, a matching language, and the local speech assets installed. Until those are ready, a capture may show a placeholder; the transcript fills in once the on-device assets are available.
Open the Magazine view and use the share or export control to save the issue as a PDF you can keep, print, or send to family.
Because the archive is ordinary files, you can copy the archive folder to another drive, include it in your Time Machine backup, or move it like any other folder.
Yes — Life Capture Pocket, a free iPhone companion, is on the way. Snap and speak in the moment, then let Life Capture Studio on your Mac do the rest. Today, capture bundles import into Studio.
Email greg@gregstoltz.com with what you were doing and what happened. Concrete details — the step, the capture type, and what you expected — help a lot.
Life Capture Studio runs on macOS as a universal app for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. On-device transcription, photo understanding, and any local intelligence features depend on your macOS version and on Apple's local assets being available for your language. Where those are unavailable, it falls back to deterministic local placeholders so that importing always completes.
Life Capture is made by Gregory Stoltz. Email is the best way to get help, report a bug, or ask a question.