Parchmint vs Trace

Parchmint shows the honest preview an LLM actually sees, every token, every warning, so your prompts, skill files, and docs land exactly as written. Free, open source,...

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in...

About Parchmint

Parchmint shows the honest preview an LLM actually sees, every token, every warning, so your prompts, skill files, and docs land exactly as written. Free, open source, local-first. Pseudo-tags like <what-to-do> surface as labeled blocks instead of silently vanishing, while the outline, detected document type and token estimate update as you type. As tokenized ## Context You are a precise editor . Counts use OpenAI's o200k tokenizer, exact for GPT models, approximate (~±10–15%) for Claude and others.

About Trace

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in dozens of languages. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. Trace provides you with clear markdown transcripts and summaries that you can use anywhere. Either copy the markdown from Trace directly or have it place the file anywhere in your filesystem. Trace can also send files directly to Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Things with a button press.