macOS menu bar app for live calls · Waitlist

Lose the thread in a call?Get a line to rejoin.Only you can see it.

PresentDock is a macOS menu bar app. It listens to your call through your Mac and keeps one card in an overlay hidden from screen sharing: what is happening, and a line you could say out loud. Ask "What did I miss?" and it scrolls the call back and hands you a line to rejoin. It stays quiet when nothing needs you.

Your own keys, no account, no subscription.

The overlay after asking What did I miss: the call scrolled back with a timestamp per entry, and at the bottom a line to say out loud to rejoin. — The overlay beside a call. Nobody else on the call can see it.

01 · Who it is for

For conversations you are part of and accountable for

I am Ivor Padilla and I build PresentDock alone. It is for sales calls, client calls, team meetings, webinars and the things you present: conversations where you have to listen, think and speak at the same time, and where "sorry, I missed that" costs you something.

It is not built or sold for passing an interview. In a call it hands you a line to rejoin or a line to say. The rehearsal mode works against your own screen and reveals one hint at a time, never the whole answer.

It never reads terminals, password managers or private browsing windows, on any setting.

02 · Meeting Copilot

A private line during the call

PresentDock listens to both sides of the call through your Mac and thinks once per finished sentence. When something needs you it shows one card, in an overlay hidden from screen sharing: what is happening, why, and a line you could say. The card holds still while people talk. Most of the time it shows nothing, because nothing needed you.

Ask "What did I miss?" and the card becomes a timeline of the whole call: older moments compressed to a line each, the last three minutes in full, and a question you can ask out loud that a listener who never drifted might also have asked.

You choose when it may interrupt: important moments only, balanced, or coaching you actively.

The card beside a call: Right now, Keep listening; Why, the blocker and its owner need to be clear before assigning the roadmap date; the What did I miss button; the first transcript lines. — The card beside a call. It does not rewrite itself while people talk.

PresentDock · Where your data goes Sheet 03 Not yet shipping

No.	Item	Where	Remark
01	What it reads and records	On this Mac	Screen readings, Computer History and the call's memory stay on your Mac. Audio goes to Deepgram for speech to text. Text goes to the model provider you chose. Error reports go to Sentry unless you opt out.
02	The other people on the call	Your responsibility	PresentDock transcribes both sides of the call through your Mac. Telling the other people on the call is your responsibility; the app does not do it for you.
03	Overlay, Chat, bar, teleprompter	Hidden from screen sharing	macOS content protection. Covers screen-sharing apps and recordings, not a camera pointed at the display.
04	AI model and speech to text	Your own keys	One key for the model, from Cerebras, OpenAI or OpenRouter, and one for Deepgram, saved in the macOS Keychain. You pay them per use. PresentDock adds nothing on top.
05	Account	None	No account with me. No subscription.
06	Price	$29 one-time	When it ships. Today there is a waitlist, no download and no buy button.
07	Platform	macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon	Lives in the menu bar. No Dock icon.

Made by one person, Ivor Padilla. 16 releases since July 2026, with a public changelog.

04 · Ask about your screen

Ask about whatever is in front of you

A small floating bar. Ask, and it reads the window in front of you, not the whole display. If you scrolled through a page, it stitches what you saw back into one article and answers about it. The bar says what it is reading while it reads, and says plainly when it refuses an app. You can limit reading to named apps, or block named apps and sites.

Rehearsing a pitch or a talk? Press "Coach me through this" and it works against your own screen and what you say aloud, revealing one hint at a time: a nudge, an on-track check, an approach, then the solution.

Chat is a frosted-glass window one shortcut away, hidden from screen sharing like the overlay.

Terminals
Password managers
Private browsing
Its own windows

The bar idle: Read screen and Listen toggles, and the note that nothing is being captured. — The bar, idle. Nothing is captured until you ask.

The bar refusing a terminal: the status reads Ghostty is never read, above the Summarise chip and the ask field. — A refusal, said plainly.

05 · Computer History

An on-device log of your day, off by default

Turn it on and PresentDock keeps a record on this Mac of the apps and windows you were in and the text you typed there, no screenshots. Then Chat can answer questions about your day: how many tabs did I visit today, what was I writing at 3pm, how long was I in Figma.

Raw events keep for 24 hours, 48 hours, or a week; the pane shows the megabytes each choice costs. Summaries stay until you delete them. When it cannot tell whether a field is secure, it refuses the reading.

Password fields
Private browsing
Terminals and password managers
The lock screen and system security prompts

The Computer History settings pane: the recording toggle, the fixed list of what is never recorded, the retention choice with its size, and the browser identity option. — The pane lists what is recorded and what never is.

The Chat window with History as its context: the question how long was I in Safari today, and the answer that no Safari activity was recorded, 0 minutes. — Chat with History as context. It answers from the record, even when the record is empty.

06 · Also in the box

For when you present

Draw on any screen: arrows that snap to shapes, ghost strokes that vanish when you release Ctrl+Option, zoom into what is under a box, code blocks with syntax highlighting. A teleprompter hidden from screen sharing. An audience page on phones for reactions and questions. Share Canvas mirrors an annotated region into a call. All of it from the same menu bar icon.

Drawing over a slide: a red arrow and a box around the September bar of a chart, the drawing toolbar along the top of the screen. — Drawing over a slide, toolbar at the top. The toolbar can stay out of the share.

The teleprompter card over a slide: the current lines of the script, a take counter, a clock and a timer. — The teleprompter, over the slide, hidden from screen sharing.

Close-up of an annotation: a red arrow bound to a red box around one bar of a chart. — Arrows bind to shapes and follow them when you move things.

The audience page on a phone: live room reactions, a questions list, a session rating, a row of emoji, and a field to ask a question. — The audience page. A link, no app.

The menu bar menu: Drawing, Teleprompter, Share Canvas, Start Remote Session, Meeting Copilot, Assist Bar, Chat, Listening, Reading Screen, Stop Recording, Settings, Quit. — The whole app, from one menu bar icon.

07 · Waitlist

Tell me if you want this

It is not on sale yet. If you live in calls and want help staying in them without handing your transcript and screen to a service, leave your email. A line about how you work is what tells me whether to keep going.

The LLM settings pane: provider, model, and an API key saved in the Keychain and verified. — Your keys, picked once, in one pane.