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Session notes that stay in the room.

Record sessions on your Mac with on-device Meeting Notes; get a clean SOAP or DAP draft in seconds. Dictate progress notes between sessions. Ask the AI chat about a treatment plan on screen. No cloud upload of any client conversation.

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A field guide for therapists, updated May 4, 2026 by Branden Chong.

In practice

How clinicians use Dollop in practice.

  1. 01.

    Record sessions, get a SOAP draft locally.

    Hit ⌃ R when the session starts. Meeting Notes captures audio (mic for in-person, system audio for telehealth), transcribes on Apple's Neural Engine, and produces a draft SOAP/DAP/BIRP-style note plus follow-up items. Edit and paste into your EHR. The recording can be auto-deleted after the note is generated, or kept locally if you prefer.

    Heard

    S: client reports increased anxiety re: upcoming court date; sleep 4-5 hrs/night; some panic at work. O: affect anxious, congruent; oriented x3; no SI/HI. A: GAD with situational stressor. P: continue weekly individual; introduce diaphragmatic breathing; revisit medication referral if no improvement in 2 weeks.

  2. 02.

    Dictate progress notes between sessions.

    Between back-to-backs, hit ⌥ Space and dictate the note in any EHR or notes app. Dollop's per-app tone keeps Mail formal for referrals, terse for chart entries, casual for messages with colleagues.

  3. 03.

    Ask the AI chat about a treatment plan on screen.

    Open the treatment plan, hit ⌃ S to summon the chat overlay with screen context, and ask for a goals/objectives draft, a behavioral activation list, or a plain-summary handoff for a covering provider. Reads what's on screen locally; nothing about the client leaves your Mac.

  4. 04.

    Supervision and consult notes.

    Record peer consultation, supervision, or case-presentation prep with Meeting Notes. Get the gist and action items locally without inviting an AI bot into a clinical conversation.

What you actually get

Dollop mapped to your work.

Meeting Notes (⌃ R)
Records sessions on-device, transcribes with Apple's Neural Engine, generates a SOAP/DAP/BIRP draft locally. Auto-deletes audio after the note if you prefer.
Voice dictation (⌥ Space)
Dictate progress notes between sessions in SimplePractice, TheraNest, TherapyNotes, or any browser-based EHR.
AI chat with screen context (⌃ S)
Draft treatment-plan goals, behavioral activation lists, or coverage handoffs from a plan on screen, locally.
No bot in the room
Captures system audio in telehealth calls (Doxy, SimplePractice video, Zoom) without joining as a participant.
Auto-delete audio after note
Drop the source audio the moment the note draft is ready. You decide retention.
On-device by architecture
No upload step. No third-party AI vendor. The strongest privacy posture currently shippable for therapy notes.
A type specimen

How the cleanup reads.

Real before-and-after dictation on terms specific to therapists, processed locally on Apple Foundation Models.

SOAP note from session recording
Heard

client reports increased anxiety related to upcoming court date, sleep four to five hours per night, some panic at work. affect anxious and congruent, oriented times three, no s i or h i. impression g a d with situational stressor. plan continue weekly individual, introduce diaphragmatic breathing, revisit medication referral if no improvement in two weeks.

Cleaned

S: Client reports increased anxiety re: upcoming court date; sleep 4-5 hrs/night; some panic at work. O: Affect anxious, congruent; oriented x3; no SI/HI. A: GAD with situational stressor. P: Continue weekly individual; introduce diaphragmatic breathing; revisit medication referral if no improvement in 2 weeks.

Referral letter (formal tone in Mail)
Heard

hi dr chen i wanted to follow up on the client we discussed last month uh given the trajectory i think a psychiatric consult would be beneficial. would you have availability in the next two to three weeks?

Cleaned

Hi Dr. Chen, I wanted to follow up on the client we discussed last month. Given the trajectory, I think a psychiatric consult would be beneficial. Would you have availability in the next two to three weeks?

Why it fits

Why on-device is the only safe option here.

Sessions never leave your Mac.

Cloud session-note tools (Mentalync, Blueprint Health, Upheal, Eleos, Heidi) route audio through cloud transcription, frequently through third-party AI providers. Some opt-in to using your audio for training. Therapy is a hard ceiling for that posture. Dollop processes everything on-device on Apple's Neural Engine and Foundation Models. No upload step, no third-party AI vendor.

Free, no per-clinician seat.

Mentalync is roughly $40/month, Blueprint $50/month, Upheal $30/month, all for a feature you should already have. Dollop is free per Mac, install it across a group practice without a procurement cycle.

Auto-delete recording after note generation.

By default, Meeting Notes can drop the audio file the moment the note draft is ready, leaving only the locally-stored, encrypted note. You decide whether to retain audio at all (some clinicians do for supervision; many never want to).

No bot in the room.

Cloud meeting tools join the call as a participant, which is awkward (and sometimes prohibited) in clinical work. Dollop records your Mac's audio directly, no bot, no telehealth platform integration required, no third-party seen on the call.

Asked & answered

Questions, answered.

Is Dollop HIPAA compliant for therapy notes? +
On-device processing removes the most common HIPAA concern: cloud routing of PHI through third-party servers. Dollop processes audio entirely on your Mac with no third-party AI services in the data path. Formal HIPAA certification with signed BAAs is on the roadmap; for clinicians today, the on-device architecture is the strongest privacy posture currently available and is materially safer than any cloud session-note tool.
How does it compare to Mentalync, Blueprint Health, and Upheal? +
Those tools record sessions in the cloud, transcribe in the cloud, and generate notes in the cloud, often using third-party LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic). For a clinical session, that means three vendors in the data path. Dollop runs entirely on your Mac on Apple Foundation Models, with no upload step and no third-party AI in the loop.
How does the recording work in telehealth? +
Dollop captures system audio, so it picks up both sides of a Zoom, Doxy, SimplePractice video, or any other telehealth platform. No bot joins the call, no third-party platform integration needed. For in-person sessions, the Mac mic is sufficient (laptop on the desk between the chairs).
What about client consent for recording? +
Recording laws vary by state (one-party vs two-party consent), and most ethical guidelines require informed client consent regardless. Dollop gives you the tool; you handle the consent conversation. Some clinicians use Dollop exclusively for the few minutes after a session to dictate the note from memory rather than recording the session itself; that workflow is fully supported and avoids recording entirely.
Can I auto-delete the audio after the note is generated? +
Yes. Meeting Notes can be configured to delete the source audio the moment the transcript and summary are produced, leaving only the locally-stored note. You decide retention.
Can it dictate into SimplePractice, TheraNest, TherapyNotes, and other EHRs? +
Yes, system-wide. Dollop pastes clean text wherever your cursor is, in any browser-based EHR or native app.
Does it work without internet? +
Yes, fully. Recording, transcription, and note generation all run on Apple's Neural Engine and Apple Foundation Models on-device. The only network calls are software updates.
Hardware requirements? +
Apple Silicon (M1+) on macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled.

Your client's session does not belong on a third-party server, no matter what BAA the vendor offers. Download Dollop and keep the recording, the transcript, and the note where they should be: on the Mac in your office.

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