Kapsicum for Therapists & Clinicians

Stay present. Document later.

Your patients deserve your full attention during sessions. Kapsicum lets you dictate progress notes afterward at speaking speed, four times faster than typing. Everything stored locally on your Mac with AES-256 encryption. No cloud. No third-party access.

Sound familiar?

Documentation competes with presenceTaking notes during a session breaks therapeutic rapport. Writing them afterward eats into your personal time or pushes into the next appointment. Neither option is acceptable.
End-of-day note fatigueSix sessions back-to-back. By the time you sit down to document, the clinical nuances of the first three sessions have faded. The details that matter most are the first to go.
Privacy is an ethical obligationCloud documentation tools create genuine anxiety about patient data exposure. Your ethical and legal responsibilities demand that clinical records stay under your direct control.

How Kapsicum Helps

Voice DictationDictate progress notes at natural speed into your EHR or any text editor. Speak the way you think about the session. Words appear at your cursor in real time.
Quick NotesBetween sessions, capture a clinical observation in seconds. A quick note preserves the detail before your next patient walks in.
TimelineReview your documentation history by date. Track how treatment themes evolve across sessions. Clinical observations, laid out chronologically.

Real Workflows

Post-session documentationSession ends. Walk to your desk, open your EHR, press the shortcut, speak the progress note while the details are fresh. Three minutes instead of fifteen.
Tracking treatment patternsSearch a clinical term across your note history. See how a patient's presentation has evolved over months. Patterns that inform your next treatment decision.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is patient data stored?
On your Mac's local filesystem. AES-256 encrypted database. No data transmitted to any server. Cloud transcription is optional, disabled by default, and uses only your own API credentials when enabled. Clinical data never passes through third-party infrastructure.
Can I dictate into my EHR system?
Any app with a text cursor: SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Epic, Word, any browser-based EHR. Text appears at your cursor as you speak.
Does Kapsicum record therapy sessions?
Audio capture transcribes audio playing through your Mac. It does not activate a microphone unprompted. Most clinicians use dictation after sessions, speaking progress notes while the clinical details are fresh. Not during.
Can I search across clinical notes by theme?
Search any term across every note you've typed or dictated. Filter by date. Track treatment themes across sessions. Useful for supervision prep and reviewing a patient's trajectory over time.