diff --git a/Ten31Transcripts/Session/SessionController.swift b/Ten31Transcripts/Session/SessionController.swift
index 1057b52..279c308 100644
--- a/Ten31Transcripts/Session/SessionController.swift
+++ b/Ten31Transcripts/Session/SessionController.swift
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ struct SessionInfo: Equatable {
     let mixedURL: URL
     let duration: Double
     let selfSpanCount: Int
+    /// Count of vision-detected speaker segments if visual capture attached, or nil
+    /// if the session was audio-only (no adapter / no window / capture failed). Lets
+    /// the user see at a glance whether the visual pipeline ran on a real call.
+    let visualSegmentCount: Int?
 }
 
 /// Owns a single recording session: creates the session folder, drives
@@ -268,18 +272,21 @@ final class SessionController: ObservableObject {
 
     /// Stop visual capture (if any), write `visual_timeline.json`, and return the
     /// timeline for the backend: visual segments + merged self-spans when visual
-    /// ran, otherwise the mic-VAD self spans alone.
-    private func stopVisualAndTimeline(_ result: RecordingResult, folder: URL?) async -> [VisualTimeline.Segment] {
+    /// ran, otherwise the mic-VAD self spans alone. `visualRan` reports whether the
+    /// visual pipeline actually attached (for the after-session indicator).
+    private func stopVisualAndTimeline(_ result: RecordingResult, folder: URL?)
+        async -> (timeline: [VisualTimeline.Segment], visualRan: Bool) {
         let selfName = settings.selfName
         if let vc = visualCapture, let folder {
             visualCapture = nil
-            return await vc.finish(
+            let timeline = await vc.finish(
                 selfSpans: result.selfSpans, selfName: selfName,
                 sessionId: folder.lastPathComponent, t0Unix: result.t0Unix,
                 durationSec: result.duration, folder: folder)
+            return (timeline, true)
         }
         if let vc = visualCapture { await vc.cancel(); visualCapture = nil }
-        return TranscriptPipeline.timeline(fromSelfSpans: result.selfSpans, selfName: selfName)
+        return (TranscriptPipeline.timeline(fromSelfSpans: result.selfSpans, selfName: selfName), false)
     }
 
     private func stop() {
@@ -290,12 +297,12 @@ final class SessionController: ObservableObject {
         lifecycleGeneration += 1
         lifecycleTask = Task {
             let result = await recorder.stop()
-            let timeline = await self.stopVisualAndTimeline(result, folder: folder)
-            self.finish(result, timeline: timeline)
+            let visual = await self.stopVisualAndTimeline(result, folder: folder)
+            self.finish(result, timeline: visual.timeline, visualRan: visual.visualRan)
         }
     }
 
-    private func finish(_ result: RecordingResult, timeline: [VisualTimeline.Segment]) {
+    private func finish(_ result: RecordingResult, timeline: [VisualTimeline.Segment], visualRan: Bool) {
         recorder = nil
         micLevel = 0
         systemLevel = 0
@@ -303,9 +310,11 @@ final class SessionController: ObservableObject {
         transcriptStatus = .idle
         if let folder = currentFolder {
             writeSelfSpans(result, to: folder)
+            let visualCount = visualRan ? timeline.filter { $0.source == "vision" }.count : nil
             lastSession = SessionInfo(
                 folder: folder, mixedURL: result.mixedURL,
-                duration: result.duration, selfSpanCount: result.selfSpans.count)
+                duration: result.duration, selfSpanCount: result.selfSpans.count,
+                visualSegmentCount: visualCount)
             lastProcess = ProcessInputs(
                 folder: folder, sessionId: folder.lastPathComponent, app: currentLabel,
                 mixedURL: result.mixedURL, timeline: timeline)
@@ -387,8 +396,8 @@ final class SessionController: ObservableObject {
                 stopTimer()
                 let folder = currentFolder
                 let result = await recorder.stop()
-                let timeline = await stopVisualAndTimeline(result, folder: folder)
-                finish(result, timeline: timeline)
+                let visual = await stopVisualAndTimeline(result, folder: folder)
+                finish(result, timeline: visual.timeline, visualRan: visual.visualRan)
             } else if lifecycleGeneration == gen {
                 break   // settled: no new transition was spawned
             }
diff --git a/Ten31Transcripts/UI/MenuBarView.swift b/Ten31Transcripts/UI/MenuBarView.swift
index e6361bc..86fe4a6 100644
--- a/Ten31Transcripts/UI/MenuBarView.swift
+++ b/Ten31Transcripts/UI/MenuBarView.swift
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ struct MenuBarView: View {
                 Button {
                     NSWorkspace.shared.activateFileViewerSelecting([last.mixedURL])
                 } label: {
-                    Text("Last: \(Int(last.duration.rounded()))s · \(last.selfSpanCount) self-spans — reveal in Finder")
+                    Text("Last: \(Int(last.duration.rounded()))s · \(last.selfSpanCount) self-spans · \(last.visualSegmentCount.map { "\($0) visual segments" } ?? "audio-only") — reveal in Finder")
                         .font(.caption)
                 }
                 .buttonStyle(.link)