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Meeting minutes for your Mac

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conversation.

Minutes records your meetings on your Mac and writes the minutes: a transcript with speakers, a summary, decisions, and action items. Recording and live captions stay on your Mac.

Download for Mac Source code

Free and open source · macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon · Japanese interface

The Minutes window: the list of meetings on the left; the summary, decisions, action items, and the transcript with speakers on the right.

15-second introduction

Just record on your Mac.

Japanese narration · The meetings and names are fictional

Features

Let Minutes take the minutes.

Minutes records the meeting app’s audio and your own voice. When the meeting ends, it transcribes and summarizes with the services you choose. It lives in the menu bar and waits for your next meeting.

Two separate tracks. The meeting app’s audio (Meet, Teams, Zoom, …) and your microphone are recorded separately, so speakers are easier to tell apart.

Live captions. Captions during the meeting are made on your Mac with macOS speech recognition, in Japanese or English. You can switch while recording.

Summary, decisions, and action items.

Transcript and summary. After the meeting, Minutes writes a transcript with speakers, a summary, decisions, action items, and open questions — each linked back to what was said. English meetings are summarized in English (or in Japanese, if you prefer).

  • Summary
  • Decisions
  • Action items
  • Open questions
  • Transcript with speakers
Meeting details: the summary, decisions with the time and speaker they came from, and action items with owners and due dates.

Speaker names. Name a speaker once and every line is updated. Voices picked up around the other person’s microphone can be excluded per speaker.

Search and export. Full-text search across titles, attendees, transcripts, and summaries. Export each meeting as Markdown and JSON to any folder.

Calendar meetings. When a calendar meeting starts and the meeting app plays audio, Minutes asks before it starts recording.

Screens

From the menu bar to the minutes.

Start and stop recording and see today’s meetings from the menu bar panel. Read, edit, and search the minutes in the window.

The menu bar panel with the record button and meeting time for today and this week.
The menu bar panel. Start and stop recording, and see today’s meeting time and schedule.
The test recording in the first-run guide, with level meters for the meeting app and your voice, and live captions.
The first-run guide. A test recording checks that audio and captions come through.

The meetings and names shown are fictional. The app’s interface is in Japanese.

Privacy

You decide what leaves your Mac, per meeting.

Each meeting is either “cloud OK” or “local only”. Audio and minutes are stored on your Mac.

Cloud OK

Sent to the services you choose

Recorded audio
Sent after the meeting to the transcription service you chose (ElevenLabs or OpenAI), with attendee names and terms to improve accuracy.
Transcript, title, attendees
Sent to the summarizer you chose (Codex: OpenAI; Claude Code and the Anthropic API: Anthropic).
Export and sync
Copied to the folder you chose.

Local only

Nothing leaves your Mac

Recorded audio
Never sent. Transcribed on your Mac.
Transcript, title, attendees
Never sent. No summary is made.
Export and sync
Not exported.
  • Live captions are always made on your Mac.
  • No telemetry. This page loads no analytics either.
  • API keys are stored in the Keychain.
  • Minutes checks GitHub for a new version once a day (you can turn this off).
  • On first use, Minutes downloads macOS speech models (from Apple) and speaker diarization models (from Hugging Face).
  • Audio is deleted after 30 days by default (only for exported meetings). Transcripts and minutes are kept.

You are responsible for telling attendees that you are recording and for obtaining any consent required by law or your organization. Minutes can copy a notice text for you at any time.

Before you start

What you need

Mac

  • A Mac with Apple Silicon
  • macOS 26 or later
  • The app’s interface is in Japanese.

Transcription (one of)

  • ElevenLabs Scribe v2 (recommended, API key)
  • OpenAI (API key)
  • On your Mac (no key, lower accuracy)

Summary (one of)

  • Codex (ChatGPT sign-in)
  • Claude Code (Claude sign-in)
  • Anthropic API (API key)
  • No summary

Waitlist

A version that works without keys is coming.

We are planning a paid version that transcribes and summarizes without your own API keys or sign-ins. Join the waitlist and we will let you know when it is ready.

Join the waitlist

The waitlist uses an external form. We use your email address only to tell you about this version.

All of the source code is open.

The app and the command-line tool are licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Report bugs and suggest improvements on GitHub.

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