Your meetings, recorded and
summarized — without leaving your desk.
Meeting Notes sits quietly in your menu bar, records the room, transcribes it locally, and hands you a clean summary with decisions and action items — all saved as a plain Markdown file on your own disk. No account, no cloud upload, no telemetry.
Status: The macOS build is available to download and free while in testing — it isn't notarized yet, so opening it takes one extra click. A native iPhone and iPad app is in testing on real devices and is installed directly from source for now. Neither app is on the App Store or purchasable yet; this page will link to each listing as it goes live.
Keep the context. Finish the transcript after the meeting.
Features
Be present. Keep the details.
Record your meeting, add notes and screenshots as you go, then stop to create a full transcript and summary. Keep the conversation in focus and return to the details when you need them.
Record now. Transcribe after.
Capture microphone and system audio on your Mac. After you stop, turn the recording into a full transcript with local or configured cloud transcription.
Screenshots in the same reel
Capture the screen mid-meeting with an interactive picker — including across multiple monitors — and it drops into the timeline right where it happened.
Full edit control
Edit your typed notes while recording. Review and edit the completed transcript, summary, and action items in your saved meeting.
Typed notes, inline
Drop in a note at any point during the meeting and it's woven into the same chronological feed as your screenshots.
Summary, decisions, action items
When you stop, Meeting Notes produces a short summary plus a decisions list and action items with owners — on top of the full transcript.
Plain files, your disk
Every meeting saves as a dated Markdown file with the audio alongside it, in a folder you choose. No database, no proprietary format.
How it works
Three steps. No sign-up.
Click Start Recording
Meeting Notes captures your microphone (and system audio, when granted) directly from the menu bar — nothing else needs to be open.
Add context as you go
Open Recording Notes to add a thought or capture a screenshot without pausing. Transcription begins after you stop recording.
Stop, and get a summary
Meeting Notes mixes the audio, finalizes the transcript, and writes a summary with decisions and action items straight to your notes folder.
Privacy
Local-first, on purpose.
There is no Meeting Notes server. The app runs entirely on your Mac, under Apple's App Sandbox, and only talks to the network when you've configured it to.
- ✓No accounts. Nothing to sign up for, nothing tied to an identity.
- ✓No telemetry. Meeting Notes doesn't phone home, ever — there's no backend to phone home to.
- ✓Local transcription runs on-device, via a local, in-process Whisper model — your audio doesn't leave the Mac to become text.
- ✓Summarization is opt-in and disclosed. Only the final transcript — never raw audio — is sent to the AI provider you configure, and only to produce the summary.
- ✓You choose the save folder via a sandboxed file picker, and Meeting Notes only ever writes inside it.
- ✓Everything is a plain file. Delete a meeting by deleting its Markdown and audio files — there's nothing else holding a copy.
Pricing
One plan, once it ships.
Meeting Notes will be a paid subscription on the Mac App Store. The price below is what's planned for launch — it isn't purchasable yet.
- Unlimited recordings, stored locally
- Post-recording transcript & notes
- On-device transcription (no per-minute fees)
- Summaries, decisions & action items
- Screenshots & typed notes in the same timeline
You'll need your own API key for summarization — see Requirements below. Meeting Notes doesn't mark up or meter that usage.
Download
Get the build.
These are real builds, not installers for a finished product — Meeting Notes hasn't been through App Store or Microsoft Store review yet, so each one needs a manual step to open. Both are free while in testing.
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Platforms
Mac and iPhone, each built natively.
Meeting Notes is a native app on each platform, not one cross-platform shell wrapped twice — which is what lets transcription and summarization run on-device and the recording sit quietly in the menu bar where it belongs.
macOS — in testing
Meeting recording, typed notes, multi-monitor screenshots, post-recording transcription, editing, and summaries. Built natively in Swift, running under the App Sandbox, in local testing ahead of Mac App Store review.
iPhone & iPad — in testing
A native SwiftUI app that records, transcribes and summarizes on the device itself — on iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence the summary is written by the on-device model, so the transcript never leaves the phone. It runs on real hardware today, installed from source; it is not on the App Store yet.
Requirements
What you'll need.
| macOS | A recent Apple Silicon or Intel Mac. Meeting Notes runs as a menu bar app under the standard App Sandbox. |
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| iPhone & iPad | iOS or iPadOS 17 or newer. On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, summaries are written by the on-device model — see Platforms below. |
| Permissions | Microphone access (required); on macOS, Screen & System Audio Recording (optional, for capturing other participants and for screenshots). |
| Transcription | Runs fully on-device via a local Whisper model — no external account needed. |
| Summarization | Your own free API key from OpenRouter, set once. Meeting Notes still saves the full transcript if you skip this. |
| Storage | You pick the folder on first launch — notes, audio and screenshots are written there and nowhere else. |
FAQ
Good to know.
Does Meeting Notes upload my meetings anywhere?
With local transcription, audio stays on your Mac. If you configure a cloud transcription provider, your recording is sent to that provider. Cloud summaries send the transcript to your chosen AI provider.
What happens if I don't set up an API key?
Meeting Notes still records, transcribes locally, and saves the full transcript to your notes file. You just won't get the auto-generated summary, decisions and action items on top.
Can I edit a meeting after it's saved?
Typed notes can be edited or deleted while the meeting is recording. Once saved, the note is a plain Markdown file you can edit like any other.
Where are my notes stored?
Wherever you pick on first launch. Each meeting is one dated Markdown file with its audio recording alongside it — nothing is stored in a database or synced anywhere unless you choose to.
Is it available yet?
The macOS build is available to download now, free while in testing — it's a real build, just not yet through App Store review, so it isn't notarized and needs Right-click → Open the first time. The iPhone and iPad app runs on real devices and is installed from source; it is not on the App Store yet.