It sits in the meeting with you. Ask "do I have anything at 2 tomorrow?" and your calendar answers. When the other side asks "what did we agree last time?", the quote from that meeting appears before you go looking. Two people sharing one microphone are told apart and named. Then the notes write themselves.
All of it on this Mac, using the speech and language models already built into macOS. Free, because you already have them. Secure, because the app uploads nothing: no bot joins the call, no audio or text is sent anywhere, not even to write the notes. No account, no subscription.
Download Meet-for-Mac-1.0.2.dmg (macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel; live transcription and written notes are best on macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence)
Open the DMG, drag the app to Applications, open it. The first time, macOS says the app is from an unidentified developer: right-click the app, choose Open, then Open again. That is once. Press Record; macOS asks for the microphone. To hear the other side of a call, grant Screen Recording once (Settings has the button); that is how macOS gates hearing what the Mac plays, and no pixels are used.
The assistant that is in the room. A question box while you talk, answered from your calendar, your reminders and every past meeting. Say "Hey Meet, am I free Thursday?" and it answers without you typing. When the other side asks about your time or about what was agreed, the answer is offered on its own.
Who said what, in the room. macOS gives words, not voices, so Meet for Mac listens to the voices themselves: pitch and the shape of the sound, phrase by phrase, clustered and labelled. Your mother in the room with you is not "You". Name the voices once and the names stick.
Everything the paid ones charge for. Kinds of meeting that shape the notes, chapters, playback per line, a speaking coach, formal minutes with owners and due dates, follow-ups across every meeting, Reminders with the day that was said. No account, no subscription, no server.
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Transcribes as people speak, on the Mac, using the on-device transcriber macOS 26 introduced (and the older on-device recogniser on macOS 14 and 15). Your microphone and the Mac's audio are transcribed separately, so lines say You and Them.
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Writes the notes when you stop: summary, decisions, action items, open questions. On macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model does it, told to use only what was said and never to invent. Without it, simple rules pick the sentences that sound like commitments, and the notes say so.
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Saves Markdown in Documents/Meetings, one folder per meeting, so Spotlight indexes it and Ask for Mac can answer "what did Sam say about the roof last Tuesday". Audio is not kept unless you ask.
One thing to know: if you have iCloud Drive syncing your Desktop and Documents folders, then Documents is iCloud, and macOS syncs your meetings to your other devices like any other file there. That is macOS, not the app, and Settings says so when it applies. Pick a folder outside Documents to keep meetings on this Mac only.
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Offers to record when Zoom, Teams, FaceTime or Slack comes forward. ⌥⌘R starts and stops from anywhere.
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A command line that transcribes any recording:
meetmac transcribe "Voice Memo.m4a".
- Highlight a moment with ⌘B. The line you were hearing is marked and listed in the notes.
- Pause with ⌥⌘P when the small talk starts; nothing is transcribed until you resume.
- Live captions: a small floating panel over every app with the last line and the words being spoken (⌥⌘C).
- Watched words: put your name, a client or "budget" in Settings and get one notification the moment it is said, with a bell on the line.
- Names: type who you are talking to and their lines say Sam Rivera instead of Them.
- Titled for you: from the calendar event happening now, or, failing that, from what was actually discussed.
- Who said what, in the room: two people sharing one microphone are told apart by their voices, on the Mac: pitch and the shape of the sound, phrase by phrase, clustered into Voice 1 and Voice 2 that you name ("Me", "Mom"). Honest about its limits: clearly different voices separate well, similar ones may not, and a phrase with too little voiced audio is left unlabelled rather than guessed.
- A brief before you start: type who you are meeting and the last meeting with them comes up: what was left open, what was decided, what you still owe them in Reminders.
- An agenda it keeps for you: one item per line; items are ticked off as they come up, and with five minutes left on the calendar event you get one notification of what is not yet covered.
- Promises as they are made: "I'll send that Friday" from either side is listed while you talk, so nothing said in passing is lost.
- Say it: "Hey Meet, do I have anything at 2 tomorrow?" into the microphone works like typing it.
- An assistant while you talk: "do I have anything at 2 tomorrow?" from your calendar, "what do I still owe Sam?" from Reminders, "what did they say about the roof last week?" from past meetings. When the other side asks "are you free Thursday at 2?" or "what did we agree last time?", the answer is offered before you go looking. Calendar and Reminders are read on the Mac, asked for once.
- Ask the meeting: "what did they say about the deposit?" answered from the transcript, with the exact words quoted.
- Recap email: a short, plain recap from the notes, one click into Mail.
- Search every meeting from the sidebar, by title or by any words said.
- Word cloud and themes: the words said most, and the ideas grouped into themes the way sticky notes go on a wall.
- Talk time: how much of the meeting was you, words a minute, questions asked.
- Export: a PDF of notes and transcript, action items straight into Reminders, notes shared anywhere.
- Kinds of meeting: pick 1:1, client call, interview, standup, board or family and the notes take that shape: a client call gets Needs, Objections and Next step; an interview gets Strengths, Concerns and Verdict.
- Chapters: the meeting split into titled sections with timestamps, clickable in the transcript.
- Hear it again: with the audio kept, a play button on every line jumps to that moment; the line lights up as it plays.
- A speaking coach: filler words, your longest stretch without a pause, pace, how often you cut in, questions asked. One honest sentence, never sent anywhere.
- Send to Apple Notes, Copy for Slack: the notes into a Notes note titled after the meeting, or Slack's own markup on the clipboard.
- Names spelled right: list the names and terms that matter and misheard versions are corrected as the lines arrive.
- Follow-ups in one place: every action item from every meeting, ticked off in one list (the Follow-ups button above the sidebar). The assistant counts them when you ask what you still owe.
- Promises into Reminders, due on the day you said: "I'll send that Friday" becomes a reminder due Friday, in a Meet for Mac list, when the meeting ends (opt-in) or from any past meeting's Actions menu.
- A heads-up before a meeting: a couple of minutes before a calendar event with people invited or a call link, one notification offers to record; the title and who is on the invite are filled in.
- Formal minutes when you need the strict form: attendees, topics in order, decisions, action items with owner and due date, follow-ups, next meeting. Turn it on in Settings for every meeting, or ask for it from any past meeting's Actions menu.
meetmac minutes <folder>does the same from the command line.
- It does not upload anything, anywhere, ever. No account, no server, no Private Cloud Compute.
- It does not tell speakers apart within one side: You and Them, not names.
- It does not join calls. It listens to what your Mac hears and plays.
- Languages: those Apple's on-device transcriber supports on your Mac.
ln -s "/Applications/Meet for Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/MeetMac" /usr/local/bin/meetmac
meetmac transcribe "Voice Memo.m4a"
meetmac notes ~/Documents/Meetings/"2026-09-03 10.00 Roof and gutters"
meetmac list --json
meetmac status
./build-app.sh --install # universal build, ad-hoc signed, into /Applications
meetmac selftest # tests on a fixture transcript; no audio, no model needed
swift test # the same through XCTest
tests/integration.sh # the command line end to end
MIT licensed. See PRIVACY.md and CONTRIBUTING.md.