# Meeting Recorder for Mac Records the meeting. Writes the notes. Tells no one. A tiny Mac menu-bar app that records any call — Zoom, Meet, Teams, **no bot joining** — and turns it into a transcript and AI meeting notes, **entirely on your Mac**. Free for 14 days, then $19 once. No subscription, no account. **[Download free — 14-day trial](https://gensoft.ge/meeting-recorder/download)** · [Buy — $19, once](https://gensoft.ge/meeting-recorder/buy) · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon. ## The three promises - **No bot in your meeting.** It records the audio your Mac plays and your mic — nothing joins the call, nobody sees "Recording Bot has joined". Works with every meeting app, because it doesn't need to know which one you use. - **Nothing leaves your Mac.** Transcription, speaker separation and AI notes all run on your own machine. No upload, no server, no account. After the one-time AI-model download it works in airplane mode. - **One price, once.** Try everything free for 14 days, then $19 buys everything the app does — recording, high-accuracy transcription in 90+ languages, speaker separation, AI meeting notes. Free 1.x updates. No tiers, no subscription, no "Pro". ## How you use it 1. **Before the meeting, click the waveform icon in your menu bar** and pick one of three modes: Record Call (their audio + your mic), Record In-Person (the room around you), or Record System Audio (anything your Mac plays). The icon pulses red while recording. 2. **Click Stop when it's over.** Transcription starts by itself — no buttons, no upload screen, no waiting page. Keep working; the menu shows progress in plain words. 3. **Open your notes.** A few minutes later you have two Markdown files in a normal folder: the full transcript — with timestamps and who-said-what — and AI meeting notes: TL;DR, decisions, action items, open questions, written in the meeting's own language. First launch downloads the AI models (about 4 GB, once). Until they arrive, a built-in starter model transcribes so the app works from minute one. ## What it does - **Three ways to record** — calls (their audio and your mic as separate tracks), in-person meetings through the mic, or system audio only (lectures, webinars, videos). - **90+ languages, auto-detected** — the transcript comes out in your language, and the notes are written in it too. English, Russian and Hebrew get extra care. - **Knows who's talking** — voices are told apart automatically: in a call you're always "You", the other side becomes Remote 1, Remote 2…; in the room it's Speaker 1, Speaker 2… - **Notes, not just words** — TL;DR, participants, decisions made, action items with owners, open questions. - **Echo removed** — no headphones? Your mic hears the other side twice; the app keeps each line once, attributed to the right person. - **Files you own** — plain Markdown and WAV in a normal folder. No library lock-in, no export step. - **Works offline** — after the one-time model download, everything works with Wi-Fi off. - **Honest when it can't hear** — too far from the mic, room too loud, capture interrupted: it says exactly that instead of handing you confident nonsense. ## Under the hood Transcription is OpenAI's **Whisper large-v3-turbo** running locally through whisper.cpp. Speaker separation is **pyannote** voice segmentation with speaker embeddings, also local. Notes are written by **Gemma 4**, a language model that runs on your Mac's own GPU. All of it ships in or downloads into the app — no API keys, no "bring your own OpenAI account", no setup. What we deliberately don't do: no video files, no slide OCR, no "chat with your meetings", no accounts, no cloud tier. Three menu items and your notes. ## Everything stays on your Mac The app has no servers. We have no access to your recordings, your transcripts, your notes, your meeting titles, or the fact that you had a meeting at all. There's no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting phoning home. The only network the app ever uses is downloading the AI models — fixed public files, once. Full privacy policy: https://gensoft.ge/meeting-recorder/privacy ## Pricing **Free for 14 days, then $19 once — that's the whole price list.** The trial is the full app — every mode, every language, speaker separation, AI notes. Not a limited demo. - All three recording modes - High-accuracy transcription, 90+ languages - Speaker separation - AI meeting notes - All 1.x updates free - No subscription, no account, no tiers ## Frequently asked **Is there a free trial?** Yes — 14 days of the complete app, no account, no card details, no feature locks. After 14 days it asks for the one-time $19 purchase. **Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams?** Yes — and with everything else that makes sound on your Mac. It records system audio, so it doesn't care which meeting app you use and never has to join the call. **Where do my recordings live?** In a normal folder on your Mac, as WAV audio and Markdown text. Open it from the app's menu. Move them, back them up, delete them — they're just files, and they exist nowhere else. **Do I need an account or an API key?** No. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to configure. Download it, click Record. **Why so cheap when others charge $8–15 every month?** Because your Mac does the AI work. Cloud note-takers pay for servers every month, so they have to charge you every month. We don't, so we don't. **What Mac do I need?** Any Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer) on macOS 13 or later. 8 GB of memory works; more makes the AI notes faster. **What happens to my data if I uninstall?** Your recordings and transcripts are yours and stay in their folder unless you delete them. There's no cloud copy to worry about either way. ## Links - Privacy policy: https://gensoft.ge/meeting-recorder/privacy - Technical issues / bugs: https://github.com/gurify/meeting-recorder-releases/issues - Support (purchases, license keys — private): https://gensoft.ge/meeting-recorder/support Made in Georgia 🇬🇪 by Geniuses Software.