Minuter

Records your meetings, transcribes them locally with Whisper, and produces tidy markdown minutes you can paste into a channel.

Minuter is a native macOS menu-bar app. It captures system audio (the meeting) and, optionally, your microphone via Core Audio taps, then transcribes the recording with WhisperKit running entirely on your Mac. The transcript is fed to a local LLM (Ollama by default) which produces a concise markdown summary (the "minutes") that you can copy straight into Slack, a Notion doc, or an email follow-up.

Nothing leaves your Mac unless you explicitly turn on the optional cloud add-on. Sandboxed, privacy-first, no telemetry, no analytics.

What it does

Detects meetings automatically. A floating overlay appears when Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet open a meeting window: one click to start recording.
Captures system audio + microphone with Core Audio process taps. The system mix and your mic are merged into a single coherent timeline before transcription, so the LLM sees one conversation rather than two parallel monologues.
Transcribes locally with Whisper via WhisperKit. Multiple model sizes available; download once, reuse forever. Apple Silicon optimised.
Summarises locally with Ollama. Bring your own model (llama, qwen, gpt-oss, or whatever you have running on localhost:11434). The system prompt is editable in Settings.
Auto-stop on meeting end. When the meeting window closes or the audio goes silent for a full minute, Minuter stops on its own. Manual recordings without detection are never auto-stopped.
Built-in player so you can scrub through the audio of any past meeting, retry processing, rename, or export.

Optional cloud add-on

If you'd rather not wait for local Whisper on long recordings, turn on Settings → Cloud → Use cloud for processing. Audio is uploaded over HTTPS to a private, no third-party server, and the transcript + summary come back in under a minute for a typical meeting.

Requirements

macOS 15 Sequoia or later (uses the macOS 14.4+ Core Audio process-tap API)
Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4)
Microphone permission, plus Screen Recording permission for system audio capture
For local summaries: Ollama running on localhost:11434 (free, optional)

Download

Download Minuter 0.0.6 disk image (.dmg), Apple-notarised

Pricing

Free for 30 days. Then:

$6 one-time for the local app. Permanent license, lifetime updates, no subscription.
$3 / month for the optional cloud add-on, on top of the local license. Cancel anytime.

Buy local license ($6) Subscribe to cloud ($3/mo) Full pricing

Contact

eu (at) manueldeprada (dot) com

minutes (n.): the official record of what was said.

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