Fully Private
Meetings & Calls Recorder

Yes. MeetingMemo captures your microphone and the call's audio together, at the system level - both sides of any meeting, and you don't need to be the host. There's no BlackHole, Loopback, or virtual audio driver to set up.

No. MeetingMemo records what your Mac hears, like a local recorder. Nothing joins the meeting, no extra participant appears, and nobody gets a notification.

Your audio is recorded and transcribed entirely on your Mac and is never sent to any server - recording and transcription work fully offline, and AI summaries can too when you run them on-device. The only things that ever leave are optional: iCloud sync (to your own private iCloud) and, if you turn on AI summaries, the text transcript - sent either to our zero-retention hosted service or to the provider you chose. Your audio always stays on your Mac.

No. Your audio never leaves your Mac, and any text sent for AI summaries is never stored or trained on - our hosted service runs under zero data retention, and with your own key the text goes to that provider under your own account's terms. There's nothing for anyone to train on, and no "opt out of training" setting to remember.

No. MeetingMemo's AI runs three ways: our hosted service that just works with no setup and no extra cost (text only, nothing stored), fully on-device on your Mac (nothing leaves at all), or your own cloud key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others), where that provider bills you for what you use. Summaries, action items, and chat all work whichever path you pick. Recording and transcription need none of them - without AI set up, MeetingMemo still records and keeps the raw transcript on your Mac.

Yes. MeetingMemo can run summaries, action items, and chat with an on-device model, so nothing leaves your Mac at all - and you can connect the free Ollama app to run larger local models. One honest caveat: local models are weaker than the big cloud ones, so pick the largest your Mac runs well - MeetingMemo recommends one and warns you if your choice is too small for reliable summaries.

Three options. Use our hosted MeetingMemo service - no setup, text only, nothing stored (zero retention). Run AI on-device - nothing leaves your Mac, with Ollama available for larger local models. Or bring your own key from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Google Gemini, and other major providers, or a compatible custom endpoint - the text goes to that provider under your own account, and your key stays in your Keychain. Whatever you pick, only text is ever sent, never your audio, and you can keep calendar attendee names out of the requests.

It uses Whisper-class on-device engines (WhisperKit and Apple's SpeechTranscriber). On clear speech it's on par with the leading cloud services, across about 99 languages with automatic detection. Heavy accents, crosstalk, and noisy rooms lower accuracy, as with any tool.

It labels your voice as You and everyone else as Others by separating your mic from the call's audio - clean attribution for 1:1s and small calls. It doesn't name each individual person in a large group (there's no full speaker diarization in v1).

Every feature is free for 30 days, then $29.99/year on the Mac App Store, with Family Sharing for up to 6. It's a subscription, not a one-time purchase - that covers ongoing updates and iCloud sync. There's no permanently free tier.

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M-series) on macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, plus about 2 GB free for the app and a transcription model. AI summaries work out of the box with our hosted service - or run them on-device, or with your own cloud provider key. It doesn't run on Intel Macs or earlier macOS versions.

Recording laws vary by where you and the other participants are - some places require everyone's consent. You're responsible for following the law where you are, and we recommend always letting people know before you record.

Anytime. Export any meeting as Markdown, text, JSON, or XML, and download the audio - transcripts are also saved as plain Markdown on disk. Your library syncs across your Macs through your own iCloud.