Meet for Mac 1.0.2

Download Meet-for-Mac-1.0.2.dmg (macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel)

The level meter now shows what a person hears.

It was drawn straight from the raw loudness of the microphone, and loudness is heard logarithmically. Measured on a real Mac, a quiet room reads 0.0026 and ordinary speech reads 0.0106, so the old meter showed 1% and 4%: a bar that barely moved while somebody was speaking, which looks exactly like a microphone that is not working.

It is drawn in decibels now, the way meters have always been drawn. The same speech reads 34%, a quiet room 7%, and speaking close to the Mac fills most of the bar with headroom left.

Nothing else changed. Everything still happens on this Mac, and nothing leaves it.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 041fdc6fcc3d7fb9050be391959900835ec8d396433d1d25296602e257d6f03a

Meet for Mac 1.0.1

Honest about iCloud.

Meetings are saved in ~/Documents/Meetings by default, so Spotlight indexes them and Ask for Mac can answer questions about them. 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: Meet for Mac still uploads nothing, and the transcription and notes still run entirely on this Mac. But the promise should not be a surprise, so:

• Settings now shows a line under the folder when your Documents folder is in iCloud, with what to do about it.
• meetmac status reports it, and --json has a folderInICloud field.
• The README and Help say it plainly.

To keep meetings on this Mac only, choose a folder outside Documents in Settings.

Meet for Mac 1.0.0

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 nothing leaves the Mac: no bot joins the call, nothing is uploaded, not even to write the notes. No account, no subscription.

Install

Download 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.

macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. Live transcription and written notes are best on macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence; on macOS 14 and 15 the older on-device recogniser transcribes and simple rules write the notes.

In this release

• The assistant while you talk: calendar, Reminders and every past meeting; "Hey Meet, …" spoken questions; answers offered when the other side asks; a brief on the last meeting with the same person; an agenda ticked off with a five-minute warning; promises collected as they are made.
• Who said what: your microphone and the Mac's audio transcribed separately, and two people on one microphone told apart by their voices, then named.
• The notes: summary, decisions, action items, open questions, shaped by the kind of meeting (1:1, client call, interview, standup, board, family). Formal minutes with owners and due dates.
• Afterwards: ask the meeting a question, chapters, playback per line, a speaking coach, talk time, word cloud and themes, search, follow-ups across every meeting, Reminders with the day that was said, recap email, PDF, Apple Notes, Slack, names spelled right.
• A command line: meetmac transcribe "Voice Memo.m4a", plus notes, minutes, ask, list, status, devices, check.

MIT licensed. No server, no analytics, no account.