Minute 1.0.0

Minute 1.0.0

Minute 1.0 is the first public Developer ID–signed and Apple-notarized release
of the offline meeting notetaker.

Highlights

• Records microphone audio and optionally system audio on macOS 13 or later.
• Transcribes live with local Whisper models.
• Produces local summaries, decisions, action items, and cited answers.
• Keeps recordings, transcripts, generated notes, and models on the Mac.
• Adds recording preflight, input metering, capture-health warnings, markers,
  speaker cleanup, recoverable deletion, library filters, bulk actions, and
  accessibility coverage.

Distribution and trust

• Separate Apple Silicon and Intel applications.
• Stable bundle identifier dev.minute.app.
• Signed with Developer ID Application: Muhammad Raza (HL7N7FULXS).
• Hardened runtime enabled.
• Main executable and all bundled llama/ggml libraries signed by the same team.
• Submitted to Apple, accepted by the notary service, and stapled.
• Gatekeeper accepted both architecture-specific applications as
  Notarized Developer ID.
• SHA-256 checksum supplied beside each ZIP.

This replaces the ad-hoc private beta distribution whose changing code identity
could prevent Minute from appearing correctly under macOS Microphone privacy
settings.

Install

Download the ZIP matching the Mac:

• Minute-1.0.0-arm64.zip for Apple Silicon.
• Minute-1.0.0-x86_64.zip for Intel.

Unzip it, drag Minute.app into Applications, and open it normally.

Known limitations

• Models download on first use; after that, recording and note generation work
  offline.
• Automatic updates are not enabled yet.
• The Intel bundle is signed, architecture-verified, and notarized, but still
  awaits launch and transcription testing on physical Intel hardware.

Minute 0.6.0

Minute now looks like what it always claimed to be: paper and ink, not a
productivity app with a warm-ish gray theme.

The interface is now a manuscript

Serif for the document, sans for the chrome. Transcript body, summaries,
decisions and titles are set in Charter — a face Matthew Carter drew for dense
text at small sizes, which is almost exactly this job. Instrument Sans is
demoted to labels, buttons, timestamps and metadata. Nothing crosses over. It
ships with macOS, so this costs no download.

Real paper. A genuinely warm cream ground with a fine grain over it. The
old canvas was warm only in the hex — on screen it read as light gray.

A ruled margin. Timestamps sit in a right-aligned gutter behind one
continuous hairline running the full length of the transcript. The timestamp
is now the seek control itself; the speaker-initials disc is gone.

Rules, not cards. Every raised, rounded, shadowed card is gone — AI notes,
settings, onboarding, model list. Ruled section heads and margin markers do
the dividing instead. Corners went from 16px to 4–6px; the pill shape survives
only on the record button, where "press this" is the whole point.

Quiet by default, loud when recording. Recording now shows as a single
accent hairline along the top edge of the window — visible from the corner of
your eye, wherever you are in the app. The live transcript uses the same
layout as a finished one, so nothing jumps when you stop recording.

Dark mode follows: ink on dark paper, warm near-black rather than cool slate.

Fixes

• The meeting-detected popup could crash on macOS. The detector runs on a
  worker thread and was touching the native panel directly, which AppKit traps
  as "Must only be used from the main thread". All panel work is now dispatched
  to the main thread.
• In dark mode the play button had effectively disappeared — a near-black disc
  on near-black chrome measured 1.06:1. Solid ink buttons now invert.
• Transcript timestamps floated opposite the middle of multi-line segments
  instead of sitting on the first line.

Accessibility

All 60 ink-on-surface pairings clear WCAG AA in both light and dark, verified
with a contrast script rather than by eye. Section labels are written in
sentence case and uppercased in CSS, so screen readers say "Summary failed"
instead of spelling it out letter by letter.

Install

Download the DMG below, drag Minute to Applications, then run this once — the
build is ad-hoc signed rather than notarized, so macOS quarantines it until
the flag is cleared:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Minute.app

Everything still runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no cloud, no network
permission.

Minute 0.5.0

The first public release of Minute — a meeting notetaker for macOS that never sends your audio anywhere.

Installing

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 11+ (macOS 13+ for system-audio capture). About 3 GB of disk for the default models, downloaded in-app on first run.

1. Download Minute_0.5.0_aarch64.dmg below, open it, drag Minute to Applications
2. Run this once in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Minute.app

That second step is required, not optional. This build is ad-hoc signed rather than notarized (notarization needs a paid Apple Developer account), so macOS quarantines the download and refuses to open it — "Minute is damaged and can't be opened" — until the flag is cleared. Right-click → Open does not get past it. Notarized releases are on the roadmap.

What it does

• Records and transcribes live, on-device — Whisper on Metal, streaming the transcript as you speak
• Summaries, decisions, and action items — generated locally by Qwen3.5-4B the moment a recording ends
• Ask your notes — question any meeting; answers cite clickable [mm:ss] timestamps that jump playback
• Meeting detection — opt-in: when Zoom/Teams/Meet starts using your mic, a quiet pill offers to record. No permission prompts; it never opens the mic to decide
• System audio capture — optionally records what you hear, so both sides of a headphones call land in one transcript (macOS 13+, Screen Recording permission)
• Playback with seek-from-transcript, ⌘K search, dark mode, 30-day audio cleanup

Everything works with Wi-Fi off. The only network traffic the app can produce is downloading models from Hugging Face, at your request, on first run.

Notes

• Whisper small + Qwen3.5-4B are the defaults; larger options (Whisper medium/large-v3-turbo, Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen3.5-9B) are offered based on your hardware
• Notes are plain files on disk — a folder per note holding the WAV, transcript JSON, summary JSON, and rendered markdown
• Known caveats: recording system audio through speakers rather than headphones can double-capture your own voice; Bluetooth microphones can defeat meeting detection (a macOS limitation)