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Minute 0.5.0

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@mraza007 mraza007 released this 26 Jul 03:48
v0.5.0
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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)
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