Minutes · for macOS

Meeting notes that never leave this Mac.

It records both sides of the call, writes the transcript and the summary with the models already inside macOS, and pulls out what people actually agreed to. There is no server, so there is nothing to trust us about. Pull the network cable mid meeting and it keeps working.

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No card for the trial · nothing uploaded, ever · macOS 26 on Apple Silicon · signed and notarized

68 seconds: the meeting, written down on this Mac. Drawn from the real interface.

Real screenshot. A real meeting recorded on a real Mac, transcribed and summarized on device, with four things caught and added.

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It asks. It never files anything on its own.

Press Add and the reminder is written. Until then nothing has been touched, and if you would rather it forgot, Dismiss means it never comes back. Every catch carries the sentence it came from, so you can check the note before you trust it.

The privacy claim, stated exactly.

Minutes has no backend. Audio is written to your disk, transcribed by macOS on your Mac, and summarized by a model that ships inside the operating system. Nothing is sent anywhere at any point, online or off, and there is no setting to get wrong. The only network calls the app ever makes are the one that checks your licence and the one that looks for an update.

During the call

Calm while it matters. Useful after.

No live transcript scrolling past your face, no robot joining the meeting to announce itself. Minutes stays out of the way and does the work when the call ends.

Two channels, kept apart

Your microphone on one track, the audio your meeting app plays on another. Headphones change nothing, because it taps the app digitally rather than listening to a speaker. Nobody's words end up attributed to the wrong person.

A jot line, not a wall of text

One line to note the thing you must not forget, while the call keeps going. Everything else can wait until it is over.

Honest about the hard case

macOS can starve other apps of the mic during some VoIP calls. Minutes tells you live at eight seconds and rebuilds its engine to win it back, and the other side records regardless.

Minutes while a call is running: a recording dot, the elapsed time, a level meter for each side, Pause and Stop, and one line to jot in — **Recording**Elapsed time, both levels, and one line to jot in. That is all it puts on screen while you are talking to somebody.

Minutes in its Desk layout, one of three switchable themes — **Three layouts, not three colour schemes**Two Lanes, The Record and The Desk lay the same meeting out differently. Pick the one that matches how you read.

After the call

The part everybody forgets.

A summary is easy to write and easy to ignore. What actually costs you is the thing somebody agreed to on minute nineteen. Minutes finds those and hands them to you as something you can act on in one tap.

Catches. "Tuesday at ten" becomes a calendar event. "I'll send the build" becomes a reminder. Each one shown with an Add button, never added behind your back.
They revise themselves. Move the meeting later in the same call and the pending card updates instead of leaving you with the wrong time.
Decisions, separated from chat. What was settled, listed apart from what was discussed.
They survive the note. Catches persist inside the saved Markdown, so a note from last month is still actionable today.

Full automatic catching is a setting, and it is off until you turn it on. Review then one tap is the default, on purpose.

A finished Minutes note with its caught action items and the summary written below it

Real screenshot of a finished note.

Where it all lands

A folder of Markdown you own.

No database, no export, no lock-in. Every meeting is one .md file with the summary, the decisions, the catches and the transcript inside it.

Named by your calendar

A recording takes the name of the meeting it belongs to and lists who was there, instead of leaving you to work out what Recording 47 was.

A library on a date spine

Meetings down the left in the order they happened, each with a waveform so you can see where the talking actually was.

Straight into Crest

File a summary into Crest's Notes with one tap. No sync, no second account: the two apps just talk on your Mac.

The comparison

Minutes vs the rest.

The popular meeting notetakers are cloud services: they upload your meeting to their servers, bill you every month, and keep your notes in their app. Minutes took the other road on every row.

Feature	Minutes	Granola	Otter	Fireflies
On-device transcription	Yes	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud
Works fully offline	Yes	No	No	No
Audio never uploaded	Yes	Uploaded, then deleted	No	No
One-time purchase, no subscription	Yes	No	No	No
Plain Markdown you own	Yes	In their app	In their app	In their app
Action items into Apple Calendar and Reminders	Yes	No	No	No
Your meetings readable without our servers	Yes	No	No	No
No bot joins your meeting	Yes	Yes	Optional	Bot joins

Published by the makers of Minutes. The marks reflect each service's own documentation and privacy policy as of July 2026. Competitor names are the property of their owners. The longer Granola comparison

Pricing

Pay once. Nothing renews.

One payment, two Macs, every future version. Or take all three apps and save $25.

Minutes

$29.99 once

The whole notetaker: recording, on-device transcripts, summaries and catches.

2 Macs. Free updates for the life of the app.

Try free for 7 days

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All three

$49.99 once

Minutes, plus Crest in the notch and Take for your screen. They run each other.

One account, three licences, one payment.

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Questions

Good to know.

Does anything leave my Mac?

No. Recording, transcription and summarization all run on your Mac using the models that ship inside macOS. There is no server to send audio to. You can disconnect from the internet during a meeting and everything still works.

How does it hear the other person?

It taps the audio your meeting app plays, digitally, rather than listening through a speaker. Headphones make no difference, and the other side is captured on its own channel so it is never confused with your voice.

Where do my notes live?

In one folder of plain Markdown files that you own and can open in any editor. There is no database and no export step. If you stop using Minutes, every note still opens.

Which Macs does Minutes run on?

macOS 26 on Apple Silicon. That is not an arbitrary floor: the transcription and summarization models ship inside that version of the OS, which is exactly why there is nothing to download and nothing to upload.

Can I try it first?

Yes, 7 days with no card. Make an account, confirm your email, and the download starts.

Do I have to tell people I am recording?

That is your call and your local law's, and Minutes is built so it is easy to be honest: the recording indicator stays visible the whole time, and when Crest offers to record a meeting it asks first rather than starting on its own.