Anticipate
Apple Calendar spots the meeting link and prepares the moment before the call begins.
Private-first conversations memory
Meeting notes that you own.
What happens to your recordings in Cloud? One data breach, one subpoena, one employee with the wrong access. Your client calls are not your private property anymore.
On-device transcription
Audio is processed locally with Whisper models, from Tiny to Large v3, so sensitive discussions never leave your Mac.
Speaker memory
Turn generic labels into real names and keep improving matching quality as you review and tag more recordings.
Calendar automation
Detects Apple Calendar links for Meet, Zoom, and Teams, then starts capture when the meeting opens.
Menu bar control
Next meetings, start, stop, and check status instantly from the menu bar without disrupting your active call window.
From sound to memory
A meeting becomes a record before the room has gone quiet.
Capture
Record from the menu bar while live transcript lines arrive with timestamps.
Identify
Replace anonymous speakers with real names and keep improving recognition over time.
Act
Generate summaries, decisions, and follow-up work beside the transcript when you choose.
Never miss a recording again
It knows the meeting is coming before you remember to press record.
Tironian Notes reads Apple Calendar events, recognizes supported meeting links, and keeps recording close to the native Mac workflow instead of sending you into another dashboard.
- Detects Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams links from upcoming events.
- Helps you capture the first decision, not just the minutes after it.
- Lives in the menu bar, where a meeting tool should be.
Know exactly who said what
Replace “Speaker X” with real name.
Train fingerprints from reviewed transcripts, match speakers in future recordings, and keep the human structure of the conversation intact.
- Diarize speech, rename speakers, and apply names across one line or the whole transcript.
- Manage a reusable speaker library instead of relabeling the same people forever.
- Export clearer records with ownership already attached.
Summary ready before you stand up
Turn transcripts into useful follow-up work.
Create prompt-based tasks once, then run them automatically or manually after transcription, diarization, or speaker matching.
- Generate summaries, decisions, action steps, and structured outputs.
- Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or local Ollama.
- Keep results beside the transcript in markdown-friendly tabs.
OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
OpenRouter
Ollama local
Private by architecture
The recorder that can't be subpoenaed — because it never left your Mac.
Recording and transcription runs locally. Conversations and processing stay yours, with LLM automation available only when you choose to add it.
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- macOS 14+
- Voice to text
- Whisper Tiny to Large v3
- Supported meetings
- Meet, Zoom, Teams, Slack, and more
- Permissions
- Microphone, Screen Recording
- Automation
- Apple Calendar integration
- Processing
- Fully on-device by default
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Named after Tiro, inventor of classical shorthand: capture speech clearly, keep context intact.