Meeting notes that never leave your Mac.

tinyMuesli sits in your menu bar, records your calls and transcribes them on your Mac as they happen. No account, no cloud, no bot joining the call.

Download for macOS Source on GitHub

Free and open source. Needs macOS 26 on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Q4 roadmap · Tue 14:02

Ann LeeCan we ship the export before the offsite?

If we drop the PDF option, yes. Markdown and JSON are done.

Sam OrtizFine by me. Nobody asked for PDF anyway.

Then I'll cut the release on Friday.

Install

Download tinyMuesli.dmg and open it.
Drag tinyMuesli onto the Applications folder.
Open it. The first time, macOS blocks it because it isn't notarized yet: click Done, then Open Anyway in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Or install from the command line, which skips step 3:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/PotentialHedge/tinymuesli/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

brew install --cask potentialhedge/tap/tinymuesli

Updates install from “Check for Updates…” in the app's menu. tinyMuesli is an early version, so expect rough edges.

What it does

Notices your meetings

When Zoom, Teams, Slack, FaceTime or a call in your browser starts using the mic, one click starts recording. It doesn't need your calendar.

Knows who said what

Your mic is you and system audio is everyone else. Speaker identification runs on your Mac when the meeting ends.

Fully local

Apple's on-device speech recognition transcribes live. Audio is deleted 24 hours later unless you choose to keep it.

Plain files

Each meeting is a folder with transcript.md and transcript.json. Rename them, sort them and open them in any tool.

Share as a web page

Send a transcript as a page that opens in any browser. The meeting travels inside the link, so nothing is uploaded.

Works with your agent

An MCP server, a CLI and a hook that runs when a meeting ends let Claude, ChatGPT or your own scripts use your notes.

Bring your own AI

tinyMuesli doesn't summarize anything itself. Your assistant gets the transcripts instead. In Settings › Assistants, Copy Prompt sets up an agent, and Add… adds tinyMuesli to the Claude or ChatGPT desktop app. Or add it by hand:

claude mcp add --scope user tinymuesli -- \
  /Applications/tinyMuesli.app/Contents/MacOS/tinyMuesli mcp

The same binary is a CLI: tinymuesli search "budget", tinymuesli show, tinymuesli share and more. See the README.