Every meeting, transcribed on your Mac.
Records from the menu bar, figures out who said what, and transcribes locally.
Free while in beta. For Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14.4 or later.
Press Record. Read the meeting.
Meannit lives in your menu bar and has one job: a clear transcript of every call, with names, ready a few minutes after you hang up.
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Record from the menu bar
Click Meannit in the menu bar, then Record, or press ⌥⌘R in any app. It records your mic and what your Mac plays as two tracks, so nothing joins the call and no sound setting changes.
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Stop when the call ends
While it records, the panel shows the time and how loud each side is, and reminds you to tell everyone. Press Stop, and Meannit finds who spoke and transcribes the meeting on your Mac.
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Read, fix, and export
Click a line to hear it. Click the words to fix them, or add a note in the margin. The transcript and the audio export to a folder you choose.
Built around the transcript.
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No bot in the call
Meannit records what your Mac plays. Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddles, FaceTime, or anything else with sound. Nobody sees a recorder join.
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Names, once
Name a speaker and every line they said updates. Meannit remembers the voice and names them in your next meeting, marked "by voice".
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Every line plays
Click any line to hear that moment. Your edits and notes never move a line, so the text and the audio always match.
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Plain files you keep
Each meeting exports as a Markdown transcript and an .m4a of the call, to the folder you pick. Hand them to any tool or agent.
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Polish with the agent you have
Optionally, Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor's agent fixes punctuation and misheard words, on the plan you already pay for. Your timestamps never change.
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In person too
Meannit records a meeting in a room through your mic and tells the voices apart.
Each turn in its own language.
The speech model works out the language of every turn on its own, so a call that moves between English and Malay comes back in both. It covers English, Malay, Indonesian, Spanish, and more.
When a voice sounds like someone you've named before, Meannit suggests them, and one click names every line.
Into your second brain.
Every meeting is plain Markdown. Point Meannit's export folder at your Obsidian vault, or any notes folder, and each meeting lands there when it's ready, with the call's audio beside it.
Or hand it to your agent. Meannit comes with the meannit command and a skill that shows Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor how to use it. One switch in Settings installs both. Then ask your agent to file your meetings, with their names, edits, and margin notes.
$ meannit meetings
meeting 2026-10-02-1630 "Q4 launch plan": done
meeting 2026-10-02-1400 "Call with Ruang Kerja": done
meeting 2026-10-02-1100 "Weekly design review": done
$ meannit document 2026-10-02-1630
[00:04] Nadia: Okay, I think everyone's here. Let's go through where the beta is, then pick a launch date.
[00:11] Daniel: The beta went out to 140 testers on Tuesday.
note 1: Daniel to confirm the iPad fix by Monday
[00:26] Priya: Most people skip the import step, then come back for it on day two.
$ claude "Add yesterday's meetings to my vault, with decisions and owners"What stays on your Mac.
Meannit has no account and no analytics, and your meetings never pass through a server of ours. Here is everything it does with them.
- Stays on your Mac
- Your recordings, the speaker detection, the transcription, the voices it remembers, and your transcripts, edits, and notes.
- Leaves only if you choose
- If you turn on polishing, the transcript's text, never the audio, goes to the provider behind the CLI you pick: Anthropic, OpenAI, or Cursor.
- Meannit's own traffic
- The speech models, downloaded once, and a check for updates once a day.
What you need.
- A Mac with Apple Silicon M1 or later.
- macOS 14.4 or later For recording system audio without screen recording.
- 2.6 GB of space For the speech models, which download on first run.
- Optional: an agent CLI Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor's agent, signed in, to polish transcripts or file meetings into your notes.
Questions.
Does it write summaries or action items?
No. Meannit writes the transcript, with names, and keeps it matched to the audio. The Markdown export works with whatever tool you use for summaries.
Is my audio uploaded anywhere?
No. Speaker detection and transcription run on your Mac with open-weight models: Qwen3-ASR and NVIDIA's Nemotron diarization. The audio stays in Meannit's folder on your Mac and in the exports you make.
Do I need Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor?
No. Without one, you read the speech model's transcript. With one, Meannit asks it to fix punctuation and misheard words, using the plan you already have. It can also file your meetings into your notes with the meannit command.
Which call apps does it work with?
Any app that plays sound on your Mac, including Zoom, Google Meet in any browser, Microsoft Teams, Slack, FaceTime, and WhatsApp. Meannit doesn't need to know which one you use.
Do I have to tell people I'm recording?
Meannit reminds you every time, with a line you can paste into the call's chat. The rules depend on where you and the others are, and some places require everyone's consent, so check what applies to you.
How much does it cost?
Meannit is free while in beta.
How do updates work?
Meannit checks for a new version once a day. When there is one, it waits in the menu bar panel until you install it. About has Check for Updates too.
Try it on your next call.
Free while in beta. For Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14.4 or later.