Quietly turns every Zoom call, in-person meeting, or audio file you drop in into a clean Markdown note in your folder — already wired to Claude, Cursor, Obsidian, and anything else that reads files. No bot in the call. No cloud middleman. No subscription.
Connect a Google or iCloud calendar. Quietly checks every five minutes for what’s coming up — only events you mark recordable.
A small prompt appears at the start of a meeting. Tap to record, or skip. At the end, it asks again — extend, or stop and transcribe.
Whisper transcribes locally. A Markdown note lands in your folder — Obsidian indexes it, Cursor reads it, Claude Desktop pulls it via MCP. Your meetings become context, not another silo.
No calendar event? Hit ⌘R from the menu bar to record on the fly, or drop an existing audio file onto the tray. Same path, same Markdown, same folder.
The reason your notes can flow into your AI tools so freely is the same reason executives, recruiters, and therapists keep recommending it: nothing leaves your Mac. Not the audio, not the transcript, not a single token.
Audio is captured to a temp file on your Mac, transcribed in the same process, and the audio is deleted unless you keep it.
The transcription model lives in ~/Library/Application Support. No API key, no inference billed against you.
Notes save to a folder you pick. Obsidian, a Dropbox folder, your Desktop. Plain Markdown — no proprietary database.
Once a day, a license check. That’s the only network request the app makes. Audited, reproducible builds coming soon.
Notes are plain Markdown in a folder you choose — so any tool that reads files (or speaks MCP) sees them automatically. No integrations to wait for.
Ask Claude about any meeting. The MCP server ships in the app — add one line to your config.
Pull a planning meeting into the chat while you’re coding. @meeting just works.
Point Quietly at your vault. Notes appear with front-matter, tags, and backlinks ready to go.
Search across all your meetings from your launcher. They’re just .md files — indexers love that.
Bring your own LLM key for summaries (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local Ollama). No keys required to use the app.
Reads Google or Apple calendars. Pre-meeting prompts, end-of-meeting wrap-up, no missed recordings.
Skip the calendar. ⌘R starts a manual recording from the menu bar; drag any .m4a, .mp3, or .wav onto the tray to transcribe it. Same Markdown, same folder.
BlackHole-based loopback captures system audio plus your mic. Works for any meeting that makes sound.
Front-matter with attendees, calendar, duration. Body is Whisper output, lightly cleaned. Yours forever.
No dock icon, no full-screen window. A single menu-bar tray that pulses red while recording. That’s it.
Buy it once, own it forever. One year of free updates, then keep the version you love.
Whisper large-v3 handles 99 languages. Korean and English tested daily. Switch per-note or auto-detect.
| Quietly | Otter | Granola | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No bot joins the call | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Markdown notes in your folder | ✓ | — | — | — |
| MCP for Claude / Cursor | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Audio stays on device | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Works without internet | ✓ | — | — | — |
| One-time price | ✓ | — | — | — |
No subscription. No per-meeting fees. One year of free updates included; your license never expires.
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