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Meeting notes and summaries on Mac

To get meeting notes and summaries on a Mac, decide whether recordings may leave your computer and whether the app should start recording on its own, then check the free tier. The apps below document meeting summaries on macOS. Apps in this guide: Anarlog, Grain, Meetily, Notta, Riverside, Supernormal, Vibe, 腾讯会议, 飞书妙记.

Conditions checked

  • macOS
  • Meeting summaries

Before you choose

Summary quality and accuracy aren't tested here. Recording a meeting can require the other participants' consent; check the rules that apply to you.

Documented conditions compared

Each cell reflects the catalog's current qualified sources for this platform. Not documented means unknown, not unsupported. Notes and sources are on each app below.

AppLocal processingWorks offlineAutomatic meeting captureFree
Anarlog DocumentedDocumentedDocumentedFree, important features paid · Subscription
Grain Not documentedNot documentedDocumentedFree, important features paid · Subscription
Meetily DocumentedDocumentedPaid tier onlyFree, important features paid · Subscription
Notta Not documentedNot documentedDocumentedSubscription · Free, important features paid
Riverside Not documentedNot documentedNot documentedSubscription
Supernormal Not documentedNot documentedDocumentedFree, important features paid · Subscription
Vibe DocumentedDocumentedNot documentedDocumented
腾讯会议 Not documentedNot documentedNot documentedFree, important features paid
飞书妙记 Not documentedNot documentedNot documentedFree, important features paid

Products with evidence for these conditions

Listed alphabetically, with no paid placement. Inclusion establishes these documented conditions, not a hands-on endorsement or a guarantee of fit.

  • Anarlog

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Local processing · Works offline · Automatic meeting capture

    • On-device transcription (Soniqo or a local whisper.cpp model) needs a supported Apple Silicon Mac, or Apple Speech on macOS 26; on Windows, transcription uses Anarlog Cloud or a provider you configure.
    • Recording and note-taking work without a network connection on any supported platform; fully offline transcription, summaries, and chat require local models and are only documented for a supported Apple Silicon Mac (or macOS 26 for Apple Speech).
    • Starts recording automatically from a connected calendar event at its scheduled time on any supported platform; it does not join the call as a bot. Automatic stop-when-call-ends detection is documented only for macOS and Linux.
    • The free plan already includes unlimited on-device transcription, local recordings, notes, and manual speaker labeling; Pro adds hosted transcription/AI, dictation, sync, and sharing.
    • Paid features: System-wide dictation; Cloud transcription; Cloud LLM for summaries and chat; Better, cloud-based speaker identification; Cloud sync across devices; End-to-end encryption; Sharing individual notes; Integrations and personal automations

  • Grain

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Automatic meeting capture

    • "Capture rules" is listed alongside Grain's bot-based recording and bot-less desktop transcription as a way to set which meetings get captured automatically; the page does not say the rules apply to one capture method exclusively.
    • The free plan caps meetings at 45 minutes.
    • Paid features: Unlimited meeting duration; Unlimited meeting history; Advanced AI notes; Custom AI prompts; HubSpot integration; Salesforce integration; AI coaching; Single sign-on (SSO)

  • Meetily

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Local processing · Works offline · Automatic meeting capture

    • Transcription and recordings are processed locally by default; if you choose your own API key for AI summaries, only the transcript text is sent to that provider, never the audio.
    • Meetily doesn't join calls as a bot; it captures system audio directly from the device, and the paid Pro plan adds automatic detection of meetings.
    • Automatic meeting capture: Paid tier only
    • The free Community edition already records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings locally, with 6 built-in summary templates.
    • Paid features: Speaker identification (diarization); Advanced exports to PDF and DOCX; Automatic meeting detection; Connecting your own scripts or AI assistant via MCP, webhooks, and a command-line tool; Custom summary templates

  • Notta

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Automatic meeting capture

    • Notta Desktop (Mac/Windows) auto-detects when a meeting starts; a separate bot mode auto-joins meetings with video.

  • Riverside

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries

    • Riverside no longer offers a free plan, only a 14-day free trial of a paid plan. The pricing page shows a Pro plan charge of $35/month when Monthly billing is selected, but the actual yearly total is not printed in visible text even after selecting Yearly billing, so this catalog does not record purchase prices for Riverside.

  • Supernormal

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Automatic meeting capture

    • Requires an Apple Silicon processor (M1, M2, M3, M4 or later) and macOS 14.4.1 or later.
    • Meeting notes are generated automatically once the calendar is connected, without a bot joining the call.
    • The Free plan is capped at 5 credits per day and 15 credits per month. Listed paid features are from the $20/month Team plan, the individual/small-team paid tier; the $40/month Business plan additionally adds enterprise controls (SSO, audit logs, data retention, member visibility and admin controls) not listed here.
    • Paid features: No daily credit limits; Roll over credits to following month; Unlimited seats – share credits across your team; Remove Supernormal badge

  • Vibe

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries · Local processing · Works offline · Free

    • Summarizing transcripts requires a Claude API key (an optional cloud feature); local summaries are also possible with Ollama.

  • 腾讯会议

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries

    • Named as "元宝纪要" (Yuanbao Minutes): the Yuanbao AI assistant proactively summarizes key meeting points and can attend meetings on the user's behalf.
    • The free tier caps meetings at 40 minutes when 3 or more people join.
    • Paid features: Unlimited-duration meetings for up to 100 people; 100GB of cloud recording storage; Screen sharing up to original quality at 30fps; Unlimited smart recordings; Up to 4 co-hosts per meeting; Unlimited-duration meeting captions and real-time transcription; Verified identity badge shown to others

  • 飞书妙记

    macOS

    macOS · Meeting summaries

    • The Feishu help center describes generating 妙记 from the Feishu desktop client (桌面端), and Feishu's own download page names macOS as one of its desktop clients; this claim combines the two.
    • Feishu's free Basic edition (基础版) gives a limited speech-to-text quota for 妙记; once used up, new 妙记 stop showing a transcript. Business and Enterprise editions have no such limit.
    • Paid features: Unlimited quota for 妙记 speech-to-text transcription

Sources for the apps above were checked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-29.

Common questions

Do my meeting recordings leave my Mac?

Local processing, as recorded here: Anarlog — Documented (On-device transcription (Soniqo or a local whisper.cpp model) needs a supported Apple Silicon Mac, or Apple Speech on macOS 26; on Windows, transcription uses Anarlog Cloud or a provider you configure); Grain, Notta, Riverside, Supernormal, 腾讯会议, 飞书妙记 — Not documented; Meetily — Documented (Transcription and recordings are processed locally by default; if you choose your own API key for AI summaries, only the transcript text is sent to that provider, never the audio); Vibe — Documented. It depends on the app and the feature. Cloud transcription and AI summaries send audio or text to a service; if local processing isn't documented, treat it as unknown.

Is there a free meeting notes app for Mac?

Free, as recorded here: Anarlog — Free, important features paid · Subscription (The free plan already includes unlimited on-device transcription, local recordings, notes, and manual speaker labeling; Pro adds hosted transcription/AI, dictation, sync, and sharing. Paid features: System-wide dictation; Cloud transcription; Cloud LLM for summaries and chat; Better, cloud-based speaker identification; Cloud sync across devices; End-to-end encryption; Sharing individual notes; Integrations and personal automations); Grain — Free, important features paid · Subscription (The free plan caps meetings at 45 minutes. Paid features: Unlimited meeting duration; Unlimited meeting history; Advanced AI notes; Custom AI prompts; HubSpot integration; Salesforce integration; AI coaching; Single sign-on (SSO)); Meetily — Free, important features paid · Subscription (The free Community edition already records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings locally, with 6 built-in summary templates. Paid features: Speaker identification (diarization); Advanced exports to PDF and DOCX; Automatic meeting detection; Connecting your own scripts or AI assistant via MCP, webhooks, and a command-line tool; Custom summary templates); Notta — Subscription · Free, important features paid (Paid features: Export transcripts; Transcript translation; Custom vocabulary; Record online meetings with video; Advanced data security controls; CRM & Zapier integration); Riverside — Subscription (Riverside no longer offers a free plan, only a 14-day free trial of a paid plan. The pricing page shows a Pro plan charge of $35/month when Monthly billing is selected, but the actual yearly total is not printed in visible text even after selecting Yearly billing, so this catalog does not record purchase prices for Riverside); Supernormal — Free, important features paid · Subscription (The Free plan is capped at 5 credits per day and 15 credits per month. Listed paid features are from the $20/month Team plan, the individual/small-team paid tier; the $40/month Business plan additionally adds enterprise controls (SSO, audit logs, data retention, member visibility and admin controls) not listed here. Paid features: No daily credit limits; Roll over credits to following month; Unlimited seats – share credits across your team; Remove Supernormal badge); Vibe — Documented; 腾讯会议 — Free, important features paid (The free tier caps meetings at 40 minutes when 3 or more people join. Paid features: Unlimited-duration meetings for up to 100 people; 100GB of cloud recording storage; Screen sharing up to original quality at 30fps; Unlimited smart recordings; Up to 4 co-hosts per meeting; Unlimited-duration meeting captions and real-time transcription; Verified identity badge shown to others); 飞书妙记 — Free, important features paid (Feishu's free Basic edition (基础版) gives a limited speech-to-text quota for 妙记; once used up, new 妙记 stop showing a transcript. Business and Enterprise editions have no such limit. Paid features: Unlimited quota for 妙记 speech-to-text transcription). A free plan can limit meeting length or keep hosted AI features paid. Check each card's paid features before relying on it.

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