Private by design — recording, transcription, and AI all run on your Mac. Your data stays local.
Totally free — no account, no subscription, no upsell.
Knows who said what — accurate transcripts, automatically split by speaker.
No bots, any app — records Zoom, Teams, Meet, FaceTime, or Slack huddles without joining your call.
Powerful AI summaries — automatic summaries, action items, meeting titles, and real speaker names.
Calendar-aware — sees your upcoming meetings, offers to start recording.
Auto-stop — detects when your call ends and stops recording.
Chat — chat with your meeting notes via MCP, in apps like Claude or LM Studio.
Custom vocabulary — transcribe uncommon words you use, like names or jargon.
Fast, small, native — launches instantly, native design, built by an ex-Apple engineer.
Voice isolation — captures your mic and everyone else as separate, clean channels. No echo.
Markdown notes — jot notes in markdown, linked to the moment they happened.
Every step happens on your Mac. Your audio and transcripts never leave your device.
Biscotti captures your mic and your Mac's system audio from any meeting app.
On-device speech recognition produces a speaker-labeled transcript, powered by Apple Silicon.
Local AI writes a summary, pulls out action items, and figures out who's who.
| Biscotti | Other apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio never leaves your Mac | ||
| Meeting notes stay private and local | ||
| No bot joins your meeting | ||
| Works with any app — even in person | ||
| Keeps full audio, not just summaries | ||
| Native Mac app, not Electron or web | ||
| Free, no subscription, no account | ||
| Never have to pay to read old meetings | ||
| Where your data lives | Your Mac | Their cloud |
Anything else, ask on GitHub.
Yes. Recording, transcription, and AI all run locally on your Mac. There's no account, and your audio and transcripts are never uploaded. It works completely offline (after downloading models).
Turns out when you don't rent a fleet of GPUs to transcribe other people's meetings, your costs go to zero. Biscotti runs entirely on your Mac — recording, transcription, and AI. No servers, no cloud bill, no Series A to justify. You already paid for the computer; we just found it something useful to do.
Me — Steve, an ex-Apple engineer who thinks meeting notes shouldn't require a subscription, an Electron app, and a stranger's server.
No. Biscotti records your Mac's audio directly, so nothing appears in the call and other participants aren't notified.
Anything that plays or records audio — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, Slack, Webex — plus in-person conversations through your microphone.
Locally, on your Mac.
All AI runs locally on your Mac.
Three steps: an AI model transcribes what you say, a second AI model separates speakers by voice, and a third model figures out who's who. Enhanced by calendar metadata when available.
The transcription model supports 99 languages.
The summary model supports 35+ languages.
Biscotti monitors active audio apps, without listening to their audio streams. Nothing is recorded unless you click record.
Yes. Biscotti can sync any calendars you connect to the Apple Calendar app on your Mac. You can connect Google Calendar, Microsoft Calendars, or any other provider.
Event data enables meeting start notifications, speaker identity matching, and enhances meeting summaries.
A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, and 16GB of RAM recommended.
Biscotti is source available, and available under the PolyForm Perimeter License.
Download Biscotti.dmg, open it, and copy Biscotti.app to your Applications folder. Open Biscotti and follow the quick setup to grant microphone, system-audio, and calendar access.
Download the app, grant three permissions, and record your next meeting. That's the whole setup.
Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 15+.