About Meannit

Meannit is a meeting recorder for Apple Silicon Macs. It records your calls from the menu bar, works out who said what, and writes the transcript with speech models that run on your Mac. No bot joins the call, and your audio never leaves your computer.

It is made by Umar Rasydan, an independent developer who wanted a record of every call without inviting a bot or uploading the audio. The name is said "mean it". Said aloud, it is also "minit", Malay for meeting minutes.

How it works

Meannit records what your Mac plays and what your mic hears as two tracks, through a Core Audio process tap, so it needs no virtual audio driver and no screen recording permission. When you press Stop, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Diarization finds who spoke and Qwen3-ASR-1.7B transcribes each turn, both on your Mac. Name a speaker once and Meannit recognizes their voice in later meetings, with 3D-Speaker's ERes2Net model.

The core is written in Rust and the app in SwiftUI. Meetings are plain files on your Mac, and each one exports as a Markdown transcript and an .m4a of the call. The app includes the meannit command and an agent skill, so Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor can read your meetings and file them into your notes.

Where it is now

Meannit is free while in beta, for Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14.4 or later. It checks for updates once a day. Questions, bug reports, and press requests go to support@meannit.com, and what Meannit does with your data is on the privacy page.