meetcap

Record any meeting you want, free, for as long as you like. If your mind drifts or the topic is new, live summaries catch you up and explain the terms. When the meeting ends, clear minutes are already waiting, ready to send. MeetCap transcribes your recordings on your computer and never uploads them. And your AI agent can record, search past meetings, or use them as context. Just ask.

When you'll want it

• Your mind drifts, or the topic is new. The live summary catches you up in seconds, and Background explains each new term and why it matters here.
• Five or six meetings back to back. Recording starts on schedule and the minutes are ready when each one ends, so your evenings stay yours.
• English and Chinese in the same sentence, acronyms everywhere. Names and terms come out spelled the way your team writes them.
• Some meetings can't leave the room. Your recording is transcribed, speaker by speaker, on your computer and stays there. For the minutes, use your company's own AI, or MeetCap's local model to keep even the text there.
• Weeks later, you need what was said. Ask your AI "What price did we agree with the supplier last month?" and it finds it in your meeting records.

Context-aware

MeetCap knows what the meeting is about, so you keep up during the meeting and get accurate minutes after.

• During the meeting. A short summary every few minutes, with a note on any unfamiliar term, product or event and what it means for this meeting.
• After the meeting. Misheard names and terms are fixed before the minutes are written. In a recurring meeting, the minutes pick up where last time left off.
• Learns your team's words. Names you confirm go into a glossary, so they're spelled right next time.
• Does its homework. If you use an agent, it looks up the attendees, agenda and project in your calendar, email and docs.

Powerful, free, no lock-in

Powerful

• Minutes that do the job. The top shows why you met and where each topic landed; the rest covers what matters and who's doing what. Forward as is, or export to Word or PDF.
• See where every point came from. Each point in the minutes links to the line it came from, and one click plays it back. Lines that may have been misheard are flagged.
• Knows who said what. MeetCap tells speakers apart automatically and suggests who's who, with its reasoning, for you to confirm. Name someone once and they're recognized in later meetings.
• English, Chinese, or both. Meetings that switch languages mid-sentence are transcribed too. Get the minutes in English, Chinese, or both.
• Captions now, a clean transcript later. Live captions during the meeting, then a full second pass once it ends. No headphones? The other side's words still appear only once.
• Any meeting. Any app or browser tab, a meeting room, or a recording you already have. Start it from the menu bar, with a hotkey, from your agent, or on a schedule.
• Built to hold up. Keeps recording offline, keeps what you recorded if the app quits unexpectedly, and runs on a 16 GB computer alongside your meeting app and a browser.

Free

All of it runs on your computer, and it's all free: no time limits, no locked features, no account. Make minutes for as many meetings as you like with the AI you choose. You pay that provider their normal price, and we don't take a cut. With a local model, there's nothing to pay for the model at all.

No lock-in

• Any AI you like. Pick who writes your summaries and minutes: any agent on your computer, your own API key, or MeetCap's local model. All follow the same instructions, and you can switch anytime.
• Keep your meetings where you like. Keep them on your computer, or in your own iCloud Drive or OneDrive. Open them on another computer and MeetCap still recognizes the same voices. Put them in an Obsidian vault on iCloud to read minutes on your iPhone.
• Your records are just files. Transcripts and minutes are Markdown files in your own folder. Obsidian opens them, any agent can read them, and they stay put if you stop using MeetCap.
• Recordings stay on your computer. Your audio is transcribed on the computer that recorded it and stays there, even when your minutes sync. Only the transcript text goes to the AI you chose. With a local model, not even the text leaves.

Built for your AI

Let your agent run MeetCap, or let MeetCap run your agent. Start wherever you already work.

• From your agent. Tell your agent "record this one" and it does. Mid-meeting, ask what you missed. Afterward, get the minutes or find the meeting where the budget came up. Claude Code, Codex, and any agent that can load a skill can do this, right in the chat you already have open.
• From MeetCap. Rather click the menu bar than open a chat? MeetCap runs your agent in the background to write live summaries and minutes. It works with 20+ agents, on the subscription you already have, at no extra cost.
• Your own API key. No agent? Use your own key with the Claude API or any OpenAI-compatible service. Text goes only to the service you set up.
• A local model. MeetCap downloads and sets up a model on your computer. It writes summaries and minutes right there: no key, no account, and no text leaves your computer.
• Find any past meeting by asking. Each meeting is a set of plain files, so any AI that can read your files can find who said what and what was decided.

Install

Download MeetCap for Mac → Open it and follow the short setup.

Needs a Mac with macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon or Intel; Windows and iPhone versions are coming soon.

Prefer the terminal? One line does it:

curl -fsSL https://meetcap.seacen.dev/install.sh | bash

Permissions, models, uninstalling and the rest are covered at meetcap.seacen.dev.

Feedback

Want something MeetCap doesn't do yet? Check existing suggestions and add a 👍 to the ones you want. To report a problem, suggest something new, or email us, go to the feedback page.

Acknowledgements

MeetCap is built on open models and software, including X-ASR, sherpa-onnx, Nemotron-3 Diarization, 3D-Speaker, Silero VAD, Gemma and llama.cpp. Thanks to everyone behind them. The full list is in the docs.

Privacy and terms

Privacy notice · Terms of use · Third-party notices. The terms are also in the LICENSE file. MeetCap isn't open source; this repository holds its releases and agent skill.

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