macOS meeting recorder
Record meetings,
privately.
Kanary records anything you hear on your Mac. GoogleΒ Meet, Zoom, Teams β any meeting app, no setup. Live captions, transcripts, and summaries β entirely on-device.
No bot joins your call
No AI notetaker in the room. No audio in the cloud. Just a recorder that runs from your Mac. The workflow you'd normally hand to Granola, Otter, or a cloud service β without a bot in the meeting or your audio on someone else's servers.And where dictation tools like Wispr Flow and superwhisper type what you say, Kanary records what everyone said.Because it all runs locally, it does what cloud notetakers can't: captions and translation live, as the meeting happens.
Voice
No guest in the meeting.
No permission to ask for.
No bot to admit. No host to clear it with. No one to ask. Just record, transcribe, and summarize β all on your Mac.
Record.
Mic and Speaker captured in separate channels, so Me and Them stay structurally distinct. No diarization guesswork.
Transcribe.
On-device SpeechAnalyzer turns the audio into a timestamped transcript. Multiple languages, no upload.
Summarize.
A structured meeting note: overview, decisions, action items, open questions, review items. Regenerate anytime.
Recording laws vary by region. Where all-party consent is required, let everyone know before you record.
Live Captions
Read the meeting,
as it happens.
Every word from your speaker becomes a caption the moment it's spoken. Flip on Bilingual mode and a second language runs alongside β translated on your Mac, even offline. Follow a fast meeting in your second language, or keep the original in view while you read the translation.
Experimental: Cue hands the live transcript to Claude, Codex, or Cursor mid-meeting β you decide what to send.
Who said what
Two channels.
One conversation.
Mic captures Me. Speaker captures Them. The recording is dual-track from the first second, so transcripts and summaries know who said what β without guessing.
Every word.
Yours to keep.
Free to download. Records and transcribes quietly in your menu bar.