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.
Recording that never touches the cloud
Your audio never leaves your Mac. Captions and translation still appear the moment words are spoken.
Cloud notetakers like Granola, Otter.ai, or Notta upload your audio and process it on their servers. Kanary does the same work on the Mac in front of you: zero bytes uploaded, nothing waiting on a connection.
And where dictation tools like Wispr Flow and superwhisper type what you say, Kanary records what everyone said.
Nothing joins the call, either. Kanary never shows up in the participant list, so there is no bot to admit.
What people tell us
Listen during the meeting.
Your Mac remembers the rest.
The recurring theme in what people write about Kanary is not a feature. It is what they stopped doing. Scribbling notes mid-sentence. Replaying an hour of audio to find one decision. Bracing before a meeting in case they miss something. All of it, let go.
Record.
An hour-long meeting, and the next actions are pulled from the recording afterwards instead of from memory. Kanary notices when a call starts and when it ends, so recording is not one more thing to remember.
Transcribe.
Every line carries who said it, which is why one person retired their dedicated AI recorder. Others hand the transcript to Claude or Codex while the meeting is still running and let the minutes write themselves.
Live captions.
The first thing people mention is that the fear of missing something is gone. Even when a few words slip past, the point of what was said is on screen. The same captions follow a product video or a podcast, in a second language if you need one.
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.