Minute

Records a meeting on your Mac, transcribes it locally, and writes a recap with decisions and action items.

Audio and video never leave the machine. Transcription runs locally with Whisper; speaker separation runs locally with pyannote. Only transcript text is sent anywhere, only when a recap is requested, and --no-analysis turns even that off.

Download

Grab the latest .dmg from Releases, open it, and drag Minute to Applications. The image is signed and notarised, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning — and offline, because the ticket is stapled rather than fetched.

Minute updates itself after that. It checks daily, never during a recording or a transcription, and verifies every update against a key built into the app.

Before you download

Apple Silicon only	There is no Intel slice. M1 or later.
macOS 14 or later	Enforced by the installer.
~2 GB on first launch	Minute downloads a Python runtime and the speech model before it can do anything. One time, and it shows progress.

Recaps need one thing set up

Recording and transcription are entirely local and work the moment you install Minute. The recap — the summary, decisions and action items — is the one part that talks to a model, so it needs one of these. Pick either; you do not need both.

Use your Claude subscription (no per-token cost)

If you have Claude Pro or Max, Minute can use it through the Claude Code CLI, which is where the sign-in lives. Install it, then sign in once:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

claude

That opens a sign-in in your browser. Once it completes, quit it — Minute drives it on its own from then on. Nothing else to configure: Minute finds the CLI even though an app launched from Finder cannot see your shell's PATH.

Other install routes are on Anthropic's Claude Code docs.

Or use an API key (billed per token)

minute secrets set anthropic-api-key

It prompts without echoing and stores the key in the macOS Keychain, never in a file. minute is inside the app bundle; the full path is printed by Settings → Recap backend if you need it.

Or skip recaps entirely

Turn off Build a recap on the Record screen. You still get a full local transcript with speaker labels, and nothing leaves the machine at all.

To check which one Minute is using, open Settings → Recap backend.

Permissions it will ask for

Three, each at the moment it is first needed:

• Microphone — to record you.
• System Audio Recording — to record everyone else. Without it you get only your own side of the call.
• Screen Recording — optional, and only if you record a window or display alongside the audio.

Recording other people

Minute records meetings. Whether you may record a given meeting, and whether you must tell the other participants, is a question of law and of your organisation's policy — and in many places every participant has to consent. That decision is yours to make before you press record; the tool does not make it for you.

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.txt inside the app bundle.