scosman / Biscotti

### Biscotti
**Private Meeting Transcripts for MacOS.**
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**Biscotti** is a private and free meeting recorder for macOS. It records your meetings and turns them into accurate, speaker‑labeled transcripts and summaries. No cloud. No bot joining your call. No subscription.
🔒 Private runs locally on your Mac • 🆓 Free no account, no subscription
## Features
- 🔒 **Private by design** — recording, transcription, and AI all run on your Mac. Your data stays local.
- 🆓 **Totally free** — no account, no subscription, no upsell.
- 🧠 **Powerful AI summaries** - automatic summaries, action items, meeting titles, and real speaker names.
- 🤖 **No bots, any app** — records Zoom, Teams, Meet, FaceTime, or Slack huddles — even an in‑person conversation — without joining your call.
- 🗣️ **Speaker identification** — accurate transcripts, automatically split by speaker and tagged with speaker name. 
- 📅 **Calendar‑aware** — sees your upcoming meetings, offers to start recording.
- 🧩 **MCP** - chat with your meeting notes in apps like Claude Desktop or LM Studio.
- ⏹️ **Auto‑stop** — detects when your call ends and stops recording.
- 📖 **Custom vocabulary** — transcribe uncommon words you use, like names or jargon.
- ⚡ **Fast, small, native** — launches instantly, native design, built by an ex‑Apple engineer.
- 🎤 **Voice isolation** — captures your mic and everyone else as separate, clean channels. No echo.
- 📝 **Markdown notes** — jot notes in markdown, linked to the moment they happened.
## Biscotti vs. other notetaking apps
| | Biscotti | Other notetaking apps |
|---|:---:|:---:|
| Audio never leaves your Mac | ✅ | ❌ |
| Meeting notes stay private and local | ✅ | ❌ |
| No bot joins your meeting | ✅ | ❌ |
| Works with any app — even in person | ✅ | ❌ |
| Keeps full audio, not just summaries | ✅ | ❌ |
| Native Mac app, not Electron/web | ✅ | ❌ |
| Free, no subscription, no account | ✅ | ❌ |
| Never have to pay to read old meetings | ✅ | ❌ |
| Where your data lives | **Your Mac** | **Their Cloud** |
## How it works
1. **Record** — Biscotti captures your mic and your Mac's system audio from any meeting app.
2. **Transcribe** — on‑device speech recognition produces a speaker‑labeled transcript, powered by Apple Silicon.
3. **Understand** — local AI writes a summary, pulls out action items, and figures out who's who.
Every step happens on your Mac. Your audio and transcripts never leave your Mac.
## Requirements
- A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
- macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later
- 16GB of RAM recommended
## Install
### Direct Download
1. Download `Biscotti.dmg`.
2. Open the dmg, then copy **Biscotti.app** to your Applications folder.
3. Open Biscotti and follow the quick setup to grant permissions for microphone, system‑audio, and calendar access.
### Homebrew
If you use Homebrew, installation is easy:
1. Run `brew install biscotti`
2. Now, open Biscotti and follow the above instructions as you normally would.
## FAQ
**Is it really private?**
Yes. Recording, transcr