Press record on your Mac.
Choose your microphone, the Mac’s system audio, or both. System audio picks up whatever call app you use, so nothing has to join the meeting. Ask the other people before you record.
MEETING NOTES FOR MAC
A meeting notes app for Mac. No bot in the call.
FocusBae records any meeting on your Mac, transcribes it on-device, and picks out who promised what, with the exact quote. Then it helps you follow up. Free, with no account.
Get the transcript, with speakers.
FocusBae transcribes on your Mac and separates who is speaking. Name the speakers once, including yourself, and their action items land on the right person.
Review the action items.
FocusBae suggests the things people said they’d do, each with the sentence they said it in, an owner and a due date. Accept what is right and dismiss the rest.
Follow up.
Accepted items go to one Actions list, and to a page for each person: what you owe them and what they owe you. Click any item to jump back to the moment it was said.
MORE THAN A RECORDER
Your notes,
beside every meeting.
Notes next to the recording.
Write your own notes during or after the call, with links, backlinks and folders. Import from Apple Notes, export to Markdown.
Search everything.
Find a passage in any transcript, note or action item. Search runs on your Mac.
Export when you need to.
Copy or export a transcript, and export notes as Markdown files.
Share with your team.
Join a FocusBae for teams workspace to share pages and accepted action items. Audio and full transcripts stay on your Mac.
Questions
Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams?
Yes. FocusBae records your Mac’s system audio and microphone, so it works with any app that plays sound on your Mac, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles and FaceTime. It also records in-person meetings through the microphone.
Does a bot join the meeting?
No. Nothing joins the call and nobody sees a FocusBae participant. You start and stop the recording on your own Mac, so ask the other people before you record.
Does it write a meeting summary?
Not yet. FocusBae gives you the transcript and suggested action items with the exact quote. Your own notes sit beside them.
Is it free?
Yes. The Mac app is free with no account, no minute limit and no history limit. It is open source under the MIT licence.
Which Macs does it run on?
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 26 or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported.
Want the details on privacy? Read about offline meeting transcription.