Meetings · Dictation · Voice notes

Private meeting notes.Yours to keep.

Daisy captures meetings, dictation and voice notes, transcribes on-device, and turns what you said into useful, searchable notes.

Daisy for Mac: the Home dashboard with a daily brief, open tasks, recent recordings and activity statistics

One quiet tool.
Three ways to speak.

Pick a mode by what you want to capture—and where you want the words to go when you are done.

01 / Meetings

Both sides. No bot.

Record your microphone and anything playing on your Mac. Daisy separates the speakers and turns the call into a finished note.

Start
Toggle or auto-start
Captures
Mic + Mac audio
Result
Library · Markdown
02 / Dictation

Speak. Keep typing.

Hold a hotkey and talk naturally. Daisy transcribes on-device and pastes the text wherever your cursor already is.

Start
Hold a hotkey
Captures
Your microphone
Result
Current app · Nothing saved
03 / Voice notes

Catch the thought.

Tap a hotkey, say what is on your mind, and keep it as a titled, searchable standalone note in your own library.

Start
Tap to start and stop
Captures
Your microphone
Result
Library · Markdown

In their own words.

I’ve been using Daisy regularly for over 5 months to record client calls and dictate everyday to-dos and work tasks. I’m thrilled with how much it has streamlined my workday and the processes within it. I no longer worry about missing or forgetting something, and I can also monitor the quality of my managers’ calls and identify areas where they can improve.

Maria Sheipa — LinkedInTeam Lead Business Development

I was looking for a way to record meetings without bots joining the calls and came across Daisy. It did exactly what I needed, and I couldn’t find an alternative that matched it for features and ease of use. I use it to record all my work calls so I can analyze them with AI afterwards.

My notes used to be all over the place. Voice messages to myself in Telegram, meeting recordings in the company’s cloud service. These days I use Daisy for both. For one-on-ones especially, I like knowing the recording and transcript stay on my Mac. And afterwards I can just go back to the transcript instead of trying to make sense of whatever I managed to write down.

Olya — LinkedInLead product designer

I wasn’t impressed with Daisy at first, but apparently it was still an early beta, so I kept using Wispr Flow. But Wispr’s usage limits weren’t enough for me. Then I remembered Daisy. I installed it again, and by then it had reached a major release. It’s been working great for a couple of weeks now. It records meetings, and everything is fast. I’m 100% happy with it. Lightweight and minimalist. Nothing extra.

I use Daisy to record and transcribe work meetings, and I’ve set up Activepieces to automatically send summaries to a CRM. It saves me a lot of time, helps me keep track of important agreements and stay on top of tasks. I especially like that the app is free, easy to use, and works with both ChatGPT and Apple Intelligence.

EgorProject Manager at REDCAT

I don’t want client conversations sitting on someone else’s server, so I started using Daisy. Now I use it for pretty much every call, in-person meeting and email. It helps me keep track of what I promised people and follow through, whether that’s sending an email, creating a task or scheduling a meeting. Everything stays on my machine. I’ve checked that with a firewall, too.

Egor Sazanov — LinkedInFounder at addicted studio

What changed in Daisy.

Weekly news from Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch, and longer reads on privacy, accuracy and how Daisy compares.

Latest update
Mac · stable + betaiPhone · internal testingApple Watch · internal testing

Choose when to process meetings, keep your audio in sync

A new stable Mac release, processing plans in beta, aligned audio tracks and crash reports you control. The internal iPhone build also handles longer transcripts in parts.

  1. 01

    Processing on your terms

    Economy, Balanced and Maximum plans explain their trade-offs. Heavy processing can wait until your Mac is charging.

  2. 02

    Two tracks, one timeline

    Microphone and system audio share a recording clock, including across pauses. Export them mixed or as two separate files.

  3. 03

    You decide what gets sent

    After a crash, review the full diagnostic report before deciding whether to send it. Meeting content is excluded.

Prepare the meeting.
Understand the work around it.

Daisy 1.0.7.59 introduced a workload dashboard, meeting preparation and evidence-backed plan review, plus an optional local privacy layer for cloud summaries.

01

Summaries · 1.0.7.57 and newer

Use the ChatGPT account already on your Mac.

Connect through ChatGPT or Codex instead of adding an OpenAI API key. Daisy shows the model and provider-reported plan window, while API-key and fully local modes remain separate choices.

Set up account-backed summaries
02

Home · 1.0.7.59

See the shape of your workload.

One period control drives activity, call time, weekday load, writing statistics and AI usage across 7, 30, 90 and 365 days.

30 days8h 24m in meetings
03

Before and after the call

Bring a plan. Leave with evidence.

Add an agenda as text, Markdown, PDF or DOCX. After the summary, Daisy reviews every item separately with transcript evidence, timestamps and confidence.

Confirm rollout ownerCompleted · evidence at 32:18

04

Optional cloud protection

Reduce what a remote AI can identify.

Daisy can pseudonymize detected people, companies and contacts locally before supported cloud summaries, while secrets and payment-card numbers stay redacted.

Protected before sendingOff by default

A finished note, before you move on.

Daisy turns a conversation into the useful parts while the context is still fresh—not another recording you promise yourself you will replay.

01

Searchable transcript

Every line stays attached to the person who said it, ready to find later.

02

A summary with a point

The conversation becomes a short note you can understand without replaying it.

03

Decisions and next steps

Commitments leave the call as concrete actions, not a vague memory.

04

Plain Markdown

Keep the finished record in a folder you choose and use it with the tools you trust.

Your conversations become working context.

Connect Claude, Cursor or another MCP client to ask across the local archive. Prepare the day, gather loose ends and understand a project without reopening every meeting.

Daily briefTuesday, July 21
Good morning

Three conversations deserve your attention today.

The pilot scope is ready to confirm, Lena is waiting on the launch brief, and two action items have carried over from yesterday.

Pilot review2 related notes · 3 open itemsPrep

Lena / launchLast spoke 4 days agoPrep

Design critiqueNo preparation neededReady

Across meetingsTo close

Update the launch briefFrom Q3 product review

Send the pilot inviteFrom Lena / launch

Confirm onboarding ownerFrom weekly planning

Ask the archiveProject analysis

What changed in the pilot plan this week?

The scope narrowed from six onboarding steps to three. The team agreed to test with five users before adding integrations.

Answer composed from 4 local sessions

These scenarios use Daisy's local MCP connection. Your AI client reads only the sessions you choose to expose.

Local by default.
Connected when you choose.

Daisy records, transcribes and keeps the archive on your Mac. Local AI can stay inside that boundary. External AI and destinations are optional branches you connect deliberately.

Claude
ChatGPT / OpenAI
Apple Intelligence
Ollama
LM Studio
NNotion
MCPMCP clients
↗Webhooks

Your Mac

The archive starts and stays here.

  • Capture
  • Transcription
  • Markdown library
01 / Local

Speech becomes text on-device.

No Daisy account and no Daisy cloud archive between you and your notes.

02 / Your AI

Choose the brain for summaries.

Use a local model, Apple Intelligence, your ChatGPT account, or a provider API key. Daisy shows the boundary before anything leaves the Mac.

03 / Open edges

Move the result, not the whole archive.

Send selected notes through configured destinations, webhooks or MCP workflows.

Read the full privacy boundary ↗

One local product instead of a stack of subscriptions.

A complete comparison across meetings, dictation, storage, automation and AI access. A check means the capability is built in; a dash means no directly comparable core workflow is documented.

CapabilityDaisyWispr FlowGranolaOtterFireflies
Meeting recording✓✓✓✓✓
Dedicated voice-note mode✓Scratchpad———
Dictation in any app✓✓———
Speaker separation✓—✓✓✓
Meeting screenshots✓————
Pre-meeting contextLocal brief—CloudCloud workflowCloud
Cross-meeting insightsLocalUsage onlyCloud chatCloud chatCloud analytics
CRM and destinationsDestinations
+ webhooks
Dictates into CRMNative + APINative + API*Native + API
Languages12 + auto-detect
including Russian
100+Multi-language6100+
TranscriptionLocalCloudCloudCloudCloud
Primary archiveLocal MarkdownCloud accountCloud workspaceCloud workspaceCloud workspace
Summary model choiceLocal or your providerWispr modelsGranola modelsOtter modelsFireflies models
Local protection before cloud AIPseudonymization————
Works offline✓××××
API / automationLocal tools
+ webhooks
—REST APIEnterprise API*GraphQL API
Open source✓××××
MCP and agent accessLocal—CloudCloudCloud
Daisy/vendor account requiredNoYesYesYesYes

Checked against official product materials on August 19, 2026. * Otter API is Enterprise-only.

Built in public.
Specific about the limits.

Trust comes from inspectable software, clear data boundaries and claims that can be checked—not an invented accuracy number or a wall of anonymous quotes.

01 / Source

Apache 2.0.

Read the code, build it yourself or inspect exactly how the data path works.

Open GitHub ↗
02 / Platform

Native to the Mac.

Signed and notarized, built around Apple's audio, security and on-device ML stack.

View the security model ↗
03 / Accuracy

No magic percentage.

Daisy uses published speech engines, re-runs speaker separation offline and admits where overlap remains hard.

Read the benchmark protocol ↗
Open sourceApache 2.0
macOS 14+Apple Silicon
No accountdownload and start
Your providerexternal AI billed directly

For the conversations your work depends on.

Private client notes or a shared next step: find a workflow for your profession and team.

Explore all use cases

The practical questions.

Privacy, compatibility, AI and what actually happens when you press Record.

What is Daisy?

Daisy is a private app for meeting notes, dictation and voice notes. It is available for macOS, with Windows and iOS versions in development. It records both sides of a call without a bot, transcribes on-device and keeps the result as local Markdown.

Does a bot join the call?

No. Daisy captures your microphone and the audio already playing through your Mac. Nothing joins the meeting, announces itself, or appears in the participant list.

Which meeting apps work with Daisy?

Daisy works at the Mac audio layer instead of relying on a meeting-platform integration. That means calls playing through your Mac can be captured across apps such as Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and Webex.

What stays local?

Recording, transcription and your Markdown archive live on your Mac. If you choose an external summary provider or destination, that specific content is sent directly from your Mac to the provider you selected — Daisy is not a proxy and does not keep a cloud archive.

Do I need an AI API key?

Not for recording or transcription. For summaries you can use a supported local option, Apple Intelligence on compatible macOS versions, connect the ChatGPT account already signed in through ChatGPT or Codex, or add your own provider API key. API keys stay in macOS Keychain; account-backed requests use your ChatGPT plan limits.

Where do the notes go?

Into the folder you choose, as plain Markdown. That can be a regular local folder, iCloud Drive, an Obsidian vault, or another place you control.

How do integrations work?

Daisy can expose the local archive to compatible AI clients through MCP and can send finished results through configured destinations or webhooks. Each connection is optional and set up explicitly by you.

Which platforms does Daisy support?

Daisy is currently available for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or newer. Windows and iOS versions are in development; they are not yet available to download. Some system AI features require a newer version of macOS, but recording and on-device transcription do not require an Apple Intelligence-capable Mac.

Which languages does Daisy support?

Daisy offers transcription in 12 selectable languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Auto-detect is also available. Summary-language support depends on the AI provider you choose.

Do I need to tell participants that I am recording?

Recording and consent laws vary by location. You are responsible for giving any notice and obtaining any consent required where you and the participants are located.

How much does Daisy cost?

Daisy is free for now. Any external AI usage is billed directly by the provider you choose. Pricing will be announced in advance.

Why Daisy?

“Daisy, Daisy,
give me your answer, do…”

In 1961, a computer at Bell Labs sang “Daisy Bell”. That demonstration inspired HAL 9000’s song in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Today, Daisy listens to you — and helps you keep what you said.

The story at the Computer History Museum

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