Private voice workspace for Mac
Daisy captures meetings, dictation and voice notes, transcribes on-device, and turns what you said into useful, searchable memory on your Mac.
MONDAY · 11:04 · 42 MIN
Summary
Keep the launch focused, make onboarding effortless, and learn from the first group before broadening scope.
Next steps
Transcript
YouLet's make the smaller scope feel finished.
LenaI'll update the launch brief today.
Meet Daisy
Pick a mode by what you want to capture—and where you want the words to go when you are done.
Record your microphone and anything playing on your Mac. Daisy separates the speakers and turns the call into a finished note.
Hold a hotkey and talk naturally. Daisy transcribes on-device and pastes the text wherever your cursor already is.
Tap a hotkey, say what is on your mind, and keep it as a titled, searchable standalone note in your own library.
After the conversation
Daisy turns a conversation into the useful parts while the context is still fresh—not another recording you promise yourself you will replay.
Every line stays attached to the person who said it, ready to find later.
The conversation becomes a short note you can understand without replaying it.
Commitments leave the call as concrete actions, not a vague memory.
Keep the finished record in a folder you choose and use it with the tools you trust.
Summary
Keep the launch focused, make onboarding effortless, and learn from the first group before broadening scope.
Decisions
Ship the smaller scope first Invite five early users Review onboarding after week one“Let's make the smaller scope feel finished.”You · 32:18
The archive at work
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.
The beta scope is ready to confirm, Lena is waiting on the launch brief, and two action items have carried over from yesterday.
Beta review2 related notes · 3 open itemsPrep
Lena / launchLast spoke 4 days agoPrep
Design critiqueNo preparation neededReady
Update the launch briefFrom Q3 product review
Send the beta inviteFrom Lena / launch
Confirm onboarding ownerFrom weekly planning
What changed in the beta plan this week?
The scope narrowed from six onboarding steps to three. The team agreed to test with five users before adding integrations.
These scenarios use Daisy's local MCP connection. Your AI client reads only the sessions you choose to expose.
Local core · Open edges
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
OpenAI
Apple Intelligence
Ollama
LM StudioYour Mac
No Daisy account and no Daisy cloud archive between you and your notes.
Use a local model, Apple Intelligence, or connect an external provider directly.
Send selected notes through configured destinations, webhooks or MCP workflows.
One app instead of two
Meeting notes, push-to-talk dictation and voice notes share one native Mac app—without forcing your work into separate subscriptions and disconnected archives.
GMeeting notesCalls and summaries
WDictationVoice into every app
VVoice notesThoughts stored elsewhere
Daisy does not pretend to replace every team or cloud feature. It gives an individual Mac user the three core voice workflows in one private workspace.
See the honest Granola comparison ↗Proof without theater
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.
Read the code, build it yourself or inspect exactly how the data path works.
Open GitHub ↗Signed and notarized, built around Apple's audio, security and on-device ML stack.
Read the changelog ↗Daisy uses published speech engines, re-runs speaker separation offline and admits where overlap remains hard.
See how it works ↗Before you record
Privacy, compatibility, AI and what actually happens when you press Record.
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.
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.
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.
Not for recording or transcription. For summaries you can use a supported local option, Apple Intelligence on compatible macOS versions, or add your own Anthropic or OpenAI key. Keys stay in macOS Keychain.
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.
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.
Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or newer. Some system AI features require a newer version of macOS, but recording and on-device transcription do not require an Apple Intelligence-capable Mac.
Daisy is free during beta. Any external AI usage is billed directly by the provider you choose. Final post-beta pricing will be published before the beta ends.
Made for the Mac in front of you
Free during beta · Apple Silicon · macOS 14+