News & articles
Daisy news and articles
Weekly product news — shipped work kept separate from beta and internal testing — and articles you can check for yourself. Reference documentation lives in Docs.
A steadier Mac release, with iPhone and Watch taking shape
This week brought a stable Mac update, a smaller follow-up beta, and a lot of reliability work on the private iPhone and Apple Watch builds.
Why Daisy stopped hearing the other side — and what we changed
Two people told us Daisy stopped recording the other side of their calls. Three separate faults, one symptom, and a warning nobody could see. What happened, what shipped the same day, and what is still open.
A local meeting recorder for Mac: what “local” should mean, and how to check
“Local”, “private” and “on-device” get used loosely. Five questions that separate a local meeting recorder from a cloud one with a local-sounding name — and how Daisy answers each, including the parts that do leave the Mac.
An open-source meeting assistant: what the source actually lets you check
Open source is only useful if it covers the parts that matter and matches what you run. Four checks for any open-source meeting tool, and where Daisy stands on each — including where our public repository currently lags.
Open speech benchmarks
A reproducible AMI diarization baseline and the open methodology for WER, DER, speaker count, capture completeness and processing time.
Daisy and Granola: local meeting notes for Mac
Local recording and on-device transcription, plain Markdown, your choice of AI, open source and a local MCP server — where Daisy and Granola differ.
Daisy and Otter: private meeting notes for Mac
No meeting bot and no transcripts uploaded to a cloud workspace — how Daisy compares with Otter.ai.
Daisy and Apple's built-in transcription
Apple's apps already transcribe on-device. What Daisy adds: both sides of a call, speaker labels, your own AI, Markdown and MCP.
Verify Daisy is local — yourself
Block Daisy at the firewall and record a meeting, watch every connection it makes, read the files it writes. Every host Daisy can contact, and what triggers each one.