macOS menu-bar app · personal project
Every word of the call, kept on your Mac. Starting with you asking.
AllSaid records both sides of your calls, transcribes them on the machine, and leaves you one transcript and one summary for the day — with every commitment written down against whoever made it.
Before we start — I record my calls so I get accurate notes. The audio stays on my laptop and is deleted once it's transcribed. Is everyone OK with that?
The line that makes the rest possibleYes, that's fine with me.
Fine. Could you send me the notes afterwards?
Of course. So — the regional numbers. Ana, you had the breakdown?
Not finished yet. I'll send the regional breakdown on Thursday.
Example content. Your voice comes from the microphone, the far end from the call app itself — two separate tracks, so “Me” is never guessed.
What it does
You take part in the call. It keeps the record.
- Starts when a call does
- Zoom, Teams, a browser tab, something that doesn’t exist yet — when an app opens the microphone, AllSaid starts recording. Apps you block are never recorded.
- Transcribed on the Mac
- Speech models run locally between calls, in English or Spanish. Transcripts stay in the language they were spoken in.
- One file for the day
- Plain Markdown you can search, diff and paste from, saved wherever you keep notes, with a typeset PDF of the summary beside it.
The summary
The actions come first, each with a name only if the name was actually said.
At a time you choose, the day is turned into a summary — by default with Apple’s on-device model. It opens with every commitment made across the day, attributed to whoever made it and to the meeting it came from.
A commitment put against the wrong person is worse than one put against nobody, so when a name and the meeting disagree, the name is dropped and the action kept.
# Summary — Wednesday 10 September 2026 ## Actions - [ ] **Ana** — send the regional breakdown on Thursday · *Quarterly review* - [ ] decide whether to move the board call · *Vendor sync* - [ ] **Me** — share today’s notes with the review group · *Quarterly review* ## The day Three calls, 1 h 52 min of speech. …
Private by default
Small footprint. Nothing leaves the Mac unless you say so.
- Audio kept: 0 days
- The default. Audio is deleted the moment its transcript is saved. You can keep it for up to 7 days; audio that failed to transcribe is kept 14 days so the meeting isn’t lost.
- ~45 MB while you work
- The menu-bar app loads no speech model. Transcription runs in a separate process that exits when it’s done.
- Cloud is opt-in
- You can choose an online summariser such as Claude or an OpenAI-compatible service. If you do, transcripts are sent to that provider — see what that means.
Before you record
The other people on the call get no warning. Not from macOS, not from AllSaid.
- Capturing a call app’s audio does not light the orange microphone indicator for anyone else. Nothing on their screen changes.
- In many countries and US states, recording a conversation without everyone’s consent is illegal — sometimes a criminal offence.
- Say it at the start of every call, get a clear yes, and stop if anyone objects. That part is yours to do, every time.
Recording responsibly: the full guidance, with scripts you can read out →
Availability
Not for sale. Not for download.
AllSaid is a personal project I built for my own working day. There is no public release, no installer and no support. If it’s something you’d find useful, or you want to talk about how it’s built, I’d be glad to hear from you.