EchoDiar v0.1.0

EchoDiar

Record any meeting on your Mac, see who said what, and ask AI about it — local-first and lightweight.

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macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · Free & open source (AGPLv3)

Features

  • Lightweight and native: a Swift app that lives in the menu bar. Models load only while they work.
  • Private: transcription and AI can run fully on your Mac. Audio goes to the cloud only if you choose a cloud engine.
  • Any meeting app, any AI: record Zoom, Teams, Meet in a browser or all system audio. Ask local models, cloud APIs or your Claude Code or Codex subscription.
  • Who said what: your mic and the meeting audio on separate channels, the other speakers told apart and renamable.
  • On-device transcription: WhisperKit, Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR or Apple Speech (macOS 26), with optional live captions.
  • AI summaries and chat: answers cite timestamps that jump to that moment in the recording.
  • Copy as prompt: the transcript and your question, ready to paste into any chat app.
  • Meeting detection: offers to record when a call starts, shows a floating indicator and offers to stop when the meeting ends.
  • Library and search: conversations by day, search over titles and transcripts, auto-delete of old recordings.

Transcription

  • On your Mac: WhisperKit, Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR, and Apple Speech on macOS 26.
  • Speakers: FluidAudio diarization of the meeting audio.
  • Live captions: WhisperKit or Nemotron streaming, while you record.
  • Cloud (optional): OpenAI, Groq, Mistral, Gemini, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, AssemblyAI or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Asks once before audio goes to each one.

AI providers

  • On-device: MLX models, and Apple Foundation Models on macOS 26.
  • Local servers: LM Studio, Ollama, Jan, llama.cpp and vLLM.
  • Cloud APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek or a custom endpoint, with your own key.
  • Subscription CLIs: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Gemini CLI.

Get started

  1. Download the signed and notarized DMG from the releases page and drag EchoDiar to Applications.
  2. Allow the microphone and System Audio Recording, then download a model in Settings > Transcription.
  3. Start and stop recording from any app with Cmd+Option+R. The transcript follows.

More in the docs. EchoDiar updates itself.