Daisy

Egor Sazanov looked at every meeting recorder on the market—Otter.ai, Fireflies, all of them—and said "nah, I'm keeping this on my Mac." That's Daisy. It's open-source, local-first, and MCP-native. Nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly push it somewhere. No cloud transcription, no server holding your sensitive meetings, no privacy theater. Just your transcripts, in your folder, on your disk.

Here's how it works: Daisy sits as a tiny flower widget in the corner of your screen—no window, no chrome—and captures audio from any source on your Mac. Zoom, Google Meet, Telegram, whatever plays sound. No bot joining the call, no link to install, no one else in the meeting. It runs WhisperKit on Apple's Neural Engine for on-device transcription, pairs it with Silero VAD so silences don't hallucinate into text, and uses Pyannote diarisation to label who's speaking. Remote A, Remote B. Flip on mic-side diarisation and your own voice gets attributed too. The whole thing runs locally. Your data never touches a server you don't own.

But the real flex is the MCP integration. Daisy ships an MCP server bound to 127.0.0.1. One click and Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client can query your transcripts directly. No copy-paste, no API token, no upload. Your meeting notes become a live data source for your AI assistant. That's the future every productivity app is promising but not delivering. Daisy just does it.

It's free during beta, lifetime after launch—never a per-meeting subscription. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon only. Download it, try it, your meetings stay yours.