Biscotti
Biscotti is a macOS meeting recorder and note-taking app that creates local transcripts and summaries without sending meeting audio to the cloud.
What is Biscotti?
Biscotti is a native macOS meeting recorder for capturing conversations, generating transcripts, and producing meeting summaries on your Mac. It is designed for people who want meeting notes without a bot joining the call or a cloud service storing the recording. Biscotti works with common calling and communication apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, Slack, and other apps that play meeting audio on the Mac. The app can separate speakers, create action items and summaries, and use calendar information from Apple Calendar to help surface upcoming meetings and recording prompts. It also supports chatting with saved meeting notes and adding custom vocabulary for names or specialized terms. Biscotti is published by Stephen Cosman and is aimed at Apple Silicon Macs running recent versions of macOS.
Key features
- Record meeting audio from common Mac communication apps
- Generate speaker-labeled transcripts locally on the Mac
- Create AI summaries, action items, and meeting titles
- Use calendar integration to detect and suggest upcoming meetings
- Capture microphone and system audio as separate channels
- Add custom vocabulary for names and specialized terminology
- Chat with saved meeting notes in supported tools
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Biscotti requests access that is normal for its purpose, including microphone, system audio, and calendar access so it can record meetings, identify context, and help with meeting reminders. Its main privacy benefit is that recording, transcription, and AI processing are designed to run locally on the Mac rather than through a remote account. As with any meeting recorder, use it thoughtfully around sensitive conversations and follow your workplace rules or local consent requirements before recording other people.
Recommendation: Keep Biscotti if you use it for private meeting notes, local transcripts, or summaries on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer record meetings or do not want a dedicated meeting transcription app installed; doing so may also remove access to past recordings and notes stored by the app unless you export or back them up first.
Common paths
/Applications/Biscotti.app
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