Minutes
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Minutes, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Minutes's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | Free | Free forever · MIT licensed |
The facts
Each one read from Minutes's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account requirement
- Minutes does not require an account to capture and store conversations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Action-item tracking
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- AI summaries
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Audience
- Minutes presents itself as a local notetaker and conversation memory layer for people who want searchable meeting records and agent access to them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The maker says local processing is not a compliance certification and that Minutes is a disclosure aid, not legal advice.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dictation
- Dictation supports natural or literal text and can insert it at the cursor or save it to a daily note.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File permissions
- The security page says Markdown records are written to disk with 0600 owner-only permissions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Minutes provides 34 MCP tools and names Claude, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, and other MCP clients among the supported assistants.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The download page lists Mac and Windows installs; it says the first launch downloads a speech model.checked 11 Oct 2026
- LLM options
- For summarization, Minutes supports Ollama, OpenAI-compatible gateways, local servers, or no summarizer; cloud assistants receive context you authorize.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local files
- It stores conversations as plain Markdown files with YAML frontmatter on your own disk.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Meeting notes
- The app can structure action items, decisions, and commitments into queryable Markdown.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Meeting recording
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- Capture, transcription, and storage run locally; optional cloud assistants or summarizers may receive authorized meeting context.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Minutes records and transcribes meetings, voice memos, and dictation locally, then lets AI assistants search the history you choose to share.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Searchable archive
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Speaker labels
- Local pyannote diarization separates speakers in multi-person meetings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- Transcription runs on-device using Whisper or Parakeet, depending on platform and installed models.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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