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Kiku.sh

Call notes for Mac

Your calls, taken down. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Kiku notices a call, listens on your Mac, then writes who said what, the decisions and who does what next. No bot in the call, no account, no server.

Download for Mac

Free. For Apple silicon Macs, macOS 14.4 or later.

Kiku's notes window after a call: its title, the people who spoke, a summary, the decisions, the action items with their owners, and the first lines of the transcript.

How it works

A call starts. Kiku takes it down.

  1. 1A call starts, Kiku asks

    When Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime or Slack picks up your microphone, a small pill asks: take notes? One click and it listens.

  2. 2Notes, seconds after

    Hang up, and Kiku writes them on your Mac: a summary, the decisions, the action items with their owners, and who said what.

  3. 3Names, learned once

    Tell Kiku who Speaker 2 is, once. On the next call, it knows that voice.

Kiku records two things: your microphone, and the sound your Mac plays. So your words are always yours, and the others' always theirs.

Private

Heard on your Mac. Kept on your Mac.

The words, the voices and the notes are all worked out on your Mac, by models that run on its chip. There is nothing to sign up for, and nowhere for your calls to go.

Everything Kiku keeps, and for how long: Privacy.

Little things

Made for the call after the call.

Free download

Kiku is out.

Free, for Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14.4 or later. Open it, give it the microphone and the call audio, and it's ready for your next call.

Download for Mac

Or from Terminal:

curl -fsSL kiku.sh | sh

FAQ

Good questions.

Kiku doesn't tell them: no bot joins, and nothing shows on their side. You should. Say you're taking notes, and ask first where the law wants everyone's consent to a recording.

Any app that makes calls on your Mac: Zoom, Google Meet in your browser, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Webex. Kiku notices when another app starts using your microphone, and asks before it listens.

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14.4 or later, the first version that lets an app record the sound your Mac plays. Intel Macs are not supported.

25 European languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. Kiku finds the call's language on its own. Japanese, Korean and Chinese are not among them yet.

The app itself is small. The first time, it downloads its models once, about 6 GB for the words, the voices and the notes. The thorough notes model is optional, and bigger.

Yes. By default Kiku deletes the recording once the notes are written, and keeps the notes and the transcript. Turn on Keep recordings in Settings and the audio stays on your Mac, next to its notes.

It learns. On a first call, voices are Speaker 1, Speaker 2: name them once, or let Kiku take the names from your calendar invite, and it recognises them on the next calls. The voice prints stay on your Mac, and you can make Kiku forget anyone.

Once, to download its models. After that it works offline. It also asks kiku.sh for updates a few times a day, which you can turn off. The details are on the privacy page.

Yes: no account, no subscription, no limit on how many calls it takes down.