Daisy
A Mac app that records your meetings and transcribes them on-device, with a local MCP server so Claude can read your calls.
Download
- Latest release on GitHub or mydaisy.io — the same signed, notarized DMG.
- Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs are not supported: the DMG is a universal build, but Intel builds are untested. The Apple Intelligence summarizer and the Apple SpeechAnalyzer dictation engine need macOS 26.
- Updates arrive in the app through Sparkle.
Privacy, checkable
- Stays on the Mac: audio, transcripts, summaries and speaker voice fingerprints, as plain files under
~/Library/Application Support/Daisy (or a folder you pick). Transcription and speaker separation run on-device. No account and no analytics SDK. If you agree, once a day Daisy sends anonymous feature counts — no content, no identifier; the full list is in Docs/usage-statistics.md.
- Leaves only after you turn it on: transcript text, never audio, to the cloud summarizer you set up (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Kimi, YandexGPT, GigaChat, DeepSeek, Grok or Cursor on your key, or your ChatGPT account); meeting titles and attendee names to Anthropic web search if you enable attendee research; a session you send to Notion, Linear, Slack, a webhook or another MCP server; session text, summaries, voice fingerprints and screenshots to your own iCloud if you turn on iPhone sync (audio never goes through the cloud); Google sign-in if you connect Google Calendar; a crash report to Sentry (
*.ingest.de.sentry.io), only when you press Send after a crash — Daisy asks on the next launch and shows the whole report first: where it failed, the app and macOS versions and the Mac model.
- Otherwise the network sees: the update check and download from
mydaisy.io, the one-time download of the speech models you chose from huggingface.co (on macOS 26, Apple's speech engine fetches its language files from Apple), and, if you press Download on a local summary model in Settings → Summary → Ollama, that model file from ollama.com.
- Check it yourself in ten minutes: block Daisy in a firewall, set the summarizer to Apple Intelligence or a local model, record a meeting, and you still get a transcript and a summary. The steps and the hosts the app can reach are at https://mydaisy.io/verify-local.
MCP in five minutes
Daisy runs an MCP server inside the app, so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can search and read your meetings.
- In Daisy, open Settings → Connections → MCP server and turn on MCP server.
- Next to Claude, click Connect, then restart Claude. One connection covers its chats, Cowork and the Code tab. Nothing to install: the entry Daisy writes into
claude_desktop_config.json runs a few lines of /bin/sh and /usr/bin/curl, both part of macOS (no Node.js, no npx). Claude Code in the Terminal, Codex and Cursor have their own Connect buttons on the same screen.
- Ask Claude something like "What did we decide about the launch date in last week's calls?"
By hand: clients that speak Streamable HTTP use http://127.0.0.1:54321/mcp directly, with the header Authorization: Bearer <access token> (the token is on the same screen, under Privacy → Access token → Copy). For Claude Code:
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http daisy http://127.0.0.1:54321/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <access token>"
Claude's own config file takes only a command, not a URL; let Daisy write that entry, or use any stdio-to-HTTP bridge such as mcp-remote.
Tools:
| Tools | What they do |
|---|
| Read | list_sessions, get_session, search_sessions, list_folders, list_destinations | Read your sessions, folders and configured destinations. |
| Edit, local | set_session_title, rename_speaker | Rename a session or name a speaker. Reversible: set the old title again, or pass an empty name to clear a speaker (a voice profile saved by the rename stays until you forget it in Settings). |
| Act, off by default | resummarize_session, route_session_to_destination, route_action_to_destination | Regenerate a summary (replaces the stored one; uses your summarizer, which may be a cloud provider), or send a session or one next step to Notion, Linear, Slack, a webhook or another MCP server. Each send creates a new page, issue or message there. Enabled only after you turn on Privacy → Allow actions from MCP clients. |
No tool can delete a session, audio or a transcript, or change Daisy's settings.
How the server is fenced:
- It binds to
127.0.0.1 only, so nothing outside your Mac can reach it, and it rejects requests whose Host or Origin is not local.
- New setups require a bearer token kept in the Keychain, so other programs on your Mac can't read your transcripts without it.
- The default port is
54321; you can change it under Advanced on the same screen.
More: https://mydaisy.io/docs/mcp.
License
Apache License 2.0. You can use, modify and redistribute the code, including commercially, as long as you keep the license and copyright notices. Full text in LICENSE.
What it does
Three capture modes, one app:
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