digimata/quill

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases young

Adoption not part of the score

3874 stars · 269 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Quill is an ultra-minimalist, fully local macOS meeting recorder and transcriber that runs as a single Swift menu-bar binary. It records microphone and system audio as separate tracks, then transcribes both on-device into a speaker-tagged transcript without any data leaving the machine.

Use cases

• record and transcribe meetings locally on macOS
• transcribe calls with speaker separation for free
• capture both mic and system audio in one recording
• run on-device transcription without sending audio to the cloud
• get speaker-tagged meeting transcripts automatically
• record Zoom or Teams calls from the Mac side

When to choose

• you want fully local, private meeting transcription on Apple Silicon
• you need mic and system audio as separate tracks for free two-party diarization
• you prefer a lightweight menu-bar tool over a full app bundle
• you want crash-safe recordings that survive a mid-meeting process death

When to avoid

• you need Windows or Linux support
• you need multilingual transcription beyond English
• you want cloud-based transcription with higher accuracy models
• you need a GUI with editing and export features

Facets

application · maturity active

speech-recognition audio-processing cli speech-processing developer-tools apple-ecosystem cli menu-bar-app meeting-recorder transcription local-first diarization parakeet core-ml privacy macos swift

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="digimata/quill")