Narada – Meetings Recorder
Transcribe calls + AI summary
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Narada records your online meetings with your permission, transcribes them on-device, and turns every call into clean notes — decisions, action items, and what mattered to you, ready when the meeting ends.
No bot joins the call. Audio stays on your Mac. Narada lives in your menu bar and, when enabled, can start recording selected calendar meetings automatically. You stay in control and can stop recording at any time.
WHY NARADA
• Decisions, owners, and takeaways — extracted automatically, with citations back to the exact transcript moment.
• On-device transcription. Your audio never goes to a third-party server.
• No bot in the meeting. Narada records locally from your Mac, without adding another participant to the call. Always make sure you have permission to record.
• Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, FaceTime, and anything else that plays audio.
• Calendar-aware. When enabled, auto-records the meetings you select and skips focus blocks.
WHAT YOU GET AFTER EVERY CALL
• Searchable transcript with speaker labels and timestamps.
• A short summary you can scan in 20 seconds.
• Action items split by direction — what you owe, what others owe you, and ambiguous commitments to triage.
• A pre-meeting brief for recurring calls — what you discussed last time, what's still open, what to focus on now.
ASK ACROSS ALL YOUR MEETINGS
The chat tab is a private assistant over your meeting archive. Ask questions like "What did we decide about the Q3 roadmap?" or "What did Acme push back on?" — every answer cites the exact moment from the right meeting. No hallucinations.
PRIVACY BY DEFAULT
• Audio and transcripts are stored locally, in a folder you control.
• Speech-to-text runs entirely on your Mac with an on-device ASR model — no cloud transcription.
• Optional cloud AI features are off by default and require your explicit approval before any transcript content is sent.
• You can use our managed proxy, your own OpenAI key, a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio…), or keep AI features off entirely.
• While recording, a visible recording window stays on screen with a reminder to notify other participants. A recording indicator also stays in the macOS menu bar for the entire session.
WORKS HOW YOU WORK
• Lives in the menu bar — never in the way.
• When enabled, can automatically start recording a minute before selected calendar meetings and stop when each meeting ends.
• Handles overlapping meetings, recurring series, late-joiners.
• Recordings, transcripts (.txt) and summaries (.md) live as plain files in a folder you control — easy to grep, sync, or hand off to other tools.
• Built-in Claude Desktop integration via MCP — query your meetings from any Claude conversation.
REQUIREMENTS
• macOS 15.6 or later.
• A microphone (built-in is fine).
TRY IT FREE
Three days on the house, then $6.99/month or $69.99/year. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.
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A new Today screen, sharper transcription that names people, one recording setting, and fixes for what you reported.
• The main screen is now Today: the next meeting with its brief, the follow-ups still open with its people, and your latest summaries. It moves to the new day by itself, and the time tracking it used to lead with is folded at the bottom.
• Transcription now uses Parakeet Ultra, which misses fewer words, and a new speaker model that tells voices apart more reliably. Both download in the background the first time this version starts.
• In a one-to-one, the other person is named from the invitation. Click a speaker's name in a transcript to rename them, and the analysis now knows who was invited.
• Recording is now one setting: record automatically or ask first. To leave out one meeting or a whole series, choose Do not record next to it in Today.
• Narada no longer records with your MacBook's lid closed. A recording that's running when you close the lid is stopped and saved. With an external display in use, recording carries on as usual.
• Connecting or removing headphones during a call no longer loses the other side of the conversation.
• On Macs with 8 GB of memory, on-device summaries now read the whole meeting. Before, a long meeting could be cut short and the summary described things nobody said.
• Skipping one meeting of a recurring series no longer skips the rest of the series.
• The floating recording window can be dragged again on the latest macOS.
• Onboarding first asks what you want after a meeting: the recording and its transcript, free and without a subscription, or a summary as well. Then it shows where summaries are made and how long a one-hour meeting takes: about 3 minutes with Pro AI, 30 to 60 minutes on your Mac. If your Mac would be slow, Narada says so before you choose.
• While a meeting is analyzed you see which part it's on, instead of a bar stuck at 92%.
• Claude Code, Codex and the ChatGPT app can now search your meetings too. Narada serves them from your Mac, with no Narada server in between.
• Optional anonymous usage statistics. New installs are asked once, with neither answer picked for you, and you can change it any time in Settings → General.
• Storage settings, the cloud AI consent screen and several messages now appear in every supported language.
The developer, Ivan Stepanok, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
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- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Ivan Stepanok
- Size
- 91.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 24 more
- English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro Monthly $6.99
- Pro Annual $69.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ivan Stepanok
