Minutehand

Never copy-paste meeting transcripts ever again.

Buy Minutehand — $59 $39
Lifetime licence, one-time payment.
Limited-time early-adopter price — first 100 downloads, then $59.
Requires macOS 13 or later.

Watch the demo →

Minutehand records your meetings, transcribes them with your own Deepgram key, and files the raw transcript into a folder your AI agent can read.

No expensive third-party meeting AI app needed — feed transcripts automatically to Claude or ChatGPT, where your context already lives.

Minutehand does its thing, then gets out of your way.

  1. Minutehand
    "Acme weekly sync" starts in 2 minutes.
    Start recording Dismiss
    IT SEES IT COMING

    It watches your calendar

    Connect Google Calendar and Minutehand sees what's coming. Minutes before a meeting starts, a notification asks if you want to record it. One click and it's running, so you never have to remember to hit record.

  2. 00:41:07 Stop
    IT RECORDS

    It records both sides

    Mic plus system audio, so it hears you and everyone else — Zoom, Meet, Teams, it works everywhere. A small pill shows it's running. And no bot joins your call.

  3. ~/Transcripts
    2026-07-24 — Acme weekly sync.md
    2026-07-22 — Board catch-up.md
    2026-07-21 — Design review.md
    IT FILES

    It transcribes with your key

    When the meeting ends, audio automatically gets transcribed by Deepgram using your unique API key. New Deepgram accounts come with $200 of free credit — over 300 hours of transcription at current rates.

    How to get your key →
  4. Prep me for tomorrow's Acme call.
    Reading last week's transcript and your recent email thread… You promised them revised pricing by Friday. Here's a draft.
    YOUR AGENT TAKES OVER

    Your agent does the rest

    A clean Markdown transcript — meeting title, time, attendees included — lands in a folder of your choice. Point Claude Cowork or ChatGPT at it, and every meeting becomes part of your existing work/life context.

Your meetings tool doesn't know you. Your agent does.

Every meetings app insists on summarising for you — the same generic "key takeaways" whether it's your board meeting or your book club. It can't do better: it's only ever seen the transcript. Your agent has seen your email, your files, your last six months of work. So most people ignore the AI bits and ferry the raw transcript back to Claude or ChatGPT by hand. Minutehand just skips the ferrying.

THE USUAL ROUTINE

1.Pay a monthly subscription for a note-taker.
2.Receive a summary written by something that's never met you.
3.Ignore it. Find the raw transcript. Export it.
4.Paste it into your agent, where the real work happens.

WITH MINUTEHAND

1.Take the meeting.
2.The transcript is already in your agent's folder.
3.That's it. That was the whole workflow.

Your meetings never touch our servers. Because we don't have any.

Everything lives on your Mac

Recordings are written to your disk and auto-deleted after a retention window you control. Transcripts are plain Markdown text files in your own folder. Nothing to export, nothing to copy.

Your keys, fully encrypted

Your Deepgram key and Google tokens are encrypted at rest using macOS secure storage. Audio only goes to Deepgram under your unique account for transcription.

No accounts, no telemetry, no bullshit

No sign-up, no analytics, no usage tracking. The app talks to exactly two services: Deepgram (your own key) and Google Calendar.
Full privacy policy →

$59 $39 once
Limited-time early-adopter price — first 100 downloads, then $59.
A lifetime licence for two Macs. Once the 7-day refund window passes, it's simply yours — nothing to renew, nothing to cancel.
Bring your own Deepgram key — new sign-ups get $200 of free transcription credit.
No subscription. Obviously.
Buy Minutehand — $39
Requires macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel · 7-day refunds

Still got questions? 

Why bring my own Deepgram key?

Because transcription is a commodity and you shouldn't pay a subscription markup on it. You pay Deepgram directly — pennies per meeting, and new sign-ups get $200 of free credit, which is over 300 hours of meetings at Deepgram's current rates. No other tool can offer that. Minutehand never sees your audio bill or your audio. How to get your key →

What does it do with my calendar?

It reads your upcoming events so it can offer to record just before one starts. That's all it does with them — the checking happens on your Mac, and nothing about your calendar is sent anywhere, because there's nowhere to send it. Connecting it is optional, too; skip it and Minutehand still records whenever you start it from the menu bar.

Does it work with Zoom / Meet / Teams?

All of them, and anything else that plays audio. Minutehand records system audio plus your mic, so there's no per-app integration and no bot lurking in the participant list. Every way to record without a bot →

Where are the summaries?

There aren't any. That's rather the point. Your agent — with your email, files, and history — writes better ones than any meetings app could. Minutehand just makes sure it has the transcript.

Which agents does it work with?

Any tool that can read a folder of Markdown files: Claude Cowork, Codex, Claude Code, or plain old drag-and-drop into ChatGPT. There's no integration to break — it's just files.

Is it really a one-time purchase?

Really. One payment buys a lifetime licence for two Macs — no subscription, nothing to cancel, and updates to v1 included. There's a 7-day full-refund window; after that, the app is simply yours.

Is there a Windows version?

Not yet — Minutehand is macOS-only today, but a Windows version is already in development.

What if it's not for me?

Seven days, full refund, no questions asked. See the refund policy.

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