Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
A meeting recorder for your Mac with a live copilot. It transcribes on your machine and suggests answers from your own documents mid-call. Free and open source.
Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac launched on September 30, 2026 with 37 votes, #637 of 8,042 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Parrot is a meeting recorder for Mac that transcribes calls locally on the user's machine while providing real-time suggestions from their own documents during conversations. The open-source tool automatically detects when calls start and allows users to reference recordings and ask questions about past meetings. All audio remains on the user's device, and the application operates invisibly to other call participants. It is free and requires macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon.
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Parrot is a meeting recorder for your Mac with a live copilot built in. It notices when a call starts, suggests answers from your own documents while you're still talking, and remembers every call so you can ask about it later. The audio stays on your Mac. Free and open source. Released 30 Sept 2026. 23 MB. macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon . or build from source Type a line or two before you hit record, and the copilot knows who you're talking to. Your documents are already in play. Parrot records what your Mac already plays and hears. Nothing shows up in the participant list. Transcription, speaker detection and your documents run on your own machine. Cloud transcription happens only if…from openparrot.app
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