Kronisto

Runs entirely on your Mac

Dictation and meeting notes that never leave your Mac.

Speech recognition, speaker separation and summaries all run locally. No audio, no text, no transcript is sent anywhere.

Download for macOSSee how it works

macOS 27 · Apple Silicon · Free · Early access · Updates through Sparkle

Kronisto meeting notes window with summary, scope, timeline, next steps, decisions, speakers and transcript

Private by design

Recognition on device

Parakeet or Apple's recognizer turn speech into text on your Mac, in the languages you speak.

Speakers on device

Who said what is worked out locally, then named from the call window, the invite or voices it has learned.

Summaries on device

A local language model writes topics, decisions and next steps. Nothing leaves the machine.

What it asks for, and why

macOS asks you for each of these once. Kronisto uses them only on your Mac. There are no accounts, no analytics and no cloud.

Microphone
To hear your voice when you dictate or record a meeting.
Input Monitoring
To notice when you hold the dictation key.
Accessibility
To type the text into the app you're using, and to read participant names from call windows.
System Audio Recording
To record the other side of a call. Asked at your first meeting.
Calendars (optional)
To link a recording to its event and use the title and attendees in the notes.

Dictation

Hold a key, talk, and the text lands where you were typing.

Hold the 🌐 key or your own shortcut. Double-tap for hands-free. Works in any app with a text field.

  • Cleans up punctuation, filler words and self-corrections with a local model.
  • Switched windows mid-sentence? The text goes back to the field you started in.
  • Long dictations split into paragraphs where the subject changes.
  • Vocabulary, replacements, snippets and a searchable history.
fn 🌐hold and speak

“so um the release is, no wait, the release notes still need a pass before Friday”

cleaned up on your Mac

The release notes still need a pass before Friday.

Meetings

Join the call. Kronisto takes the notes.

It notices when a call starts in Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Gong and others, links the recording to your calendar, and hands you a summary when you hang up. Small talk stays out.

  1. A call starts

    A small card offers to take notes. One click and it records your mic and the call audio separately.

    Meeting detected card offering to take notes

  2. Live transcript

    Speakers are separated as you talk, with a notepad docked next to the call.

    Live transcript docked next to the call, alternating Me and Others

  3. Notes are ready

    Topics, decisions and next steps with owners, plus the full transcript to search later.

    Notes ready card

Bigger model, better names

Optional Gemma 4 26B fixes misheard names and terms and writes sharper summaries. Best with 32 GB of memory.

Never records forever

After 3 minutes of silence it asks “still recording?”, so a forgotten recording stops itself.

Import any recording

Drop an audio or video file on the Meetings window and get the same notes.

Obsidian and MCP

Export notes to Obsidian, and let AI apps read your meetings over MCP if you opt in.

What you need

The models download on first use and stay on your Mac.

System
macOS 27 on Apple Silicon
Disk
About 6 GB for Parakeet (~600 MB) and Gemma 4 E4B (5.2 GB)
Memory
32 GB recommended for the optional Gemma 4 26B model (14 GB)
Languages
Many, auto-detected among the ones you speak
Kronisto app icon

Your words stay yours.

Download for macOS

Unzip, move Kronisto.app to Applications. Updates arrive automatically.

Kronisto is free and in early access: it changes quickly, and rough edges are expected.