Short answer: meaty for Mac records any call on your computer — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, Webex — by capturing your microphone and your Mac's own audio together. It notices when a meeting starts, keeps the audio safe on your Mac until the meeting is saved, and hands you the same summary and action items as meaty on your phone. macOS 14.6 or later.
Until now, meaty lived in two places: your phone's browser, for the meeting across the table, and a Chrome extension, for the meeting in a tab. The calls that run in their own app fell between the two. This release fills that gap.
What can the Mac app record that the browser couldn't?
A browser can only hear a browser tab. Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Webex and Slack huddles mostly run as apps of their own, and their audio never passes through Chrome.
The Mac app listens one level down. It records your microphone — the room — and your Mac's audio output — everyone on the other end — at the same time. Whatever app the call is in, if you can hear it, meaty has it. Headphones included.
That's also why it needs macOS 14.6 or later: the version where macOS lets an app capture system audio directly, without a virtual audio driver. On older versions it would only hear your side of the conversation.
Does it start on its own?
Mostly, yes.
- From your calendar. Three minutes before a meeting on your calendar, a small pill appears with the title and a Join button. One click opens the link and starts recording.
- From what's running. When a meeting app is in front and your microphone has been open for a few seconds, meaty asks "Are you in a meeting?" — or, if you prefer, starts on its own after a short countdown you can cancel.
- When it ends. Quit the meeting app and meaty can stop after a countdown, or keep going if you're still talking.
It's hard to fool: unmuting for one word isn't a meeting, Voice Memos and dictation apps don't count, and a dismissed prompt stays quiet for ten minutes.
What do you see during the call?
A small pill floating above your other windows: timer, pause, stop.
Click it and it opens into a panel. If the meeting is on your calendar, the panel holds the briefing — what was decided last time, what's still open, who owes what — built from earlier meetings in the same series or with the same people. There's room for your own notes beside it. Write down what matters to you as it happens; meaty keeps the rest, so nothing you didn't catch is lost.
Why are the speaker labels better on the Mac?
Because the app hears the microphone and the call separately before it mixes them, it knows, moment by moment, whether a voice came from the room or from the other end — something a single microphone never knows. meaty passes that along with the recording, so it isn't guessing between your voice and a voice on a laptop speaker that sounds a bit like you.
That means fewer of the classic mix-ups — the remote person's answer credited to you, two people merged into one — and fewer fixes afterwards. When it does get one wrong, the usual speaker editing tools are still there.
What happens if something goes wrong mid-call?
You keep the meeting. The audio is written to your Mac as it's captured and stays there until the meeting is saved on our side. Lose Wi-Fi in the middle of a call and meaty keeps recording, then catches up when you're back. If your Mac crashes or the app is force-quit, the next launch picks up where it stopped and sends what hadn't gone out. If something still can't be saved, it's listed for you instead of vanishing.
Microphones come and go mid-call, too — a headset dies, AirPods jump to your phone. The take carries on with the next microphone rather than ending.
On our side, recordings are deleted after two days and only the transcript and notes stay — or never stored at all, if you switch that off.
Everything else is the meaty you know: tasks you can tick off, people instead of spellings, a glossary that learns your jargon, and notes that land in Notion or Slack.
What it doesn't do yet
- Mac only. There's no Windows version yet.
- Notes come after the call. The summary and action items arrive when you stop, not live on screen.
- Cellular phone calls. A call on your phone never passes through your Mac. Put it on speaker and let the Mac — or a second phone — record the room.
