Meeting notes on your Mac, with no bot in the call

Written 29 September 2026. Meeting notes are part of Go.

Press record, have the call, and read it back afterwards as a plain Markdown transcript. Both sides are transcribed on your Mac, nothing joins the meeting, and no audio is ever kept.

Both sides, and who said what

Bunso listens on two channels at once: your microphone, and the audio your Mac is playing. Your microphone is you and the call's own audio is everyone else, so whether a line is yours or theirs is decided by which channel it arrived on, not by guessing at voices. It works with whichever call app you use, because it never talks to the call app at all.

When the meeting stops, the other side's paragraphs are split into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on. That part is a best guess from how each voice sounds, made on your Mac, and only the labels change — never the words. If it cannot tell voices apart, the lines simply stay marked as the other side.

What is kept, and what is not

• No audio is written to disk. Not while recording, not afterwards. Each stretch of sound is transcribed and thrown away.
• No audio is sent anywhere, under any setting. Even with optional cloud cleanup switched on for dictation, a meeting never goes through it.
• Voice fingerprints do not outlive the meeting. The short numeric fingerprints used to tell voices apart are held in memory, used once when you stop, and discarded. None reaches the disk, and nothing links "Speaker 1" in one meeting to anyone in another.
• What is saved is a Markdown file in your Documents (Bunso Meetings unless you choose another folder). It is yours to read, edit, move or delete, and uninstalling Bunso leaves it where it is.

The privacy page has the full list, including the one small model download the speaker labels need the first time.

It holds up on a loudspeaker

Take a call through your speakers and the other side comes back in through your microphone, which in a naive recorder puts their words under your name. Bunso cancels the echo on the way in, then drops any line of yours that is really a copy of theirs on the way out. It does this without turning the call down for you.

One language per meeting

A meeting listens to its first few minutes, settles on the language the other side is speaking, and keeps it for the whole call, so an hour of audio cannot flip into a different language halfway through. If you already know the language, name it in Settings ▸ Meetings. Your own side is written in whatever language you actually spoke.

This is also where to be straight about Taglish: switching languages mid-sentence is something Bunso's dictation handles, and it is not a claim this page makes about meetings.

Reading it back

"Open the transcript" opens it in Bunso's own notes window, on a Meetings tab. A misheard name is worth fixing where you noticed it, so transcripts are editable there; the bookkeeping at the top of the file is left alone. A meeting still being recorded opens elsewhere, because it is still being written to.

Bunso writes a transcript, not a summary or a list of action items. If you want one, the file is plain Markdown — and with coding agent access switched on, Claude Code can read your meetings directly. It can rename a meeting but it can never reword one.

Your responsibility

Laws on recording people differ, and some places require everyone's consent. Bunso does not announce itself to the other side, so telling them is up to you.

Questions

Does a bot join my call?

No. Bunso listens to your microphone and to the audio your Mac is playing, so nothing joins the meeting and it works with whichever call app you use. Bunso does not tell the other side anything, so asking for consent is up to you.

Is the audio recorded or uploaded?

No audio is written to disk, during the meeting or after it, and none is sent anywhere under any setting. Each stretch of sound is transcribed on your Mac and discarded; what is saved is text.

How does it know who said what?

Your microphone is you and the call's own audio is everyone else, so your lines and theirs are told apart by which channel they arrived on. When the meeting ends, the other side's lines are split into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on, a best guess from how each voice sounds, made on your Mac.

Does it write a summary?

No. Bunso writes a transcript, not a summary. It is a Markdown file, so you can hand it to whatever you like, including Claude Code through Bunso's coding agent access.

Can I use it for Tagalog or Taglish meetings?

A meeting settles on one language for the other side and keeps it, which you can also set in Settings ▸ Meetings. Your own side is written in the language you spoke. Mixing two languages in one sentence is a dictation feature, not a meeting one.

Is it free?

Meeting notes are part of Go, a one-time $19 licence with no subscription. Dictation is free and unlimited without it.