Minutes
by Minutes · Local-first conversation memory in plain Markdown
46.1 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Minutes records meetings, voice memos and dictation, transcribes them on your machine with whisper.cpp and pyannote diarisation, and writes each one as a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter in a local folder. Summarisation is optional and runs through your own LLM. A CLI, a Tauri desktop app and 34 MCP tools let Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI and other MCP clients read that folder.
- Best for
- Mac users who want meeting and voice-memo transcripts kept locally as Markdown their AI agents can search
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the pages state Minutes is MIT licensed and free forever.
- Runs on
- macOSWindowsCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Audio and transcripts stay on your machine; nothing is uploaded
- Output is plain Markdown with YAML frontmatter; grep and git work
- 34 MCP tools for Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI and other MCP clients
- MIT licensed and free, with a public eval harness
Trade-offs
- Desktop is Mac or Windows; the iPhone voice memo pipeline needs a Mac
- Parakeet and Apple Speech settings fall back to Whisper until gates pass
- Pre-1.0 (v0.24.0); retention rules and agent enforcement listed as not shipped
- Summaries need your own LLM (Claude or Ollama); none is bundled
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 60 out of 100
- API quality
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 25 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 80 out of 100
- Pricing transparency
- 15 out of 100
- Changelog
- 100 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 95 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 35 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 60 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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