MinuteFile - Searchable meeting archive for Mac

MinuteFile for Mac

Private local transcription

Turn meeting recordings into a searchable local archive.

Choose folders with completed meeting recordings. MinuteFile transcribes them locally when you ask — or when you explicitly opt a watched folder into automatic transcription — and keeps the editable transcripts searchable on your Mac. Your recordings and transcripts stay on your Mac — not uploaded to a cloud transcription service.

No account or subscription. A license costs US$39 paid upfront.

MinuteFile local archive showing three demo meetings with saved transcripts — Three completed demo meetings, with their saved transcripts together in MinuteFile.

Searchable local archive

No meeting bot

No cloud transcription

Inbox-only by default

Build the archive from folders you choose.

Import a meeting folder or a parent folder containing recordings from Zoom, Meet, Teams, Screen Studio, or another app.

Choose a folder

MinuteFile detects meetings and their audio, video, caption, and chat files.

Control the inbox

Watched folders are optional and default to adding stable recordings to your inbox without transcribing them.

Transcribe when ready

Start one recording or a batch yourself, or explicitly opt an individual watched folder into sequential local transcription.

Review and keep

Play the local recording, jump from timestamps, bookmark moments, correct the transcript, search, and export.

A different starting point

MinuteFile starts after the recording is on your Mac.

Live AI notetakers are built for capture during meetings and AI-generated notes. MinuteFile is for the recording folders you already have.

Use MinuteFile to transcribe locally, correct transcript text and speaker labels, find a passage later, and keep an archive you can export.

Bring existing transcripts into the same local archive.

Use an existing VTT, SRT, timestamped text, or plain TXT file as editable archive text without retranscribing it. Recognized timestamps keep their playback links. Plain text stays untimed.

Silent 26-second demo using fabricated local data in MinuteFile 0.1.8.

MinuteFile offering to use a demo VTT as an editable transcript without running transcription — **Bring in a transcript** MinuteFile records the source and whether media timestamps were recognized.

MinuteFile showing a manually assigned Person and an Untimed split derived from the preceding timestamped turn — **Correct speakers honestly** Keep a meeting-only label or assign a reusable Person yourself. Split Turn keeps the known timestamp and marks the new block untimed.

MinuteFile literal archive search filtered by the manually assigned demo Person Robin Vale — **Find a Person later** Combine literal archive search with a manually assigned Person filter.

Open the included sample before choosing a private recording.

MinuteFile includes a small synthetic meeting with a ready-made transcript. Open it immediately to try local playback, timestamp navigation, review bookmarks, archive search, speaker repair, and export. It does not download a model, transcribe audio, or use one of your three trial transcriptions.

Try the complete workflow on three recordings.

No purchase is required for your first three transcriptions. After the trial, every transcript you already made remains readable, editable, searchable, shareable, and exportable. Further transcription or retranscription requires a MinuteFile license, purchased upfront for US$39.

A transcript workspace, not a disposable text dump.

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Search exact words and PeopleRun literal local archive search, then narrow results by a Person you assigned.

Choose meeting labels or PeopleKeep a free meeting-only label, manually assign a reusable Person, or split a turn without inventing a timestamp.

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Local playback and review bookmarksScrub the saved transcript's recording, jump from timestamps, and mark moments with durable labels and notes.

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Useful exportsShare or export TXT, Markdown, and polished HTML copies, including review bookmarks in Markdown and HTML.

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Batch transcriptionProcess the untranscribed recordings in a folder and skip completed work.

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Audio and video inputPrefer participant audio tracks when available; fall back to mixed audio or video.

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Opt-in watched-folder transcriptionEach watched folder defaults to inbox-only. Opt in with an explicit model and language, then pause, resume, cancel, or retry its persistent local queue.

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Reveal in FinderOpen a recording's source media or folder in Finder when you need the original files.