New · Meeting notes
Every call,
written up for you.
Kudu transcribes your meetings on your own computer and, when the call ends, writes the summary, the decisions and who’s doing what. No bot joins the call, and the audio is never saved.
Free and open source. Included in Kudu for Mac, Windows and Linux; off until you turn it on.
Transcript
Others
Thanks for joining. We need to settle the launch date for the billing page.
You
I looked at the two checkout bugs this morning.
Others
Can they both be fixed before Thursday?
You
The login timeout is easy. I'll have it fixed by Friday.
Others
Then let's move the launch to next Tuesday.
You
Agreed. I'll send Sakshi the updated deck tomorrow.
Notes
Billing page launch date
The launch moves from Thursday to next Tuesday so the checkout bugs can be fixed first.
Decisions
Launch on Tuesday instead of Thursday
Action items
- You: fix the login timeout by Friday
- You: send Sakshi the updated deck tomorrow
How it works
Talk. Hang up. Read the notes.
There’s nothing to set up for each call and nothing to remember: turn meeting notes on once, on the Meetings page.
Start it your way
Press the shortcut when the call begins, or let Kudu notice the meeting app using your microphone and ask you, or start by itself.
Kudu listens and transcribes
You through your microphone, the other people through what your computer plays. Each is transcribed as the call goes, labelled “You” and “Others”.
Notes when the call ends
Stop, or hang up if Kudu started it, and it writes a title, a summary, key points, decisions and action items, next to the full transcript.
Starting notes
Three ways to start.
Pick what suits you in Settings → Meeting notes. You can always start and stop by hand.
The shortcut
Press it to start, press it again to stop. Or use the menu bar, the tray, or Start on the Meetings page.
Meeting in Zoom
Take notes on this Mac?
Ask me
When a meeting app starts using the microphone, Kudu asks once. On Windows and Linux it shows a reminder with the shortcut.
Automatically
Kudu starts taking notes when the meeting begins and stops when it ends. A dot in the menu bar or tray shows it’s on.
Works with any app that uses your microphone, in the app or the browser, including
Zoom
Microsoft Teams
Google Meet
Slack huddles
Webex
Discord
WhatsApp callsWhat you get
Notes you can act on.
Every meeting is kept on the Meetings page, newest first, with its notes and its transcript.
A title and a summary
Decisions and action items
The full transcript
Copy or export
Private by design
Your meetings stay yours.
Meeting notes follow the same rule as everything in Kudu: nothing leaves your computer.
No recording, ever
Nothing uploaded
Off until you turn it on
Yours to delete
On every platform
Mac, Windows and Linux.
The same feature and the same files everywhere; how Kudu hears the call depends on the system.
macOS
- Hears the others
- The Mac’s sound, through a system audio tap (macOS asks you once to allow System Audio Recording)
- Writes the notes
- Apple Intelligence on macOS 26
- Notices meetings
- Which apps have the microphone open, from Core Audio
Windows
- Hears the others
- What the PC plays, through WASAPI loopback (nothing to allow)
- Writes the notes
- Kudu’s own rules, picking the decisions and action items from the transcript
- Notices meetings
- Windows’ own record of which apps use the microphone
Linux
- Hears the others
- The PulseAudio / PipeWire monitor of your speakers (needs pulseaudio-utils)
- Writes the notes
- Kudu’s own rules, picking the decisions and action items from the transcript
- Notices meetings
- PulseAudio / PipeWire’s list of recording streams (pactl)
Without Apple Intelligence, a Mac uses Kudu’s rules too. If the computer’s sound can’t be recorded, Kudu takes notes from your microphone and tells you.
Questions
Good to know.
Does a bot join my call?+
No. Nothing joins the meeting and nothing is uploaded. Kudu listens on your own computer, the way you do, so it works in any app, including ones no bot can join.
Do I need headphones?+
No. With headphones Kudu hears you and the others separately. On speakers your microphone also picks up the others, so Kudu drops what it heard twice and keeps one copy.
Is the recording saved?+
No recording is ever made. Audio is held in memory just long enough to transcribe a few seconds of it, then discarded. Only the transcript and the notes are saved, on your computer, until you delete them.
How long can a meeting be?+
Up to four hours; Kudu stops by itself then. Long meetings are summarised part by part, so nothing at the start gets lost.
Can I still dictate during a call?+
Yes. Hold the dictation key as usual; while you dictate, your words go into the app you’re typing in and stay out of the meeting transcript.
Which languages?+
English, like the rest of Kudu for now.
Your next meeting, written up.
Download Kudu, open the Meetings page and turn meeting notes on. It takes a few seconds.