Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
Parrot is an open-source Mac application that records meetings and provides a live AI copilot to assist during calls. It uses local processing to ensure privacy while allowing users to ground AI responses in their own documents.
Why it matters
It demonstrates the shift toward 'local-first' AI tools that provide enterprise-grade assistance without uploading sensitive meeting data to the cloud.
AI meeting recorder and live copilot for Mac Help during the call. Not after it. Parrot is a meeting recorder for your Mac with a live copilot built in. It notices when a call starts, suggests answers from your own documents while you're still talking, and remembers every call so you can ask about it later. The audio stays on your Mac. Free and open source.
Copilot Briefed Brief for this call Sales discovery Northwind, 10:00
Type a line or two before you hit record, and the copilot knows who you're talking to. Your documents are already in play.
Parrot records what your Mac already plays and hears. Nothing shows up in the participant list.
Transcription, speaker detection and your documents run on your own machine. Cloud transcription happens only if you switch it on.
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