TinyScribe VS CommitCat

TinyScribe's answer

Most notetakers make you choose: either a bot in the call and your audio on someone's server (Otter, Fireflies, tl;dv), or a bot-free app that still processes everything in the cloud and charges monthly (Granola, Jamie). TinyScribe does neither. Transcription happens on your Mac, summaries go through Apple's Private Cloud Compute, and you pay once. Compared with local tools like MacWhisper, you get automatic meeting detection, summaries and iCloud sync without downloading models or managing files. If you work on Windows, need team features or want a shared workspace, one of the others is the better fit. TinyScribe is built for your own notes, on your own Mac.

TinyScribe's answer

• Swift 6 and SwiftUI, native macOS app, Apple Silicon only
• Apple SpeechAnalyzer for on-device transcription in 24 languages
• Apple Foundation Models via Private Cloud Compute for summaries
• SwiftData with CloudKit for iCloud sync of transcripts and summaries
• StoreKit 2 for the one-time purchase, App Intents for Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts
• A built-in, read-only MCP server so Claude Desktop and Claude Code can read your meeting notes locally
• No third-party analytics, no crash SDK, no backend of our own

TinyScribe's answer

TinyScribe is a meeting notetaker for Mac that keeps your conversations on your Mac.

• Transcription runs on-device with Apple's speech engine. Audio never leaves your Mac, and transcription works offline.
• Summaries come from Apple Intelligence via Private Cloud Compute. Apple stores nothing and doesn't train on your meetings; there is no server of ours in between.
• No bot joins your calls. TinyScribe listens through your Mac's audio, so nobody sees a recording attendee, in Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, FaceTime or the browser.
• No account, no subscription. 30 meetings free, then a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.
• Under 10 MB, native SwiftUI, and it starts and stops recording by itself when a call begins and ends.

TinyScribe's answer

Digital creatives and knowledge workers on a Mac who spend their day in client calls, briefings and feedback rounds: freelancers, designers, developers, consultants, founders. People who want to stay in the conversation instead of typing, who care where their recordings end up, and who are done with another subscription. A common pattern: paste the transcript into the AI of your choice and use it as context for the next task.

TinyScribe's answer

I'm Michael, an app developer for fifteen years. For most of that time my meeting notes were half sentences in whatever editor happened to be open. When AI arrived, I had the same idea as many others: record, transcribe, summarize. But I wanted it a specific way: no subscription, no pasting API keys, no transcription in somebody else's cloud, no downloading models onto the Mac. With macOS 27 that finally became possible: Apple's reworked speech framework handles long meetings, and Apple Intelligence Private Cloud Compute has a context window large enough for a 90-minute call. The notetakers I tried were either too technical or ran everything on a server, and most wanted a monthly fee. So I built the one I had pictured. TinyScribe is the app I open every workday, and we use it daily at Appdafür, the app studio in Munich I co-founded thirteen years ago.