DereckI'm Dereck.
I take the notes.
I sit quietly in your meetings — online or in person — and take notes as you talk. See the conversation unfold live, right on your Mac.
Free download · macOS 14+ · works offline
Probably the easiest hire you'll ever make.
No interview, no onboarding, no salary negotiation. Download me, and I start at your next meeting.
Dereck — Meeting note-taker
- Salary
- €0. No subscription, no minute counter.
- Location
- Your Mac. That’s where I transcribe.
- Hours
- Whenever a Zoom, Meet, Teams or Slack call starts. Or when you meet in person.
- Skills
- Transcription, speaker recognition, echo cancellation, TXT · JSON · SRT · VTT.
- Confidentiality
- On-device transcription. You choose optional sharing.
- Notice period
- None. Uninstall me anytime, I take nothing with me.
A colleague who listens and keeps quiet.
What I do
- ✓Notice when a call startsZoom, Meet, Teams, Slack — I'll offer to take notes.
- ✓Write everything downWhisper, running natively on your Apple Silicon.
- ✓Keep up while you meetOptional live text, with speaker suggestions as context arrives.
- ✓Work with your assistantConnect it to live text and ask for a catch-up. Sharing follows your assistant’s data settings.
- ✓Remember voicesTell me once that it's Noah, I'll know next time.
- ✓Hand you clean filesTXT, JSON, SRT, VTT — or straight to Notion.
What I never do
- ✕Require a transcription serverProcessing stays on your Mac. Optional integrations share only what you choose.
- ✕Ask for a subscriptionNo minutes counter, no "Pro" tier.
- ✕Make you sign upNo account. Download, open, done.
- ✕Hoard your audioAutomatic audio cleanup.
You’re in the meeting. I’m taking notes.
Your call starts
I tap you on the shoulder: "Want me to take notes?"
Notes are already appearing
With Live Preview on, follow the transcript while the conversation keeps going.
Need a catch-up?
Ask your AI what you missed, while you’re still in the meeting.
Call ends. Your notes stay.
I prepare the final transcript, ready for your assistant and your next steps.
I get along with your AI.
Connect me to Claude, Codex or Cursor with the Dereck MCP, right from my settings. Your assistant can catch you up during a meeting, find past conversations and turn decisions into next steps.
Catch me up on the current meeting. What have I missed?Find my last product meeting and list the decisions and next steps.Transcription happens on your Mac. Text shared with your AI follows your assistant’s data settings.
Your meetings stay between us.
Audio and voice profiles stay on your Mac. You choose whether to send transcripts to Notion or Confluence. And please, let people know I'm in the room.
Help keep Dereck on the job.
Dereck is free to use. If it helps you, a coffee supports the AI tools used to develop it, the Apple Developer Program and hosting for app downloads. Your meetings are transcribed locally on your Mac.
Have an idea, found a bug, or can't open the app? Email [email protected]. You can also send feedback from Settings → About in Dereck.
Feedback and diagnostic privacy
Technical diagnostics are kept locally for up to 7 days, capped at 2 MB. They contain app/macOS versions, technical settings and operation events, without recordings, transcripts, meeting titles, browser URLs or credentials.
When you send feedback, your message, optional email, optional agent analysis and any diagnostic you choose to attach are sent to Dereck's support server. A short message excerpt is also sent to the developer through Telegram; your email, diagnostic and agent analysis are not included in that notification. Server reports are retained for up to 180 days. To request deletion, email [email protected] with your feedback reference. Nothing is sent automatically.