Capture locally
Run the meeting capture and processing workflow from your Mac.
Free, fully local macOS transcription
Meet Dereck.
Meet Dereck, your local MacOS transcription app with speaker identification. No cloud processing, no subscription, and no lock-in.
Free to use. Apple Silicon Mac recommended.
Ari The onboarding copy is shorter now, and the first screen feels calmer.
Maya I tagged the open questions so Dereck keeps the action items clean.
Jon Great. Export the transcript and I will feed it into the planning doc.
Fully local
Processing and transcript files stay on your Mac.
Free to use
No subscription, hosted account, or metered transcription service required.
LLM-ready
Export clean transcripts for ChatGPT, Claude, local agents, or your own tools.
After download
Install from the DMG.
- Open the DMG and drag Dereck into Applications.
- Public releases should open normally when signed and notarized.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Dereck.app"Unsigned development builds may require the Terminal command above.
Workflow
From private meeting to agent-ready context.
Transcribe on-device
Use native WhisperKit processing with speaker-separated text when diarization is enabled.
Clean the transcript
Review speaker labels and produce readable output instead of raw meeting noise.
Use it anywhere
Export TXT, SRT, VTT, and JSON for the LLM, agent, editor, or knowledge base you prefer.
LLM workflow
Let your assistant navigate meeting memory.
Dereck ships with a transcript skill for Codex, Claude, and local-agent workflows. It helps your LLM app find local meeting transcripts, search by speaker, date, topic, or latest meeting, and answer from the saved transcript files.
What did we decide with David on the last design meeting?
Create the tickets we discussed in the last sprint meeting.
Summarize the pricing concerns from meetings with Alice.
View the transcript skill
Copy install prompt
Install the Dereck transcript skill from https://meetdereck.com/dereck-transcript-skill.md, then use it to answer questions from my local Dereck meeting transcripts.
Examples:
- What did we decide with David on the last design meeting?
- Create the tickets we discussed in the last sprint meeting.
- Summarize the decisions and follow-ups from my latest product review.Privacy posture
Completely local by design.
Dereck does not require a hosted transcription account. Meeting data and generated transcript files live locally, while optional integrations are user-provided and can be left off. Audio is deleted automatically after 14 days by default, and the retention setting can be changed to 1 day, 14 days, 30 days, or never.