Beautiful meeting notes, without the cloud.

Cedar records your meetings, transcribes them on-device, and turns them into structured notes — all without leaving your Mac.

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On-device transcription

Audio never leaves your Mac. Cedar transcribes locally with a model that ships in the app — no API keys, no cloud round-trip, no waiting on a vendor's status page.

Calendar-aware

Cedar reads your system Calendar so meetings show up before they start. Hit record from the menu bar, or let Cedar offer to join when an event begins.

Beautiful native notes

Transcripts become structured notes you can edit, organise into folders, and search. Newsreader serif headings, Inter body, JetBrains Mono for code — built for sustained writing.

Built for the way you already work.

Cedar lives in the corner of your screen — quiet during the call, opinionated when you need to write.

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Your meetings — every one, on your Mac.

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Open a memo to see the structured notes and the full transcript.

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A live-recording pill anchors the menu bar while you take the call.

How Cedar works.

Three steps. The third one is the surprising one.

Open Cedar before your meeting.

Cedar reads your Calendar so the right meeting is already at the top. One click to start recording.

Cedar listens — quietly, locally.

Audio is captured and transcribed on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing leaves your device.

Walk away with structured notes.

Cedar turns the transcript into a memo you can edit, search, and organise — yours forever, even offline.