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Would you trust a meeting recorder more if you could read its code?

I build a Mac meeting recorder, and the whole pitch rests on one claim: your audio and its transcription never leave your machine.

The problem is that this is exactly the sort of thing everyone says. You cannot check it from a privacy policy.

So I published the source. The capture engine and the on-device transcription pipeline are readable, under GPL.

Honest question for this crowd: does that actually change anything for you? Or is source code the thing we all say we want and never open?

Corder - Private meeting transcripts on your Mac

Most meeting recorders send a bot into your call. Everyone sees it join, and plenty of companies block it outright. Corder doesn't send anything. It records at the macOS level: your mic and the system audio as two separate tracks. Nothing joins the call, nothing to invite, no extra tile. Works in Zoom, Meet, Teams, Discord, or any browser tab, including the ones where bots are blocked. Transcription runs on-device, so your recordings stay on your Mac. Free, no account needed to start.