Gijiroku
日本語 English
For macOS

Just record the meeting.
Get minutes with references.

On Zoom, on Meet, or in person. Gijiroku records the sound playing on your Mac and your own voice, then turns it into a transcript and minutes — automatically. Your audio never leaves this Mac.

Download for macOS (free to try) See how it works

macOS 26 or later ・ Apple Silicon

Gijiroku — Library
Weekly sync
Jul 8, 2026 ・ 42 min ・ English
Decisions
Ship the next release on Jul 2200:12:40
Publish the pricing copy after client review00:24:05
To-do
Resend the estimate (us)00:31:10
Share the contract draft (them)00:33:52
Recording & transcription stay on your Mac Minutes are Markdown — yours to keep Works with any meeting app
What it gives you

From recording it, to keeping it.

Not flashy features — just what minutes actually need, done reliably.

1

Any meeting. In person, too. Just this.

Zoom, Meet, Teams — and in-person or one-on-one talks. Whatever the app, it records the sound on your Mac and your own voice together. Always the same way.

2

Transcription stays on your Mac.

Turning speech into text happens only on this Mac. Neither the recording nor the text is sent anywhere.

3

The minutes are your files.

The result is plain Markdown. Drop the folder into iCloud or Obsidian and read it from your iPhone. Not minutes that vanish when a subscription ends.

How it works

Record. Transcribe. Keep.

All you do is record the meeting. The rest is three steps.

STEP 1
Record
Your voice and theirs, captured together.
→
STEP 2
Transcribe
On your Mac. Japanese or English.
→
STEP 3
Minutes
Decisions, to-dos, and links back to what was said.

Only the summary step sends anything out — and only the transcript text, to an AI you choose (Claude, Codex, and more). You can also skip summaries entirely.

The details

Built for every day, down to the details.

Meetings come back to back — so nothing here blocks your next one.

⏱

Record the next one right away.

Minutes are written in the background. Even with back-to-back meetings, there is no waiting.

👀

See what it's doing.

Progress like "Organizing 3/8" and elapsed time are always visible — no wondering whether a long meeting got stuck.

Aa

No made-up name spellings.

Names and companies you register in the dictionary are written exactly as registered — unknown names never get a guessed spelling. Per-folder dictionaries included.

AI

Your choice of AI.

Summarize with Claude or Codex — or connect any provider with an OpenAI-compatible API key.

A sample of the minutes

Who said what, what was decided, and whose court the ball is in.

Below is an example of the actual minutes layout (a sample, fictional meeting).

Minutes
Partner sync (Client A)
Jul 8, 2026 ・ 4 attendees ・ English

What the other side asked for

  • Client AWants to keep upfront cost low; prefers a phased, monthly rollout.00:08:20
  • Client AWants to confirm integration with their existing system before signing.00:15:44

Open / carried over

  • Technical check on the integration spec Ball: them
  • How to handle upfront cost in a phased rollout Ball: us

To-do

  • UsResend the phased-plan estimate (by Jul 10)00:31:10
  • ThemShare the spec of the system to integrate00:33:52

Each timestamp (00:31:10) links back to that moment in the transcript. “Who said what” is something you can check against the record.

Privacy

Not a sales pitch — a design decision.

What leaves your Mac and what doesn’t. It’s settled by design.

Never leaves your Mac Audio ・ recording files ・ the full transcript. None of it leaves this Mac.
What does leave Only the transcript text used to write a summary. It’s handed to the AI you chose (Claude, Codex, or another provider) — never to one you didn’t pick.
With summaries off Nothing leaves at all. Everything up through transcription finishes on this Mac.

“Doesn’t transcription use AI too?” — Yes. But that AI runs on speech-recognition models installed on your Mac (no network, processed right there). The only time anything goes to an outside AI is for the summary. So with summaries off, nothing leaves.

Please record only with participants’ knowledge. The app also includes a way to announce that recording is on.

FAQ

Common questions

What do I need to run it?
A Mac on macOS 26 or later, with Apple Silicon. To check yours, open the Apple menu (top-left) → "About This Mac" — a chip like "Apple M1/M2/M3…" means Apple Silicon, and your macOS version is shown on the same screen.
Do I need to set up a meeting-app integration?
No. It records the sound playing on your Mac, so it works with Zoom, Meet, Teams — any app.
What about languages other than Japanese?
Japanese and English. You can switch per meeting.
Are AI summaries required?
No. Recording and transcription all work without them.
Which AIs can I use?
Claude and Codex are supported out of the box. There is also OpenAI-compatible API support, so you can connect any provider's API key you like.
Where is my data stored?
In a folder you choose, as Markdown and audio. You can keep it in iCloud or an Obsidian folder.
Is there a Windows version?
It’s under consideration. Sign up below to be notified.
Download / Windows

Start with the macOS version.

A beta build is available now, for macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon.

Gijiroku 0.1.0 (beta)

July 10, 2026 ・ DMG 2.5MB ・ macOS 26+ / Apple Silicon
(Check yours: Apple menu → "About This Mac" — an "Apple M…" chip means Apple Silicon)

Download password (included in the invite you received)

SHA-256: 7bc6f0350d0d87a0019c30dccfdf0a472c858b00f0998a78cf423cd0ea4b0040

This beta is not yet developer-signed. On first launch, macOS will say it "could not verify this app is free of malware". When that happens:

  1. Close the dialog with "Done" (don't move it to Trash)
  2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click "Open Anyway" next to the Gijiroku message
  3. Confirm with "Open". From then on it opens normally

Wait for the Windows version

We’ll email you when the Windows version is ready.

The signup endpoint isn’t connected yet. Your address will be used only to notify you about the Windows version.