So you can stop typing notes and actually listen. What you do with the spare attention is your business. Every Zoom, Teams, and Meet call: caught automatically, transcribed on your Mac, sent to no one. There's no cloud to send it to. That was the whole idea. No bot. No cloud. No account.
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9:41 AM. You're between calls. So is Congee.
No new workflow to learn. Congee fits around the meetings you already have.
No calendar to connect, no bot to invite, no button to press. Congee notices a meeting app taking your microphone (or starting to play call audio) and begins recording within seconds. Scheduled call, surprise call, a “quick sync” that turned into a demo. All caught the same way.
Your only job is glancing at the menu bar for the red dot, and most days you won't even manage that.
No live transcript to babysit, no notes doc splitting your attention. Congee stays in the menu bar so you can actually be in the meeting: listening, thinking, selling.
Something important comes up (an objection, a number, a slide)? Press ⌘⇧7: note or screenshot, pinned to that exact moment in the transcript. Something ridiculous comes up? Also ⌘⇧7. Those make the best screenshots.
If we commit to the annual plan, what happens to the per-seat price?
Pricing objection: send tiered quote + volume discount doc
Good question. Let me take that away and come back with real numbers tomorrow.
Notes and screenshots land inline, right where the conversation was. Context you'll actually find again.
The transcript arrives minutes later like a group chat, if everyone in the group chat had talked at once and one of them was you. Speakers named, your notes inline. Skim it, fix a label, done. Under a minute, most days.
Your voice and the call are recorded as separate tracks, so you are never confused with a customer. Name a voice once and, with your permission, it's remembered on every future call.
Then take it anywhere. Copy for Claude or ChatGPT with one click. On-device redaction masks names and emails first, so your AI doesn't get to meet your customers. Or connect over MCP and interrogate your own meetings: “what did TechCo say about SSO last month?”
Our security team will want the data residency answer in writing. Can you include the sub-processor list as well?
I'll send the SSO and residency doc today, and loop in our architect on the sub-processors.
From procurement's side, the pilot can start once legal signs off.
Mei Lin was named once, two calls ago. Congee recognized her voice this time.
Speaker 2 stays “Speaker 2” until you name them.
One click, redaction applied if you want it, paste into any assistant.
Connect Claude to Congee and query your calls in plain English, served from your Mac, only when you switch it on.
Full-text search across every meeting you've ever had. Quote people back to themselves, verbatim.
Most recorders send your calls to someone else's computer. Congee runs a state-of-the-art speech model on your Mac's Neural Engine, so nothing ever needs to leave. That's not a privacy policy. That's physics.
Somewhere along the way, meeting recorders became surveillance: “conversation intelligence” that scores reps for a manager's dashboard. Congee is the opposite, on purpose. It shows you your talk-to-listen ratio, your pace, your filler words, meeting after meeting, and shows nobody else anything.
That demo where you talked for eleven minutes straight? Now you'd know. That's the whole feature: a mirror with a memory. No team view, no manager mode, nothing to export to anyone's dashboard. Built by someone who runs customer calls for a living and wanted a coach, not a scorecard.
Your delivery, tracked across meetings, on your Mac. There is no version of this your boss can see.
Congee is an independent app, built by one person for his own back-to-back meetings, tested every day on real calls. No trial. No paywall. No “talk to sales,” because there is no sales. No upsell emails either; there's no account to email. If it saves your week, buy the maker a bowl of congee. He's earned it. Probably.
That depends on where you and your participants are: consent rules differ by country and state. Congee gives you the tool; announcing the recording, as you would with any recorder, is on you. Nothing is ever shared unless you share it.
There aren't any, and it's on purpose. Auto-summaries are how every other recorder justifies the subscription: one paragraph of beige nothing you never read twice. Congee gives you the verbatim transcript, redacts it if you like, and hands it to the AI you already use, with the prompt you actually want. Your summaries, your model, your business.
A short first-run walkthrough. You grant the permissions that let Congee hear your calls (your microphone plus macOS's System Audio Recording) and approve a one-time download of about 600 MB. That download is OpenAI's Whisper (large-v3), one of the most accurate open speech models available, which from then on runs entirely on your Mac's Neural Engine: you're installing the brains locally, which is what makes “no cloud” possible. A separate on-device model works out who spoke when. Extras like screenshots ask for access only if and when you first use them. After that, there's nothing to configure.
When you name a speaker in a transcript, you can tell Congee to remember their voice. It stores a compact voice signature (a set of numbers, not a recording) in an encrypted database on your Mac. The payoff: name a customer once, and they're labeled automatically on every future call instead of showing up as “Speaker 2,” so transcripts read like conversations and you can search by person. Nothing is remembered without your say-so, Congee keeps the generic label whenever it isn't confident, and you can correct or forget a voice anytime.
Congee is built to run comfortably on 8 GB MacBooks. While you're in a meeting it only records (a tiny footprint) and does the heavy transcription afterwards, backing off automatically whenever your Mac is under pressure.
In ~/Documents/Congee/: ordinary audio and transcript files you can open, back up, or delete like anything else. Recordings auto-delete after 30 days (you choose); transcripts are kept until you say otherwise.
Congee is Mac-only, by design: it leans on Apple Silicon's Neural Engine to do everything on-device. No Windows or mobile version is planned for v1.
A little cheek, a lot of intent. The best-known meeting notepad is named after an American breakfast, and it serves your meetings through the cloud. Congee is the Asian breakfast answer: made at home, from humble ingredients, and it stays in the bowl in front of you. Your meetings, cooked entirely on your own Mac. Also, good things simmer: Congee transcribes gently after the call, not frantically during it.
Download Congee, walk through a short one-time setup, and forget it's there. Until you need that one call back.
Attendance is still your problem.
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