Private AI meeting notes for Apple Silicon Macs
Shendru transcribes locally using Whisper, generates AI summaries, and never sends a bot into your call — all processing stays on your Mac.
Optimized for Apple Silicon Macs (M1/M2/M3/M4) · macOS 13 Ventura or later
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Three steps to better meetings
Shendru runs quietly in the background, so you can focus on the conversation.
Auto-detects your meeting
Shendru monitors your system audio. When a meeting starts on any supported platform, it begins recording automatically — no buttons, no setup.
Zoom
Google Meet
Microsoft Teams
Slack
Discord
Records & transcribes in real time
Captures both system audio and your microphone. Whisper runs locally on your Mac — no audio leaves your device. Optionally use Deepgram for cloud accuracy.
AI generates notes & action items
After the meeting, get a structured summary, key decisions, and action items — powered by your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API key.
Built different, on purpose
Every feature exists to give you better meeting notes without compromising your privacy.
"Google Meet detected. Record?"
Shendru watches your system audio in the background. The moment it recognises a meeting — Zoom, Slack Huddle, Google Meet, Teams, Discord — it pops a small overlay: "Record and transcribe this meeting?" One click and it starts. No manual setup, no bots.
- Detects Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, Discord, any browser meeting
- Overlay prompt — you choose whether to record each call
- Stops automatically when the meeting ends
Full transcript. Clean summary. Instant.
After the meeting you get the full word-for-word transcript with speaker labels, and a structured AI summary — key points, decisions, and action items. Switch between Transcript and Summary tabs any time.
- Speaker 0, Speaker 1 … labelled automatically
- Summary covers decisions, action items, next steps
- Copy JSON to export the raw transcript data
Your key. Your model. Your data.
Pick OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google AI. Paste your API key. That's it — Shendru calls the provider directly from your Mac. We never see your key, your transcript, or your summaries. Defaults: GPT-4o-mini · Claude Sonnet · Gemini Flash.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI — switchable any time
- Custom model override (or leave blank for sensible defaults)
- Key stored locally, never transmitted to Shendru
Local Whisper or Deepgram cloud
By default Shendru runs Whisper on your Mac — fully offline, fully private. Switch to Deepgram for better speaker diarization and faster turnaround. Deepgram gives you $200 free credit (~400+ hours) to get started.
- Local (Whisper) — offline, private, Apple Silicon optimised
- Deepgram cloud — better diarization, faster, ~400 free hours
- Switch providers without losing your meetings
Hindi + English, auto-detected
Full support for Hindi and English meetings — including mid-conversation code-switching. Language detection is automatic per speaker. Summaries are generated in whichever language you prefer.
- Auto language detection, no config needed
- Code-switching handled naturally in the transcript
- Works with both Whisper (local) and Deepgram (cloud)
Works on all platforms, no meeting bots
Shendru transcribes your computer's audio directly. No bot joins your call, no one else in the meeting knows it's running.
Zoom
Google Meet
Microsoft Teams
Slack
Discord
Loved by early users
"Finally a meeting tool that doesn't require a bot joining my call. It just works — completely invisible to everyone else."
"The local transcription is surprisingly accurate. And knowing my audio never leaves my Mac makes it easy to use in client calls."
"BYOK is brilliant. I use my own OpenAI key, it costs almost nothing, and I know the AI isn't training on my meetings."
"The Hindi support is spot on. Most tools fall apart with code-switching — Shendru handles it naturally."
"Speaker labels are accurate enough that I can hand the transcript to anyone and they understand who said what. Saves me 20 minutes per meeting."
Your meetings stay on your Mac
We built Shendru for people who care about privacy. Every design decision starts with the question: do we need to see this?
Local audio processing
Whisper runs on your Mac. Your audio is never uploaded to our servers or any third party.
No meeting bots
Shendru records system audio directly. No bot joins your call, so other participants don't know it's running.
BYOK — we never see your keys
Your API keys are stored locally and used only from your device. We have no access to them.
No account required
Download and use Shendru without creating an account. No email, no sign-up, no tracking.
Ready for calmer, more productive meetings?
Free during beta. v0.1.0-beta — macOS Apple Silicon. No account required.