Binders for macOS: local-first dictation, meeting notes and memory, with an MCP server for your AI tools. Private by design, free, open source.
Binders is a free Mac app that turns what you say, what you hear in meetings and what you write into notes, to-dos and a memory you can ask questions. The speech models, the language model and your data all stay on your Mac.
Download: binders.io or the latest release · macOS 14.2 or later · signed and notarized by Apple · Help
▶ Watch the 54-second tour: dictation, the to-dos found in what you send, meeting notes, asking your work anything, and an AI tool using Binders over MCP.
Meeting notes that know who owes what Promises caught in the messages you send ------
A memory with connections One binder per thing you are working on ------
Every person and project in these screenshots is fictional. The app renders them from demo data in a throwaway folder.
- Dictation anywhere. Hold fn, talk, let go. The text lands in whatever app has the cursor, cleaned up: no ums, no false starts, and a correction made mid-sentence is the one that sticks. It learns names and jargon from the edits you make, expands snippets, and matches the tone of the app you are in. Command Mode (hold fn ⌃) rewrites the selected text, answers a question, adds a to-do ("add to-do call Sam tomorrow") or puts something on your calendar ("add it to my calendar"). - Meeting notes. Records your microphone and the other side of a call in any meeting app, or a recording you import, then writes a summary, decisions and action items with their owners. Full transcript with speakers, and an Ask tab per meeting. - Writing capture. Switch it on (fn W) and Binders keeps what you send in Teams, Outlook, Mail, Slack and
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