Gestalt Labs · macOS
Records everything.
Tells no one.
Nixon sits beside your calls — Zoom, Meet, Teams, anything that makes sound — and writes down what was said, who said it, and what you agreed to. No bot joins the meeting. Nothing is uploaded. The tape stays on the machine.
Apple Silicon · macOS 14.4+ · No account
The part most tools get wrong
Your notes shape the summary.
Write during the call as you normally would. Nixon reads what you wrote and shapes the summary around it — so it reflects what mattered to you, not an even-handed digest of everything anyone said.
Speakers are separated automatically. Naming them takes two clicks, from the calendar invite where there is one.
On the reel
Who said what, kept verbatim.
The transcript is set the way a transcript should be: typed, on paper, attributed by channel. Speaker separation runs on your Mac, and Nixon can learn voices so it recognises the same people in later meetings — off until you switch it on.
You — 00:01:12 …so on the enterprise tier we'd hold the current rate through Q1.
Maya Okafor — 00:01:20 We'd need SSO before signing anything.
Tomas Lindqvist — 00:01:44 Let's target end of quarter and revisit the scope on Friday.
What you get
Everything around the meeting, not just the transcript.
Walk in prepared
Before a recurring meeting, Nixon pulls together what happened last time and which of your action items are still open.
One key to join and record
When a meeting starts, Nixon offers to open the call and start recording together. No calendar? Add one by hand; it behaves the same.
Action items that outlive the meeting
Everything Nixon picks up lands in one checkable list across every meeting, instead of being stranded in whichever notes you wrote it in.
Ask across everything
"What did we decide about pricing?" — answered from your own meetings, with the sources cited so you can check.
Find it later
Full-text search across transcripts, notes and summaries, a directory of the people you meet with, and every recording in one log.
Bring in audio you have
Drop an existing recording onto the window. Nixon transcribes and summarizes it like anything else.
Before the call
Walk in knowing where you left off.
Jot what you plan to cover; it stays in view during the call and shapes the summary afterward. For a recurring meeting, Nixon puts last time's outcome and your still-open action items in the same place — so you are not scrolling through notes in the thirty seconds before you join.
Private by design
The tape never leaves the room.
This is how the app is built, not a promise bolted on afterward.
Local by default
Audio, transcripts and notes are written to your own disk and never uploaded. Transcription and speaker identification always run on your Mac. Summaries do too, on a model Nixon downloads on first run.
Off unless you turn it on
You can point summaries at Claude, OpenAI or another provider instead. That is the only case in which any part of a meeting leaves your Mac, and it is your choice. Google Calendar is the same: opt-in, read-only, and it disconnects clean.
Quiet otherwise
The one other thing Nixon talks to is nixonapp.com, to ask whether a newer version exists. It sends the app version and platform, and no account, device or meeting information. You can switch it off.
Requirements
Sized to your machine.
Get the app
Deck ready.
Open the .dmg, drag Nixon to Applications, and give it the two permissions it asks for. There is no account and nothing to set up.