Quiet Scribe

Connect your meetings to your AI

Quiet Scribe for Mac includes a local MCP server: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other AI apps can read your meetings, minutes, tasks and transcripts. It's read-only, stays off until you turn it on, and your meetings only leave your Mac to go to the AI you connect.

What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets an AI app use tools on your Mac — here, reading the meetings Quiet Scribe already keeps there.

Your meetings, your rules

Stays on your Mac

The server runs inside Quiet Scribe, on your Mac. There's no server of ours: your meetings only leave your Mac to go to the AI you connect, and what that AI does with them depends on its provider.

Read-only

The AI can list, read and search meetings and tasks. It can't create, change or delete anything, and it never gets your audio.

Off until you turn it on

Access is off by default. You turn it on in Quiet Scribe → Settings → Connect your AI (MCP), and you can turn it off there at any time.

Set it up in four steps

Steps 2 to 4 are alternatives: follow the one for the AI app you use.

  1. Turn on access in Quiet Scribe

    Open Quiet Scribe on your Mac, go to Quiet Scribe → Settings → Connect your AI (MCP) and turn on “Allow connected AIs to read my meetings”.

  2. Claude Desktop

    In the same section, click “Copy configuration for Claude Desktop”. In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Developer → Edit Config, paste the configuration into claude_desktop_config.json, save the file and restart Claude Desktop.

    File: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

    The configuration looks like this:
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "quiet-scribe": {
      "command": "/Applications/Quiet Scribe.app/Contents/MacOS/Quiet Scribe",
      "args": [
        "--mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

    If the file already lists other servers, add only the “quiet-scribe” entry inside the existing “mcpServers” block.

  3. Claude Code

    Click “Copy command for Claude Code” in Quiet Scribe, or copy it from here, and run it in Terminal:

    Command for Claude Code
    claude mcp add quiet-scribe -- "/Applications/Quiet Scribe.app/Contents/MacOS/Quiet Scribe" --mcp

    Then type /mcp in Claude Code: quiet-scribe should show up as connected.

  4. Cursor and other MCP clients

    Any app that supports local (stdio) MCP servers can use the same command with the --mcp argument. Add a server named quiet-scribe with:

    Command
    /Applications/Quiet Scribe.app/Contents/MacOS/Quiet Scribe
    Argument
    --mcp

    Cursor uses the same format as Claude Desktop: paste the configuration into ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

These paths assume Quiet Scribe is in your Applications folder. If it's somewhere else, use the copy buttons in Quiet Scribe: they copy the real path of the app you have open.

What your AI can read

Five read-only tools. Your AI picks the right one; you just ask in your own words.

list_meetings

Lists your meetings, newest first, with date, duration, participants and a TL;DR. Filters by dates or text.

get_meeting

Opens a meeting's minutes: summary, key points, decisions, tasks with owner and due date, open questions and marked moments.

get_transcript

Reads a meeting's full transcript, with timestamps and speakers when they're known.

search_meetings

Searches every meeting — titles, summaries, decisions, tasks and transcripts — and returns the passage that matched.

list_tasks

Lists the tasks from all your meetings, open or done, with the meeting they came from.

Try asking

Once it's connected, ask your AI things like:

  • What did we decide in Tuesday's meeting?
  • Make me a list of my open tasks from this week.
  • Find the meetings where we talked about the budget and sum up what was said.
  • Write a follow-up email to the client from yesterday's call, with the next steps we agreed on.

Requirements

  • A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.
  • Quiet Scribe 1.0.6 or later for Mac.
  • An AI app that supports MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor.

Get Quiet Scribe for Mac

One purchase covers Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Your meetings stay yours.

  • Download on the App Store
  • Download on the Mac App Store

One-time purchase: $19.99. No subscription, no in-app purchases. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.