Parrot
Product Hunt Uygar Turantekin
Parrot launched for Mac: a free meeting assistant that records and transcribes on your device. It works during calls, with no bot joining, and can pull answers from your files.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Uygar Turantekin — read the original for the full story.
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Parrot launched today as a Mac meeting assistant that tries to be useful while the call is still happening, not just after everyone has hung up. It records what the Mac hears, transcribes locally on device, and skips the usual bot-in-the-room setup entirely.
That matters because the app is built to answer questions in the moment. If someone asks about pricing or an FAQ, Parrot can surface the answer along with the file it came from. So instead of taking notes, searching later, and hoping nothing got missed, the tool is aimed at keeping the conversation moving.
After the meeting, it puts together a report showing promises made and questions that never got answered. It also lets users chat with all of their meetings, which pushes it a bit beyond simple recording and into searchable memory.
The model side is flexible too. Users can work with Claude, a free local model through Ollama, or their own server. And because it’s free, open-source, and doesn’t require an account or subscription, Parrot is clearly going after the crowd that wants control as much as convenience.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of meeting AI: local, open-source, and not dressed up as a surveillance bot with a cheerful logo. The more of these tools that keep audio on the machine and out of a mystery cloud, the better for everyone except the people selling annual subscriptions to the obvious.
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