Daisy

A local-first meeting recorder and AI notes app for macOS.

Daisy captures meeting audio (microphone + system audio loopback via ScreenCaptureKit), transcribes it on-device with Whisper, and produces a Granola-style outline with action items and a draft client follow-up. Audio never leaves the Mac unless the user explicitly enables a cloud LLM provider (Anthropic / OpenAI / MCP) for the summary step — and even then the user supplies their own API key.

End-user installation, FAQ, and the privacy story live at https://mydaisy.io. This README is for people building Daisy from source.

Status

• Latest stable release: see scripts/release-notes/ and https://mydaisy.io/appcast.xml
• Deployment target: macOS 14 Sonoma (Apple Intelligence summarizer requires macOS 26 Tahoe)
• Apple Silicon and Intel x86_64 universal binary
• Signed with Developer ID, notarized, stapled, Sparkle EdDSA-signed for in-app updates

Build from source

Requirements:

• Xcode 16+ with the macOS 26 SDK installed
• An active Apple Developer account if you want to run a signed local build (unsigned builds are fine for development inside Xcode)

Clone and open:

git clone https://github.com/addicted-studio/daisy-app.git
cd daisy-app
open Daisy.xcodeproj

The Swift Package Manager dependencies (Sparkle, WhisperKit/ArgmaxCore, FluidAudio) resolve on first project load. Hit Run; the app launches.

Project layout

Daisy/                  → SwiftUI app sources (PBXFileSystemSynchronizedRootGroup)
DaisyTests/             → unit tests
DaisyUITests/           → UI tests
Daisy.xcodeproj/        → Xcode project
scripts/
  release.sh            → end-to-end release: archive → notarize → DMG → sign → Sparkle appcast
  release-notes/        → per-version markdown bullets consumed by release.sh
  dmgbuild_settings.py  → dmgbuild config (Python) for the installer DMG
  assets/               → DMG background, app icons
build/                  → archive output (gitignored)

Key services that drive the app:

• AudioRecorder — AVAudioEngine mic tap, route-change recovery, archive .caf writer
• SystemAudioCapture — SCStream loopback for the remote side of a meeting, BT-output detection, silent-capture warnings
• Transcriber — WhisperKit on-device transcription with Silero VAD pre-pass
• RecordingSession — orchestrates a session, owns calendar binding and auto-stop scheduling
• Summarizer — multi-provider cloud / on-device LLM dispatch (Apple Intelligence, Anthropic, OpenAI, MCP)
• SparkleUpdater — wraps Sparkle 2 against https://mydaisy.io/appcast.xml

Release flow

DAISY_AUTO_PUSH=1 ./scripts/release.sh <shortVersion> <buildNumber>

Six steps: archive → export → notarize → DMG → publish to the daisy-web repo → inject an <item> into appcast.xml and commit. Vercel auto-deploys the site within a couple of minutes.

Release notes for each version go in scripts/release-notes/<shortVersion>.md as a flat markdown bullet list (- one line per change). The script extracts those bullets and embeds them in the appcast <description> so Sparkle shows them in its update sheet.

Support and contact

• Questions, ideas, show-and-tell → GitHub Discussions
• Product issues, feature requests → file an issue on this repo or email essazanov@pm.me
• Security disclosures → see SECURITY.md
• End-user docs → https://mydaisy.io/support
• Privacy policy → https://mydaisy.io/privacy

Credits

• Sparkle — in-app auto-updates
• WhisperKit by Argmax — Apple Silicon Whisper inference
• FluidAudio — speaker diarization
• FoundationModels — on-device summarization via Apple Intelligence (macOS 26+)

License

See LICENSE.