AI meeting notes without a bot in the call: how Kimiko works

Many AI note takers work by joining your meeting as an extra participant. Everyone sees it in the list of attendees, some organisations block it at the door, and the recording goes to the provider’s servers to be transcribed.

Kimiko takes a different route: no bot joins the call, and the transcription runs on your own computer.

How Kimiko listens

Kimiko captures two things on your computer: your microphone and the audio your computer plays. That’s everything you say and everything you hear, the same sound your call app already handles. So it works alongside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and other call apps without connecting to any of them, and nobody new appears in the meeting.

It can notice when a call starts and offer to take notes, so you don’t have to remember to press record.

Where the transcription happens

Speech recognition runs on your computer, with speech models that run inside the app once downloaded. The language model that writes recaps and answers questions runs inside the app too, so you don’t need an AI account or an API key to use Kimiko.

If you’d rather use a cloud provider for a particular job, you can connect one with your own key. Cloud processing stays off until you do, and usage reports are off by default.

What you get from a meeting

• A live transcript as people talk, with your own notes beside it.
• Live speaker labels for up to eight remote voices.
• A recap in the style you choose, in one of ten languages.
• Tasks suggested from what was agreed. You keep or dismiss each one, then plan it with dates and priorities, and it links back to its meeting.
• Chat with your notes: ask about one meeting, a project or your whole library, with answers that cite the transcript.
• Export to PDF, Word or Markdown.

Kimiko also does dictation into most apps, and an optional local MCP server lets AI tools such as Claude, Cursor or Raycast read your notes when you turn it on.

What you need

• An Apple silicon Mac on macOS 14.4 or later, or a 64-bit Windows PC.
• 16 GB of memory is a practical starting point.
• An internet connection to download the models, activate the app and check your subscription. After that, Kimiko works offline.

A note on etiquette

Recording rules differ between countries and companies. Whatever tool you use, tell the people in the call that you’re taking notes.

Try it

Kimiko is free to try, no credit card required. Download it from kimiko.app, or read the documentation.

Kimiko is built by Inovia, on the same idea as all our work: AI that runs where your data is allowed to be.