A privacy-first macOS app that transcribes your meetings and helps you write — both running entirely on-device on Apple Silicon, with nothing sent to the cloud unless you opt in.
Last verified · 2026-07-23 · by Moe Ameen
Logue is a local-first AI app for macOS that pairs two jobs most tools keep separate: capturing a meeting and helping you write. It listens through your microphone and your Mac's system audio at once, transcribes the conversation in real time, labels who said what, and then turns the transcript into a structured summary and a list of action items. Alongside that, it carries a full writing assistant, so the notes you take and the documents you draft live in the same app that recorded the call. It was published by bitwize.ai, released as version 1.0.0 on July 22, 2026, and is open source under the MIT license — free to download and build.
The privacy stance is the defining choice. Inference, transcription, and speaker diarization run locally through MLX on Apple Silicon: transcription uses Apple's on-device SpeechTranscriber and diarization uses FluidAudio's Sortformer model, so a meeting is captured and summarized without a network round-trip and no content leaves your Mac unless you deliberately turn on web search or connect an external provider. Because it leans on that stack, Logue requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later and an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). If you want stronger models than the bundled on-device ones, it's a hybrid: under Settings you can add an OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoint, or point it at OpenRouter, Ollama, or LM Studio — but that's an explicit opt-in, not the default.
The feature set is broader than a plain transcriber. It produces Smart Minutes (a structured summary with decisions and follow-ups), extracts action items with owners and due dates into a filterable dashboard, and offers 60-plus writing modes covering grammar suggestions, tone analysis, vocabulary enhancement, and fact verification. An agentic chat, "Ask Logue," reasons over your meetings and documents in multiple steps, and full-text search spans everything you've captured. Treat exact specifics — the bundled model, the writing-mode list, minimum OS — as a launch-window snapshot and confirm them in the repository, since a version 1.0.0 project moves quickly.
The honest framing: Logue is a private capture-and-writing desk, not a content or publishing tool. It gives you an accurate on-device record, a clean summary, and a good place to draft — and it stops at your Mac. It cuts no clip, designs no carousel, holds no brand voice across formats, and publishes to no platform. Turning what you captured into public content is a separate job.
Logue is unusual because it doesn't just record — it drafts. You leave a call with a clean transcript, Smart Minutes, and text you've already sharpened through its writing modes, all sitting privately on your Mac. That's further along than a raw recording, and it's exactly where most people stall: a polished internal document is still one document, for one reader, on one machine. Logue makes one thing well-written; it has no way to make it many things, or to get any of them in front of an audience. Kompozy is the multiplier that starts precisely where a finished Logue draft ends.
Hand Kompozy the part of that meeting you've decided is public — the customer-interview insight, the strategy you talked through, the framework you explained — and one source becomes a full content unit instead of a single post. Kompozy generates a Blog Article and an Email Newsletter from the discussion, pulls the three sharpest lines into Quote Graphics and a brand-exact Carousel via HyperFrames, writes native Text Posts for LinkedIn and X, and — the formats Logue can't touch — spins the same idea into a Persona Short or a HeyGen avatar video with a face-locked recurring identity, reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9. A Persona Brief with banned-word governance keeps every piece in your voice, so a transcript comes out sounding like your brand rather than a meeting recap. Then Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline schedule and publish the whole set across the eight social platforms plus your blog and a Mailchimp newsletter, from one queue. The privacy boundary stays clean: Logue keeps the full sensitive record local, and Kompozy only ever sees the slice you deliberately choose to make public.
Logue is an open-source, privacy-first macOS app that combines two jobs: it transcribes and summarizes your meetings, and it helps you write. Released as version 1.0.0 on July 22, 2026 by bitwize.ai under the MIT license, it captures both your microphone and your Mac's system audio, labels speakers, produces Smart Minutes and action items, and carries 60-plus writing modes — all running on-device via MLX on Apple Silicon.
By default, yes. Transcription, speaker diarization, and inference run locally on Apple Silicon through MLX, using Apple's SpeechTranscriber and FluidAudio's Sortformer model, so meeting content does not leave your Mac. You can optionally connect an external provider (OpenAI-, Anthropic-compatible, OpenRouter, Ollama, or LM Studio) or turn on web search, but those are explicit choices — out of the box it stays private and local.
Logue needs macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later and an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer), because it depends on MLX and Apple's on-device speech stack. It is open source under the MIT license and free to download and build. Because it is an early 1.0 release, confirm the current requirements and any paid options in the project repository before relying on a specific detail.
No. Logue transcribes and summarizes meetings and helps you write a document — it cuts no clips, designs no carousels, holds no brand voice across formats, and publishes to no platform. To turn a meeting or a draft into captioned video, carousels, a blog, a newsletter, and scheduled posts across platforms, you use a content engine like Kompozy.
Logue is the private place a conversation gets captured and a draft gets written; Kompozy is where the shareable parts become published content. Record the meeting in Logue, refine the summary with its writing modes, copy out the parts you want public, and paste them into Kompozy — which rewrites them in your brand voice and generates a blog, newsletter, carousels, quote cards, text posts, and avatar video, then schedules and publishes across eight social platforms plus blog and email.