Your meeting, minus the meeting.
BoringTalks records the call on your Mac, writes it all down, and hands you a title, a summary and who promised what. You can keep nodding.
- Minute 12. Someone shares the wrong screen.
- Minute 31. “Let’s circle back.” Nobody asks to what.
- Minute 47. The fourth status meeting this week.
Meetings are boring.
Notes about them shouldn’t be your job.
How it works
1Hit record. Talk like normal.
Click the menu bar icon when the call starts. Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, a phone call on speaker: if your Mac can hear it, BoringTalks can write it down. Nobody new joins the call.
2Every voice gets a name
3The boring part writes itself
Recording the call
You
Your side
Maya
Their side
Then everybody wakes up for the summary.
A minute after you hang up, the meeting is in your dashboard with a title that says what happened, a short summary, key topics, action items with owners and due dates, and the decisions. An email too, if you want one.
BoringTalks
boringtalks.lol
1 “quick sync”, 58 min, 4 people
- Title that says something
- ×1
- Summary
- ×1
- Names put to voices
- ×4
- Tasks with owners
- ×4
- Decisions
- ×2
- Notes you took
- ×0
“Pricing review: Pro to $29, launch Nov 3”
three lines, no fluff
You, Maya, Leo, Dana
and when they’re due
in writing, finally
you were busy nodding
Thank you for not taking notes.
Everything you’d have written down. None of the writing.
Each meeting lands in your dashboard with who was there, what was decided and who promised what. The rest of the app keeps it all findable.
Every task in one list
Action items from all your meetings land on one page, soonest due first, each linked to the moment it was promised.
See where your week went
A calendar shows how many meetings you had each day and how many hours they ate. Bring it to your next “quick sync” about meetings.
Find anything later
Search every word that was said, or click a person or a topic to see every meeting they came up in.
No bot joins your call
Nobody gets the “Notetaker has joined the meeting” moment. The Mac app listens from your side of the call, the way you do.
Put a notetaker on your Mac.
It lives in the menu bar, records when you tell it to, and stays out of the way the rest of the time. It’s free.
The first launch
- Open the disk image and drag BoringTalks into Applications.
- Allow Microphone when asked. That’s your side of the call.
- Allow System Audio Recording (System Settings, Privacy & Security, Screen & System Audio Recording). That’s everyone else.
- Click the menu bar icon and sign in. Your browser opens this site to connect the Mac to your account.
Questions, asked before the meeting
How much does it cost?
Nothing. BoringTalks is free while it’s new: the Mac app, the dashboard and the summaries.
Which meeting apps does it work with?
All of them. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, FaceTime, a phone call on speaker: if your Mac can hear it, BoringTalks can write it down.
Does a bot join my call?
No. Nobody gets a “Notetaker has joined” message. The app listens from your side of the call, the way you do.
How does it know who is speaking?
It tells voices apart and picks names up from the conversation: introductions, “thanks, Maya”, “Leo, can you…”. If it guesses wrong, rename a speaker once and the whole meeting updates.
I don’t have a Mac. Can I still use it?
Yes. Record a meeting right in the browser, or upload a recording you already have, and you get the same summary, speakers and tasks.
Which languages does it understand?
English and most European languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Ukrainian.
Who can see my meetings?
Only you. Delete a meeting and its recording, transcript and notes go with it.
Do I have to tell people I’m recording?
Yes, please. Let everyone know, as you would with any recording. In many places it’s the law.
Skip the next meeting. Read it instead.
Make an account, and there’s already a demo meeting waiting with its summary, so you can see what you’re getting before you record anything.