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Minutehand
Meeting transcripts for your AI agents
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Meeting transcripts for your AI agents
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Minutehand is a minimalist macOS menu-bar app. It records your meetings — no bot joins the call — and files a Markdown transcript into a folder your AI agent already reads. No unnecessary summaries. No account setup. No subscription. No bullshit. Setting up is super easy. You'll never copy-paste a meeting transcript into your AI ever again. And since transcription runs through your own Deepgram key, you get the benefit of Deepgram's $200 of free credit, worth over 300 hours of transcription.
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I kept watching a client team do the same thing after every call. Open the notetaker, ignore the summary it had written, copy the raw transcript out, paste it into Claude. One meeting at a time, by hand, because Claude had all their necessary work context over months of conversations, email and files, while the meetings app ever did. So Claude's analysis of those transcripts was always deeper and more insightful.
So I built the boring half and stopped there. Minutehand sits in the menu bar, watches your calendar, and offers to record a couple of minutes before a meeting starts. It captures mic plus system audio, so nothing joins the call as a participant and it works with Zoom, Meet, Teams or two people at a table. Transcription runs through your own Deepgram API key. What lands is a plain Markdown file in a folder you picked, with the meeting title, date, duration and attendees written into the top of it.
There is no summary feature and there is never going to be one.
It is macOS 13 or later but even works on old Intel Macs.
It costs $39 once, with no subscription and no accounts necessary.
It offers a 7-day refund if it doesn't fit your workflow. Deepgram gives new accounts $200 of free credit, which is over 300 hours, so the transcription side costs nothing for a while.
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@vikram_two This is neat - you should have a comparison with Granola on your website. How much do you think 5-person sales team would save with Minutehand vs some popular competitors?
@domhnall_o_hanlon thank you so much! I appreciate you checking out Minutehand, and for your kind praise! It means a lot.
Having a comparison table on the website is a great idea, and I'm going to work on adding that this week.
When it comes to pricing, the biggest advantage for Minutehand is the $200 worth of free credits that Deepgram offers every new account at sign-up. From what I understand, Granola also uses Deepgram's transcription tech under the hood, but a lot of folks aren't aware of Deepgram's free credits.
The current one-time price of Minutehand is $39, which provides 2 lifetime licences.
For a Sales team specifically, their usage is likely on the higher side — so probably something like 8 hours per person per week.
Granola for a team that size would cost $14 per person per month = $840 for the full team, every year.
Minutehand is $39 per person, plus $200 of free Deepgram API credits (assuming every team member signs up for a free Deepgram account), which net about 344 hours of free diarised transcription.
At 8 hours per week, that's 416 hours per person, except that 344 of those are effectively free thanks to the Deepgram credits. So you could go almost a full year just on the free credits + one-time app cost.
As per my calculations then, purely on cost, for anyone whose usage exceeds 5.5 hours of meetings per week, Granola's probably a better long-term bet. If your team's usage is less than 5.5 hours, Minutehand is the way more economical option.
All of which to say that Granola probably has its place in the bigger, heavy-usage Sales teams, while Minutehand is probably better suited to leaner teams in moderate to low usage scenarios. Granola also offers a lot of "extras" that Minutehand intentionally avoids. Which is why you won't find the phrase "AI note-taker" anywhere on the Minutehand website. ;-)
Finally, for what it's worth, I've been using the Deepgram API's free credits across several personal transcription products for months now, and I've still only used maybe half of that $200. :-)
I hope that wasn't too much math for a Monday!