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Upshot: meeting notes that never leave the room.

An AI note-taker for iPhone, iPad and Mac that records, recognises the people in the room and writes up the meeting, all on the device. Formerly known as Minuted.

PlatformsiPhone, iPad, Mac
CategoryProductivity
PriceFree, with Upshot Basic
LaunchedNovember 2026
The problem

Most AI note-takers send your meeting to someone else’s cloud.

That rules them out for the meetings that matter most: one-to-ones, interviews, leadership and client calls. And when an AI writes the notes, it can make things up.

We wanted notes people could trust, from an app that never needed to see the meeting at all.

Upshot recording a meeting
Upshot naming speakers
What we built

Record. Recognise. Write it up.

CaptureOne-tap recording

Keeps going with the screen locked. On Mac it records Teams, Zoom and Meet calls straight from the system audio.

TranscriptWho said what

On-device transcription, split by speaker. Tap any line to hear it.

PeopleRemembers voices

Name a voice once and Upshot knows them in every meeting after, synced through the user’s own iCloud.

NotesGrounded write-ups

Summary, decisions and actions with owners, each checked against the transcript before it’s shown.

AskAsk the meeting

Questions answered from what was actually said, on the device.

ChoiceBring your own AI

Apple Intelligence for free, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, a company server or an on-device model with Upshot Basic.

The hard parts

Big-model results, small-device budget.

  • On-device notes

    Prompts and structured output tuned for Apple’s on-device model, with six meeting types that each get their own layout.

  • Grounding check

    Every decision and action is matched back to the transcript, so the notes say only what was said.

  • Speaker memory

    Voice profiles that sync privately across iPhone, iPad and Mac, including a “This is me” profile.

  • Mac call audio

    Both sides of a video call captured cleanly, from the menu bar.

Upshot for Mac showing meeting notes
Privacy

No Upshot servers. Nothing to leak.

Recording, transcription and notes run on the device. There’s no account and no analytics. Meetings only leave the device if the user turns on their own iCloud Sync or picks their own AI provider.

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