Board · Agents
A board for you and your agents.
Cards move from Backlog to Done. An agent can claim one, report progress, ask you when it’s stuck, and hand it back for review. Distill turns a spec into work that waits for itself.
A private memory for your Mac
Remembers everything.
Tells no one.
Binders turns what you say, hear, and write into notes, to-dos, and answers—then keeps the whole thing on the Mac you already trust. No account. No cloud of ours.
Free and open source · macOS 14.2 or later · Signed and notarized by Apple
- On-device AI
- No account
- Open source
Why Binders
Most tools remember a fragment.
Binders remembers the work.
Your work is already spread across calls, notes, chats, and the files on your Mac. Binders gives it one private shape: what you said, heard, wrote, promised, and finished. Ask it a question, hand a piece of work to an agent, or open the board and see what’s next.
01
Capture in the moment
Dictation, meeting notes, writing capture, and all-day capture collect the work as it happens, without asking you to switch apps.
02
Keep the connections
People, projects, decisions, and sources stay linked, so a question can travel from a name to everything they were part of.
03
Put it to work
Promises become to-dos, notes become cards, and a board lets you and your agents move the work forward together.
The workflow
From a sentence
to a shipped product.
You talk through an idea. Binders turns it into a spec, distills the work, and hands the cards to agents that pick them up, report back, and ask when they’re stuck. You keep the decisions.
Listening
0:04
Let’s make the pricing page show annual plans with a 15% discount, and add a comparison table. We should be ready by Friday.
Pricing page specNote · just now
SPEC.md
# Goal: launch annual plans with a 15% discount.
- Add a comparison table for the three plans.
- Wire the annual/monthly toggle.
- QA the upgrade flow.
- Ship by Friday.
Distill reads the spec and proposes cards. Nothing is created until you say so.
3 work items · 1 dependency
Harbor launch · BoardPricing page · 5 cards
Agents active
Ready 2
QA the upgrade flowwaits for billing
No owner yet
Ship the pricing pagewaits for QA
No owner yet
Working 3
Comparison tableCursor
68%
Annual-plan copyClaude Code
52%
Billing toggleCodex
81%
Review 1
Comparison tableApproved
Ready to ship
Done 1
Pricing pageLive
MonthlyAnnual15% off
✦Claude Codewriting
✦Cursorreviewing
✦CodexQA
✦Cursor asks2:12 PM
Should annual plans show the 15% discount in the table, or only on the pricing page itself?
✓Approved by you2:14 PM
Cursor is finishing the table. The page is ready to ship.
✓Shipped to production2:14 PM
Pricing page · annual plans live with the 15% discount.
Speak · A product idea, said out loud.
A fictional demo. The note, cards, agents and product use the same demo data as the screenshots.
What it does
One memory.
Every part of the work.
A small set of tools that share the same context, so a promise in a message can become a card on a board, and a meeting can answer a question weeks later.
Privacy
Private by construction.
Speech and AI run on your Mac. No account, no analytics, no cloud of ours. Your files are yours, in a folder you can open.
Dictation
Dictation that lands clean.
Hold fn, talk, let go. Clean text arrives in any app, and Command Mode can rewrite, answer, or add a to-do.
Meetings
Meetings become decisions.
Both sides of the call, a summary, decisions, and action items with owners. The transcript stays searchable.
Writing capture
Promises become to-dos.
Writing capture turns the commitments you send into tasks with deadlines—without recording keystrokes.
Knowledge
Ask your work anything.
Search by meaning across meetings, notes, and messages. Answers come with their sources, and a graph links the people and projects behind them.
All-day capture
Turn the day into captures, promises, and cards. Audio stays on the device that heard it.
Teams
Share a binder through a folder you already sync.
MCP
Let your AI tools search, ask, and work from your boards.
Automations
Run a Shortcut, open a URL, or call a web hook.
Open source
GPLv3, on GitHub, with the code behind every claim.
Inside Binders
One place for the work
and the memory behind it.
The app is the product. Here is what it looks like when the day is moving: the work that needs you, the card where it gets done, and the notes that remember how you got there.
Home gathers what needs you: questions from agents, cards ready to check, open to-dos, and the day’s meetings.
A card is a conversation with whoever does the work. An agent reports, asks, and hands it over; you approve or send it back.
Meeting notes arrive with a summary, decisions, and action items by owner, plus a transcript you can ask.
Every person and project in these pictures is fictional.
Watch the 54-second tour No soundPrivacy
Private by construction,
not by policy.
Binders has no account, no analytics, and no cloud of ours. The speech models and the language model run on your Mac; the files sit in a folder you can open. Here is exactly what stays, and what leaves only when you point it somewhere.
Open source · GPLv3
Stays on this Mac
- Audio, transcripts, notes, meetings, and captured writing, in one folder you can open.
- Speech recognition with Parakeet or Whisper on the Neural Engine.
- The search index and the knowledge graph.
- Your dictionary, snippets, and settings.
Leaves only where you point it
- Text sent to your language model: on your Mac by default, or a server you choose.
- Binders you share with your team, through your own cloud folder.
- A web hook you set up, to the address you give it.
- AI tools and agents you connect: what you let them read, or the card you hand them.
- A one-time download of the speech models, and of the built-in model if you use it.
Free, open source, on your Mac
Bring your work home.
No account, no subscription, no trial clock. Binders runs on your Mac, so there is no server for anyone to pay for.
Download Binders 0.10.0 for MacVersion 0.10.0 · macOS 14.2 or later · Apple silicon recommended · Signed and notarized by Apple
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