• Runs entirely on your Mac
  • Free
  • Open source

Remembers everything. Tells no one.

Binders turns what you say, what you hear in meetings and what you write into notes, to-dos and a memory you can ask anything. The speech models, the AI and your data all stay on your Mac.

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Harbor launch Today

  1. Send Jonas the final launch checklist Friday

    Promised in Microsoft Teams · 11:55 AM

  2. Tomás Merge the batching fix and rerun the 50k import test

    Action item · Launch readiness review

  3. Let’s move the review to Thursday so support can join.

    Dictated into Slack

  4. Annual plans launch with a 15% discount.

    Answer · from Launch readiness review

The Binders home screen: four binders, open to-dos with owners and due dates, including promises made in messages, and two weeks of dictation activity.

Private by construction, not by policy.

Your voice stays here

Speech is transcribed on the Neural Engine of your Mac. Audio is never uploaded, and once the speech model has downloaded, dictation works offline.

Your AI, on your machine

Notes, answers and to-dos come from a language model running in Ollama on your Mac. With that default, no prompt ever leaves it.

Free, because there is no server

No account, no analytics, no cloud of ours. Nothing runs on our side, so there is nothing to charge you for.

See exactly what can leave your Mac, and when

Say it

Dictation

Hold fn. Talk. Let go.

Your words land in whatever app has the cursor, already cleaned up: no ums, no false starts, and the correction you made mid-sentence is the one that sticks. Speech recognition runs on the Neural Engine, so it is fast and it works offline.

  • Learns names and jargon from the edits you make afterwards.
  • Matches the tone of the app: looser in chat, tidier in mail.
  • Command Mode rewrites the selected text, answers a question, adds a to-do or puts it on your calendar.
# harbor-launch

JonasCan we find a time for the launch review tomorrow?

I think we should do the review at 3 pm tomorrow and bring the slides.

fn
Hold to dictate
fnfn
Hands-free
fn⌃
Command Mode
⌥M
Meeting notes
fnW
Writing capture

Hear it

Meeting notes

Notes that know who owes what.

Binders records your microphone and the other side of the call in any meeting app, then writes the summary, the decisions and the action items, each with its owner. Every to-do from every meeting collects on one board, filtered by person.

  • Works with Zoom, Teams, Meet or a recording you import.
  • Full transcript with speakers, and an Ask tab for follow-up questions.
  • Edit the notes and tick to-dos off right where they live.

Recording laws differ from place to place, and many require everyone’s consent. Binders reminds you before your first recording; letting people know is up to you.

Meeting notes for a launch readiness review: summary, key points, decisions, and action items assigned to You, Jonas, Tomás and Priya.

Write it

Writing capture

It catches the promises you make.

Switch capture on and Binders keeps what you send in Teams, Outlook, Mail, Slack and your browser. When a message says “I’ll send it by Friday”, that becomes a to-do with a deadline and a reminder on the morning it is due.

  • Kept only when you send or save. Keystrokes are never recorded.
  • Labelled passwords, card numbers and long keys are redacted before anything is stored.
  • Password managers and terminals are never read, and pages that look like a login or a payment are skipped.
Two captured messages, one sent in Teams and one in Outlook. Under each are the to-dos Binders found: share the beta list export by Monday, send Jonas the final launch checklist, loop in support today, send Delphine the sandbox link tomorrow.

Find it

Ask and knowledge

Ask your work anything.

Every meeting, note and message you keep becomes something you can question in plain language. Type it on the Knowledge page, or hold fn⌃ and ask out loud. Answers come with the sources they were drawn from.

  • Finds things by meaning, not just matching words.
  • Reads transcripts too, so “what did I say in that meeting” works.
  • Answered by the model on your Mac. Your questions stay private as well.

What did I promise Jonas this week?

Ask

Answer

You promised Jonas the following this week:

  • The final launch checklist by Friday [1][2][3].
  • To loop in support on the last two onboarding emails today [1].

Sources

  1. To Jonas LindqvistSep 25 · Microsoft Teams
  2. Launch readiness reviewSep 24 · transcript at 00:04
  3. Launch readiness reviewSep 24 · Summary

Real answers: Binders produced them from the fictional demo data in these pictures, with a model running on a Mac.

A knowledge graph linking people such as Jonas Lindqvist and Priya Raman to meetings, messages and topics like the pricing page and the import tool.

A memory with connections.

The people, projects and topics in your meetings, notes and messages are linked into a graph, so one question can travel from a person to everything they were part of.

Merge, rename or forget a person when the graph gets one wrong.

Share it

Binders and teams

One binder per thing you are working on.

A launch, a hire, a customer. Each binder holds its meetings, notes, to-dos and the people who come up in it. Share a binder with your team through a folder you already sync. There is no server of ours in between.

A binder called Harbor launch with its meetings, notes, open to-dos by owner, and the people and topics that come up in it.

Connect it

MCP server · New in 0.2

Plug your memory into your AI tools.

Binders comes with an MCP server. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other tools that speak the Model Context Protocol can search and ask your knowledge base, and add to it: notes, meetings, to-dos and calendar events. It runs on your Mac, and only while the tool is connected.

One click in Settings to add it to

  • Claude Code
  • Claude Desktop
  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
  • VS Code
  • Gemini CLI
  • Codex

Anything else that speaks MCP gets the configuration to paste. Nothing can be deleted this way.

Your AI tool, on this Mac

What did we decide about annual plans?

binders · ask_knowledge

Annual plans launch with a 15% discount, and the pricing page shows three plans with the annual toggle on by default.

Launch readiness review · Pricing page walkthrough

Add a to-do for me: send Priya the pricing table by Tuesday

binders · add_todo

To-do added: Send Priya the pricing table · Tuesday

  • Readssearch_knowledge ask_knowledge list_meetings get_note list_todos recent_dictations …
  • Addsadd_to_knowledge add_note add_meeting add_todo add_to_calendar …

And automations, for everything else.

Rules run a Shortcut, open a URL, run a script or call a web hook when you say a phrase in Command Mode, or when something happens in Binders. They live in a JSON file you can read and share.

When you say “ship it”

Run the Shortcut “Post release notes”

When meeting notes are ready

Call a web hook with {title}, {summary} and {link}

From Raycast, Shortcuts or a script

open "binders://todo?text=call%20Sam%20tomorrow"

A web hook is the only action that sends anything off your Mac, and only to the address you give it. How rules, links and the MCP server work

Privacy

Yours, on your Mac.

Binders has no account, no analytics and no cloud of its own. Here is exactly where your data goes, and the code that proves it is public.

Stays on this Mac

  • Audio, transcripts, notes, meetings and captured writing, in one folder you can open.
  • Speech recognition, with Parakeet or Whisper running 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: Ollama 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 yourself, to the address you give it.
  • A one-time download of the speech models.

Read the full privacy notes · Read the code behind every claim

Binders is free.

No account, no subscription, no trial clock. Everything runs on your Mac, so there is no server for anyone to pay for. Signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other Mac app.

Download Binders 0.2.0, free
  1. 1Open the disk image and drag Binders to Applications.
  2. 2Allow Microphone and Accessibility when Binders asks. Accessibility is how it sees your shortcut and types for you.
  3. 3For notes, answers and to-dos, Binders uses Ollama, free software that runs the language model on your Mac. Binders can install it and pick a model that fits your Mac’s memory, from 8 GB up. Dictation works without it.

Version 0.2.0, a preview. Requires macOS 14.2 or later. Apple silicon recommended. Updates arrive inside the app, signed, and only once you allow it to check. Release notes

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