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local-first speech workspace
Your speech should belong to you.
Muesli is an open-source Mac app for dictation and meeting notes. Speak naturally, paste clean text, and keep transcripts close. Do not rent out speech to the cloud when it should be yours.
Notes
I should follow up after lunch.Why would you do this in the cloud?How are you so fast?I don't know what I would do without Muesli.Turn that into action items.
pasted locally
listening
a calmer way to capture work
From a half-formed thought to text in the place you were already working.
Muesli listens from the menu bar, cleans up your words, and pastes them back into the current app. The product story is simple: your Mac becomes a private speech layer for everyday work.
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Speak in the flow of work
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Muesli listens from your Mac
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Paste, summarize, or revisit later
Dictate anywhere on your Mac
Press a hotkey, speak naturally, and Muesli pastes clean text into the app you are already using.
Hold Right Cmd to dictateMeeting notes without a bot
Capture meetings from your own computer audio, then keep the transcript local and easy to revisit.
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Local-first by design
Open-source, built for Apple Silicon, and ready for the speech models you already trust.
Used by professionals everywhere to speed up their thoughts
from people trying muesli
People are already making speech feel local again.
Cloud dictationUpload first, wait later
Speech leaves your machine, needs internet, waits in a hosted queue, then pastes when the round trip finishes.
MuesliLocal speech, instant paste
Works without internet after install, stays Mac-native, and pastes from your own machine without a meeting bot.
open source, private by default
No guest in the meeting. No rented speech pipeline.
Muesli is personal, friendly, and local. The code is inspectable, the workflow is Mac-native, and the promise is clear: speech is intimate infrastructure, not a subscription toll road.
No meeting bot joins your calls
Transcripts stay close to your machine
One hotkey for thought-to-text
Open-source and inspectable
changelog from github
Every release, pulled from the open-source repo.
Muesli ships in public. This section reads the GitHub Releases feed directly and shows only stable public builds.
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faq
Common fixes for setup, permissions, and meeting capture.
App won't open?
If macOS says Muesli is damaged, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway. If that still does not clear it, run the command below.
sudo xattr -cr /Applications/Muesli.appWhy isn't my transcription pasting into the input box?
Usually this means Accessibility access is missing, stale, or attached to the wrong copy of Muesli. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility, make sure Muesli is enabled, then quit and reopen it from /Applications. If it still fails, remove Muesli from Accessibility, add it back, and relaunch.
Why doesn't the hotkey start dictation?
The global hotkey depends on Input Monitoring. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Input Monitoring, confirm Muesli is allowed, then relaunch the app from /Applications. If you changed the shortcut in Settings, make sure you are using the configured key instead of assuming the default.
Why did Muesli stop working after an update or reinstall?
macOS permissions are tied to a specific installed app path and signature. If you launch Muesli from Downloads, Desktop, or an older duplicate copy, paste and hotkey permissions can silently stop working. Keep one copy in /Applications, delete duplicates, then re-grant Accessibility and Input Monitoring if needed.
Why is meeting recording failing or missing system audio?
Muesli needs Screen Recording or Screen & System Audio Recording permission for meeting capture. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security, enable Muesli under the relevant recording pane, then relaunch. If microphone transcription works but meeting capture does not, this is usually the missing permission.
Why isn't Muesli showing upcoming meetings?
Upcoming meetings come from local macOS Calendar access, Google Calendar, or both. If the list is empty, first check Calendar permission. If you rely on Google Calendar, reconnect it in Settings and wait for the next refresh. If you use both, Muesli deduplicates matching events, so you should still only see one entry per meeting.
Open-source speech workspace for your working memory.
Useful, local, and owned by the person doing the speaking.
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