--- title: "About Mumr — a free, serverless Mac meeting recorder" description: "Who makes Mumr, why it runs no servers, and how a free Mac meeting recorder pays for itself. Independent developer, UK, Mac App Store only." canonical: "https://mumr.app/about" language: "en-GB" last-updated: "2026-08-23T13:21:26+01:00" source: "https://mumr.app — Markdown rendition of the HTML page at `canonical`" --- About · Independent · UK # About Mumr Mumr is a free meeting recorder for macOS, made by one independent developer in the United Kingdom. It records your calls, transcribes them on your Mac, and writes the recap with an AI you choose. There is no Mumr account, no Mumr server, and nothing of yours for us to hold. Last updated: 23 August 2026 · Contact: [hello@mumr.app](mailto:hello@mumr.app) The short version - Made by **Artem Konovalov**, an independent developer based in the UK. Not a company, not venture-funded, no team. - Distributed **only through the Mac App Store**, sandboxed and reviewed by Apple like any other Mac app. - **Free**, with no subscription and no in-app purchases. - Mumr operates **no servers** that touch your content. There is nothing to breach, subpoena, or shut down. ## Why Mumr exists Every mainstream meeting-notes tool solves the same problem the same way: send the audio somewhere else. A bot joins the call, or the app streams your microphone to a vendor's servers, and the transcript lives in an account you have to keep paying for. That works, and for a lot of teams it is fine. But it means the most candid hour of your week — the one where people say what they actually think — is sitting on infrastructure you do not control, under a retention policy you did not write. Mumr was built on the opposite assumption: the Mac in front of you is already fast enough to do the whole job. Apple Silicon can run Whisper-class speech recognition in real time, macOS can capture system audio without a virtual driver, and macOS 26 ships a local language model. Once all three are true, a meeting recorder does not need a backend. So Mumr does not have one. ## What Mumr is A menu-bar app that captures your microphone and the meeting's system audio together, so it records Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, a browser tab, or anything else that makes sound on your Mac. No bot dials in and nothing appears in the participant list, because Mumr is recording your machine rather than joining your call. Transcription runs on-device with your choice of three engines: Apple Speech, WhisperKit, or FluidAudio Parakeet. Summarisation is the one place you get to pick a cloud, and you pick it knowingly — Apple Intelligence and local CLI backends stay entirely on the machine, while the Anthropic and OpenAI backends use _your_ account and _your_ API key, billed to you, with no Mumr proxy in the middle. ## What Mumr is not - **Not a cloud service.** There is no Mumr account to create and no Mumr database with your name in it. - **Not a bot recorder.** Mumr never joins a meeting as a participant. - **Not cross-platform.** macOS 15 or later, and nothing else. No iOS app, no web app, no Windows build. - **Not open source** — yet. It is under consideration, and any change would be announced rather than discovered. ## How a free app pays for itself Today it does not, and that is deliberate. v1 is free because the expensive parts — speech recognition and summarisation — run on hardware you already own or on an AI account you already pay for. Mumr's own running costs are a landing page and an App Store listing. If a paid tier ever ships, it will be a managed-AI option for people who would rather not bring their own API key, sold through Apple's normal subscription plumbing. The free, bring-your-own-AI path that exists today will stay free. Selling your data is not a business model that is available to us, because we never receive it. ## What we can and cannot see We cannot see your recordings, transcripts, summaries, meeting titles, attendees, or file paths. None of it is ever transmitted to us, so this is not a promise about our restraint — it is a description of the architecture. What we do receive is anonymous, content-free usage analytics: which screens get opened, which features get used, whether a recording completed or failed. Every event is structural, never textual, and you can switch it off in Settings. The rules that keep it that way are enforced in the codebase, and the full detail is in the [Privacy Policy](https://mumr.app/privacy). ## The constraint that shapes everything One rule decides most arguments about the roadmap: **capture and transcription stay on your Mac, and the summary AI is yours to pick.** Any feature that would require routing your audio, transcripts, or summaries through a server we operate is out of scope, however useful it would be. That rules out team workspaces, shared meeting libraries, a web dashboard, and server-side search — and it is why the answer to "can my agent read my meetings?" is [point your own agent at the folder](https://mumr.app/chat) rather than "sign in to our API". ## Try it on your next call Free on the Mac App Store. Records Zoom, Teams and Meet locally, transcribes on-device, and writes the recap with the AI you choose. [Download for Mac](https://mumr.app/download) Free on the Mac App Store · macOS 15 or later ## FAQ ### Who makes Mumr? Artem Konovalov, an independent developer based in the United Kingdom. Mumr is published on the Mac App Store under that name, and the Terms of Use are governed by the laws of England & Wales. ### Is Mumr a company? No. It is a single-developer project, not an incorporated business, and it has taken no outside investment. That is part of why the app can stay free and serverless rather than needing to grow an account base. ### How do I get in touch? Email [hello@mumr.app](mailto:hello@mumr.app). The [contact page](https://mumr.app/contact) lists what to include for bug reports, privacy requests and security disclosures so the first reply can be a useful one. ### Will Mumr always be free? The current bring-your-own-AI app is free and will stay free — no subscription, no in-app purchases. A future Pro tier may add managed summarisation for people who do not want to supply their own API key, but it would be an addition, not a paywall around what exists today.