Rice records your calls, transcribes them on your Mac and writes the notes with the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, or with a model on your Mac. No extra subscription, no bot in the call, no Rice server.
Install with one command in Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WalissonCF/rice/main/get.sh | bashFor Macs with Apple Silicon. Needs the Xcode Command Line Tools, Homebrew and Node.js 22. Run it again to update.
Rice writes the notes and answers your questions with the Claude, ChatGPT or OpenCode subscription you already have, or with a model running on your Mac. There is no Rice plan and no other app to pay for.
Sign in once; Rice uses the plan you already have.
Also llama.cpp, MLX and Jan. Free, and nothing leaves your computer.
Billed by the provider, only for what you use.
Names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. Rice is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Rice works from your computer, not from a server. That changes who sees your meetings and what you pay for.
Rice records your microphone and the sound coming out of your computer. Nobody new appears in the participant list, and it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or any other app.
The audio is transcribed on your machine with whisper.cpp and never leaves it. Only text goes to an AI, and only when you ask for notes or an answer.
Use the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, or a model that runs on your computer, so nothing leaves it.
MIT license. Rice has no servers, no sign-up and no telemetry, and you can read every line of code that touches your meetings.
The app, the transcription and the notes work in Portuguese as well as in English. Notes come out in the language of the meeting, with the names and acronyms you teach it.
Everything in this section is in the current version of Rice, and every screenshot is the app itself.
When you stop recording, Rice fills in the sections of a template: summary, decisions, next steps. Switch templates with one click, edit the ones that come with Rice or write your own. What you typed during the meeting stays in, highlighted.
Ask about one meeting or about all of them. Rice picks the meetings that matter, answers with numbered sources, and each source opens the meeting at that passage.
Rice gathers what you promised and what others promised you, in every meeting, with due dates. Home shows what is due today and what is overdue, and when someone says in a later meeting “I sent the proposal”, Rice marks it done and links the source.
While you record, Rice can suggest ideas, questions and risks every few minutes. In War room mode it also investigates the sources you allow and lists what it finds, each with its source.
Optional and off by default. When someone says “let me share my screen”, Rice takes a screenshot and places it next to that sentence in the transcript. You can also attach images and files to any meeting.
Home shows your next seven days. Join a call or take notes for the meeting that is happening, with the event title already filled in. Rice also notices when a call starts and offers to record.
Keep meetings in nested folders, like a notes app. ⌘K searches titles, notes, annotations and transcripts, ignoring accents, and opens the meeting at the exact passage.
Pause for a side conversation: the microphone is released and nothing is recorded. ⌥⌘R starts or stops a recording from any app, and Mini Rice keeps Ask and Stop one hover away.
Rice remembers what each person and company asked for, promised and decided. Before a call, a “What to remember” card shows the open points, each linked to the meeting it came from.
Run the AI on your computer with Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX or Jan. In 100% local mode Rice refuses every connection that is not to your own machine.
“What left this computer” lists each send to the AI, when and to which provider, never the content. Copy it or save it as PDF.
When recording starts, Rice suggests telling the participants and offers a ready sentence to copy, in the language of the meeting.
Rice has no servers. The only thing that leaves your computer is text, sent to the AI you picked, when you ask for something.
Nothing else is sent: no account, no telemetry, no error reports. Each meeting has a receipt of what left the computer, and personal data such as emails, phone and document numbers can be hidden before sending. Once a day Rice asks GitHub whether there is a new version, with an anonymous request you can turn off.
With a model on your computer (Ollama, LM Studio and others), turn on 100% local mode in Settings › Privacy. Rice then talks only to your own machine and blocks every other connection, so nothing about your meetings leaves it.
Rice is built on your Mac from the source code, so macOS does not block it and there is nothing to allow by hand.
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or newer, with the Xcode Command Line Tools, Homebrew and Node.js 22.
Paste this in Terminal. It clones Rice into ~/rice, checks your setup, installs what is missing with Homebrew, builds the app and copies it to Applications. Run it again to update.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WalissonCF/rice/main/get.sh | bashThe same thing by hand, in the folder you prefer:
git clone https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice.git
cd rice
./install.shRun this in the clone folder. It shows what changed, rebuilds and reopens Rice.
./update.shThen open Rice. It downloads the transcription model (about 0.6 GB) and walks you through the permissions.
The .dmg is not notarized by Apple. After dragging Rice to Applications, install the transcription server with brew install whisper.cpp and allow the app in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Rice.appWindows 10 (22H2) or 11, x64. Built and tested automatically, but not yet tried on a real PC. The installer is not signed: if SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.
All of Rice’s code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, the same code that builds the app on your Mac.
Every line that records, transcribes or sends text to an AI is in the repository.
Check for yourself what leaves your computer, or have your security team do it.
Fork it, adapt it to your team and use it commercially. The license allows all of that.
Report bugs, suggest features or send a pull request.
If Rice is useful to you, a star on GitHub helps other people find it.
Star on GitHub3Rice is free and open source under the MIT license. There is no paid plan and no account. The AI part runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription, or on an API key billed by the provider.
No. Rice uses the Claude, ChatGPT or OpenCode subscription you already pay for, or an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini, billed by the provider for what you use. With a model on your Mac, such as Ollama or LM Studio, there is nothing to pay at all.
Yes. Rice records your microphone and your computer’s audio, so nobody joins the call and it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or any other app. Recording laws vary: in many places you must tell participants that the meeting is being recorded.
Yes, with a model on your computer. Recording and transcription are always local; with the local model (Ollama, LM Studio and others) and 100% local mode, notes and chat are too, and nothing leaves your Mac. With a cloud AI, notes and chat need the internet.
Claude and ChatGPT with your subscription or an API key, Gemini with an API key, OpenCode or Antigravity with your own sign-in, or a local model through Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX or Jan. You can connect more than one and switch at any time.
The audio never leaves your computer and Rice has no servers. You can hide personal data before text is sent, mark folders as sensitive, check a receipt of what left for each meeting, or use 100% local mode so nothing leaves at all. The page for companies lists every connection Rice makes.
Yes. The memory across meetings keeps what each person and company asked for, promised and decided, on your computer, and shows it before the next call. You can edit or erase any of it, or turn it off.
Yes. Transcription uses whisper.cpp with the large-v3-turbo model, which handles Portuguese and English, and the notes are written in the language of the meeting.
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or newer. A Windows 10 and 11 version is in preview. Intel Macs are not supported yet.
Rice is not notarized by Apple. Building it on your Mac with one command avoids the macOS block on downloaded apps, and updating is one command too.
In a folder you choose, one subfolder per meeting, with the transcript, notes and chat as Markdown files that any app can open.