Parrot
Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
Details
- External ID
- 49910328
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Parrot
- Website domain
- openparrot.app
- Launched
- Sept. 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 34
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.810477657935285
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Hello Hacker NewsI am Uygar, I am an entrepreneur from London. I run my businesses on calls everyday, customers, partners and suppliers. And i have a horrible memory i forgot things. So months ago with the help of Claude i have built Parrot. I have designed and coded for my work and what i need. An to be honest worked very well and helped me alot.Parrot records what your mac hears and everything stays in your computer if you use local models, no account, no API calls. There is something called copilot which made my life easier, you can upload your files and when parrot hears that question on the screen recommends the answer. Which i believe very handy.If you want to make it smarter and dont mind cloud you can hook up your Claude API and Deepgram account, that gives super powers to Parrot. You still keep it locally but eventually you need to make API calls.So local or cloud totally up to you.Then after months of thinking i have decided share it as open source and this is my first open source project, so please go easy on me :)No account, no membership, open source and free.Code: https://github.com/turantekin/ParrotThis project made me so excited and really would like to share with you guys so i hope can help you too. Again, i am new so go easy on me and if you have any feedback i would like to hear.Thank you Uygar
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice control and speech transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source meeting recorder and copilot for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: meetingtranscriber.app, SoundSource, OBS Studio, Obsidian
Concerns raised: Echo and static audio feedback on attendees' voices, Crowded market with many similar tools, Handling remote meetings with speaker on causing audio feedback into mic
Feature requests: Real-time voice to AI voice generation, OBS plugin support, Ability to attach a folder to documents
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- Parrot · hn · 2026-05-03 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Wordbird: free dictation for Mac running Nvidia Parakeet locally · hn · 2026-03-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- On-device meeting transcription for your Mac · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform · hn · 2026-09-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk · hn · 2026-05-01 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- threadfork · hn · 2026-07-21 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- EchoPilot · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Parrot Speech-to-text API · ph · 2026-05-26 · 194 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.