The story behind a local-first meeting recorder for Mac
Overview
Building Scriba: from menu bar experiment to product is part of our company writing on Scriba — the macOS menu bar app for recording meetings, transcribing in real time, and chatting with your notes.
We're publishing deeper dives on the blog as we ship. This post is a placeholder template until the full story is ready — the layout, navigation, and sharing tools you see here are what every article will use.
Key takeaways
- Local-first: your SQLite database is always the source of truth.
- Managed transcription on Pro and Max; BYOK Whisper when you bring your own key.
- Cloud sync mirrors metadata and audio for every authenticated plan.
If this topic matters to your team, try Scriba on a real call — the difference is in the follow-up, not the recording.