Shadow takes notes on its own, from the moment a call starts until it ends. No bot, nothing to click.
Every meeting is saved on your Mac as Markdown you own, ready for Obsidian and your AI agents.
Between calls, a shortcut puts Shadow to work on your screen: voice typing, quick replies, and more.
Shadow captures what you say, hear, and see — then runs your own prompts.
Shadow auto-starts and ends with your call, transcribes every word, and detects meeting screens to capture screenshots — so nothing slips by.
Press a keyboard shortcut to capture what you're saying, seeing, or reading — Shadow turns it into an email, notes, code, or whatever you need.
Meetings
Shadow joins nothing, hears everything, sees everything.
Your call becomes whatever you need — meeting notes, a BANT breakdown, a follow-up email.
Pick a Skill, or write your own. Shadow runs it the moment the call ends.
Shadow operates entirely in the background — no bots, no interruptions.
Shadow detects your meeting, starts recording on its own and stops when the call ends. There is nothing to press, before or after.
Detects and labels speakers in real time — so you always know who said what.
Every Skill is a prompt — yours to edit, or write from scratch. Run meeting notes, BANT breakdowns, action items, follow-up emails, customer feedback summaries — or anything else you can describe in a prompt.
Send transcripts and Skill results to your tools — Zapier, n8n, Make.
Save transcripts and Skill outputs as clean .md files.
Ask anything about a meeting — not just what was said, but what was shown.
Shadow finds your meeting window — Zoom, Huddle, anything — and captures it on its own.
Ownership
Some note takers lock your meetings after 30 days until you pay. Shadow never holds them hostage: every meeting is saved to your Mac as Markdown, on any plan, for as long as you want it.
Properties
Managed by Shadow
Shadow keeps this file in sync. For the most reliable updates, make changes in Shadow whenever possible.
| name | |
|---|---|
| priya@acme.example | |
| dana@example.com |
| speaker | person |
|---|---|
| Speaker 1 | |
| Speaker 2 |
Every meeting you record stays readable on any plan, forever. Stop paying, and the files are still on your Mac.
Shadow builds a Markdown database of your meetings, with every call and every person linked. Claude Code or Codex reads all of it, not just what a connector allows. Your data, no limits.
Shadow for AI agentsIt's your data, so use it anywhere, without limits. Open the folder as an Obsidian vault, sync it with iCloud Drive or Google Drive, or search it with Spotlight.
Shadow for ObsidianActions
Press a keyboard shortcut on any screen. Shadow sees what's there, hears what you say,
and runs your Skill — pasted into your app, or shown where you're looking.
Open Shadow from anywhere to run a favorite Skill, or search across all of them. Each Skill can also have its own shortcut.
Give Shadow clear instructions, context and anything else it should know, just by talking. It's 3× faster than typing.
Most context lives on your screen. When an Action Skill runs, Shadow captures the active window — so it sees what you see.
And growing. App context, integrations, more on the way.
Custom Skills
A prompt. What Shadow captures. Where the output goes.
Change one — that's a new Skill.
Context
Voice
Listens to what you say.
Screen
Sees what's on your screen.
Selected Text
Reads the text you select.
Keyboard Shortcut
Use this shortcut to quickly access Shadow from anywhere.
Prompt
Display Mode
Drop the result into the focused field.
Privacy
Shadow keeps your data on your Mac and out of model training, by default.
Transcription happens on your Mac. Audio never leaves your device, and your meetings are stored locally.
Meeting Skills you enable run when a call ends. Action Skills run when you press their shortcut. Turn them off and everything stays on your Mac.
Your meeting content and Skill outputs are never used to train AI models. Your conversations are yours.
Everything you need to know about Shadow.
Shadow is an AI meeting assistant for Mac that captures what's said and shown in any call without joining as a bot. It starts and stops with your calls on its own, transcribes on your Mac, keeps every meeting as Markdown you own with no history limit, and runs Meeting Skills on it. Between calls, Action Skills run AI on your screen, voice or selected text from a shortcut.
