A little help getting settled.
Your first note.
Then, your next thought.
Chirpberry walks you through the essentials on first launch. Start with your own words, then add the things that make meetings easier.
Walk through the guide
The app is still being verified for release. There is no public DMG or Homebrew install yet. If you’re comfortable building software, try the Mac preview. The onboarding preview includes Settings → Quick start guide.
Start with what matters.
The welcome screen introduces your notebook, speech, and summaries. Choose Get started to walk through setup, or Set up later to go straight to notes.
- Choose New note and give it a title.
- Write a thought, a question, or a short agenda in My notes.
- Your edits save automatically. Use search to find them again.
Manual notes need no account, API key, or calendar.
Let the conversation join in.
Speech and summaries use your Valsea account and paid credits. Get a key from the Valsea dashboard. Save it directly in the app’s speech setup or Settings, then read and accept the cloud-processing disclosure.
- Choose your spoken language in Settings. Add a translation target or computer audio if you need it.
- Tell the other participants before recording. Choose Record meeting and allow the microphone permission when macOS asks.
- Open Transcript to follow along. Use Pause for a break and Stop when you’re done.
For a quick thought, hover the floating bar and choose its microphone. It copies the final words to your clipboard. You can enable the Mac Fn / Globe shortcut in Settings.
Setup never starts recording. You choose when capture begins.
A little less to remember.
Choose Connect Apple Calendar in the guide or Upcoming, then allow Calendar access. Chirpberry shows the next seven days from accounts already in Apple Calendar. There’s no extra Google or Microsoft sign-in in Chirpberry.
If your work account isn’t there yet, add it in Apple Calendar first. In Upcoming, Open note prepares the page and Join opens the meeting link. Neither starts recording.
You can also enable Suggest notes when a call starts. On supported Macs, this checks local microphone-use metadata for Zoom, Teams, and supported browsers. A browser suggestion says “possible call”; it cannot confirm Google Meet or whether you joined. It works without a calendar and may miss calls.
Suggestions are optional. Dismiss one, or explicitly choose Start notes.
Leave with a clearer next step.
- Summary: turn the conversation into a separate summary. Your original notes stay intact.
- Ask meeting: ask about the conversation or draft a response. This optional feature needs a separate OpenAI key, disclosure, and provider usage charges.
- Share notes: review exactly what to copy or export. Personal notes and transcript are opt-in. Nothing is sent to participants automatically.
Review AI output against your notes and transcript before using it. A response draft is a suggestion for you to consider.
Ready to try the preview?For people comfortable with a terminal.
Get the Mac developer preview.
You’ll need an Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 26+, Xcode 26+ with command-line tools, Git, and Node.js 22.12+. These commands select the onboarding candidate. They launch a source build and do not replace your installed app.
git clone https://github.com/rirachii/chirpberry.git chirpberry
cd chirpberry
git checkout --detach 040e04e9f69ee96f6c06db70320ff1aa9a988d0f
npm ci --prefix desktop
npm start --prefix desktopOpen your notebook. Make room for a thought.Electron source preview for Apple Silicon, macOS 26+, Xcode 26+, and Node.js 22.12+. No public DMG or Homebrew install yet. Speech processing needs a Valsea account and credits.
This is an Electron candidate with a separate data folder from the native app. Live provider, real-call detection, and clean-install checks are still required before a public desktop release. Windows and Linux support are being verified separately.
Read the desktop build notesA little help.
Pick up where you left off.
I skipped setup. Where is it?
Open Settings → Quick start guide. The first-run guide also remembers your step if you quit halfway through. Skipping it never removes your notes.
I denied a permission.
Open macOS System Settings → Privacy & Security. Allow Chirpberry and its capture helper where listed under Calendars, Microphone, or Screen & System Audio Recording, then retry in the app. Only enable computer audio if you intend to capture it.
Upcoming is empty.
Check that the account and its events appear in Apple Calendar. Chirpberry reads the next seven days. Refresh Upcoming after connecting. You can always create a note manually.
Speech or Ask meeting doesn’t work.
Check the saved key, provider credits, internet connection, and relevant disclosure in Settings. Valsea handles speech and summaries; Ask meeting uses a separate OpenAI key. Read the app’s error message before retrying. Manual notes remain available.
Your words, in your keeping.
Know what leaves your device.
Notes and final transcripts are saved locally. During recording, selected audio streams to Valsea. Summaries send that note and transcript; audio import sends the chosen file. Chirpberry does not save live audio recordings.
Ask meeting sends the selected meeting context and question to OpenAI when you ask. API keys live in protected credential storage. Calendar events and call-detection metadata are read locally; a suggestion does not start capture or upload audio.
Valsea’s processing policies and OpenAI’s privacy policy apply to the cloud features you choose.