# TalkBar Documentation

Docs for TalkBar, the private AI note taker for Windows and macOS: capture meetings without a bot, transcribe locally and search every conversation.

Canonical URL: https://docs.talkbar.app/

Everything you need to capture, understand and reuse your conversations

Private AI for meetings, calls and voice notes. Bot-free capture, local transcription, and local AI or your own key.

[Get started](https://docs.talkbar.app/getting-started/introduction)

[MCP & CLI](https://docs.talkbar.app/mcp)

## TalkBar app

Record, transcribe and summarize conversations on your computer, then keep what matters as searchable knowledge.

[Explore the user guide](https://docs.talkbar.app/getting-started/introduction)

- Bot-free meeting and call capture

- Local transcription with speakers

- Live summary, translation and Knowledge Cards

- Summaries, decisions and action items

- Ask TalkBar about any session or document

- Private AI Mode and local models

- Exports, share links and backups

## MCP & CLI

Let Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and other MCP clients search and work with your TalkBar workspace, under switches you control.

[Connect an AI assistant](https://docs.talkbar.app/mcp)

- Local stdio MCP server

- Ready-made setups for ChatGPT, Claude and Codex

- Five gateway tools, 140+ operations

- Per-operation access switches

- Delete confirmation in your client

- Scriptable talkbar-cli

- Full operations reference

## Explore the documentation

## Install and update

Download TalkBar and keep it up to date

[Install and update](https://docs.talkbar.app/getting-started/install-and-update)

## Your first session

Record, review and summarize your first conversation

[Your first session](https://docs.talkbar.app/getting-started/first-session)

## Sessions

Start, record, review, schedule and prepare sessions

[Sessions](https://docs.talkbar.app/sessions/overview)

## Knowledge

Knowledge Cards, documents, people, projects and action items

[Knowledge](https://docs.talkbar.app/knowledge/knowledge-cards)

## AI and privacy

Choose where AI runs, from local models to your own key

[AI and privacy](https://docs.talkbar.app/ai/how-talkbar-uses-ai)

## Settings reference

Every setting, what it does and its default

[Settings reference](https://docs.talkbar.app/settings/overview)

## Resources

## Download TalkBar

Get the latest release for your computer

[Download TalkBar](https://github.com/TalkBarApp/talkbar/releases/latest)

## TalkBar website

Features, use cases and pricing

[TalkBar website](https://www.talkbar.app/)

## Troubleshooting

Fix common problems with recording, AI and updates

[Troubleshooting](https://docs.talkbar.app/help/troubleshooting)

## FAQ

Quick answers to common questions

[FAQ](https://docs.talkbar.app/help/faq)