A Fathom alternative that stays on your device
Fathom is a cloud service that summarizes your meetings. Dayglass is a Mac app that records the same calls without a bot and keeps the audio, transcript and screen text on your Mac.
Dayglass compared with Fathom
| Dayglass | Fathom | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the work happens | On your Mac | Fathom is a cloud service (web, macOS, Windows, iOS) |
| Bot in the meeting | No bot joins | Fathom's site says it captures meetings via bot or bot-free recording |
| Where transcripts live | On your Mac | In your Fathom account |
| Screen text | Reads text on your screen on-device (Apple Vision) | Not listed on the pages we checked |
| Works with Claude and Cursor | Yes, over MCP, including the live call | Fathom lists LLM integrations on its free plan |
| Free tier | First 10 meetings with everything, then free capture, transcripts, search and export | Free plan, listed as free forever |
Fathom column taken from the vendor's own public pages, checked November 2026: Fathom home · Fathom pricing. Plans and features change, so check the vendor's page for today's details.
What Dayglass does
- Records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls without a bot joining.
- Transcribes on your Mac. Audio, screen text and the database stay on your Mac.
- Reads the text on your screen with Apple Vision, so you can find what you saw.
- Lets Claude, Claude Code and Cursor ask it questions over MCP.
- Works on macOS 13 or later. Install from the DMG or with
brew install --cask igorganapolsky/dayglass/dayglass.
How much does it cost?
Capture, transcripts, search and export are free after your first 10 meetings, and those first 10 include every Pro feature, no card. Pro is $19 a month or $149 a year and adds Ask AI across all past meetings, AI meeting briefs, and the Claude and Cursor live link. A founding lifetime license is $199 for the first 100 buyers. There is a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Questions
Does Dayglass use a bot like Fathom's notetaker?
No. Dayglass records from your Mac's audio, so nobody sees a bot in the participant list.
Does Dayglass store my meetings in the cloud?
Audio, screen text and the database stay on your Mac in ~/.dayglass. If you turn on a cloud model for Ask AI, the question and the relevant meeting text go to that model after emails, phone numbers and secrets are swapped for placeholders. With a local model nothing leaves your Mac.
Is Dayglass a team tool?
Dayglass is built for one person's private memory on one Mac. Fathom has team plans with shared features; Dayglass does not.
Is Dayglass on the Mac App Store?
Not yet. Download the notarized DMG or install with Homebrew: brew install --cask igorganapolsky/dayglass/dayglass.