Seduta · Comparison
Seduta vs Muesli
Free, open-source (MIT) native Mac app for dictation and meeting transcription that runs speech models on the Mac. Here is how the two compare, as of 1 October 2026.
| Feature | Seduta | Muesli |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | ||
| Transcribed on the device | ✓Mac, iPhone and iPad | ✓Cloud ASR and summary providers exist as optionssource |
| Where your meetings live | On your devicesSynced through your own iCloud; summaries on the device, or on EU servers with Plus | On the Mac; optional cloud for summaries and dictationSummaries can go to OpenAI or OpenRouter with your own key, or stay local with Ollamasource |
| No bot joins the call | ✓ | ✓source |
| No account needed | ✓ | ✓Local use needs no credentials; keys only for optional hosted providerssource |
| Never records without you pressing Record | ✓Recording starts only when you click Record, also from a notification | ✓Meeting detection (camera and mic active in a meeting app) only offers Join & Transcribe; no auto-record option found in the READMEsource |
| Recording | ||
| Records calls from any app | ✓Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and other browser calls, Webex, Slack, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Signal, Proton Meet; add any other app | ✓Captures system audio with a CoreAudio process tap, so any app works; site names Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, browser callssource |
| Start by hand, also in person | ✓On the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch | ✓Start meetings manually in the app, or via Apple Shortcuts and Sirisource |
| Notices calls and asks to record | ✓On the Mac: a notification when a calendar meeting starts, with Join & Record for call links; asks when a call app opens the microphone. Recording starts only after you click | ✓Detects webcam and microphone activity in meeting apps and offers Join & Transcribe, using macOS Calendar linkssource |
| In the Mac menu bar | ✓Start, pause, stop and the status, one click away | ✓Runs as a menu bar appsource |
| Ready after install | ✓Asks for the microphone, call audio and notifications; calendar is optional. The speech model downloads by itself on first use | PartlyDownloads a speech model on first use (about 450-565 MB for default Parakeet); needs microphone, system audio, accessibility and input monitoring permissions; optional calendar accesssource |
| No time limits on any plan | ✓No recording or transcription limit on any plan; Seduta Plus summaries are fair use | ✓Free MIT app; no plans and no recording cap statedsource |
| Notes | ||
| Languages | 25European languages, mixed in one meeting; Swiss German on the Mac | 25+ with Parakeet v3; up to 100+ locales depending on modelsource |
| Transcribe again | ✓Transcribe Again, for example in another language | PartlyImport m4a, mp4, wav or mp3 for transcription; re-summarize a meeting with a different template; re-running transcription on a saved meeting is not statedsource |
| Recognises returning voices | ✓Name a speaker once and Seduta knows the voice next time. Voice prints stay in your own Seduta folder, on your devices and your iCloud; never sent to us, a summary service or an AI agent | PartlyDiarization labels Speaker 1, Speaker 2 within a meeting; no recognition across meetings statedsource |
| Your own summary templates | ✓Write your own, next to the built-in ones | ✓Built-in and custom templates; re-summarize any meeting with a different templatesource |
| AI agents and CLI tools (MCP) | ✓Local MCP connector on your Mac: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cowork; read-only, paired apps only | ✓Official CLI bundled in the app, runs locally on the Mac (muesli-cli meetings list/get returns transcript and notes as JSON); built for coding agents such as Claude Code. No MCP server foundsource |
| Devices | ||
| Mac | ✓ | ✓macOS 14.2 or later, Apple Siliconsource |
| iPhone | ✓ | ✗Muesli's iOS page says the app is under App Store review, with no public listing yetsource |
| iPad | ✓ | Not statediOS page names iPhone and iOS 17; iPad is not mentionedsource |
| Apple Watch | ✓ | ✗Only Mac and an announced iPhone app are listedsource |
| Syncs between your Apple devices | ✓Your own iCloud Drive | PartlyOptional iCloud sync of text and metadata; audio never syncs; iPhone app not yet publicsource |
| Windows | ✗ | ✗macOS onlysource |
| Price | ||
| Free | Everything on the device, unlimited | The whole app is free (MIT)source |
| Cheapest subscription | $5.99/month or $39.99/yearSeduta Plus, 1 week free | Free, no paid plansource |
| One-off purchase or your own key | ✓$34.99 once, with your own key (Seduta BYOK) | ✓Free; own API key optional for summaries (OpenAI, OpenRouter) or local Ollamasource |
Where Seduta is different
- iPhone
- Apple Watch
Where Muesli is stronger
- Open source (MIT license)
- Many speech models to choose from, up to 100+ locales
Record on your Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. No bot, no account.
Join the waitlistCompared on 1 October 2026 from each company's own website, pricing page and App Store listing; the sources are linked in the table. Prices in US dollars, or in euros where a company only lists euros; taxes may apply. Products change: if something here is out of date, write to seduta@spert.ai and we correct it. Muesli is a trademark of its owner; Seduta is not affiliated with it.
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