PrivateGoat documentation
What PrivateGoat records, stores and sends, page by page: meetings, to-dos, Jira, search, coding agents and your day.
PrivateGoat is a Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on the Mac and turns them into to-dos. If you connect Jira, which is optional, it turns them into tickets too and keeps a local copy of your Jira. It puts your Claude Code and Codex chats in one place and lets coding agents read all of it locally. Every page here follows the same shape: what the feature does for you, how to use it, where it is set, what it stores, what leaves your Mac, and what happens when it is off.
Getting started
Install the app, take the short welcome tour, record a first meeting.
Meetings
Record both sides of a call, transcribe it, summarise it, share it. Live subtitles too.
To-dos
Action items land in an inbox; you decide what becomes a to-do.
Jira
Optional: sign in with Atlassian, keep a local copy, edit tickets from the app.
Search
One search, a ticket on your clipboard, and your agent chats.
Coding agents
Your agent reads meetings and tickets locally, over MCP; every chat in one place.
Your day
Your week on Home; meetings, agent sessions and commits on one timeline, plus a day digest.
Privacy and data
Where every kind of data lives, and the complete list of network requests.
The app
Shortcuts, the menu bar, updates, the desktop goat and the FAQ.
Start here
- Install PrivateGoat — the download, or one Homebrew command.
- The welcome tour — a few short steps, most of them optional.
- Your first meeting — record a call, read the transcript, get the summary.
Then read What stays on your Mac once. It is short, and it explains the boundary the rest of these pages assume: the audio never leaves, and text leaves only where you send it or where a page says a cloud model is doing the writing.