Private by design
Your devices connect directly whenever they can, and everything between them is end-to-end encrypted. When they can't, an encrypted relay passes along what it can't read.
BetamacOS, Windows, Linux
Your meeting room.
Private calls with shared notes, decisions and insights, worked out on the computers in the room. No account, and no server that can read a word.
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Why Capy
A room that belongs to the people in it.
AI on your computer
Transcripts, minutes, captions and translations are made on your own machine, with models you choose to download. Capy doesn't send your voice or your words to any AI service.
24 words, not a password
No sign-up, no email. Your identity is 24 words only you hold. Type them on another device and your rooms come along.
Meetings
Everything about a meeting, worked out on the computers in it.
Who talked how much, the notes, the decisions, the recap: each person’s computer works out its own part, signs it and shares it with the room, and all of it belongs to that one meeting. Nobody has to host.
Before the call
The standup starts before anyone joins.
Each person fills Yesterday, Today and Blockers in the room when it suits them. The answers wait there, one person at a time.
- When everyone who’s going has filled theirs, skip the call
- Turn a blocker into a room task in one click
- A repeating meeting opens with last time’s minutes, open tasks and decisions
In the call
A round, shared notes, and the moment something was decided.
Everyone speaks in turn, in a random order that’s the same on every device, and anyone can press Next. The notes are one document everyone edits live. Decision and Task mark the moment they’re pressed.
- 1, 1:30 or 2 minutes each: the timer turns amber, then red
- Notes from templates: daily, 1:1, planning, interview, retro
- A checkbox with an @name becomes a task with an owner
- Quick polls, breakout rooms, and a PDF presented page by page with nothing uploaded
After the call
Each meeting keeps its own. A series shows the trend.
Insights, notes, decisions and tasks belong to the meeting they came from, never one blended number for the room. A meeting that repeats, like a standup, shows over time: how long it ran against the plan, who talks and who stays quiet, tasks done or late.
- The same numbers for everybody, live and afterwards
- Your speaking over the weeks, read from your own transcript, shown to you alone
- A decisions log for the room, each opening its call at that moment
- A recap in the room when the call ends, with Schedule the next one
On-device AI, in the meeting
Help in the call, from your own computer.
Download a model in Settings → Notes & AI and Capy listens along with you, on your computer. It suggests, you decide: nothing it finds goes to the room until you click, and what it writes is marked as AI, apart from what people said.
- Catch me up: joined late? A short summary of what you missed
- A live summary of the topics, decisions and open questions so far
- Decisions and tasks found in what was said, for you to confirm
- Ask past meetings without leaving the call, with the moment cited
Features
The rest of the room.
The canvas in the call, rooms that erase themselves, and everything between one meeting and the next.
Calls and the canvas
Meet, share, and think on the same canvas.
Voice, video and screen sharing, with a shared canvas in every call: system design pieces and a timer for interviews, retro and Kanban boards for teams.
- A lobby to check camera and mic
- Raised hands, reactions, everyone's cursor live
- Arrows that stay attached, the canvas kept in the notes
- Retro stickies stay hidden until everyone is ready; Kanban cards are the room’s tasks
Between meetings
Plan the next one in the same room.
Schedule a meeting with an agenda, its own time zone and a repeat rule. Everyone answers Going, Maybe or Can't, gets a reminder and joins from the card. In the call, the agenda moves along for everyone and the minutes follow it.
- Agendas with owners and minutes, from templates
- Upcoming: every room's meetings in one calendar
- Chat in between: threads, replies, @mentions, stickers, files, voice and video messages
- Verify people by safety code, block anyone, and name admins and moderators
For what shouldn't last
Secure rooms that erase themselves.
For the conversations that should end with the call. Its key stays only on the devices in it, and the room is erased for everyone when the call ends. If no call ends it, it’s erased a day after it was made; its owner can erase it any time.
- 2 to 8 people
- Nothing kept but the chat, erased when the call ends
- Asks macOS and Windows to keep it out of screenshots
interview prepSecure · ephemeral · 8 max3 members · 2 online
Secure room · nothing kept but this chat · erased with its call
How it works
Three steps to your first room.
- 01
Create your identity
Capy gives you 24 words. Write them down: they are your account, and only you have them.
- 02
Create a room, send the invite
Name it and share the invite with the people you want in it. Only people with the invite can ask to come in, and a member lets them in.
- 03
Meet
Your devices find each other and connect directly, end-to-end encrypted, or through a relay that can't read it. The room lives on your devices.
Read how it works in detail
Built on Pear, Holepunch’s peer-to-peer stack, with on-device AI by QVAC.
Privacy, honestly
What stays private, and what doesn't.
No app is magic. Here's who can see what, in plain words.
What we don't see
- Your messages, calls, files, transcripts and minutes. The blind peer and relay we run see devices' IP addresses and how much encrypted data there is, and when. Not what's in it.
- Your 24 words, your keys, or the names of your rooms.
- Analytics or tracking in the app. It fetches a web page only to preview a link you type, and you can turn that off. This site counts visits only if you accept its cookies.
What others can see
- People in a room keep a copy of what's shared there. Choose who you invite.
- Peers you connect to, and the relay and blind peer when they're used, can see your IP address.
FAQ
Questions before you jump in.
Do I need an account?
No. There's no sign-up, email or password. Your identity is 24 words that Capy creates on your device, and only you hold them.
What if I lose my 24 words?
As long as one of your devices is still logged in, you can see them again in Settings and write them down. If you lose the words and every device, nobody can recover them, not even us. That comes with having no account to reset.
Where is my data?
On the devices of the people in each room. Messages, files, transcripts, minutes, meeting notes and decisions travel between them, encrypted, and directly when the devices can reach each other. No Capy server holds anything it can read.
Can people see my IP?
Yes. Peers you connect to, network nodes that help you connect, and the Capy blind peer and relay when they're used, can see your IP address. That's how connections work.
Does the AI send my voice anywhere?
No. Transcription, captions, translation and minutes run on your computer with QVAC, once you download a model in Settings → Notes & AI; until then they stay off. Capy doesn't send your voice or your text to any AI service. Your voice goes only to the people in the call, and the transcript your computer makes goes to the room. The models are downloaded once over the peer-to-peer network.
Who hosts a meeting?
Nobody has to. Each person's computer works out its own part, like their talking times and, if they turn it on, the transcript of their own voice, and signs it. Anyone in the call can move the round along, mark a decision or edit the notes. The room's owner or an admin can still mute someone, take them out of a call or end it for everyone. When the call is over, each computer in it that has a minutes model writes its own minutes, by itself, and shares them with the room if the room has none of that call yet.
Which systems does it run on?
macOS 12 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows 10 or later and Linux (AppImage, on x64 and ARM64) have unstable test builds.
Which languages does Capy speak?
English, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic, right to left. Menus and buttons follow the language you pick; what people write stays as they wrote it.
Is Capy free?
The beta is free to use. In the future, some features may be paid or offered as a subscription.
What if everyone else is offline?
A room lives on its members' devices, so new messages arrive when someone in it comes back online. Capy also uses, automatically, a blind peer run by the team: a peer that keeps encrypted copies, so a room can sync even then. It can't read them, and secure rooms are never given to it.
How do updates work?
Capy updates itself over the same peer-to-peer network, from peers that seed new versions. On a Mac this works once the app is in Applications; Capy offers to move itself there. On macOS and Linux, an update you leave waiting restarts Capy by itself at a quiet moment, never during a call, after a one-minute countdown you can put off.
Come on in, the water's warm.
Capy is in beta, for macOS. Windows and Linux have unstable test builds.
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