Disclaimer
Use Ghostie at your own risk.
Ghostie is a personal experiment released under the MIT license. It comes with no warranty and no support. By downloading, building, or running it, you accept that whatever happens next is on you.
No warranty
Ghostie is provided as is. It might mis-transcribe, mis-summarize, miss a call, crash mid-recording, or stop working after a macOS update. None of that comes with a promise to fix it, refund it, or do anything about it.
No liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, David Sjunnesson and any contributors are not responsible for any loss, damage, cost, or consequence — direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or otherwise — arising from your use of, or inability to use, this software.
Transcripts and summaries are not the truth
Whisper hallucinates. Language models invent. Treat every transcript and summary as a draft to verify, not a record of what was said. Do not rely on Ghostie’s output for anything legal, medical, financial, or otherwise consequential without checking it against the source.
Recording is your responsibility
Laws about recording conversations vary by country, state, and province. In many places, recording without disclosure is illegal — and in employment contexts, it can be grounds for termination regardless of legality. Tell the people on your call. The choice to run Ghostie, and the consequences of doing so, are yours alone.
Third parties are their own kingdoms
Ghostie hands work off to Anthropic’s Claude, to your local Ollama install, to Hugging Face for model downloads, and to GitHub for updates. Their terms, outages, pricing changes, and policy shifts are not within Ghostie’s control or responsibility.
Your data, your machine, your problem
Ghostie writes audio, transcripts, and notes to your disk. Back them up. Encrypt them if they need encrypting. If something on your Mac breaks, gets corrupted, leaks, or disappears while Ghostie is installed, that is not a claim against the author of this software.
Not affiliated with Microsoft, Anthropic, or anyone else
Ghostie watches for Microsoft Teams and can hand transcripts to Claude. It is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise associated with Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Hugging Face, or any other company whose names appear on this site.
The software can change, or go away
Features can be removed, behavior can change between releases, and the project can be archived at any time without notice. Pin a specific release if you need stability.
The legal version
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the author and any contributors from any claim, demand, or damages — including reasonable legal fees — arising from your use of Ghostie or your violation of any law or third-party right in connection with that use.
The full license terms are in the LICENSE file. If anything on this page appears to conflict with the LICENSE, the LICENSE controls.
Last updated 22 May 2026 · Back to Ghostie