Private meeting status for macOS

Know before you call.

Meeting Pulse tells one person when to call you. It watches the owner’s Mac for a meeting, then shares a small status through a private viewer.

Download for macOS See how it works
In a meeting

No calendar event to maintain. No meeting title to publish. Just the answer someone needs before they ring.

Read the privacy boundary
Meeting Pulse Station window showing that the owner is in a meeting
The owner sees the current signal in the Station window.
Owner’s Mac · local detection

Two surfaces, one answer

The owner app stays close. The viewer stays simple.

Meeting Pulse has a native macOS surface for the owner and a private browser viewer for the person checking in. They meet at one small, readable signal.

Meeting Pulse Station sharing settings for a private viewer
1 · Share a viewer link from Station.
Meeting Pulse private viewer showing that a call is okay
2 · The viewer answers before anyone interrupts.
Call okay The viewer does not need the owner’s whole life to be useful.

The workflow

Four quiet steps between “should I call?” and “go ahead.”

01

Detect locally

Meeting Pulse uses macOS Accessibility APIs to detect supported meeting states on the owner’s Mac.

Meeting Pulse Station showing an active meeting state
The signal begins on the owner’s Mac.
02

Publish the smallest useful signal

The viewer gets an availability state and optional call-okay message, not a transcript of the meeting.

Meeting Pulse Station showing the private viewers list
The owner controls who has a viewer.
03

Check from a browser

A paired person opens a private link on a phone or laptop and reads the current state without an account.

Meeting Pulse viewer showing an owner in a meeting
The viewer is built for one quick glance.
04

Respect unavailable

If a signal is stale, uncertain, offline, or revoked, Meeting Pulse says so. It does not turn uncertainty into “available.”

Meeting Pulse viewer showing a disconnected state
Unavailable is a real state, not a guess.

Privacy by boundary

Permission for detection. Restraint for everything else.

Accessibility access lets the owner app understand supported call states. It does not turn Meeting Pulse into a window on the meeting.

  • Meeting titles, URLs, and participants stay out of the viewer.
  • Audio, video, screenshots, OCR, and screen contents are not uploaded.
  • No browser extension, Slack bot, OAuth, or calendar access is required.
  • The project is open source and MIT licensed.

Built for the in-between moment

Useful before it becomes another system to manage.

Keep the owner’s status close to the Mac. Give the viewer one link. When the signal is missing, say that plainly and let the person choose what to do next.

01 · Automatic

Detect a supported call without a calendar habit.

Google Meet in Chrome and native Slack Huddles are the first supported surfaces.

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02 · Manual

Set Busy or Available when you need to take over.

Manual controls cover the moments that automatic detection cannot know.

See the workflow
03 · Open

Read the code, inspect the boundaries, and make it yours.

Meeting Pulse is an MIT-licensed open-source project with its product decisions in the open.

Visit the project

Try the viewer

See the signal from the other side.

Open the live viewer in a browser tab. It loads without an account, reads the current state, and shows unavailable plainly when the owner’s signal is missing.

Open the viewer Read pairing docs

The viewer link is private. It only opens for a paired viewer. Pairing happens inside the owner app on macOS.