Documentation
Getting Started
Everything you need to go from downloading Sussur to your first coached meeting. Plan for about 20 minutes, most of it a one-time download.
Updated 2026-06-10 · Verified against v0.10.25
Sussur is a macOS app that coaches you in real time during your calls. It listens, reads the room, and surfaces a quiet suggestion at the moment it matters, then writes up the meeting after.
Setting up takes about 20 minutes end to end. Most of that is a one-time speech-model download you can kick off and walk away from. Here is the whole path:
- Check your Mac — Sussur runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 13 or later.
- Download and install — grab the
.dmg, drag Sussur to Applications. - Grant permissions — Microphone and Screen Recording. (Screen Recording is how Sussur hears the other side of the call.)
- Connect AI — add an OpenRouter key, or run fully local with Ollama.
- Your first session — join a call and watch the coaching appear.
Tip
Want to see it before you install? Watch the interactive demo — it walks through a coached call in about two minutes.
What Sussur is (and isn't)
Sussur is real-time coaching, not a transcription service or a CRM. Three things make it work:
- In the moment. Suggestions appear during the call, not in a report afterward.
- It learns. Every call sharpens the next through evolving notes on the people you talk to.
- Private by design. Transcription runs on your Mac. AI runs through your own key, or fully local. There is no Sussur account and no Sussur server. See Privacy, Recording & Consent.
If something goes wrong during setup, Troubleshooting is organized by what you're seeing.