The best apple-mcp alternatives
apple-mcp is archived. Alternatives for giving Claude, Cursor or Codex your notes and calendar: Koi's local MCP server, Notion MCP and Granola MCP.
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Connect once, in Settings
Koi runs an MCP server on your Mac, the open standard AI apps use to plug into other tools. Connect Claude, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex, and they can read and change what's in your Koi.
- Open Koi's Settings and go to Connections. AI apps is under your calendars.
- Click Connect next to Claude, Cursor or Codex. For Claude Code, click Copy command and paste it in your terminal once.
- Quit and reopen that app, or start a new session in it.
- Ask it about your Koi.
What they can do
Ask your AI app, Koi does it
| You ask | What happens |
|---|---|
| What did Sam say about pricing? | It searches your calls, pages and dictations, and reads the ones that match |
| Turn that call into a one-page brief | A new page in your Koi documents |
| Draw this flowchart on my board | It's drawn on your Koi board |
| Put the dentist on Thursday at 3 | It's added to your calendar |
| Add Netflix to my expenses | It's in the expense tracker |
| Make flashcards from my biology notes | Cards added, ready to study |
| Start recording this meeting | Koi starts recording, as the keys would |
- Documents, calls and dictations: search, read, write, edit, move, archive and export.
- Your calendar, expenses, flashcards, memory, snippets and dictionary.
- The board: draw shapes, notes, arrows, frames and templates, move and restyle what's there, and take away only what it drew.
- Start dictation, a recording or a call with Koi.
Privacy
It all happens on your Mac
The AI app talks to the Koi running on your Mac, never through our server. What it reads goes to its own AI, under its own terms. Study notes and file actions it asks for send the words to Koi's AI, as they do in Koi itself.
A deleted page waits in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Your Google and Apple calendars change only with “Let Koi use my Mac for me” on. To stop, remove koi from that app's MCP settings.
Compared
Koi and other MCP servers
Granola's MCP reads your meeting notes from its cloud. Notion's works on your Notion pages. apple-mcp gave Claude Apple's own apps, and is now archived. Koi covers your calls, notes, calendar and board, on the Mac. See Granola MCP and apple-mcp alternatives, or the story in your AI apps can use Koi now.
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Part of Koi
Koi is $20 a month or $7 for a first week, or Lifetime, paid once. See the plans, or how to connect your AI apps step by step.
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Granola MCP alternatives: Koi's MCP server on your Mac and Notion MCP. Give Claude, Cursor or Codex your call notes, with what each reads, writes and costs.
Your AI apps can use Koi now
Connect Claude, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex to Koi over MCP: they search your calls and notes, write pages, and fill in your calendar and expenses.
Connect your notes, calls and calendar to your AI apps
Let Claude, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex read your notes, call transcripts and calendar on your Mac with Koi's local MCP server: setup, tools and privacy.
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Frequently asked questions
Claude, Cursor, Claude Code and Codex connect from Settings, Connections. Other apps that run MCP servers on your Mac can start Koi's app with its --mcp option.
No. The AI app talks to Koi on your Mac. What it reads goes to its own AI under its own terms. Study notes and file actions send the words to Koi's AI, as they do in Koi.
A page it deletes goes to Recently Deleted for 30 days. On the board it can only take away what it drew itself.
No. If Koi isn't running when the app asks, it opens in the background.