Margarita vs Trace

Margarita is an agentic scripting tool where you write plain text scripts, with state, loops, and LLM calls, and run them against any model.

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in...

About Margarita

Margarita is an agentic scripting tool where you write plain text scripts, with state, loops, and LLM calls, and run them against any model. Margarita, Writing agents should be as easy as writing markdown. No more fighting with your prompt to make it follow your workflow steps. // These are variables @state score = 3 @state feedback = "" // This is Markdown. It is added to the Context Window // score gets substituted and score/feedback are set by the llm.

About Trace

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in dozens of languages. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. Trace provides you with clear markdown transcripts and summaries that you can use anywhere. Either copy the markdown from Trace directly or have it place the file anywhere in your filesystem. Trace can also send files directly to Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Things with a button press.