Private Note Taker

Early access. Mac + Windows.

AI meeting notes.
100% on your device.

Record, transcribe, and summarize every meeting with AI models that run locally on your computer. No cloud. No bot joining your calls. Nothing to leak.

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Private Note Taker app showing a meeting summary with key decisions, action items, and the full transcript
0 bytes leave your device
Works with WiFi off
No bot in your meetings
Notes stay searchable, locally

A full meeting assistant. Minus the surveillance.

Every meeting, captured

Hit record on any call or in-person conversation. Zoom, Meet, Teams, or a coffee table. If you can hear it, it can take notes on it.

Notes, not homework

Summary, key decisions, action items, and deadlines, structured automatically the moment the meeting ends.

Your whole history, searchable

Every transcript and note lives on your machine, indexed and searchable. Find what a client said in May in about two seconds.

Works offline

The AI runs on your hardware, so airplane mode is a feature. Record in a basement conference room, get notes anyway.

Built private from the ground up

Cloud note takers process your meetings on their servers. Ours never get the chance. Recording, transcription, and AI summaries all happen on your device.

Private Note Taker OtterGranolaFirefliesFathom
Where meetings are processed On your device Their cloudTheir cloudTheir cloudTheir cloud
Bot joins your call Never YesNoYesYes
Works offline Yes NoNoNoNo
Who can read your notes Only you You + OtterYou + GranolaYou + FirefliesYou + Fathom
Price $15/mo or $249 once $16.99/mo$18/mo$18/mo$19/user/mo (teams)

Competitor pricing as published July 2026.

Walk out of every meeting with the notes already done

The moment you stop recording, you get a structured brief: summary, key decisions, action items with owners, and critical deadlines. Each point is timestamped back to the exact second in the audio, so you can verify anything in one click.

Structured meeting notes with summary, key decisions, action items, and deadlines

The full transcript, word for word

Every meeting gets a complete, searchable transcript with an audio player attached. Search across everything you have ever recorded and jump straight to the moment it was said. All of it indexed on your machine, none of it on anyone's server.

Searchable meeting transcript with built-in audio player

Native, fast, and easy on the eyes

A clean desktop app with light and dark mode, built to sit next to you in every meeting. Import old recordings, add context before a call, and keep months of meetings organized without a browser tab in sight.

Private Note Taker dark mode with searchable meeting history
I built this for myself. I live in back-to-back client calls, and I was never comfortable piping confidential conversations about clients' revenue, ad accounts, and contracts through someone else's cloud just to get a summary. So I made a note taker where everything stays on my machine. I have used it every working day since. Now I am opening it up.
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Ben
Founder, consultant, note taker's first user

Simple pricing. Either way, it is all yours.

Early access is opening soon. Waitlist members lock launch pricing before it goes up.

Monthly

$15 /month

Cancel anytime. The notes you took stay yours.

  • Unlimited meetings and recording time
  • Local transcription and AI summaries
  • Full-history search on your device
  • Light and dark mode, Mac + Windows
  • No account required to take notes
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Lifetime

$249 once

Pay once, yours forever. Includes updates.

  • Unlimited meetings and recording time
  • Local transcription and AI summaries
  • Full-history search on your device
  • Light and dark mode, Mac + Windows
  • No account required to take notes
  • Never a subscription
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Questions, answered

How is this actually private? +

The entire pipeline runs on your computer: audio capture, speech-to-text, and the AI that writes your summaries. Your recordings and notes are files on your device. There is no Private Note Taker cloud, no sync server, and no way for us to read anything even if we wanted to.

Does a bot join my meetings? +

No. Nothing joins your call and nothing shows up in the participant list. The app listens locally on your machine while you take the meeting like a normal person.

Which platforms does it run on? +

Mac and Windows. It works with any meeting software, Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or a phone on speaker, because it captures audio on your device rather than plugging into the meeting itself.

I handle confidential conversations. Can I use this? +

That is exactly who it is built for: advisors, consultants, lawyers, therapists, anyone whose meetings are nobody else's business. Because audio and notes never leave your device, there is no third party processing your clients' information. We do not make legal compliance claims for your specific profession, but 'it never leaves the machine' is the strongest starting point there is.

Which AI models does it use? +

Open, state-of-the-art models that run on your hardware: a Whisper-class model for speech-to-text and a local language model for summaries and action items. No API keys, no cloud calls.

What languages are supported? +

English today. More languages are on the roadmap.

What hardware do I need? +

A reasonably modern machine. On Mac, Apple Silicon is recommended. The models are optimized to run on everyday laptops, not server racks.

What does it cost? +

$15 per month, or $249 once for a lifetime license. Waitlist members lock launch pricing before it goes up.

Your meetings are nobody else's business.

Get early access to the AI note taker that keeps everything on your device, and lock launch pricing while you are at it.