Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Louis, a 21-year-old computer science student from Germany.
I built Earnote because I could never keep up taking notes in lectures – and every tool I found uploaded my recordings and wanted a monthly subscription. As a student I didn't want either.
How it works: put your phone on the table and record (or share a voice memo, an interview or a lecture video to the app). Earnote transcribes it with Whisper right on the device and writes a note: summary, the tasks and deadlines that were actually mentioned, flashcards to quiz yourself and a PDF study sheet. On iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on the phone, so it works in airplane mode.
No account, no ads, no subscription. Everything you need is free; there's an optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad (speaker detection, asking questions about a note, translation). The Mac app is free and open source (MIT).
I'd love to hear: what's missing in your study or meeting workflow? I read every comment.
About Earnote on Product Hunt
“Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device”
Earnote launched on Product Hunt on October 17th, 2026 and earned 84 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.
On the analytics side, Earnote competes within Productivity, Open Source, Education and GitHub — topics that collectively have 853.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Earnote performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Earnote?
Earnote was hunted by Louis Klinke. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Earnote including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Louis Klinke