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Oats
100% Free, private meet notes that never leave your computer
Most meeting notetakers don't send a bot anymore but they still upload your conversations to their cloud, and most cost $18+/mo. Oats doesn't. It runs entirely on your Mac, transcription on-device, nothing leaves your laptop, no account, no subscription. It's free because it runs on your machine, not my cloud. Type your notes; Oats blends them with the transcript into a clean write-up. Bring your own model key, or stay fully offline. Mac + Windows → oatsnote.com
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Akshay. I build small, local-first tools that run on
your own machine instead of someone else's cloud.
Quick one, since it'll come up: Granola is great and it doesn't send a bot
either so the difference is that Oats runs entirely on your Mac, and it's free.
That's the whole idea. Your audio never leaves your laptop, transcription
happens on-device, and there's no account and no subscription because
there's no server for me to pay for.
the on-device transcription is the actual differentiator here, congrats on shipping that. question about the "bring your own model key" option though - once you plug in a key, does the transcript get sent out to that model's API for the write-up step, or is BYOK only used to swap which local model does the blending? asking because "never leaves your laptop" is a strong claim and I want to know if it still holds once someone opts into BYOK for better summaries.
Using it from a week for my sales calls from a week. It works like magic.
Very comprehensive and accurate transcripts.
About Oats on Product Hunt
“100% Free, private meet notes that never leave your computer”
Oats was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 14 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #24 on the daily leaderboard. Most meeting notetakers don't send a bot anymore but they still upload your conversations to their cloud, and most cost $18+/mo. Oats doesn't. It runs entirely on your Mac, transcription on-device, nothing leaves your laptop, no account, no subscription. It's free because it runs on your machine, not my cloud. Type your notes; Oats blends them with the transcript into a clean write-up. Bring your own model key, or stay fully offline. Mac + Windows → oatsnote.com
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