Local-first meeting notes

The free notetaker that never joins your call.

Oats listens in, transcribes every word, and turns what was said into a clean write-up — right on your Mac, where nothing you say ever leaves.

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See it in action

From live call to finished notes.

Notes that take themselves

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It listens, no bot

Oats hears the call through your Mac and works out who is speaking. Nothing ever joins the meeting.

02

You jot, it fills the gaps

Note what matters to you. When the call ends, Oats blends it with the transcript into a clean write-up.

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Notes you own

The write-up is yours to export as a real file. It lives on your Mac, never in our cloud.

Bring your own model

You pick your AI brain.

Whisper and Ollama run locally, out of the box. Prefer Claude, Gemini or OpenAI? Bring your own key.

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Your conversations stay yours

Local by design, so the guarantee is the architecture, not a policy you have to trust.

No bot in your call

Nothing shows up in the attendee list. Nobody has to consent to a robot they never invited.

Nothing leaves your Mac

Recordings, transcripts and notes all stay local. Wipe every trace in one click.

Never used for training

Not a promise. A fact. Your words never reach a server that could.

Your notes, real files

Export a file anyone can open. No login wall, no lock-in.

Some conversations can't go to the cloud

Privileged. Clinical. Under NDA. If uploading a client's words isn't an option, local-first is the only kind of notetaker that works.

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Free, because it runs on your Mac

Everyone else charges $10–20 a month to run this in their cloud. Oats runs on your machine, so it costs us nothing, and nothing to you.

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Stay present. We'll remember.

Be in the room, not behind a keyboard. Oats keeps the record.

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