Nothing joins your call. Oats listens through your own Mac, works out who said what, and turns your rough notes into clean, structured ones — and none of it ever leaves your device.
Three quiet steps, from the moment you sit down to the follow-up you send.
No bot joins your call. Oats transcribes through your computer's audio and detects who's speaking on its own.
Jot whatever you like. When the meeting ends, Oats blends your notes with the transcript into a clean summary.
Notes and audio are stored locally by default. Want a cloud model? Bring your own key — it never leaves your machine.
Run everything locally with Whisper and Ollama, or plug in Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI with your own key. Either way, your conversations are yours.
Oats is local-first by design. Here's exactly what that means for you.
Nothing joins your meeting. No recording bot in the attendee list, nothing for others to see or consent to. Oats captures audio through your own machine.
Recordings, transcripts, and notes stay on your device — no Oats server ever sees them. Wipe it all in a click, anytime.
Your words are never sold, shared, or used to train anyone's models — because they never reach a server that could.
Export a clean file anyone can open — no account, no login wall, no lock-in. Your notes are yours to keep and share on your terms.
If sending a client's words to someone else's server isn't an option, a local-first notetaker is the only kind that works. Oats keeps every recording, transcript, and note on your own machine.
Most AI notetakers charge $15–20 / user / month to run in their cloud. Oats runs on your machine — so it costs us nothing, and nothing to you.
The whole product, free. No account, no card, no cloud — it runs on your Mac.
Download for MacNo trials, no upsells, no account. The free version is the whole product.
Free forever, no account, nothing leaves your Mac. Download Oats and take your next meeting off your mind.
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