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Private meeting notes, explained.

Answers, guides, and comparisons for bot-free meeting notes on a Mac, from recording both sides of a call and transcribing offline to choosing local models and understanding the real privacy boundary.

Questions

Answers to common questions

Agents and MCP How do I let Claude Code or Codex search my meeting notes? Give Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP client read-only access to meetings recorded and transcribed on your Mac, with no cloud notetaker or meeting bot. 5 min read IT approval My company blocks AI notetaker bots. What can I use? Why companies block meeting bots, what a bot-free local recorder changes and what it doesn't, and a checklist IT can use before approving one on a Mac. 5 min read Speaker labels Can a bot-free meeting recorder tell who said what? How a recorder that never joins the call separates speakers, where the names come from, and measured speaker-separation accuracy for LokalBot on Mac. 5 min read Obsidian and Markdown How do I get meeting transcripts into Obsidian as Markdown? Three ways to put local meeting transcripts and summaries into an Obsidian vault as Markdown: a one-off export, a daily note, or a short sync script. 5 min read

Guides

How local meeting notes work

Local meeting notes Local AI meeting notes on your Mac How local AI meeting notes work on a Mac: bot-free capture, on-device transcription, private summaries, trade-offs, and setup. 6 min read Offline transcription Offline meeting transcription on Mac Set up offline meeting transcription on Apple Silicon with local speech models, two-track audio, timestamps, and no cloud upload. 5 min read Open source Open-source AI meeting notes: what to verify A checklist for evaluating open-source AI meeting notes: license, local processing, network boundaries, storage, builds, and updates. 6 min read Bot-free capture Record both sides of a Mac meeting without a bot How LokalBot captures your microphone and meeting-app audio as synchronized tracks on macOS without adding a bot participant. 5 min read Model guide Local transcription models for Mac Compare Granite Speech, Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR, and Whisper for private on-device meeting transcription on Apple Silicon. 7 min read Compatibility LokalBot system requirements Check LokalBot's macOS version, Apple Silicon, memory, disk, permissions, model downloads, and offline requirements before installing. 5 min read

Compare

See how LokalBot differs

Compare LokalBot vs Granola Compare Granola's cloud AI notepad with LokalBot's bot-free, on-device meeting notes for Mac. Free, open source, and no account. Compare LokalBot vs Apple Notes Apple Notes records, transcribes, and summarizes audio on macOS 27. Here's what it misses for meetings, and when LokalBot is worth installing. Compare LokalBot vs Otter Compare Otter.ai's cloud meeting assistant with LokalBot: no bot in the call, on-device transcription and summaries, no account. Free and open source. Compare LokalBot vs Fireflies Compare Fireflies.ai's cloud meeting notetaker with LokalBot's bot-free, on-device meeting notes for Mac. Free, open source, and no account required. Compare LokalBot vs Hyprnote Compare two open-source, local-first meeting notetakers: LokalBot and Hyprnote, now anarlog. Built-in local AI, cloud options, storage, license, and scope. Compare LokalBot vs Meetily Compare Meetily and LokalBot, two open-source meeting notetakers that run locally: what's free, speaker separation, meeting detection, scope, and platforms. Compare LokalBot vs MacWhisper Compare MacWhisper's file transcription and dictation with LokalBot's free, open-source Mac app for bot-free meeting notes, dictation, and day recall. Compare LokalBot vs Superwhisper Compare Superwhisper's voice-to-text app with LokalBot's free, open-source Mac workspace for dictation, meeting notes, autocomplete, and a day timeline. Compare LokalBot vs Wispr Flow Compare Wispr Flow's cloud dictation and Notetaker with LokalBot, a free, open-source Mac app whose dictation and meeting notes run on your Mac. Compare LokalBot vs Screenpipe Compare Screenpipe's continuous screen and audio recorder with LokalBot's activity-first day timeline and bot-free meeting notes. Free, open source, for Mac. Compare LokalBot vs Rewind Compare discontinued Rewind with LokalBot's local day timeline, searchable meeting notes, encrypted screenshots, and open-source Mac app.

Reference

Facts and measurements

Fact sheet About LokalBot What LokalBot is, what it runs, and what it does not do: a free, open-source Mac app for bot-free meeting notes, local transcription, and search. Benchmarks LokalBot local model benchmarks Measured speech recognition, speaker diarization, semantic search, summary, autocomplete, and OCR results for LokalBot's local models on Apple Silicon, with methods, sources, and known gaps.