A meeting
note-taker
that talks back.
OpenOats sits next to your call, transcribes both sides in real time, and searches your own notes to surface things worth saying — right when you need them.
Three moves. No recording studio required.
Start a call, hit Live.
OpenOats opens quietly in a corner. The window is hidden from screen-sharing by default — so it stays between you and your notes.
It transcribes both sides.
Speech recognition runs entirely on your Mac using Apple's Speech framework. Not a byte of audio ever leaves the device.
Your notes talk back.
When the conversation hits a question, a decision point, a claim worth backing up — OpenOats searches your notes and surfaces the exact line you meant to remember.
Nothing important ever leaves your Mac.
Transcription runs locally, full stop. Pair it with Ollama and everything — audio, notes, suggestions — stays on your machine. Or bring your own API key. Your data, your call.
Built by someone who actually hates cloud meeting tools.
Invisible to the other side
The window is hidden from screen sharing by default. They don't see it. You do.
Fully offline, if you want
Pair with Ollama and nothing touches the network. Runs 100% on your Mac.
Bring your own LLM
OpenRouter for GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini — or Ollama for Llama, Qwen, Mistral.
Live dual-speaker transcript
See both sides as it happens. Copy with one click. Plain text, no lock-in.
Your notes, searchable
Point it at a folder of .md or .txt files. It chunks, embeds, caches locally.
Auto-saved sessions
Every conversation becomes a plain-text transcript and structured log.
Sound prepared. Because you are.
Free, open source, built for macOS. Takes about a minute to set up. The first run downloads the on-device speech model — after that, you can pull the wifi cable and it still works.