The private meeting notes app.
Accurate transcription that runs entirely on your own computer, so nothing is ever uploaded to the cloud. Take notes in your meetings, dictate into any app, or write up recordings you already have.
One-time purchase · 10 hours free · No account required
One app, three ways to use it.
The same private transcription engine, whether you’re in a meeting, typing by voice, or transcribing a recording.
Record meetings
Dual-stream capture with live notes.
Dictate anywhere
Press a hotkey and speak into any app.
Import recordings
Drop in audio or video you already have.
talat works with the tools you already use.
Calendars
Apple Calendar
Google CalendarAuto-start from your schedule
Meetings
Meet
TeamsFaceTimeAnd any other conferencing app
AI models
Qwen
Claude
OpenAI
OllamaQwen3.5-4B built-in, or bring your own
Export
Or any MCP-aware assistant
“Simple, efficient, and exactly what I was looking for to streamline my workflow with meetings. I love it.”
Amy Saville
“Two meetings in and I’ve already bought a license. I’m really enjoying it, even in these early stages.”
JP
Bluesky
“I’ve wanted ‘Granola but completely local’ for ages and this is exactly that.”
Sam Rose
Bluesky
“You convinced me to buy before my trial was even halfway through, which I don’t think has ever happened to me before.”
Verified customer
“I’ve been using talat for transcribing meetings locally on my Mac. Works nicely with my Claude workflow via its MCP connector, calendar integration and speaker detection. One-off payment, no subscription. Recommended.”
Barry Frost
Bluesky
“Transcription accuracy is solid, custom LLM prompts let you tweak summaries exactly how you want, and the Obsidian export plus webhooks feel genuinely useful.”
Pearl
Product Hunt
“Most notetakers treat your data like a byproduct. You’re treating it like it belongs to you.”
Julian Francis
Product Hunt
“Just press-ganged a friend into a zoom that basically turned into an advertisement for talat, and picked up a license.”
Ted Han
Bluesky
“Simple, efficient, and exactly what I was looking for to streamline my workflow with meetings. I love it.”
Amy Saville
“Two meetings in and I’ve already bought a license. I’m really enjoying it, even in these early stages.”
JP
Bluesky
“I’ve wanted ‘Granola but completely local’ for ages and this is exactly that.”
Sam Rose
Bluesky
“You convinced me to buy before my trial was even halfway through, which I don’t think has ever happened to me before.”
Verified customer
“I’ve been using talat for transcribing meetings locally on my Mac. Works nicely with my Claude workflow via its MCP connector, calendar integration and speaker detection. One-off payment, no subscription. Recommended.”
Barry Frost
Bluesky
“Transcription accuracy is solid, custom LLM prompts let you tweak summaries exactly how you want, and the Obsidian export plus webhooks feel genuinely useful.”
Pearl
Product Hunt
“Most notetakers treat your data like a byproduct. You’re treating it like it belongs to you.”
Julian Francis
Product Hunt
“Just press-ganged a friend into a zoom that basically turned into an advertisement for talat, and picked up a license.”
Ted Han
Bluesky
We believe your meetings are yours.
Most AI note-takers send your audio to their servers. Some even train on your meetings. talat does neither. It’s private by architecture.
The best meeting tools out there are excellent, but they send your private audio to the cloud for processing, store your data on someone else’s servers, and cap how long you can keep it (or charge you a monthly fee to retain it). We wanted something with the same quality but without those constraints, and which respects the sensitivity of recorded conversations.
With talat, transcription runs directly on your computer, using hardware acceleration where available. By default, your summaries are written by built-in AI. Your recordings, transcripts, and notes are stored in a local database that never leaves your machine.
If you’d prefer to use a cloud LLM for summaries (they usually give better results on longer meetings), that’s your choice. You choose the provider, you supply the API key, you decide who to trust and when. It’s your relationship and your business.
Different by design.
Plenty of applications exist to take meeting notes for you. The main differences are in where and how your audio is processed, where your data lives and who owns it, and how you’re tracked.
| talat | Granola | Otter.ai | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | Yes, unless you opt out | Yes (de-identified) | No |
| Works offline | Yes | No | No | No |
| Account required | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | One-time purchase | Limited free tier, then from $14/mo | Limited free tier, then from $16.99/mo | Limited free tier, then from $18/mo |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud (credit capped) |
| Dictate into any app | Yes | No | No | No |
| Import existing recordings | Yes (audio & video, on-device) | No | Yes (cloud upload) | Yes (cloud upload) |
| Full comparison → | Full comparison → | Full comparison → |
Try talat for free.
Download talat and use every feature with 10 hours of free recording time. You don’t create an account, and you don’t hand over any credit card details. Once you’ve used your allowance you can still search, export, and summarise your existing meetings; you just can’t start new recordings.
talat requires macOS 15+ (Apple Silicon) or Windows 10+.
One purchase, lifetime updates.
talat is built by a team of two. We’re iterating rapidly, we read every piece of feedback, and we reply to every email. Your purchase funds an independent product built to serve its users rather than its investors (who don’t exist). It’s a one-time purchase, with no subscription, and every future update included.
Interested in five or more licences? Contact us for volume pricing. For organisations with compliance, deployment, or custom-build needs, see talat for enterprise.