anarlog

anarlog is an open-source alternative to Granola. It takes notes in your meetings without sending a bot to join the call: it listens to your device audio, transcribes on your machine, and keeps everything in a local SQLite database you can open yourself.

It is built for people who want AI meeting notes without handing their conversations to someone else's cloud, and for anyone who needs to get a notetaker past a security review with a straight face.

Why anarlog?

• No bot joins your call. anarlog captures audio directly on your device. Nothing appears in the participant list, and nothing records from inside the meeting.
• Local by default. Transcription runs on-device, so meeting audio never has to leave your machine.
• Your data, in a format you can read. Sessions, notes, and transcripts live in local SQLite. Recordings and attachments are plain local files. Export Markdown whenever it fits your workflow.
• Bring your own AI. Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, Unsloth, or anything OpenAI-compatible, including fully local models.
• Readable source, MIT. The community application is MIT-licensed. Fork it, audit it, sell it, or self-host it.
• Cloud is opt-in, not required. Hosted AI, encrypted CloudSync, and sharing exist when you want them. Nothing depends on them.
• A front door for your org. Self-hosting and source-visible enterprise components give security and IT teams a real path to yes.