Open-source local AI meeting notes for Mac and Windows, with on-device transcription, speaker labels, and Ollama summaries.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
United States
+1
Granola Alternatives
Apps similar to Granola include anarlog, which is open source with a free version. Other options are BB Recorder, Offscript, Otter.ai and Trace: Meeting Transcripts. Audio Transcription Tools like Granola are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for the web, Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android.
Alternatives list
Bot-free AI meeting recorder for Mac that captures microphone and system audio locally from Zoom, Teams, Meet and any app, with one-click transcription and summary.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Spain
EU
+3
Modus is a bot-free AI meeting assistant and note taker that captures conversations, provides suggestions, fact-checks, explains, and creates summaries in real time... during the meeting, not after.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Windows
- Mac
- Android
- Android Tablet
Canada
Nod is a bot-free AI notetaker for Mac. It captures meetings and calls through your Mac's own audio — no bot joins — and writes structured recaps automatically.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
Hosted EU-based platform for interview transcription with correctable speaker-labeled transcripts, centralized searchable archive, tagging, export to REFI-QDA and major research tools, GDPR compliance, permanent free tier access, and metered audio hour plans.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Italy- EU
AI Scribe is a privacy-first, 100% free utility designed to handle audio transcription and Image-to-Text (OCR) without subscriptions or hidden costs. It bridges the gap between high-speed cloud processing and total on-device privacy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- Italy
- EU
unWarp is a voice-first note-taking app. You speak; it transcribes, trims the filler words, fixes names and typos, then files every thought into a clean, searchable note with a title, tags, and a one-line summary.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Mac
- Android Tablet
France- EU
Lesskeys records, transcribes and dictates on your Mac without sending a single second of audio to a server.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+2
talat captures your microphone and system audio during meetings, transcribes both sides of the conversation in real time, and produces searchable, editable notes. It separates speakers as it records and recognises familiar voices from one meeting to the next.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
United Kingdom
+1
ExtraBrain is a free desktop AI interview and meeting copilot for Mac. It helps engineers, candidates, students, founders, and meeting leads follow live conversations with transcription, screen-aware context, structured prompts, question generation, on-device AI where hardware...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
+7
Subanana is a multilingual AI speech-to-text workspace for subtitles, transcripts, translation, meeting minutes and live event captions.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Hong Kong SAR China
MirrorCaption provides real-time AI transcription and translation for your meetings and conversations. Supporting over 60 languages, it helps you bridge communication gaps with live subtitles and speaker detection. You can also generate AI summaries from your discussions.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
