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Local-first meeting notes your AI coding agents can query over MCP.
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View guide →Free Mac meeting-notes app with offline transcription and AI notes.
oats is an open-source productivity project by ariso-ai (ariso-ai/oats on GitHub). It has 88 GitHub stars and 8 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 2 October 2026.
Get it from the official site for your Mac.
It sits ready for your next call.
Offline transcription turns audio into text.
Review summaries generated on-device or in cloud.
No internet needed to transcribe.
Accelerated on-device AI for Macs.
Always within one click.
Summaries from your transcripts.
Your meetings stay on your Mac.
Free and open source.
Download the source and enter the folder.
git clone https://github.com/ariso-ai/oats.git
cd oatsCompile the Rust application.
cargo build --releaseRun the menu-bar app.
./target/release/oatsA free, open-source Mac meeting-notes app with offline transcription and AI notes, at ariso-ai/oats.
Yes. Transcription runs on-device.
Apple-silicon Macs get MLX acceleration.
Yes. MIT licensed.
It is local-first and open source, not a cloud subscription.
Local-first meeting notes your AI coding agents can query over MCP.
Private meeting notes with local Whisper transcription on your Mac.
Blazing-fast multi-backend Whisper transcription for any file or URL.
Self-hosted productivity: open-source ai meeting notes for mac. records mic + sys.
Open-source meeting transcription API for Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom.
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