Hobnob: Private. Local. Yours.

Private. Local. Yours.

Your meetings,

your machine

Hobnob records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings, all on your laptop.<br>No cloud, no sign-up, no internet. Just you and your friendly house-goblin.

Download Hobnob

Free for everyone.<br>Support the project if it helps you.

See it in action<br>Meet Hobnob

What Hobnob does<br>Everything stays local

No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Your meetings never leave your laptop.

Live captions

Real-time transcription as everyone speaks, with speaker labels baked right in.

LLM summaries

Structured meeting notes with decisions, action items, and open questions, locally run.

Chat with your meeting

Ask questions while it's happening. Hobnob's bundled LLM answers from the transcript.

Calendar integration

Auto-titles meetings from your calendar. 5-minute heads-up with one-click join.

Bring your own model

Swap Whisper models. Pick your own LLM GGUF. Full control over what runs locally.

macOS & Linux

Native desktop app for Apple Silicon and Linux. AppImage, .deb, and .pacman packages.

Stored locally

Nothing leaves your laptop

Recordings, transcripts, and summaries are saved on your machine. Whisper runs locally for transcription.<br>The bundled LLM runs locally for summaries and chat. No API keys, no telemetry, no accounts.

&check; No internet required after setup

&check; Zero data collection

&check; PolyForm Shield license

Three steps<br>How Hobnob works

Record

Hit record. Hobnob captures your mic and system audio. Live captions appear instantly.

Transcribe

When the meeting ends, Whisper runs a high-accuracy pass. Speaker labels are applied automatically.

Summarize

Hobnob scribbles your notes with decisions, action items, and questions. Everything stays on your machine.

Get started<br>Download Hobnob

Free to download and use. ~8 GB RAM recommended. Models download on first run.

macOS

macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)

Download for Mac<br>Hobnob-mac.zip

Not signed with an Apple developer certificate.<br>How to allow it.

Linux

Any modern distro

Download for Linux

Changelog<br>Latest release

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