Oats: private meeting notes, on your Mac

Local-first meeting notes

The free notetaker that never joins your call.

You take the meeting. Oats quietly turns your notes into clean write-ups — right on your Mac, where nothing you say ever leaves.

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Nothing to set up

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See it in action

From live call to finished notes.

Notes that take themselves

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It listens, no bot

Oats hears the call through your Mac and works out who is speaking. Nothing ever joins the meeting.

02

You jot, it fills the gaps

Note what matters to you. When the call ends, Oats blends it with the transcript into a clean write-up.

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Notes you own

The write-up is yours to export as a real file. It lives on your Mac, never in our cloud.

Bring your own model

You choose who does the work.

Whisper and Ollama run locally, out of the box. Prefer Claude, Gemini or OpenAI? Bring your own key.

Local Whisper + Ollama<br>Works out of the box · no setup

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Claude, Gemini, OpenAI<br>Your key, stored on device

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Your conversations stay yours

Local by design, so the guarantee is the architecture, not a policy you have to trust.

No bot in your call<br>Nothing shows up in the attendee list. Nobody has to consent to a robot they never invited.

Nothing leaves your Mac<br>Recordings, transcripts and notes all stay local. Wipe every trace in one click.

Never used for training<br>Not a promise. A fact. Your words never reach a server that could.

Your notes, real files<br>Export a file anyone can open. No login wall, no lock-in.

Some conversations can't go to the cloud

Privileged. Clinical. Under NDA. If uploading a client's words isn't an option, local-first is the only kind of notetaker that works.

Lawyers<br>Therapists & coaches<br>Clinicians<br>Consultants<br>Founders

Free, because it runs on your Mac

Everyone else charges $10–20 a month to run this in their cloud. Oats runs on your machine, so it costs us nothing, and nothing to you.

Granola $14<br>Otter $20<br>Fireflies $19

Oats $0

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The whole product. No account, no card, no trial to run out.

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Stay present. We'll remember.

Be in the room, not behind a keyboard. Oats keeps the record.

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