tl;dr An AI Notetaker that uses your ChatGPT subscription for everything

Problem

You might have noticed that your ChatGPT subscription gives you access to an insane amount of intelligence, even the free one.

• It gives you speech-to-text through the dictation feature in the ChatGPT app
• It gives you an insane amount of LLM usage

Then, why are you paying for AI notetakers like otter or granola? You already have everything you need included in your subscription.

So, all I really did was combine these to create a simple notetaker. And as it uses OpenAI's speech-to-text api, it is much more powerful then any local model and barely uses any battery.

Comparison

Granola has unlimited free tier, but capped meeting history visibility at 30 days. Simbi has no limits and it is trivial to move data in/out of the app. Other local AI based apps don't perform well in any languages other then English and drains battery. Simbi uses ChatGPT's speech-to-text, so high accuracy in multiple languages and low battery drain.

Pricing

Free

Downloads

https://getsimbi.app/

https://github.com/predict-woo/simbi

Transparency

Hi, I'm Andrew, a CS grad student from South Korea, currently studying at ETH Zurich.

• Developer: Andrew Sangwoo Ye https://www.linkedin.com/in/predict-woo/
• Contact: me@predict-woo.com
• Privacy Policy: https://getsimbi.app/privacy/
• Terms of Service: https://getsimbi.app/terms/

I'm an ex-Apple engineer who got sick of non-private, non-native meeting recording apps, so I built Biscotti: a private and free meeting recorder for macOS.

Free, no account, no subscription, no upsell. Source and download on GitHub: https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti

What it does

• 🔒 Private by design - recording, transcription, and AI all run on your Mac. Your data stays local.
• 🧠 Powerful AI summaries - automatic summaries, action items, meeting titles, and real speaker names.
• 🤖 No bots, any app - records Zoom, Teams, Meet, FaceTime, Slack huddles, or even an in-person conversation. No bot joins your call.
• 🗣️ Knows who said what - accurate transcripts, automatically split by speaker.
• 📅 Calendar-aware - sees your upcoming meetings, offers to start recording.
• ⏹️ Auto-stop - detects when your call ends and stops recording.
• 🎤 Voice isolation - captures your mic and everyone else as separate, clean channels. No echo.

Background

I spent years at Apple building the Photos app, Memories, the lock screen, and more. I wanted this to feel like it belongs on the Mac: Swift and SwiftUI, launches instantly, small on disk. Not a Electron app or a mediocre port of a Windows app.

Private AI == Local AI

With Biscotti, you still get state of the art AI for transcription and speaker identification, it just runs locally on your Mac. It works fully offline once models are downloaded. Your data lives on your Mac - you own and control it.

It uses Whisper for transcription, Gemma 4 for summaries, and Pyannote for Speaker ID. Each set up to run on Apple Silicon.

Requirements: Apple Silicon (M1+), macOS 15+, 16GB RAM recommended.

App details: Notarized, Free (no upsell), Private (zero data collection, all AI is local), Source available on Github (PolyForm Perimeter License), AI used in development (but not vibe/slop)

I'd love feedback! Happy to answer anything about the local model stack or the privacy design.

I'm the developer of Recordus, a voice recorder for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. I kept recording voice memos and then never doing anything with them, so I built the app I wanted: it records, transcribes on-device, and gives me a short summary and action items so I don't have to relisten to a 40-minute ramble.

It includes word-level timestamps, iCloud sync, Siri/Shortcuts, and M4A/WAV/text export. It's a one-time $9.99, no subscription.

I'm a solo developer and would genuinely value feedback: what's missing, confusing, or needed before you'd trust it with something important? I'll answer questions in the comments.

https://recordus.app

This is good. I’d make it slightly cleaner and less “feature list”-heavy:
Title: I built a tool that turns meeting transcripts into data architecture diagrams
Built a tool called MeetingSketch: https://meetingsketch.com
It takes a meeting transcript and turns the technical discussion into usable outputs like data architecture diagrams, meeting insights, project notes, action items, and next steps.
I built it because a lot of architecture and system design context gets discussed verbally in meetings, but someone still has to manually turn that conversation into diagrams and documentation afterward.
Right now, I’m testing it with people who sit in technical or customer meetings and need to document what was discussed.

Would love to hear some feedback!

Hi r/GenAiApps — I’m the solo developer behind HushMemo.

I built it around one observation: a transcript is usually an intermediate step, not the final result.

After recording a meeting, lecture, interview, or spoken idea, I still need to find the key points, decisions, action items, and what should happen next.

So I built one workflow:

Voice -> Transcript -> Structured Summary -> Action Items

HushMemo can:

• Record or import audio

• Create searchable, editable transcripts

• Generate summaries using 24 structured templates

• Create meeting minutes, study notes, emails, and drafts

• Extract TODOs and collect them in one place

• Use custom vocabulary for names and technical terms

• Let you ask questions about an individual note

After the required models are downloaded, the core transcription and summarization workflows run on the device. Recordings, transcripts, summaries, vocabulary, and notes stay on the device by default. The app does not require an account or cloud note sync.

HushMemo is available on iOS for a $9.99 one-time purchase. There is no subscription or per-minute transcription fee.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hushmemo/id6788440725

More details:

https://hushmemo.app/

I also have a small number of single-use App Store promo codes for people who genuinely want to test HushMemo with a real recording. Please DM me privately with your iPhone model and what kind of audio you would test. No upvote, follow, rating, or review is required.

I’d especially value feedback on one thing: which part matters most to you in this workflow—transcription accuracy, summary quality, action-item extraction, or processing speed?

Estuve buscando una herramienta para recordar lo que se habla en llamadas, pero casi todas requerían suscripción, subían el audio a la nube o mezclaban a todos los participantes en una sola transcripción. Así que hice Kuali Kuali escucha tus reuniones de Discord y Google Meet, separa correctamente a cada participante y muestra la transcripción en vivo. Al terminar, puede generar:

• Un resumen fácil de leer.
• Decisiones y puntos clave.
• Preguntas pendientes.
• Tareas separadas por persona.
• La transcripción completa.

Todo se guarda localmente en tu computadora. No necesitas una cuenta ni pagar una suscripción, y la transcripción funciona sin subir el audio a servidores de Kuali.

También puede seguirte automáticamente cuando entras a una llamada de Discord, para que no olvides grabarla. Configurar Discord o Google Meet toma solo tres pasos mediante una guía interactiva.

Es gratis y completamente open source. Actualmente funciona en Mac con Apple Silicon.

Si suelen salir de una llamada pensando “¿qué habíamos decidido?” o “¿quién se encargaba de eso?”, me encantaría que lo probaran y me contaran qué mejorarían.

Descargar Kuali: https://kuali.garrux.dev/es/ Código fuente: https://github.com/igarrux/kuali

I've been thinking about this a lot while building Convoxa.

Most AI note takers are fundamentally built around one thing: record the meeting, transcribe the audio, summarize the transcript.

And that makes sense, but it doesn't really reflect how I experience meetings.

A meeting isn't just a conversation.

I'm usually typing down a thought, taking a picture of something on a screen or whiteboard, looking at a document, adding a PDF, or writing down something that I don't want to say out loud.

So for Convoxa 2.0, I wanted to make the entire meeting capture multimodal.

While you're recording and transcribing, you can:

• type your own notes
• take photos
• scan documents
• add PDFs

Everything gets timestamped in a timeline alongside the transcript.

Then the AI can actually use all of that context when generating the final note.

That's the part I'm most excited about. Instead of getting an AI summary of what was said, you get a note that understands what you said, wrote, photographed and added during the meeting.

I also wanted to focus more on what happens after the meeting. The recording and transcription are really just the raw material. The useful part is having a good note that you can actually work with afterwards.

2.0 also includes a native Mac app that records meetings without a bot joining the call.

I've been building Convoxa as a more native, personal alternative to the typical AI meeting notetaker, and 2.0 feels like the first version that really captures what I've been trying to build.

Curious what you guys think. Is multimodal capture something you'd actually use in your meetings, or is audio + transcript enough for you?

https://apple.co/4bpArnh

I haven't seen any new app store analytics data since May 1. I updated screenshots and added new features. However, the data hasn't been updated for 3/4 days now.

Is anyone else facing similar issues?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictawiz-voice-to-text/id6759256382

A few weeks ago I posted here asking what a capture tool would actually need to work for an ADHD brain, because my ideas kept dying in voice memos. It took me a while to come back because the app was stuck in review, but it’s finally out.

Full disclosure, because you’ll work it out from the dates anyway: the app was already built and sitting in App Store review when I asked that question. I didn’t mention it because I wanted honest answers about the problem, not feedback on my thing. Those are different questions and you only get one of them once people know you’re selling something.

So I’m not going to claim this thread shaped what shipped. It didn’t. It shaped how I think about it, and what I build next. That’s the honest version.

The thing I had wrong. I thought the problem was capture. u/DonWithAmerica said voice memos are a nightmare because he can’t be bothered to listen to himself trying to find the right words for concepts still forming in his mind. Recording was never the hard part. Listening back is worse than never recording at all. I’d built the right thing for the wrong stated reason, which is a weird feeling. The app never makes you replay anything: you talk, it comes back as a summary, key points and tasks, and the audio just sits there in case you want it. I’ve replayed maybe three notes in six months.

The workflow that already existed. u/stonetelescope described doing record, transcribe, dump into Gemini, tell it to pull out the gold, put it into Keep. Manually. Every time. That’s my entire product done by hand, which told me two things: the demand is real, and the only thing I’m actually selling is deleting four steps.

The criticism I still can’t answer. u/Raukstar said the tools take away the work you need to put in, so no refinement, no reasoning, no critical thinking. I think that’s the strongest argument against this entire category and I don’t have a clean rebuttal. Where I landed is that there are two kinds of thoughts: ones you need to work out, where paper genuinely wins, and ones you just need to not lose (bring bread, call the dentist back, the thing you promised someone on a call). The second kind doesn’t deserve reasoning. It just evaporates. I only built for the second kind.

The thing I’m actually changing. u/Responsible_Camp_559’s ctrl+i inbox, dumping a thought without losing your place in the branch. Every tool makes you navigate somewhere to write it down, which is exactly the moment you lose the thread you were on. Mine still does this. You have to open the app. That’s the next thing I’m fixing and I wouldn’t have prioritised it if he hadn’t described it that precisely.

What it does: you talk, it transcribes and organizes into a title, summary, key points and tasks with reminders. Works in Arabic and English including mid-sentence switching, which was selfish, I needed that. You can share WhatsApp voice notes into it and get the summary without listening. And you can ask questions across everything you’ve recorded instead of scrolling back.

iPhone only for now. Free for 5 notes a month, paid above that. Notes stay on your device and your iCloud, not in a database of mine.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actionnote-voice-to-tasks/id6789915282

Not asking for anything. If you want to tear it apart, that’s more useful than upvotes.

A while ago I “bought” a pocket voice recorder. It turned out I needed yet another subscription, so “my” device turned into another thing I am renting.

I am sick and tired of my life turning into a subscription. Subscriptions and cloud tie-ins are a nuisance we have come to accept unquestionably, like frogs in a pot. I hate this with pure passion.

So, a bit out of spite, I build yap-yap.app, a fully local-first voice and meeting recorder.

I've been lurking on this subreddit for a while and seen many great products. Some are either fully open source (kudos to you!) and/or self-hostable, which I believe is challenging to do for your average Joe. Others offer some way or form of a subscription, mainly in locking features for “free” tier users.

yapyap is different, I think. It is a one-time purchase, after 7 days of free and full access, with all future updates included.

A fair price for a fair product, like (good) software used to be. I believe this model can still work.

Check it out and grill me, either here or at hello@yap-yap.app

Cheers. 🤙

P.S., the mobile companion app (yapyap go) is free of charge regardless, forever. Pinky promise. I am now stress-testing the local transcription and polishing the UI a bit and will release version 2.0 soon. So stay tuned.