Meeting notes without the bot.
VoiceNote records any meeting — Zoom, Teams, Meet, any app — then transcribes and summarizes it on your own computer. No bot joins the call, no audio is uploaded, and it's included in the same one-time purchase as dictation.
It listens to your computer, not your calendar.
Notetakers like Otter or Fireflies join your call as a visible participant and send the audio to their cloud. VoiceNote does neither: it captures your computer's own audio — the same sound reaching your headphones — plus your microphone, and keeps both on your machine.
That's why there's nothing to integrate: no calendar access, no meeting-app plugin, no bot in the participant list. If you can hear the meeting, VoiceNote can take the notes.
On Windows today; Mac support is coming in a later update.
Transcribed and summarized on this computer. Audio deleted after.
Press record. Have the meeting. Read the notes.
Press record
From the app, the system tray, or Alt + Shift + M — before or during the call. A small dot on the overlay shows it's capturing.
Have the meeting
Nothing changes in the call — no bot in the participant list, no plugin, nothing for the others to install or notice.
Stop — it's written
A timestamped transcript labelled You and Others, plus a summary with action items. The raw audio is deleted by default.
A private AI note-taker — on your computer, not in the cloud
Most AI note-takers — Otter, Fireflies, Granola and the rest — are cloud services: they upload your meeting audio, transcribe it on their servers, and keep it in an account. VoiceNote is an AI note-taker built the other way round. The transcript and the summary are produced by models on your own machine, so the meeting never becomes someone else's data — you still get the thing you actually want from a note-taker, a clean transcript and a summary with action items, without the audio leaving the room.
And because it works from your computer's own audio rather than a per-app integration, it doubles as general meeting transcription software for anything that makes sound — Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, a webinar, or a call on speaker. One on-device app, every meeting.
One purchase instead of two subscriptions
Done the usual way, a voice-first workday takes two products — a cloud dictation subscription and a cloud meeting notetaker, each around $10–20 a month, and each receiving your audio. VoiceNote does both jobs in one one-time purchase, and neither job ever leaves your computer.
| Cloud notetaker | VoiceNote Meetings | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call | A visible bot participant | Nothing joins — it hears your computer |
| Where audio goes | Uploaded to their servers | Stays on your machine, deleted after |
| Works with | Supported apps via integration | Any app that makes sound |
| Setup | Calendar access, permissions, invites | None — press record |
| Price | ~$10–20/month, forever | Included in a one-time purchase |
Weighing a specific tool? See VoiceNote vs Otter.ai for a side-by-side on the cloud-vs-on-device question, or the wider comparison with cloud dictation tools.
Questions about Meetings
How does VoiceNote record meetings without a bot?
It listens to your computer's own audio — what you hear through your speakers or headphones — plus your microphone, entirely on your machine. Nothing joins the call, so it works with any meeting app and there's nothing to integrate or grant calendar access to.
Does it work with Zoom, Teams and Google Meet?
Yes — and with anything else that plays through your computer: Webex, Slack huddles, webinars, even a phone call over the speaker. If you can hear it, VoiceNote can transcribe it.
Is VoiceNote an AI note taker?
Yes — for meetings it works as an on-device AI note-taker: it records the call, writes a timestamped You/Others transcript, and generates a summary with action items, all with local models. The difference from cloud note-takers like Otter or Fireflies is that nothing is uploaded — the notes are computed on your own computer and the audio is deleted by default.
Is it meeting transcription software for any app?
Yes. Because it captures your computer's own audio rather than integrating with a specific service, it works as meeting transcription software for any app that makes sound — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, webinars — from one place, on-device.
Is the meeting audio uploaded anywhere?
No. Recording, transcription and the summary all happen on your computer with local models. By default the raw audio is deleted the moment the transcript is ready; a toggle in Preferences keeps it if you'd rather.
How are “You” and “Others” separated?
VoiceNote records two tracks — your microphone, and the computer's audio (everyone else) — then merges them into one timestamped transcript labelled You and Others.
Do the other participants see or hear anything?
No bot appears in the call and nothing changes for anyone else. That's why we say private, not secret: recording laws vary by region, so get consent where it's required.
Does Meetings work on a Mac?
Not yet. Meeting capture is Windows-first; Mac support is planned for a later update. Dictation works on both Windows and Mac today.
What does Meetings cost?
Nothing extra — it's included in every VoiceNote tier ($49, $79 or $99, one time). No per-minute fees, no monthly notetaker subscription.
Your meetings, written — nowhere else.
Dictation and meeting notes in one one-time purchase, all on your computer.