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The private meeting notes app
talat records your microphone and system audio, transcribes both sides of every conversation in real time, and turns meetings into searchable, editable notes. Powered entirely by on-device AI, and stored on your computer.
One-time purchase. Every future update included.
“talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud”
— TechCrunch
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Notes
- •Auth endpoints finished
- •Webhook blocked on rate limiter
- •James reviewing today
How talat works
1Join any meeting
Open Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or whatever you already use. talat notices when a conferencing app grabs your microphone and starts recording quietly in the background. You get a brief notification, nothing more.
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2Speak freely
talat records every voice in the room, transcribes both sides in real time, and attributes each line to the speaker who said it. Edit, split, or reassign any segment without stopping the meeting.
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Sarah
The aught endpoints are finished
You
Nice, any blockers on the webhook handler?
James
3Come back to searchable notes
When the meeting ends, a local LLM generates a summary with key points, decisions, and action items. talat never steals focus or demands your attention — your notes, summaries, and transcripts are waiting when you want them, fully searchable and exportable.
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API migration standup
Today, 9:41 AM · 12 min · 3 participants
Key points
- •Auth endpoints completed yesterday
- •Webhook handler blocked on rate limiter PR
- •Deployment target: end of week
Action items
- →James to review rate limiter today
- →You to bump staging environment
Good to know: talat runs alongside your existing meeting tool. If you already use Granola, Otter, or anything else, run them side by side — no need to switch on day one.
You control your data
Transcription runs on-device, using hardware acceleration where available. Summaries are generated by a local LLM. Recordings, transcripts, and notes are stored in a local database that never leaves your machine.
If you’d prefer to use a cloud LLM for summaries (they usually give better results on longer meetings), that’s your choice. You choose the provider, you supply the API key, you decide who to trust and when. It’s your relationship and your business.
How talat compares
Plenty of tools take meeting notes for you these days. The differences are in where your audio goes, where your data lives, and who owns it.
| talat | Granola desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | No |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | Yes, unless you opt out |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Pricing | One-time purchase | Limited free tier, then from $14/mo |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows | macOS, Windows |
| Integrations | Webhooks, MCP, folder export | Lots |
You control your experience
We want to empower our users, so we've tried to make everything in talat configurable: if it's a knob you should be able to twiddle, we let you twiddle it. If there's something you want to configure but can't, please tell us about it.
5 LLM providers
Built-in local model, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or Ollama. Use the included on-device LLM or bring your own API key.
Custom system prompts
Control exactly how your meetings are summarised. Write your own prompt or tweak the defaults.
Auto-export to folder
Automatically save meeting notes to Obsidian, iCloud, Dropbox or wherever you keep your files.
Webhook export
Push meeting data to any HTTP endpoint. Auth headers, retry logic, Markdown or JSON format.
MCP server
Connect Claude Code or any stdio MCP client directly to your meeting history.
Optional audio playback
Full audio playback with click-to-seek. Click any line in the transcript to listen back to a moment.
Try talat for free
Download talat and use every feature with 10 hours of free recording time. You don’t create an account, and you don’t hand over any credit card details. Once you’ve used your allowance you can still search, export, and summarise your existing meetings; you just can’t start new recordings.
You control your workflow
The best meeting tools out there are genuinely excellent but they route everything through third-party systems, store your data in someone else’s servers, and cap how long you can keep it (or charge you a monthly fee to retain it). We wanted something with the same quality but without those constraints, and which respects the sensitivity of recorded conversations.
talat is a one-time purchase. If you use a cloud LLM, you pay the provider directly, and only for what you use.
What people are saying
“I've wanted 'Granola but completely local' for ages and this is exactly that.”
Sam Rose
Bluesky
“Most notetakers treat your data like a byproduct. You're treating it like it belongs to you.”
Julian Francis
Product Hunt
“Two meetings in and I've already bought a license. I'm really enjoying it, even in these early stages.”
JP
Bluesky
“Transcription accuracy is solid, custom LLM prompts let you tweak summaries exactly how you want, and the Obsidian export plus webhooks feel genuinely useful.”
Pearl
Product Hunt
“This is the way. When the job can be done on local hardware you already own, it feels wasteful to rent offsite tokens.”
Tom Riedel
Product Hunt
“The ability to extend it with my own instructions is really compelling — being able to guide it into giving the help I want.”
Jamie
Bluesky
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Buy talat
talat is built by a team of two. We’re iterating rapidly, we read every piece of feedback, and we reply to every email. Your purchase funds an independent product built to serve its users rather than its investors (who don’t exist). It’s a one-time purchase, with no subscription, and every future update included.
$49Pre-release priceBuy now
$49 - pre-release, with lifetime updates included
Post-1.0 - one year of updates included, price TBC
Only available to our earliest users while we’re still in pre-release. You’re backing a small, focused team, and every future version of talat is yours, for free.
Interested in five or more licences? Contact us for volume pricing.
For organisations with compliance, deployment, or custom-build needs, see talat for enterprise.
