Built to make sure nothing is forgotten,
Oats is the best way to take meeting notes.

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The Oats home screen: today's recording, past meetings, and Ask across everything
Meetings are where decisions actually happen. Oats remembers them without sending a single byte away.
0bots join your calls, and 0 bytes of audio leave your Mac.
100%of transcription and summarizing happens on-device, with a model you choose.
$0forever. Free and open source under Apache 2.0, with no account and no subscription.

Everything connects in one graph

People, projects, and topics from every meeting are linked into one local memory you can explore and search.
Learn about the knowledge graph →
The Oats knowledge graph connecting people, projects, and topics across meetings

Action items file themselves

Every commitment in the conversation lands in one list, tied back to the meeting it came from.
Learn about action items →
Action items collected across meetings

It sits on the side of your call

Shrink Oats to a slim column docked next to the meeting. The transcript, your thoughts, and the summary stay one click away.
Learn about recording →
The narrow Oats column showing a meeting summary beside a call

Your notes are plain files

Every meeting is a folder on your disk. Grep it, sync it, back it up. Nothing is locked in.
Learn about your data →
meta.jsontitle, date, duration
transcript.jsonlevery line, with speaker
note.mdyour own notes
summary.mdthe generated summary
audio.m4athe recording
assets/screen captures

Take better notes

Private, fast, and familiar, Oats is the best way to take meeting notes on a Mac.

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Local intelligence

Summaries and answers come from Apple Intelligence, Claude Code, Codex, or Ollama. Whatever you already have, nothing leaves the machine.

Feels invisible

No participant called "Notetaker" ever joins. A quiet lozenge floats over the call with record, pause, and your live note.

Private by default

No account, no cloud, no subscription. Your notes are files you own, and recording is always visible while it runs.

Powerful, yet flexible

Configure Oats so it runs the way you work.

Apple Intelligence

Built into macOS. Nothing to download, nothing to set up.

Apple Intelligence status ready runs on Neural Engine setup none

Claude Code

Detected automatically if the claude CLI is installed.

$ claude detected yes streaming yes api keys none

Codex

Detected automatically if the codex CLI is installed.

$ codex detected yes streaming yes api keys none

Ollama

Any local model. Oats can download one for you, no terminal needed.

ollama model qwen2.5:3b status ready cloud never

Apple Speech

Streams live during the meeting, on the Neural Engine. The default.

transcription mode live speakers marked speed fastest

Whisper Large v3 Turbo

Re-transcribes after the call for near top accuracy.

whisper-v3-turbo mode after call accuracy highest download once

Parakeet v3

25 languages, and the fastest engine after the meeting.

parakeet-v3 mode after call languages 25 download once

Whisper Small & Tiny

Pick your own size and speed tradeoff for smaller Macs.

whisper-small mode after call size smallest download once
Oats.
Download for macOS ↓ View source
Free and open source · macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon