Scribe — Meeting notes that never leave your Mac

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introducing Oat - a tiny meeting recorder for your macnotetakers like granola are overkill. i wanted something to record & transcribe meetings locally, and then save a markdown file to my machine so Claude/Codex can do the rest. no signups & free. bring your own agent… pic.twitter.com/lDlFlZeDcp— Razberry (@RazberryChai) September 3, 2026

turantekin/Parrot

Meeting recorder for your Mac with a live AI copilot. On-device transcription, answers from your own docs mid-call. Local-first and open source.

BetterWispr: local dictation for macOS

Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.

outl — local-first markdown outliner & LLM second brain

Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), peer-to-peer tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline — your devices talk straight to each other, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud or third-party server holding your notes — and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust.

GrammarCheck — Free Writing Editor

Check grammar, track writing goals, measure readability, and time focused writing sessions.

Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. https://t.co/UZWGkUDJ6d

Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app!Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI.100% free & open source. pic.twitter.com/UZWGkUDJ6d— Hassan (@nutlope) July 22, 2025

PodNotes

Write notes on podcasts with ease.

mdnb — A Markdown Notebook for macOS

A native macOS notebook app. Your notes are plain Markdown files on disk, yours forever. Free.

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…

cybersemics/em

A beautiful, minimalistic note-taking app for personal sensemaking.

Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs

A free notes and productivity app that follows you across all your devices. Premium features available.

Agenda - Notes meets Calendar

Organize your days with Agenda, the Apple Design Award winning note taking app. Download for free and start getting things done today!

Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools

Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.

Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose

Available on Mac, Windows and Linux

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