20 Oats alternatives
Oats: Free MIT-licensed menu-bar meeting notetaker for Mac that can transcribe and summarise fully on-device, with no bot joining the call. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Privacy, Local-First and macOS, ranked by how much they have in common with Oats.
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Tuling Network Limited
AI note taker that records any Mac or iPhone audio and transcribes it on-device — no meeting bot, unlimited local transcription for free.
Also: macOS, Meetings, Privacy, Transcription
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ZENPRODUCTS Technologies Private Limited
Local-first Mac dictation that types into any app, plus file and link transcription across 110 spoken languages on Apple Silicon.
Also: Local-First, macOS, Privacy, Transcription
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Local-first meeting and interview recorder that transcribes, labels speakers and writes up your notes entirely on your own computer, for a one-time price.
Also: Local-First, Meetings, Privacy, Transcription
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: Local-First, macOS, Open Source, Privacy
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A Mac budgeting app whose AI chat runs entirely on your machine, so your ledger and your questions never leave your disk.
Also: Local-First, macOS, Privacy
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coconutStudio
A native macOS notes app that parks notes along your screen edge and keeps an AI agent inside them, encrypted on-device.
Also: Local-First, macOS, Privacy
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The Plow Collective PBC
Mac app that exposes your browser, CLI, files and saved logins to Claude, Codex or any MCP agent — with an approval gate on every request.
Also: Local-First, macOS, Privacy
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Cluely, Inc.
Real-time AI meeting assistant for Mac, Windows and iPhone that transcribes as you talk, answers questions mid-conversation and writes the notes afterwards.
Also: macOS, Meetings, Transcription
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Coping Hard
Hit record, and Voicenotes transcribes, summarises and indexes what you said — then answers questions about anything you have ever recorded.
Also: macOS, Meetings, Transcription
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Privacy-first voice to text for macOS, Windows, and iOS — runs offline on-device with customisable AI modes.
Also: macOS, Privacy, Transcription
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Clipto, Inc.
Local-first AI memory for your media: index terabytes of video, audio and documents on your own machine and search them in plain language.
Also: Local-First, Privacy, Transcription
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Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.
Also: macOS, Open Source, Privacy
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Reflect App, LLC
Open-source, MIT-licensed note-taking app with daily notes, backlinks and local Markdown files, plus optional AI using your own API key.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy
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Meridiona
An open-source work journal that records your day on-device and drafts the status update for you — nothing leaves the machine until you approve a worklog.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy
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Different AI
Open-source desktop app and MCP for running AI agents on your own files, an open alternative to Claude Cowork.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy
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A free, local, open-source AI app builder that runs on your own machine — a privacy-first alternative to v0, Lovable, and Bolt with no vendor lock-in and bring-your-own API keys.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy
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Ibrahim Salami
Open-source call intelligence that scores sales calls against your own playbook and the buyer's context, not just what the rep said.
Also: Meetings, Open Source, Transcription
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Palash Deb
Open-source, fully local voice AI studio for macOS, Windows and Linux — voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, dictation and transcription in 646 languages.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Transcription
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Publish Studio
A macOS script runner where you and your coding agent drive the same terminal processes — menu bar, CLI and a built-in MCP server over one local socket.
Also: Local-First, macOS