Free MIT-licensed menu-bar meeting notetaker for Mac that can transcribe and summarise fully on-device, with no bot joining the call.
Business & ProductivityFree
What is Yogurt?
Free, open-source AI meeting notes that run entirely on your computer: records calls without a bot, transcribes and summarizes locally, and answers questions about the meeting.
- Pricing
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
- Category
- Business & Productivity
- Made by
- Frigade
- Released
- Updated
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Yogurt features & details
Yogurt is a private, open-source alternative to cloud AI note-takers such as Granola, made by Frigade and released under the MIT licence. It records your microphone and the audio playing on your computer, so no bot joins the call and nobody else needs to install anything.
During the meeting you can jot your own notes; afterwards Yogurt merges them with the conversation into one set of notes with a summary, next steps by person and your reminders. An Ask panel answers questions about the meeting and cites the original transcript. After a one-time download of the AI models, transcription and summaries run locally, so recordings, transcripts and notes are never uploaded.
It runs on macOS 14.4 or newer with Apple silicon, Windows 10 (2004) or newer on x64 and 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or similar, as an AppImage), with at least 8 GB of memory. Calendar integration and speaker names from calls are Mac-only for now. Yogurt is free.
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