If you love Granola but wish your data stayed on your machine, talat is what you're looking for. It captures your microphone and system audio, transcribes both sides of every conversation in real time, and turns meetings into searchable, editable notes, powered entirely by your Mac's Neural Engine. It's a one-time purchase, with every future update included.
Where Granola routes your audio through cloud providers and stores your notes on remote servers, talat does everything locally. It's built by a team of two and iterated on daily. Privacy is the foundation, but empowerment is the goal: choose from five LLM providers, write custom summarisation prompts, auto-export to Obsidian (or wherever your files live), push meeting data via webhooks, or query your meeting history through an MCP server. If it's a knob you should be able to twiddle, we let you twiddle it.
talat currently requires an M-series Mac running macOS 15 or later. Download it free with 10 hours of recording time - no account needed, no in-app analytics, no tracking of any kind. I'd love to get your feedback on this pre-release version - what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see next!
