The private AI notepad
for meetings
Oatmeal takes your rough meeting notes and makes them great,
with AI that runs entirely on your Mac.
Pay once and it’s yours. No subscription needed.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Free trial, then one payment
Your rough notes
kickoff w/ sarah
- budget?? ask later
- ship date moved
- she wants weekly check-ins
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Oatmeal’s notes
Project kickoff with Sarah
Decisions
• Ship date moved to March 28
• Weekly check-ins, Tuesdays 10am
Action items
☐ Confirm Q2 budget with finance
☐ Send Sarah the revised timeline
Everything stays on your Mac
How it works
Take notes like you always do. Oatmeal handles the rest.
Oatmeal listens locally
It captures your Mac’s audio directly and transcribes it on-device. No meeting bots join your call, and no audio is ever uploaded.
You jot the gist
Type quick, messy fragments, just enough to mark what mattered. Oatmeal keeps the full transcript alongside your notes.
A local model polishes
When the meeting ends, an on-device model merges your notes with the transcript into a clean, structured summary. Still on your Mac.
Private from
the ground up
Oatmeal has no cloud and no servers. Your meetings live on your Mac, period.
🔒 100% local, 100% private
Your conversations are some of your most sensitive data. Oatmeal keeps every byte of audio, transcript, and notes on your machine. There is no cloud account, no telemetry, and nothing to leak.
💬 Chat with your notes
Ask questions across every meeting you’ve ever had and get answers pulled from your own transcripts. The model answering you runs right on your Mac.
✈️ Works offline, or online
Oatmeal works the same on a plane, in a dead zone, or with Wi-Fi off entirely. An internet connection is never required.
🧠 Runs on local models
Transcription, summaries, and chat all run on open models natively on Apple Silicon. No API keys, no rate limits, no per-token bills.
🤖 No meeting bots
Oatmeal transcribes your Mac’s audio directly. Nothing joins your call, and it works with every meeting app. It even works with in-person conversations.
📤 Your notes, your files
Everything lives in a plain local database you own. Export to Markdown anytime, and take your notes wherever you like.
Pricing
Buy once. Own it forever.
Pay once and Oatmeal is yours for good. Every meeting after that is free.
Cloud notetakers
$18/mo, forever
Oatmeal
$30 once
Try it free on your next few meetings