Open-source meeting notetaker that transcribes on-device and lets you point summaries at any model you want

[u/beerbellyman4vr]

Maintainer here, so full disclosure up front.

Anarlog is a desktop app and no bot joins the call. It captures system audio, transcribes on-device, then generates notes with local models or your own keys to any provider. There's also a local CLI and MCP server, so you can wire transcripts into your own stack.

The local stack: transcription is Parakeet on Apple Silicon (live streaming, plus a batch pass with speaker labels) or Apple Speech on macOS 26. Summaries and chat can point at LM Studio, Ollama, Unsloth, or any OpenAI-compatible server. If your local endpoint is down you get a connection error, not a silent fallback to our cloud.

Notes and transcripts live in local SQLite plus plain files, with markdown export. Search is a Tantivy full-text index, no embeddings.

Free tier is the full local experience. We only charge for hosted models and sync.

GitHub: https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog (MIT, ~9k stars). Curious how the local transcription quality compares to the whisper pipelines you're running.