Free · On-Device · Open sourceGet Oats for your notes.
Oats records your meetings right on your Mac — no bot joins the call, nothing goes to a third-party cloud. When it's over, you get a clean summary and a todo list you can actually work through. Free and open source.
Free forever · On-device recording · No bot joins your call
Weekly sync
Jun 17 · 2:00 PM · 3 attendees
Roadmap is at risk of slipping. Team aligned on Aug 12 ship date and locked Q3 pricing.
- Sarah: Own the API rework, unblock by Fri
- ✓Max: Confirm Aug 12 ship date with PM
Fresh out of the oven.
Oats ships every week. Here’s what landed in the latest releases.
Act on your todos
Action items from every meeting collect in a Todos tab. Tick one off in the notes and it closes, so follow-ups actually get followed up.
Notes in your Obsidian vault
On the local backend, notes are plain Markdown and action items are Obsidian Tasks, stored in a vault you choose. Open it in Obsidian, sync it, or move it anywhere.
Download & export
Save a meeting’s recording and export its notes wherever you want them, in one click.
Sign in with Microsoft
Use your work Microsoft account alongside Google, from onboarding, Settings, or the menu bar.
Speaker tagging
Match each voice in a recording to the person who said it, so your notes say who, not “Speaker 2.” Available on the ariso.ai backend for now.
Record. Recap. Follow through.
Notes are where a meeting’s work starts, not where it ends.
Hit record
Start Oats and begin your meeting. It listens on your Mac — no bot, no third-party cloud, nothing joins the call.
Get notes instantly
When the meeting ends, Oats writes a structured summary and pulls out every action item, with who owns it, all from what was actually said.
Follow through
Action items land in your Todos, not buried in a doc. Tick one off in the notes or in Obsidian and it closes, so what you agreed to actually gets done.
Everything meeting notes should do. Nothing they usually do.
On-device recording
Records directly from your Mac's audio — no browser extension, no bot, no third-party server ever touches the audio stream.
Works everywhere
Zoom, Meet, Teams, a phone call, a hallway chat. Any audio your Mac can hear, Oats can turn into notes.
AI-written notes
After each meeting, Oats produces a quick digest, full summary, action items per person, and a quality score from the conversation itself.
Searchable library
Every meeting you record lands in a searchable library. Ask questions across your whole history — “what did we decide about pricing?”
Local or cloud AI
Run everything on-device with a local model and keep audio fully private, or connect your Ariso account for richer AI features.
Truly open source
Every line is public on GitHub. Read it, fork it, self-host it, or ship your own features on top.
Your meetings stay on your machine.
Most note-takers want your recordings in their cloud. Oats records locally, runs AI locally, and never forces your audio off-device.
Free, forever
No seats, no trial timer, no paywall waiting at meeting #6.
Run everything locally
Recording and AI notes can run entirely on your Mac with a local model. Zero data leaves your device.
Inspect every line
Fully open source on GitHub. Audit it, fork it, self-host it — you own it.
No lock-in
Local notes are plain Markdown in an Obsidian vault. Export anything, owe nothing, leave whenever.
Get Oats for your notes.
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