Anarlog: open-source meeting notetaker with fully on-device transcription
beerbellyman4vr · reddit · 2026-08-23
Anarlog is an open-source (MIT, 9k GitHub stars) desktop meeting notetaker, introduced by its co-founder. Key selling points: no bot joins the call, everything runs locally.
- Captures system audio and transcribes on-device: 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 the local endpoint is down you get a connection error — no silent fallback to their cloud.
- Notes and transcripts live in local SQLite plus plain files with Markdown export; search uses a Tantivy full-text index, no embeddings.
- Also ships a local CLI and MCP server to wire transcripts into your own stack.
- Free tier is the full local experience; only hosted models and sync are paid.
Repo: https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog
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