Yogurt: open-source local-first Granola alternative for private AI meeting notes
supportingthedogs · reddit · 2026-11-14
Developer Christian released Yogurt, an MIT-licensed desktop app that transcribes, summarizes, and answers questions about meetings entirely on-device — a free, privacy-first alternative to Granola.
- Transcription: whisper.cpp (large-v3-turbo q50, or Whisper small on lighter machines) on GPU; on supported Macs, Apple's SpeechAnalyzer shows live words while Whisper writes the saved transcript
- Summaries/Q&A: via node-llama-cpp, auto-picking Gemma 4 E2B/E4B/26B A4B or gpt-oss 20B/120B based on hardware, with Qwen3 1.7B as fallback; Gemma 4 E4B downloads first so notes work within minutes
- Cross-meeting search: EmbeddingGemma 300M retrieval, answered locally with citations back to meetings
- A local MCP server lets you hand notes to frontier models (Claude, GPT) directly, no paid cloud middleman
Built on Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux, with echo detection, hierarchical search, auto-end recordings, and on Macs with 32GB+ RAM, notes start seconds after hanging up.
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