
Note67
Note67 is a free, open-source desktop app for Windows and macOS that records meetings, transcribes them locally with Whisper, and generates AI summaries through Ollama. It needs no account and sends no data to any server.
What is Note67?
Note67 is a meeting-notes assistant that runs as a native desktop application on Windows 10 or later and macOS 13 or later. It handles the whole chain locally: it records a meeting, transcribes it as you speak, and turns the transcript into a summary and a task list, without an account, without sending audio to a server and without depending on any cloud service.
Recording captures the microphone and the system audio simultaneously, through ScreenCaptureKit on macOS and WASAPI loopback on Windows. That dual capture is what lets the app label speech You for your own voice and Others for everyone else on the call — a two-way split, not per-person identification. A listen-only mode records system audio alone when no microphone is available. Because speakers feed sound back into the microphone, echo is filtered in three layers: level normalisation with voice-activity detection, deduplication against a rolling thirty-second window of system audio, and a text-similarity check that keeps genuine overlapping speech instead of discarding it.
Transcription runs on Whisper through the whisper-rs library, using downloadable models; the currently recommended one is the quantised Turbo Q8. Transcripts appear live, can be paused and resumed, are re-transcribed automatically after recording for better accuracy, and can be re-run manually with a different model.
The AI layer is deliberately external. Summaries and the writing assistant call Ollama, which the user installs separately and loads with a local model such as gemma3 or llama3.2. From a sidebar opened with Cmd+J, the assistant can summarise, extract action items, improve, expand, fix grammar or convert text to bullets, and answer free-form prompts.
Around the transcript sits a complete note-taking environment: a live-preview Markdown editor with slash commands, LaTeX and pasted images, wiki-style links with aliases, hover previews, backlinks and unlinked mentions, hashtags with auto-generated colours, and full-text search on Cmd+K. Action items become dated tasks with subtasks, gathered on a central Tasks page.
The application is written in Rust on Tauri v2, keeps everything in a local SQLite database, and is published free under the AGPL-3.0 licence in a public repository.
What it does
- Record a meeting, capturing your microphone and the system audio at the same time
- Transcribe speech locally with Whisper, live as it is spoken
- Separate your own voice from the other participants automatically
- Generate a meeting summary with a local LLM running through Ollama
- Turn action items into dated tasks with descriptions and subtasks
- Write and organise notes in Markdown with wiki links, hashtags and full-text search
- Export notes to Markdown and re-transcribe recordings with a different model
When to use Note67 / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Note67 is the right fit.
When to use Note67
- Lawyers, therapists, recruiters and anyone whose meetings carry confidential material that must not reach a third-party service
- Employees of organisations whose internal policy forbids cloud transcription tools
- Journalists and researchers who record interviews and need to protect their sources or participants
- Solo consultants, freelancers and founders who want meeting notes and action items without paying a per-seat subscription
- Technically comfortable Mac and Windows users willing to install Ollama and a local model to unlock the AI features
When not to use Note67
- Teams that need shared notes, collaboration or a common workspace: Note67 stores everything on one machine and offers no sharing or sync
- Anyone expecting integration with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, a calendar or a CRM: the app captures system audio and connects to none of them
- Mobile and browser users: there is no web version and no iOS or Android app, only Windows 10+ and macOS 13+ desktop builds
- Developers looking for an API: no API documentation exists on the site or in the repository
- Buyers who require contractual guarantees: no terms of service, privacy policy, data processing agreement or support channel is published
How to use Note67
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download the build for your machine from the site or the GitHub releases: Apple Silicon, Intel Mac, or Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Install the app and grant the microphone permission; on macOS also enable Screen Recording in System Settings, which is what allows system audio capture
- Follow the first-run wizard, which walks through the transcription model, the AI assistant and the permissions
- For AI features, install Ollama separately from its official site
- Pull a local model, for example by running ollama pull gemma3 in a terminal, or by using Ollama's built-in chat interface
- Check the installation with ollama list; Ollama then runs as a background service
- In Note67, open Settings, go to the AI section and select your preferred Ollama model; detection is automatic when Ollama is running
- Start a recording, watch the transcript appear live, and pause or resume as needed
- Generate the summary, then let the AI pull action items straight into your task list
- Review and edit the note, add wiki links or hashtags, and export it to Markdown when you are done
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Privacy that can be verified rather than trusted: everything is processed on the device and the source code is public under AGPL-3.0
- Genuinely free, with no account, no subscription, no quota and no data collection
- Works offline once the models are downloaded
- Actively developed: fourteen dated releases between December 2025 and July 2026, with a precise technical changelog
- A real native application built in Rust and Tauri v2, light on resources rather than a packaged web page
- Careful echo handling, which matters in practice whenever speakers are used instead of headphones
- A surprisingly complete note editor for a transcription tool: wiki links, backlinks, hashtags, LaTeX and global search
Cons
- Two-stage setup: Ollama and a model of one to eight gigabytes must be installed separately before any AI feature works
- Summary quality depends on your hardware, since smaller models fit in memory but reason less well
- No legal documentation at all: no terms, no privacy policy, no data processing agreement, no warranty
- No published support channel and no email address on the site; GitHub issues are the only visible route
- No identifiable company or postal address behind the product
- Single-user by design: no sharing, no sync across devices, and no integration with video-conferencing tools or calendars
- Still numbered 0.1.x after eight months, and maintained by one person, so continuity rests on a single developer
Pricing & Plans
Note67 is free of charge in its entirety. The download page states that the application is free and open source, and the structured data published on the site declares a price of 0 USD. There is no paid plan, no free trial to convert, no usage quota and no paid option, and the software is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence. The only real cost is hardware: each Whisper or Ollama model occupies roughly one to eight gigabytes of disk space and a corresponding amount of memory while it runs.
- Free — the complete application
- with no account
- no subscription and no usage limit
- distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Note67 handles your data.
GDPR overview
The site says nothing whatsoever about the GDPR. This is silence rather than a refusal: the words GDPR and data protection appear nowhere on any of the three pages of note67.com, nor in the project repository. No privacy policy, no terms of service, no data controller, no Article 27 representative and no DPO are published, and the site exposes no email address at all. Nothing therefore documents lawful basis, subject rights or transfers. In practice the architecture makes the point partly moot: processing is local, so the publisher receives no personal data and can hardly act as a controller over it. A professional recording third parties remains the controller of that processing on their own machine, and must handle consent, information and retention themselves, without help from any document supplied here.
Who owns the data?
No terms of service and no privacy policy are published, so nothing contractually states who owns the data. What the site does state is architectural: no accounts, no subscriptions, no data collection, and processing that happens entirely on the user's device. Recordings, transcripts, summaries and notes live in a local SQLite database on that machine, and no transfer to the publisher is described or technically required. In practice the user holds the data outright, because no one else ever receives a copy. That guarantee rests on the AGPL-3.0 source code, which anyone can audit, rather than on any legal undertaking — a distinction worth weighing before professional use.
Reuse rights
There is no contract to grant or restrict anything: the publisher issues no terms of service, so no clause claims a licence over what users record or write. Because audio, transcripts, summaries and notes never leave the device, the user can reuse them freely, without asking anyone's permission — they are simply files on their own computer. Notes export to Markdown, and audio files can be downloaded from within the app. The counterpart of that freedom is that the data is used for nothing else either: the site states it collects nothing, no telemetry is documented anywhere, and no remote model is called. The AGPL-3.0 licence governs the software itself, not the content produced with it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
There is no hosting of user data to describe: Note67 stores everything on the machine it runs on, in a local SQLite database, and images pasted into notes are kept locally and removed when the note is deleted. No jurisdiction, country or region is mentioned anywhere, and none applies, since no recording, transcript, summary or note is transmitted to a remote server. Transcription models run locally through Whisper, and AI summaries are produced by a model the user installs themselves via Ollama, so the AI layer adds no remote processing either. The only infrastructure involved is the marketing site itself, served behind Cloudflare from an anycast address geolocated in the United States; that concerns the three public web pages, not user content. One consequence is worth noting: since nothing is hosted elsewhere, there is also no remote backup, and the safety of the data depends entirely on the user's own machine.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Note67.
- No legal pages exist: neither terms of service nor a privacy policy is published, and the site's own sitemap declares only three URLs, which confirms this is not a collection gap
- No legal entity, postal address or email address appears anywhere on the site, so there is no identifiable counterparty and no way to exercise a right or lodge a complaint
- The site's publisher metadata points to ZapYap.com, a completely different product — a password manager — whose terms and privacy policy do not cover Note67 and were used for nothing in this record
- The GDPR is never mentioned, neither claimed nor refused; a professional recording other people remains solely responsible for informing them and for the lawfulness of the recording
- The privacy guarantee is architectural and auditable in the source code, but it is not a contractual commitment, which matters in regulated settings
- The project is still at version 0.1.x and rests on a single developer, so continuity, security fixes and long-term availability depend on one person
- Recording a meeting is rarely neutral: consent from participants, local law on recording conversations, and the temptation to stop listening because the machine is taking notes all deserve deliberate attention
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Installing the application itself is straightforward: download a binary, grant the microphone permission, and on macOS enable Screen Recording so system audio can be captured; a first-run wizard covers the model, the AI assistant and the permissions. The AI layer is more demanding. Ollama must be installed separately and a model pulled, either with a terminal command such as ollama pull gemma3 or through Ollama's own interface, then verified with ollama list. A dedicated guide on the site covers this in five steps. Expect to devote several gigabytes of disk and memory to the model you choose.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind Note67
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
Is Note67 really free?
Do my recordings go to the cloud?
Which systems does it run on?
Do I need to install anything else?
Can it tell the participants apart?
Is there an API?
What support is available if something breaks?
Is Note67 GDPR compliant?
Can I get my notes out of the app?
Is the project still maintained?
Should you pick Note67?
Note67 answers a narrow question well: how to get a transcript and a usable summary out of a meeting without any of it reaching a third party. The answer is architectural rather than contractual — the app processes audio on the machine, stores it in a local SQLite file, and calls a local model through Ollama — and because the source is published under AGPL-3.0, the claim can be audited rather than merely believed. Fourteen dated releases between December 2025 and July 2026, with a changelog precise enough to name the bugs it fixes, point to a project that is genuinely maintained. What you pay instead of money is setup and self-reliance. The AI features require installing Ollama separately and downloading a model of one to eight gigabytes, and the quality of a summary follows the size of the model your machine can hold. There is no team layer at all: no sharing, no sync, no calendar or video-conferencing integration, no API. Nor is there any legal or commercial apparatus around the product — no terms of service, no privacy policy, no data processing agreement, no published support address and no identifiable company. For an individual handling confidential conversations — a lawyer, a therapist, a journalist protecting a source, a recruiter, a researcher running interviews — that trade is often the right one, precisely because the guarantee sits in code anyone can read. For an organisation that needs a signed agreement, a support channel and a named counterparty, the same absences are disqualifying, however sound the engineering. Read the licence and the repository before adopting it in a regulated setting, and treat the privacy promise as something to verify yourself rather than something anyone has undertaken to you.
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