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Why we built Alt even though there are already tons of AI notetakers
Hey everyone, I’m Coby, a maker from Korea. I studied CS and Industrial Design at KAIST, Korea’s top engineering school. As you all know, there are countless AI note-taking apps out there. So why build another one? The reason is actually pretty simple, and I wanted to share that story. Everything started with my friend Andrew, who told me he was running his own speech-to-text model locally just...
Most AI notetakers limit you to ~300min/month. As a student with 60+ hours of lectures, that wasn't enough. So I built Alt. It runs local AI models on your Mac for unlimited, free, private transcription. Optimized for the Apple Neural Engine, it uses minimal battery and needs no internet. Now supporting 100+ languages and optional Pro access to SOTA models like GPT-5.1 & Gemini 3 for advanced summaries.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Coby, a CS university student in South Korea. I built Alt because I was broke and frustrated. I used to use popular AI notetaker services to transcribe my lectures, but I’d burn through their monthly "Pro" credits in just 3-4 classes. They usually cap you at 300 minutes, but as a student, I had 60+ hours of lectures a month. That led me down a rabbit hole of trying to...
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