AI meeting notes by Snaply - Free & Private AI meeting notes for you Mac
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Free, private AI meeting notes for your Mac 💻 Snaply records meetings locally, creates transcripts, summaries, and action items, then lets you chat with your notes and draft follow-up emails. All of this with no bots, no accounts, and no data leaving your device.
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Do you notice any accuracy drop compared to cloud-based tools, especially in noisy environments?
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@oliver_hayes1 Hey Oliver. Thanks for the great question!
Accuracy in transcription and note-taking actually surprised me, and I think it's on par with cloud models, especially for English.
For other languages like Portuguese, some of my users said they were pretty impressed with the results. Cloud models were still slightly better, but they still prefer this option because the privacy and cost benefits outweigh this small drop in quality. Hope it helps :)
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@lakshminath_dondeti Hey!
The application does not join the meeting. Instead, it runs locally and provides you with a transcript and generates meeting notes.
No video is recorded; only the audio is stored. You should ask for permission from the other meeting participants before recording.
Local processing for meeting notes is the right call most people don't think about what they're sending to the cloud during sensitive calls. Does it work fully offline or need an initial connection?
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@imad_elkhafi It works fully offline. You just need to download the local models once and then it works
@venier One-time download then fully offline is the ideal setup no ongoing privacy concerns. Clean approach.
the "no cloud" claim is the part i actually care about — most "private" ai tools quietly send a transcript somewhere for "analytics". how do you do the dictation locally on mac without it being a 4gb model download? whisper-small? mlx?
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@qifengzheng the transcription is done completely offline on your MacBook. You just download the app first and then download a 500MB model that does the transcription. This way you generate your transcript locally without sending it anywhere else.
If you then want to generate the meeting notes, you can also download a local LLM that runs on MLX
@venier 500mb transcription model that ships day one + optional mlx-llm for notes is the right ladder — small first, big-and-private later. which llm did you land on for the local notes path? phi-4-mini? llama-3.2? curious if there was a quality cliff below 4b.
Free and private with on-device processing is exactly the bar this category needed. Rooting for Mac-only focus too, half of the meeting-notes apps fall apart when they try to be everything. Question: how do you handle multiple speakers when the mic only captures one side of the call?
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Hey@whateverneveranywhere! Thank you for the nice words. The app actually records both the microphone and the system audio, so it captures all the sounds coming in and out of your MacBook, providing you with a complete picture of the entire meeting.
Would love to see some kind of API or MCP Server so my agents could periodically pull in an new recordings or transcripts.
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Hey @davideweaver! You can already export all meeting notes to a specific folder of your choosing. This way, you can just point your agent to the transcripts and notes.
Privacy-first local processing is right for meeting notes. Any plans for DSGVO/GDPR compliance certs? We build explicare.de in this space and costumers ask for audit trails constantly. How do you handle consent for multi-person calls?
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Hey @christian_knaut, thanks for the thoughtful question.
The tool is designed to be privacy-first: all data is stored and processed locally on the user’s machine, and I do not receive, access, or store any of the meeting data. In that sense, it works much like taking notes locally on your own device.
Because of that, I am not sure a GDPR compliance certification would apply in the same way it would for a cloud service that processes or stores customer data.
For consent in multi-person calls, this remains on the user’s side: participants should be informed and asked for permission before recording. Also, to clarify, the tool does not create a video recording, only an audio recording used for generating the notes locally.