HyNote for Mac - Free local transcription that is 100% Private
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Solving the three biggest pain points in meeting software: privacy, friction, and cost. By running speech-to-text entirely on-device, your confidential discussions never leave your hardware, ensuring total data privacy. It operates invisibly without sending an awkward bot into your attendee list, capturing system audio directly across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
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Crazy! I am gonna try it. Was looking for something like this for some time now. Just curious about the privacy policy. Does the data go online?
@lakshya_singh Using only the Mac app keeps all your data strictly local to your device. If you choose to sync across the HyNote Mobile App, Web, Chrome Extension, or Apple Watch, your data will securely process through our cloud servers.
On-device system-audio capture is the right call for privacy, but on recent macOS that kind of capture needs the audio-recording permission - and once that's granted, macOS shows its own recording indicator in the menu bar. Does that show up during a meeting, or have you found a way around it? If it does, "invisible" might need a caveat since attendees using the same Mac could notice.
Congrats on the launch! The on-device privacy angle is genuinely differentiated, and I like that it's not just live-meeting capture. One thing I'm curious about though - you mention it ingests YouTube links and web clips alongside local audio/PDFs. Doesn't pulling those in require a network call out, even if the transcription/processing itself stays on-device? Not a dealbreaker, just curious whether the "never leaves your Mac" claim is scoped specifically to meeting audio, or whether those other source types get flagged differently in the privacy story.
Congrats on the launch! I wonder what's the difference between this one and Notion. Wonder if I should switch?
This is a great product! I used it today to take notes. I did get me and the caller mixed up but other than that, it looked like it took pretty decent notes. I suppose we needed to start with clearly introducing ourselves on the call?
On-device transcription for meetings is exactly where this category needed to go, privacy shouldn't be a paid tier 🙌
@abod_rehman Couldn't agree more—privacy should be a baseline, not an upsell. That's exactly why we built HyNote the way we did. Really appreciate the kind words!!🤗🙌
How do you see people using HyNote differently from traditional note apps once all their meetings, documents and ideas live in one place?
Congrats @mia_hello and team!
@hamza_afzal_butt Thanks for the thoughtful question! 🤗I think the real shift is that you stop context-switching—no more jumping between meeting notes, action items, and follow-ups. Everything connects, and that changes how you follow through.✊
the 100% local processing is a massive differentiator especially with all the recent lawsuits around AI note takers and consent issues. HyNote directly addresses the elephant in the room that many tools are ignoring. excellent work!
@barnaby_lloyd Thanks Barnaby🙌—we saw the same lawsuits and felt the same way. Local processing removes the consent question at the infrastructure level, which is where it belongs.✊
Huge congrats on the launch! "Free local transcription that is 100% Private" hits on such a massive pain point right now as privacy-conscious teams look for bot-free meeting tools. Love seeing native Apple Silicon tools that run speech-to-text entirely on-device without locking core utility behind hefty subscriptions. Wishing you tons of momentum today!
@thisiskp_ Thanks KP! 😄You nailed exactly why we built it—privacy, no bots, no subscriptions for core features. The Apple Silicon optimization was a must so it stays light. Really appreciate the thoughtful support!🤝
Love that HyNote keeps speech-to-text fully on-device, so sensitive meetings never touch a third-party cloud. Privacy-first note taking done right.
@ilko_kacharov Appreciate that! We believe privacy should be the default, not an add-on. Glad it comes across that way.🤝😊