Oats
Free, open-source, and on device meeting notetaker
Details
- External ID
- 1247984
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Oats
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 213
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.994440880906564
- Tags
- Open Source, Meetings, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Oats is an AI meeting note-taking tool that is completely open, local, and free. Designed to not get in the way of your meetings, no bots, no subscription needed when running locally with on-device LLM. Available on both macOS and Windows. Enhanced transcription, multi-language support, speaker recognition, assessment, coaching, auto-tracking follow ups and more features via ariso.ai cloud backend.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI voice recorders and meeting notetakers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source on-device meeting notetaker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping Whisper and local LLMs is standard, real-time cross-platform system audio capture, robust local speaker diarization, and meeting botless recording require native OS audio plumbing.
What it would actually take: A complete implementation requires native macOS/Windows applications using CoreAudio/ScreenCaptureKit (macOS) and WASAPI (Windows) to capture mixed internal system audio and microphone streams without echo. Diarization and transcription are typically implemented via whisper.cpp and on-device models like pyannote or sherpa-onnx running with hardware acceleration (Metal / DirectML). The hard part is low-latency synchronized dual-channel audio capture and efficient real-time local model execution across heterogeneous consumer hardware without burning the CPU.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- steno · github · 2026-09-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Ellis · ph · 2026-07-07 · 186 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SourceNote: AI Meeting Notes · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- 100% Free, private meeting notes that never leave your Mac · hn · 2026-07-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Fellow for iOS · ph · 2026-04-16 · 189 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A cross-platform app for meeting notes and items that don't get lost · hn · 2026-07-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Hey Asistan · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Epilude Notetaker · ph · 2026-09-13 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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