Earnote
Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device
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Details
- External ID
- 1273909
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Earnote
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Education, GitHub
Description
Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.
Enrichment
- Niche
- AI meeting notetakers and transcription
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local speech transcription and note-taking app for meetings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and study note structuring are standard, but deploying on-device Whisper transcription and on-device LLMs across iOS and macOS requires native ML optimization.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift/SwiftUI utilizing Whisper.cpp or CoreML-optimized Whisper models for audio transcription alongside quantized on-device LLMs (e.g., via llama.cpp or Apple MLX) fine-tuned for summarization. The core challenge is memory management and battery efficiency under tight iOS background processing constraints.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 490 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #242 of 491 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- SourceNote: AI Meeting Notes · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Dictantor · ph · 2026-09-08 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- OpenWhispr for iOS · ph · 2026-10-13 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Task Memo · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Listener · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- NoteAlong · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Fellow for iOS · ph · 2026-04-16 · 189 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Speechmark · ph · 2026-09-10 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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