Parlin
Private, on-device meeting notes and speech-to-text
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Dictation, meeting notes and file transcription that run entirely on your Apple Silicon Mac, so your audio stays on your Mac. Hold Fn and talk, and clean text lands in the app you're typing in. Add Shift for your exact words, or Cmd for a short summary. Record a meeting for a transcript with speaker labels and notes, or drop in audio or video and export TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown or PDF. 7 days free, then one payment. No subscription.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2B
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Meetings
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See all 607 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The UI, hotkeys, and text insertion are buildable, but on-device transcription pipelines, speaker diarization, and system-wide input handling on macOS need real engineering beyond prompting.
What it would actually take: A solid build would use an open on-device ASR model (such as Whisper or Parakeet via Core ML/MLX) and a diarization model, with a native Swift app handling global hotkeys and accessibility-based text insertion. Getting diarization accurate, keeping latency low on Apple Silicon, and handling macOS permissions reliably requires macOS/ML engineering experience and performance tuning.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #155 of 608 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SourceNote: AI Meeting Notes · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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