Ownscribe
local meeting transcription, summarization and search
Details
- External ID
- 47638532
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ownscribe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7326478149100257
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
ownscribe is an open-source, python-based CLI tool to transcribe, summarize, and search meetings – fully locally on your machine.As someone who hates taking notes, but also forgets things easily, I found the idea of transcribing and summarizing meetings automatically neat. However, all the existing tools out there store everything on their servers, don't work with every type of meeting, and cost $30/month or more.I wanted a tool that just runs locally and uses a very simple format (like .md) to integrate with my other workflows – but there wasn't anything like that. That's why I started to build ownscribe over the past few months and continuously improved it. It started as just a tool for transcription and summarization, and now even allows you to search past meetings with natural language (and a local LLM).At the moment, it is mainly optimised for macOS (although Linux should also partially work). I'd love to have some more feedback on how to make it more useful!
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI voice recorders and meeting notetakers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- meeting transcription and search for local teams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Python CLI tool integrating established local models like Whisper and Ollama/llama.cpp for transcription, summarization, and vector search.
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Competitors
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