Evernote AI Meeting Notes: Evernote's built-in feature that records meeting audio, transcribes it with speaker recognition, and summarizes it inside your notes. OpenOats: Open-source macOS meeting note-taker that transcribes calls locally and surfaces relevant talking points from your own notes in real time. We compare them on cost, capture approach, and day-to-day fit so you can choose faster.
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Shortlist Evernote AI Meeting Notes when existing evernote users capturing meetings without adding another app matters most, and OpenOats when privately transcribing meetings on a mac without sending audio to the cloud matters most. Run both through a week of actual calls to see which suits your workflow.
Evernote's built-in feature that records meeting audio, transcribes it with speaker recognition, and summarizes it inside your notes.
Open-source macOS meeting note-taker that transcribes calls locally and surfaces relevant talking points from your own notes in real time.
AI Meeting Notes is a feature built into Evernote, the long-running personal knowledge and note-taking application, that lets users capture meetings directly within their notes. For remote meetings it records audio from a web browser tab, and for in-person meetings it records through the device microphone; users can also upload pre-recorded audio files. Evernote then uses its AI Transcribe capability to convert the audio into text and can generate a summary, with optional speaker recognition that distinguishes between speakers (and lets users rename them so labels update across the transcript). A later addition lets users transcribe only a selected portion of a recording by choosing start and end timestamps. Because the feature lives inside Evernote, the resulting transcript and summary are saved as notes within the user's existing knowledge base, where they can be organized, searched, and connected to other material. AI Meeting Notes is aimed at existing Evernote users who want meeting capture without adopting a separate tool, and it is available on Mac, PC, and the web. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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OpenOats is an open-source macOS meeting note-taker, created by Yazin Akkawi (the project was previously named OpenGranola before being renamed), that sits alongside your calls and both transcribes the conversation and helps you contribute to it. It captures both sides of a meeting and transcribes audio locally on Apple Silicon so audio never leaves the device, while in real time it searches your own markdown or plain-text knowledge base to surface relevant talking points and things worth saying during the discussion. The application window is hidden from screen sharing by default, which lets it stay private during video calls, and transcripts and session logs are auto-saved locally. OpenOats supports both fully local operation through Ollama and cloud providers such as OpenRouter and Voyage AI, so users can choose between complete offline privacy and hosted models. It is written primarily in Swift, distributed under the MIT license, and actively maintained with very frequent releases. The project documents itself at openoats.com and targets users who want a privacy-respecting, self-hostable alternative to cloud meeting copilots, combining live transcription with a retrieval layer over personal notes rather than only producing an after-the-fact summary. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Evernote AI Meeting Notes is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); OpenOats is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Evernote AI Meeting Notes | OpenOats |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Records remote meeting audio from a browser tab | Real-time local transcription of both sides of a conversation on Apple Silicon |
| Standout feature | Records in-person meetings via device microphone | Live retrieval of relevant talking points from your own notes during meetings |
| Team usage | Upload of pre-recorded audio files | Window hidden from screen sharing by default for privacy on calls |
| Integrations | AI transcription with optional summaries | Auto-saved transcripts and session logs to local files |
| Languages & capture | Speaker recognition with editable speaker labels | Works fully local via Ollama or with cloud models (OpenRouter, Voyage AI) |
| Best-fit workflow | Selective transcription of a chosen time range | MIT-licensed, self-hostable Swift application |
Evernote AI Meeting Notes
Choose Evernote AI Meeting Notes if you need existing evernote users capturing meetings without adding another app — strengths include meeting capture lives inside an existing personal knowledge base, avoiding a separate tool.
OpenOats
Choose OpenOats if you need getting live, context-aware prompts from your own notes during sales or customer calls — strengths include local on-device transcription keeps meeting audio private.
Evernote AI Meeting Notes
OpenOats
It depends on your workflow. Evernote AI Meeting Notes is strong for existing evernote users capturing meetings without adding another app, while OpenOats is strong for getting live, context-aware prompts from your own notes during sales or customer calls. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Evernote AI Meeting Notes is a free tier with paid upgrades and OpenOats is a free tier with paid upgrades. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
You can — some teams pair them when each covers a different part of the meeting workflow.
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