Dev tools · September 11, 2026
Oats
Free, open-source, and on device meeting notetaker
Oats launched on September 11, 2026 with 249 votes, #54 of 8,042 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Oats is a free, open-source meeting notetaker for macOS that records conversations locally on your device without requiring a bot to join calls or sending data to the cloud. It automatically generates clean summaries and todo lists from meetings, with action items stored as plain Markdown and Obsidian Tasks. Users can track follow-ups directly in the app, marking completed items to ensure accountability across all meetings.
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From the sources
Get Oats for your notes. The free, open-source meeting-notes app for macOS — jot a few lines and Oats turns them into clean notes from what was actually said. No bot ever joins your call.
Oats records your meetings right on your Mac — no bot joins the call, nothing goes to a third-party cloud. When it's over, you get a clean summary and a todo list you can actually work through. Free and open source. Roadmap is at risk of slipping. Team aligned on Aug 12 ship date and locked Q3 pricing. Oats ships every week. Here’s what landed in the latest releases. Action items from every meeting collect in a Todos tab. Tick one off in the notes and it closes, so follow-ups actually get followed up. On the local backend, notes are plain Markdown and action items are Obsidian Tasks, stored in a vault you choose. Open it in Obsidian, sync it, or move it anywhere. Save a meeting’s recording…from ariso.ai
Pricing, as stated on its site
Free — Oats is a free, open-source meeting note-taking application for macOS and Windows (beta). No pricing information is provided on the website; the product is presented as permanently free with on-device
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OatsJul 2026 · oatsnote.com · ▲16The free, private notetaker that never joins your call. Oats records and transcribes meetings on your own Mac — nothing ever leaves your device. No account, no cloud.
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