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Work · March 19, 2026

talat

Realtime meeting notes that don’t leave your Mac

talat launched on March 19, 2026 with 149 votes, #237 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

talat captures your microphone and system audio, transcribes both sides of every conversation in real time, and turns meetings into searchable, editable notes. It's powered entirely by your Mac's Neural Engine: your audio never leaves your machine. Choose custom LLM providers, write custom summarisation prompts, auto-export to Obsidian, push meeting data via webhooks, or query your history through an MCP server. It runs alongside Granola and other tools, so you can try it without switching.

talat is the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings: an AI note-taker that captures both sides of every conversation and transcribes in real time, entirely on your own computer. Nothing you say is ever uploaded.

What you say shouldn’t be processed or stored on someone else’s servers. With talat, every word is transcribed and kept on your own computer. The same private transcription engine, whether you’re in a meeting, typing by voice, or transcribing a recording. “ Simple, efficient, and exactly what I was looking for to streamline my workflow with meetings. I love it. ” “ Two meetings in and I’ve already bought a license. I’m really enjoying it, even in these early stages. ” “ I’ve wanted ‘Granola but completely local’ for ages and this is exactly that. ” “ You convinced me to buy before my trial was even halfway through, which I don’t think has ever happened to me before. ” “ I’ve been using…from talat.app

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