Thoth

What it does

Your Mac has more power than the Apollo 11 guidance computer. Why send private audio to the cloud? 🚀 As a Laser Physicist, I built Thoth to reclaim that power. It’s a 100% native macOS transcriber for absolute privacy. Why Thoth: • On-Device: Whisper & LLMs run locally. No cloud, no data harvesting. • Core Audio: Record Zoom/Teams directly without clunky drivers. • SwiftUI: No Electron. Just pure speed. Stop renting servers. Use your hardware. 🛡️

Record both sides of any meeting. Transcribe and summarize locally on your Mac. No cloud, no data leaving your machine.

Record both sides of any meeting on your Mac. Transcribe and summarize locally on Mac, iPhone and iPad. No cloud, no data ever leaving your device. ... --> No Thoth account Purchases via Apple We have no record of you No analytics, no tracking Free to try · No account required · Requires macOS Tahoe on Apple Silicon Filmed with Wi-Fi off, on Mac and iPhone. Transcription and local AI summary run entirely on-device. Déjà efficace en V1, maîtrise des données et des traitements, et excellent potentiel de développement : le développeur est réactif, précis et a de belles ambitions pour ce scribe privé et malin. Mostly that it stores it locally! I use this mostly for meetings on a…from thoth-app.com

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