Mac Note TakerGet lifetime

Bring your own model

Summaries
on your terms.

Local Ollama for full privacy. Your own OpenAI key for sharper output. Never our cloud - Mac Note Taker doesn't run inference. You point it at the model you trust.

Get lifetime - $149Ollama vs OpenAI →
✦Summary · Q2 launch sync
Ollama · 11s
  • Launch date locked - Tuesday next week, marketing site ships Monday night.
  • Founder coupon - FOUDNER → $79 added to hero + pricing card.
  • Counter pulls live from Stripe - max_redemptions = 100 (action: confirm).
  • OG image - Lina to redo with new palette before Monday.
  • Test purchase - Owen to run a real $0.79 charge end-to-end.

Action items

  • ·Lina redo OG image · Mon
  • ·Marko verify Stripe coupon cap · today
  • ·Owen run end-to-end paid checkout · today

Pick your provider.

One dropdown in Settings → AI Assistant. Same prompt, same output schema, different backend.

Ollama (local)

Zero data leaves your Mac

Free
Endpoint

http://localhost:11434/v1

Model

qwen2.5:7b-instruct

Best for

  • NDA, HR, customer-sensitive meetings
  • Offline / on a flight
  • Cost-sensitive (zero per-meeting cost)

A 7B model on M3 Pro takes 8-15s to summarize a 30-min transcript. Output is 8/10 vs OpenAI's 9.5/10.

OpenAI

Your own API key, your own bill

~$0.001 / meeting
Endpoint

https://api.openai.com/v1

Model

gpt-4o-mini

Best for

  • Long, dense, technical meetings
  • Sharpest action-item phrasing
  • You already have an OpenAI key set up

Transcript leaves your Mac when summarization runs. Mac Note Taker doesn't proxy it - direct call from your Mac to the endpoint you set.

What the summary actually contains

5-bullet summary

What was decided, what changed, what's open. No fluff.

Action items

Bulleted by owner. The transcript is the source of truth; the action items are the audit trail.

Speaker rename

Speaker 1 / Speaker 2 → Anya / Marko / Priya, pulled from transcript context + calendar attendees.

Topics

3-5 topical sections so a 60-min call gets re-readable in 60 seconds.

Three privacy postures.

Pick the one your meeting needs. Switch per-meeting.

A

Strict - Ollama only

Audio, transcript, and summary all stay on the Mac. Recommended for HR, legal, NDA, GDPR-sensitive workstreams.

B

Standard - your OpenAI key

Transcript + prompt go to your OpenAI tenant. Audio still never leaves the Mac. Fine for most internal meetings.

C

Custom - any OpenAI-compatible

Groq, Together, Fireworks, Azure OpenAI, a self-hosted gateway. Same client; you provide base URL + key.

A summary in every meeting.

$149 lifetime · 3 Macs · code FOUDNER for $79.