HyNote

AI note taker for meetings, audio and podcasts

Overview

About HyNote

HyNote is a transcription and note-taking app for Mac whose central claim is that your audio never leaves the machine. Every mainstream meeting notetaker works by uploading recordings to a server, which is fine until the meeting covers salaries, an acquisition, a patient, or anything else where a third party holding the recording is a problem. HyNote runs locally instead, which changes what you are allowed to point it at.

The practical consequence is that it works on material you would never send to a cloud service, and it works offline. Beyond meetings it handles general audio and podcasts, so the same tool covers recorded interviews and long-form listening rather than only calls. The pricing is notably restrained for the category: a genuinely free tier at zero, and a paid plan at $6.66 a month or $79.99 a year, against competitors that commonly charge twenty to thirty dollars a month for cloud transcription. Local processing is what makes that possible, since there is no per-minute inference cost being passed on.