Transcription. AI summaries. Cross-meeting memory.
$79 once. Runs entirely on your Mac.
Open source. No subscription. No cloud. No kidding.
$18/month for meeting notes. $15/month for dictation. $12/month for this. $20/month for that.
You're spending $300/year on tools you don't own.
Stop paying, lose access. Your data? It was never yours. Meanwhile, every word from your meetings gets uploaded to someone else's servers.
Oatmeal runs completely on your Mac. Local transcription. Local AI. Nothing uploaded. Ever.
You buy it once—$79—and that's it. No subscription. No account. No "privacy policy" to pretend to read.
Record your meetings. Get transcripts. Ask questions. Search across months of conversations. All on your Mac.
The code is open source. Don't trust us? Read it yourself.
Record any call—Zoom, Teams, Meet, or in-person. Captures system audio and your microphone. Local AI transcribes in real-time.
After the meeting, get AI-generated summaries and action items. Powered by Qwen3 running locally on Apple Silicon. No API calls.
"What did we decide about Project Atlas?" Ask a question. Get answers from 6 months of meetings. This is what other apps don't do.
Press a hotkey anywhere on your Mac. Speak. Oatmeal transcribes and pastes—cleaned up by AI. Like Wispr Flow, but included. Not $180/year extra.
Automatically identifies people, projects, and companies. See everyone you've ever mentioned. Your meetings become a searchable knowledge base.
Every line of code is on GitHub. Know exactly what's running on your Mac. No black boxes. No trust required. Verify everything.
Stop renting. Start owning.
| Granola | Wispr Flow | Oatmeal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting transcription | |||
| Cross-meeting memory | |||
| System-wide dictation | |||
| Runs locally | |||
| Open source | |||
| Annual cost | $216/yr | $180/yr | $79 once* |
*One-time purchase, not annual. Lifetime option available for $149.
Granola + Wispr Flow = $396/year.
Oatmeal = $79 once.
Both do the same thing. One sends your meetings to the cloud. One keeps them on your Mac.
Pay once, own forever. Or build from source for free.
Build it yourself from source. Full functionality. Community support.
View on GitHubPre-built app, ready to go. One year of updates. Email support.
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Yes. Oatmeal uses Parakeet (1.1B parameters) for transcription and Qwen3 for AI features. Both run on your Mac via Apple's MLX framework. No API calls. No cloud. Verify it in the source code.
Any Mac with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) running macOS 14.2+. 8GB RAM minimum, 16GB+ recommended for best performance. Intel Macs are not supported.
Similar features: transcription, AI summaries, cross-meeting search. Key differences: Oatmeal runs locally (Granola uses cloud), costs $79 once (not $216/year), is open source, and includes dictation.
You're paying for convenience—prebuilt app, code signing, automatic updates, and support. You can always build from source for free. We won't stop you.
Yes. The code is open source and runs completely offline. Even if we vanish tomorrow, your app keeps working. That's the point.
30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked. Email us, get your money back. Simple.
Oatmeal is 100% open source.
Every claim we make—local processing, no uploads, no tracking—you can verify yourself. The code is on GitHub. Read it. Audit it. Fork it.
We have nothing to hide because there's nothing hidden.
Download the free open source version, or buy once for $79. Either way, your meetings stay on your Mac.
The last meeting app you'll ever buy.