Yogurt - Private, open-source AI meeting notes without bots
Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola
Yogurt is a free, open-source desktop app that records your calls and turns them into AI-powered meeting notes without ever adding a bot to the meeting. Built by Frigade with Electron, TypeScript, and Rust, it runs transcription and summarization locally using Whisper and llama.cpp, so your conversations stay private on your own machine. It captures summaries, next steps by person, and personal reminders, and supports MCP integrations. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux under the MIT license, with source code on GitHub.
Yogurt records your calls without adding a bot to the meeting — private AI meeting notes, free and open source.
- hmokiguess
I have been using Muesli for this https://github.com/Muesli-HQ/muesli how does it compare?
- shireboy
Just tried it on a teams call and it did great transcribing and summarizing. It didn’t pick up the other speaker’s name though. Still I’ve been wanting something like this a while
- jgrodziski
I got frustrated with call note apps too, and also built my own as a native Mac app: https://retranscript.app
I wanted full automation, full customisation of prompts for summary, ideas extraction, etc. and using the best speech-to-text models available (I will also add Apple's SpeechAnalyzer soon for mundane transcription where the best accuracy is not needed).
Once started, Retranscript runs on its own. It notices the call automatically, records all voices with no bot in the meeting. Everything lands as plain files in a configurable folder.
The trade-off is the reverse of Yogurt's: the audio goes to the model you chose instead of staying on your Mac. With your own keys it goes straight to the provider on openrouter, and nothing passes through my server. There's no subscription. The app is free, and you pay for the models, at the provider's price with your own key or with prepaid credits. It's closed source for now (will release as open-source in the future), and Mac-only.
Congrats on the launch, it's good to see so many people exploring this space, each with a different take on it.
- lavendermon
I live in a two party consent state and have yet to pull the trigger on an AI transcription service. Yogurt is the first appropriate implementation of the service in my opinion, both for personal privacy and to limit potential issues if Granola or similar service gets hacked and transcriptions go public.
I appreciate that you included a default warning for the owner to let everyone on the call know they are being recorded. It might be ideal to take that a step further and have the popup occur again if another party joins the call and should also be notified of the recording.
- nonethewiser
This is totally off topic, but how do people feel about generic names like Yogurt?
I've always sort of assumed it wasnt a good idea because there is collision everywhere (SEO, registries, domain, etc).