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Show HN: LokalBot – meetings, notes, and autocomplete that never leave your Mac

LokalBot is an open-source macOS app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and daily work entirely on-device on Apple Silicon. It also offers inline autocomplete in any app, a private day timeline, and searchable meeting notes using a local LLM of the user's choice.

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- LokalBot is a macOS app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on-device, using the Apple Silicon neural engine (M-series chips). No audio or data is sent to any cloud server. - It also provides inline autocomplete across any app, a private timeline of your work day, and search/chat over your meeting notes — all powered by local LLMs (large language models). - The creator recommends IBM Granite Speech 4.1 for transcription and Qwen (Alibaba's open model family) for summarization. These are open-weight models that can run locally on consumer hardware. - This is a Show HN (Hacker News) post, meaning an independent developer is publicly sharing a project for feedback. It's open-source (Swift) and distributed as a DMG on GitHub, pending Apple notarization. - Why it matters: Privacy-focused, offline-first alternative to cloud-based meeting recorders like Otter.ai, Fireflies, or Zoom AI Companion. Running everything locally avoids sending sensitive meeting audio to third-party servers, at the cost of needing Apple Silicon hardware and some technical setup.

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Show HN: LokalBot – meetings, notes, and autocomplete that never leave your Mac

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