Your meetings, transcribed and enhanced — locally.
Saved as plain Markdown you own. Notare records your meetings without bots, transcribes them on your GPU, and sharpens your notes with the transcript as context. Open source. No cloud. No account.
How it works
A precision instrument, not another AI subscription.
No meeting bots joining your calls. No audio leaving your machine. Notare listens where you are, and everything it produces is a file on your disk.
01 Local transcription, on your GPU
Whisper runs on-device with GPU acceleration — Metal, CUDA, or Vulkan. Every model is checksum-verified before it ever loads. Your audio never crosses the network; there is no server to trust because there is no server.
02 Notepad-first enhancement
You take rough notes during the meeting, like you always have. Afterwards, Notare enhances your notes — filling gaps, fixing names, attaching decisions — using the transcript as context. It sharpens what you wrote; it doesn't replace you with a summary bot.
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flag off. Owner: Priya, by Fri.03 Plain Markdown, straight into your vault
Every note and transcript is a plain .md file saved
to any folder you choose — including your Obsidian vault. No
proprietary database, no export button, no lock-in. If Notare
disappeared tomorrow, your notes wouldn't notice.
04 Bring your own everything
Enhancement runs on the LLM you point it at — Ollama on your own hardware, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own key. Calendar sync uses your Google OAuth credentials, straight from your machine to Google. No middleman, no metering, no one in between.
- STT
- whisper-small-q8 · local ✓ verified
- LLM
- ollama · http://localhost:11434 ✓
- Calendar
- Google · your OAuth client ✓
- Telemetry
- not compiled in
The covenant
Free means free. In writing.
Everything that works locally is free. Forever. No feature you have today will ever move behind a paywall. Notare+ will sell convenience — hosted sync and models — never capability.
— The Notare covenant. It's in the repo, under version control, like everything else. See exactly what Notare+ will charge for →
Download
Get Notare
Every link below always serves the newest release — no version numbers to chase. Grab it once; updates land in the same place.
Windows
.msi installer
Standard MSI installer for Windows 10/11.
Note: the installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will show
an "unrecognized app" warning — click More info → Run anyway.
The build is reproducible from the MIT source if you'd rather verify
than trust.
Download .msi — latest release
Linux
.AppImage / .deb
Portable AppImage (any distro — chmod +x and run) or a
.deb package for Debian and Ubuntu. Local Whisper transcription with
Vulkan and CUDA acceleration works out of the box.
Download .AppImage / .deb — latest release
macOS
build from sourcePrebuilt macOS binaries aren't published yet — they're coming. Until then, Notare builds cleanly from source on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs (Metal-accelerated Whisper included). Build instructions — docs/BUILDING.md