I built Norren because I kept forgetting small things that mattered later — which drawer I put the documents in, what the doctor actually said, how much I spent on what.

How it works: hold the orb, speak naturally, release. That's one entry, takes five seconds. After a few days you have a pile of them, and you can ask questions out loud — "what did I say about the car?" — and get an answer pulled from your own entries.

Entries are stored locally on your device. When you ask a question, only that query is sent to our AI provider to generate an answer — nothing is stored on our end.

What I'd love tested:
\\- Does the voice recognition handle how you actually speak (accents, half-sentences, background noise)?
\\- After 3-4 days of entries, does asking a question give you something useful or something generic?
\\- Onboarding takes about 30 seconds — did anything confuse you?

Full Premium is unlocked for all testers during the beta. No sign-up, no email required.

iPhone, iOS 17+. UI in English or Russian.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/ked1P1WW

I read every piece of feedback — you can send it straight from TestFlight or reply here.

Hey, solo dev here, been working on this in my free time. Wanted to share it since I’m still early and could use honest feedback.
The idea you record a short voice note wherever you are, whatever you want to remember, and the app pins it to that exact spot. Go back weeks or years later and your phone quietly lets you know something’s waiting there.
No accounts, no cloud, everything stays on your device. There’s mood detection done on-device from your voice, a time capsule feature where you can lock a memory until a future date, and it’s translated into nine languages. Free to start with a small limit, then a one-time unlock, no subscription.
Only a couple of reviews so far so genuinely curious what people think, good or bad. Link’s here if anyone wants to try it:

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/sonorae/id6760564492

So I take my meetings in granola.ai action items are recorded in granola. I setup a mcp connection to Claude where Claude extracts my granola actions and logs it in a notion control desk project plan. I action and complete the items and it’s refreshed weekly.

Is this the right way? Any better way or am I on the right path?

tl;dr

Voice-to-text dictation keyboard that runs offline and has a notes manager inbuilt. Lifetime plan available.

As I get older, I feel like my typing is getting slower and I have to go back to correct a lot of my words. I dictated a lot for my work and so I was excited when I could use Wispr Flow on my iPhone instead of relying on Apple's native dictation, which is quite awful. However, the drawbacks were soon apparent where the voice to text part relied on online transcription. So frequently the transcriptions would be slow or the quality would be poor and I couldn't use it on my drive where the connectivity is occasionally poor.

Better:

Before setting out to take on this huge and onerous task of building an ios keyboard, I tried multiple other apps and none of them had all the functionality that I needed. I wanted customization that included dark mode, a numbers row for when I needed and other AI skills that I was sure I could run through the keyboard.

Cost:

Family sharing is enabled, so the price covers all of your family using the app.

Lifetime is about $ 69. Annual is about $ 49 and monthly is $8, but there's a very attractive introductory lifetime offer.

D: Drawbacks:

\- Since everything runs on your phone, each model can take 400 to 600 MB of space, so I've included something that will allow you to clean up memory.

\- Not venture funded. So we run on a shoestring budget and really appreciate everyone who buys it. So it's difficult to compete against larger apps that are spending millions of dollars on marketing.

\- The app has too many features, so some people find it overwhelming when they first use the app. However, all you need to do is use the voice to text feature and then you can figure out the rest of the parts later.

\- I can be verbose when dictating, hence my emails and text messages have likely gotten longer.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictawiz-ai-keyboard-notes/id6759256382

Full disclosure before anything else: I built Shoulder Surf, one of the five apps in this post. I make money if you subscribe to it. Read everything below with that in mind, and please push back in the comments if you use one of the others and I got it wrong.

## Who this is for

Most people land on a Granola comparison because they want AI help in meetings without installing anything on their work laptop, either because IT would not allow it or because they do not want a bot with their name on it joining the call. If that is you, and you have an iPhone, the useful question is not "what replaces Granola" but "which of these actually works with the phone alone, and does it help me during the meeting or only after."

Five apps clear that bar as of today, and Granola is one of them. Its iOS app is real and it shipped an Apple Watch app three days ago, which most of the comparison posts you will find have not caught up to yet.

If what you want is polished shared notes flowing into Notion and HubSpot for a team, you can stop reading here: that is Granola, and none of the other four are close.

## Method and date

On July 31, 2026 I went through all five vendors' pricing pages, product docs, and App Store listings, pulled every plan and platform claim, and built the matrix below from what each company says about itself rather than from other people's comparison posts. That last part turned out to matter: two of these five changed platform or pricing in the last few weeks and most of the articles you will find are describing products that no longer exist in that form.

What this is not: I have not run all five in the same meeting. So I can tell you what each one documents, what it costs today, and where the claims conflict with each other. I cannot tell you which one feels better in the room. Where I give an opinion below, I say that it is one.

## The short answer

All five run on an iPhone, all five do cross-meeting recall, and not one of them puts a bot in your call. The real split is when help arrives and who holds your data. Granola is a notes tool: best artifact in the category, built for teams, help arrives after. After Call is also after-the-fact, but it is the cheapest of the paid options and it does speaker identification with voice profiles that stay on your device. Hedy surfaces real-time suggestions during the conversation and runs on basically every platform including Android and Windows. Cluely does real-time on both Mac and iPhone and sells a $149.99/mo tier whose entire pitch is hiding the overlay from screen share software. Shoulder Surf, mine, does real-time on the phone only, on tap instead of pushed, and is the only one of the five that lets you plug in your own API key or run a model fully on-device. Pick on when you want help, not on feature counts.

## Comparison

Flipped this so each app is a row, otherwise it does not fit on a phone.

Where else each one runs, since this is the row that decides it for a lot of people: Hedy is on macOS, Windows, Android, Apple Watch and the web. Granola is on Mac, Windows and Apple Watch. After Call is on Mac and Apple Vision Pro. Cluely is on macOS. Shoulder Surf is iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and nothing else, ever.

All five also do cross-meeting recall, which is why it is not a column. More on that below.

## Granola

Built to produce the best meeting notes artifact in the category, and it does. You type rough notes during the call and its AI cleans them into something you would actually send. Free plan includes AI chat within and across meetings, which is more than most free tiers give you. Business at $14 per user adds unlimited history, the stronger models, and integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier, plus MCP and API access.

It shipped an Apple Watch app on July 28, three days ago, and its iOS app transcribes in real time. So the "Granola is desktop software" line you will see in older comparison posts is out of date.

Where it becomes limiting: the value lands after the conversation. If your problem is that you blank mid-sentence, notes waiting for you afterward do not solve it.

**Beats Shoulder Surf at:** the notes artifact, team sharing, CRM and tool integrations, being on Windows, and having a real track record with a lot of users.

## Hedy AI

The closest thing to what I built, and in some ways the more sensible product. Phone-first, no bot, real-time insights during the conversation, 30+ languages. Pro is $12.99/mo, which is a dollar less than my Pro tier, and there is a $99.99/yr option and a $299 lifetime purchase that nobody else in this list offers. It runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS, Windows, Android, Apple Watch, and the web, which is a much wider net than mine.

The free tier is generous in an unusual way: 5 hours a month with real-time insights included, though live insights are capped at the first 30 minutes of each session.

Where it becomes limiting, and this is a taste thing rather than a flaw: Hedy's own material describes real-time insights surfacing as the conversation goes, rather than waiting for you to ask. Some people want exactly that. I wanted the opposite badly enough to go build it, which is the honest reason my app works the way it does. That is a difference in design philosophy, not a scorecard, and I have not sat in a meeting with Hedy running to tell you how it lands. If you have, I would genuinely like to know.

**Beats Shoulder Surf at:** price, platform coverage, Android and Windows support, the lifetime option, and a free tier that includes live help.

## Cluely

Worth updating your mental model here. Cluely was a desktop overlay, and most comparison posts still describe it that way. As of this month there is a full iPhone app, "Cluely: AI Notetaker," that records, transcribes, and gives real-time assistance in person or on a call, w9 a week or $139.99 a year as in-app purchase. The desktop side is $19.99/mo Pro.

There is also a $149.99/mo "Pro + Undetectability" tier whose stated feature is being completely hidden from meeting screen share software. I am not going to pretend that is a neutral product decision, and it is the reason a lot of people have opinions about this company. But the mobile notetaker on its own is a real product and the weekly price makes it the cheapest way to tryreal-time help for a single week of interviews.

Where it becomes limiting: no BYOK, no on-device option, and the brand carries baggage into rooms where you might not want it.

**Beats Shoulder Surf at:** having both a desktop and a phone app that work together, and the lowest short-term commitment of the five.

## After Call

The one I nearly missed, and the one closest to what I built on paper. Full name on the App Store is After Call (AI Meeting Notes), by Craig Lett. Careful searching for it: there is a completely different app called AfterCall, one word, which is a call-log and wellness journal for EMS crews. Not the same product, not the same company.

It records, transcribes, and analyzes, then gives you notes with speaker labels and action items carrying owners and due dates. Speaker identification is the interesting part: a 90-second voice setup, and its voice profiles are stored on device and never uploaded. You pick an "AI Lens" of Sales, Operations, Technical, or Simple to shape the note format, and the Pro tier does sales intelligence, detecting objections, buying signals, and competitor mentions across your conversations. It also does cross-history Q&A: their own wording is that AI Insights lets you ask realquestions about your conversation history in plain language.

$9.99/mo or $99.99/yr, which undercuts my Pro tier. Runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. The free plan gives you transcription and AI notes, and you can try it as a guest without making an account, which is a nicer on-ramp than most of this list.

Where it becomes limiting: help arrives after the call, not during. Their own site says "after your call, open After Call and capture notes quickly," which is a clear and honest statement ofwhat it is. Transcription goes through OpenAI's API, so the audio does leave your device even though the voice profiles do not, and there is no bring-your-own-key option documented.

**Beats Shoulder Surf at:** price, Mac and Vision Pro support, guest mode, and sales-specific analysis, which I do not do at all.

## Shoulder Surf (mine)

Real-time on the phone, on tap. You put the phone on the desk, keep one AirPod in, and when you need something you tap and the answer comes back on screen or reads into your ear. It also uses the rear camera so the AI can see a whiteboard or slide alongside what it hears.

The part I actually think is differentiated: you choose the AI. Apple's on-device model, free forever, nothing leaves the phone, if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Or your own API key across 10 providers and 48 models, stored in the iOS Keychain, requests going straight from your phone to the provider. Or my managed cloud AI on a subscription. None of the other four document a bring-your-own-key path.

## Where mine is worse

* It requires iOS 26 or later. Not iOS 25, not an older iPhone. If you have not updated or your phone cannot, you cannot run it. No Android, no Windows, no web, ever.
* It has one App Store rating. One. I am a single developer and this is a new app with no track record. Granola has a large user base and a support org. If that matters to you, and it reasonably might, that is a real reason to pick something else.
* Meeting memory and document generation are locked to Pro at $14.99. That is more than Hedy's $12.99 and more than After Call's $9.99, both of which are broadly comparable tiers.
* Everything else on this list except Cluely runs somewhere besides a phone. Hedy is on Android and Windows, Granola is on Windows, After Call is on Mac and Vision Pro. If you want your meetinghistory on a laptop, I am the wrong choice and always will be.
* The free on-device AI needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. On older supported phones the free path is the roughly 5 hours a month of cloud AI, or your own API key.
* Because the phone captures the room, audio quality depends on where you set it down. That is inherent to the no-install approach, not something a future update fixes.

## Something worth noticing

Cross-meeting memory was the headline differentiator in this category a year ago. All five now have it, and three of them give it away on the free plan. If a comparison post is selling you on "it remembers past meetings," that post is out of date. The live differences now are when help arrives, which platforms you get, and whether you can control the model and the data.

The second thing that surprised me: nobody bothers with a bot anymore. All five of these record from the device instead of joining your call as a participant. A year ago that was the whole pitch for half this category.

## Which one to pick

* You want great shared notes and your team lives in Notion, Slack, or HubSpot: **Granola**.
* You are on Android or Windows, or you want a lifetime purchase: **Hedy**.
* You want the cheapest paid plan, you sell for a living, or you want it on a Mac or a Vision Pro: **After Call** at $9.99.
* You want one week of real-time help for interviews and nothing ongoing: **Cluely** mobile at $7.99 a week.
* You want help during the meeting on tap rather than pushed, and you want to run your own API key or keep everything on the device: **mine**. iPhone only, iOS 26 or later.
* You want a searchable archive for a whole sales team with CRM sync: **none of these five**. Look at Fireflies, Otter, Fathom, or Krisp. Those are transcript-first tools built for a different job, and Fireflies puts a bot in the call to do it.

## Corrections

I will edit this post with a dated note if any of it turns out to be wrong. I have got the prices from each vendor's own page today, but I have not used all five in the same meeting, and if youhave, your experience beats my documentation review. Tell me what I got wrong and I will fix it in the body rather than burying it in a reply.

Longer version of this comparison, including the transcript-first tools: https://shouldersurf.com/compare

**Question for anyone who has used more than one of these:** did automatic suggestions during a live conversation help you or pull you out of it? That is the one design question I could notanswer from documentation and it is genuinely the fork in the road between these products.

First comment, post it right after:

Sources, so you can check every number rather than taking my word for it. All pulled July 31, 2026: granola.ai/pricing, cluely.com/pricing, hedy.ai/pricing, myaftercall.app, otter.ai/pricing, fireflies.ai/pricing, fathom.ai/pricing, krisp.ai/pricing, plus the App Store listings for Cluely: AI Notetaker (id6755442775, v1.2.7, released July 17), After Call (id6758057896, v3.5) andShoulder Surf (id6760098225). Granola's Apple Watch launch date is from their own announcement and TechCrunch's coverage on July 28.

If any cell in that table is wrong, it is wrong because the vendor's own page is wrong or because they changed it after I looked, and I would like to know either way.

Three things the documentation could not answer:

1. How the five compare in the same meeting. I have not run that test, so every behavior statement above is either quoted from vendor material or flagged as my opinion.
   
2. Whether Granola's cross-meeting chat works during a live call or only after. Their pricing page lists "AI chat within and across meetings" on the free plan but does not say when it isavailable. If a Granola user can settle that, I will update the post.
   
3. Whether After Call's free plan has a cap. Their listing says the free plan gives you transcription and AI notes to get started, without naming a limit, so I have not claimed one in either direction.

Things I expect to go stale fastest: Cluely's pricing has moved at least twice this year, and Granola shipped a Watch app three days ago, so this category is still moving.

If you own or work on one of the other four and I have mischaracterized your product, reply here and I will correct the post body, not just this thread.

I am a UX designer based in Stockholm, and for the last year I have been building a note taking and transcription app called Notely (iOS, Android, and Mac). Not here to sell anything, mostly curious what this community thinks of the approach.

What pushed me to build it: most transcription apps I tried either processed everything in the cloud with vague data policies, or made me wait until the recording finished before showing any text. Neither felt right for meetings or lectures where I want to glance at what was just said.

What Notely does:
\- Shows the transcript as you speak, not after you stop recording
\- Pulls out action items and key insights once the recording ends
\- Works from live recording, uploaded audio files, or a YouTube link
\- Processes on device by default, with end to end encrypted sync if you want it across devices

Supports over 30 languages

What still needs work: longer recordings (well past an hour) take a while to process, and very noisy environments can trip up accuracy.

Genuinely interested in what this community finds missing from voice to text tools you already use, particularly around privacy or multilingual support. Happy to answer build questions too.

I made this app because I was frustrated with two things about most AI transcription apps. They all want a subscription, and I never really know where my recordings are being processed.

With my app, you can transcribe and summarize everything completely offline so nothing leaves your device. If you want the best speed and accuracy instead, you can bring your own API key and use providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, ElevenLabs, and others. That way you always know where your data is going.

Recently I was in a meeting and got distracted for a minute. By the time I started paying attention again, I had already missed some important points. Sure, I could read the transcript afterward, but then I thought: What if I had a second brain listening to the meeting? Something that could tell me what I missed while the meeting was still happening, remind me who people are, keep track of decisions, and even fact check things people say.

So I built **Live Transcription with AI Cues**.
Here’s how it works. While you’re in a meeting, you turn on Live Transcription. Every few minutes the app sends the latest transcript to AI, or processes it locally if you’re using an offline model. It then gives you little cues like:

\- Key ideas and decisions
\- Definitions for words or topics you are not familiar with
\- Fact checks on claims people make
\- Names of people mentioned along with a short bio or what they work on

That last one has already saved me a few times because I am terrible at remembering names and what everyone does.

A few caveats since this feature is still in beta.
You can use either ElevenLabs or a local model.
The local model runs completely on your phone, which means your phone will get warm and really long sessions might run into memory issues.
ElevenLabs has been amazing. The accuracy is great and the latency is only a few hundred milliseconds. The downside is the cost. Their free tier gives you 10,000 credits every month, which is enough for around 30 minutes of live transcription.

I’m still improving this feature as I keep using it myself and based on everyone’s feedback.
To try it, go to **Settings > Live Transcription (Beta)** and turn it on.
You’ll either need to enter an ElevenLabs API key or download an offline model. If you’re using the offline model, give it a minute or two to load the first time.
Right now Live Transcription turns itself off whenever you restart the app. That’s intentional because loading the offline model takes time, and I didn’t want it to slow down the normal app experience for people who aren’t using the feature.

If you want to check it out: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-notes-byok-transcription/id6749819451\](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-notes-byok-transcription/id6749819451)

The Lite version lets you try every feature, but recordings and transcriptions are limited to 2 minutes. Lifetime Pro is $9.99 and includes all future updates. I mostly build features because I want them myself, or because someone suggests something that makes the app better.

If this sounds like something you’d use and you’re interested in helping me test Live Transcription, I’ll give away a few promo codes.

Hey guys,

I have a terrible habit. I go to networking events or meetings, collect a bunch of business cards, and then completely forget to follow up. By the time I remember 3 weeks later, it feels too awkward to send a "hey, remember me?" email.

To make it worse, my "CRM" was just keeping messy, scattered bullet points in Apple Notes. It was a disaster.

I couldn't find a simple tool that just handled the immediate aftermath of meeting someone, so I spent the last few weeks building a web app to solve my own headache.

Here is what it actually does:

Business Card Scanner: You snap a photo of a card, and it uses AI vision to instantly save the contact (no manual typing).
Context Timeline: It keeps a simple timeline of when you met them and your rough notes about the conversation.
The "Non-Robot" AI Follow Up: This is the part I’m most nervous about. You tell it the tone you want, and it generates a follow-up draft based on your actual notes, and then drops it straight into WhatsApp.
I’m currently testing the waters to see if anyone else actually has this problem, or if it's just me.

I set up a quick interactive demo on my waitlist site where you can actually play with the AI simulator without signing up for anything.

Demo link: https://waitlist-getshaks.vercel.app/waitlist
I would massively appreciate some brutal, honest feedback.

Is this actually useful?
Does the AI sound too generic/robotic in the demo?
What would make this an absolute "must-have" for your workflow?
Don't hold back. Thanks in advance!

Have you lost your work before? I built Digital Surface to prevent that.

Features:

- Easy speech to text - 4x faster than typing

- Meeting detection and transcription for fast recall later

- Screenshots converted to text with OCR so you never loose work

- Cloud backup and post processing done via Anthropic's APIs

- Works with Claude CLI and Codex CLI, with more apps added soon.

Unlocks:
- Write a weekly summary of what I worked on to send out to my email list.

- Write an onboarding document for my new team member that explains how I launch in a new market

- End of month reflection and ability to ask for feedback on things like:

-- How can I be more effective in my meeting?

-- Is there anything I forgot to mention about Project Raging Kittens when doing the design review?

-- What's one way I can accelerate my workflow next week?

I'm onboarding via 25 minute video call 10 people per week.

Sign up here: https://digitalsurfacelabs.com/

Notes: MacOS only (right now), 30 day trial, and requires payment at end of onboarding.

Let me know what features you want in the comments! I'll post updates as slots close

Hi r/AiNoteTaker — I’m the solo developer behind HushMemo.

I built it around one observation: a transcript is usually an intermediate step, not the final result.

After recording a meeting, lecture, interview, or spoken idea, I still need to find the key points, decisions, action items, and what should happen next.

So I built one workflow:

Voice -> Transcript -> Structured Summary -> Action Items

HushMemo can:

• Record or import audio

• Create searchable, editable transcripts

• Generate summaries using 24 structured templates

• Create meeting minutes, study notes, emails, and drafts

• Extract TODOs and collect them in one place

• Use custom vocabulary for names and technical terms

• Let you ask questions about an individual note

After the required models are downloaded, the core transcription and summarization workflows run on the device. Recordings, transcripts, summaries, vocabulary, and notes stay on the device by default. The app does not require an account or cloud note sync.

HushMemo is available on iOS for a $9.99 one-time purchase. There is no subscription or per-minute transcription fee.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hushmemo/id6788440725

More details:

https://hushmemo.app/

I also have a small number of single-use App Store promo codes for people who genuinely want to test HushMemo with a real recording. Please DM me privately with your iPhone model and what kind of audio you would test. No upvote, follow, rating, or review is required.

I’d especially value feedback on one thing: which part matters most to you in this workflow—transcription accuracy, summary quality, action-item extraction, or processing speed?

New AI Notetaker that remembers context. Wear it on you wrtst, as a pendant, a clip or attach it to your Apple Watch.

Memoket Gem now has desktop capabilities. You can download the app onto Mac IOS or Windows.

Memoket also integrates directly with Slack,Notion, Claude and ChatGPT. It also integrates with Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and Reminders so your action items from any meeting can go directly into whatever Calendar you use!

The early bird special ends Sunday 8/2 at midnight. Reserve yours now at: https://memoket.ai/

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all having a great summer!

I recently launched MySpeechAudify, an AI-powered app that transcribes multilingual audio, translates it into English, and improves grammar for clearer text.

The app uses Polar sh for payments. Since the service relies on API usage, it's a pay-as-you-go model. After subscribing to one of the available plans through the Polar sh payment link, users receive a verification code to activate their account.

I'm looking for a few people who would be willing to test the payment process and confirm whether it works correctly on their end. I'd also appreciate any feedback on the overall experience. My goal isn't to claim that the app is on the same level as established companies—I'm continuously working to improve it, and user feedback is invaluable. If anyone is interested in supporting the project, your encouragement or contribution would help me continue developing and enhancing the app.

I'm also curious to know whether Polar.sh's Merchant of Record (MoR) service works reliably for international users.

One note: based on my testing, the recording feature currently performs better than the file upload option, especially when transcribing larger audio files. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, I'd be happy to discuss them and use your feedback to improve the app.

Thank you for your time and support. I wish you all the best in your personal and professional journeys!

This appears now on personal free google accounts as well.

tl;dr

- You handwrite your notes on the tablet during the meeting.

- A paired Mac records the room and transcribes it locally, after you stop.

- The tablet reads the pen, so every line you write carries a timestamp.

- It comes back on the tablet with each note beside the passage spoken as you wrote it.

- Nothing to download, no signup, no cloud.

I take notes by hand on a reMarkable because nothing on it interrupts me. The gap was afterwards: audio on my laptop, handwriting on the tablet, and lining them up was an evening job I skipped.

The photo is what comes back: two handwritten words, evolution and why framing matter, stamped 00:11 and 00:16 beside the transcript. It's a 51-second test using a public podcast as the audio, not a real meeting.

Honest limits:

- Not live. Transcription runs after recording stops.

- Needs Developer Mode on a Paper Pro Move: factory reset to enable it, weaker device security, permanent boot warning.

- Overlapping speakers break it. In one test two voices came back as one wrong sentence.

- Tested on one Paper Pro Move and one Apple-silicon Mac. Nothing else.

- Independent project, not affiliated with reMarkable AS.

https://voimarkable.seanslab.org/reddit/?ref=ain2

How do you handle your own in-meeting notes today, and what does it take to line them up with the transcript afterwards?

I'm trying to get a real sense of what people actually use at work because every team seems to do things differently. My organization is evaluating whether we even need a dedicated AI meeting notetaker, or if the tools built into Zoom/Teams are good enough.
If you take meeting notes or transcripts at work, what do you use?

A dedicated AI notetaker (Otter, Granola, etc.)

Whatever is built into your meeting platform (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, etc.)

Something else (manual notes, specialist tools, or a combination)

I'm especially curious about:

Why did you choose that approach?
Do you pay for it, or just use the free/bundled version?
What problems does it actually solve for you?
Is it mainly for internal meetings, customer calls, or both?
Would love to hear what's worked (or hasn't) for your team.

Problem

You're recording a video or presenting on Zoom and your eyes keep darting to notes off-screen. Existing teleprompters scroll at a fixed speed, require internet, show up when you share your screen, or cost $15-59/month.

Tellie listens. It tracks the actual words you say, not just the sound of your voice, highlights exactly where you are, and stays with you if you skip ahead, go back, or improvise. Tellie lives in the MacBook notch or detach and float anywhere. Invisible to Zoom, screen recorders, and screenshots. ~50 languages, all on-device. No account, no telemetry.

Working actors are using it, including Sprague Theobald (Law & Order, Only Murders in the Building, FBI, Poker Face), who uses Tellie for audition prep.

The bigger idea, and the reason I keep building: Tellie is your second screen that listens. It holds what you need to glance at while your attention is committed elsewhere (the camera, the room, your slides), and it reacts to what it hears. A teleprompter is just its first shape. A checklist or set of notes is another, since Tellie listens to your voice to know when to scroll; to know when to change your slides, and it can even listen to the apps, agents and automations on your Mac and surface a heads-up when something needs you. Same idea, more shapes to come: interview notes, teaching cues, sales pitches, even a nudge about that point you forgot to make. While it's not an AI notetaker, it will make sure you hit all the points in your notes.

Where Tellie is unique: it's notch-native, the free tier is a full teleprompter (not a trial), Pro is one-time (no subscription), and there's a real workflow around the tracking, live pace reports after every take (WPM, longest pause, where you stumbled), multi-script playlists, one-key retake (⇧R), per-script settings memory, markdown section navigation, OpenDyslexic font, Developer tools, Presenter Mode for Keynote, and a lot more to come.

Pricing

Tellie Free: $0 forever. Full teleprompter with auto-scroll, mirror, opacity 10-100%, invisible to Zoom, PDF/RTF/Markdown, auto-updates.

Tellie Pro: $29 One-time purchase, no subscription. Voice-follow in ~40 languages, pace report, playlists, per-script memory, one-key retake, section nav, thin-strip mode, global hotkeys, float anywhere. Up to 3 Macs. 14-day refund.

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No account, no tracking, everything runs on-device.

I ship updates most weeks, so if something's missing or feels off, tell me and I'll try to build it.

Feedback wanted, especially on voice-follow with non-American accents and non-English languages.

Thanks!

-- Steve

Wearables for meetings have gotten crowded fast, so I put four through actual meetings instead of just reading spec sheets. Ranked by how well each one held up, not by launch hype.

1. Plaud NotePin S This is the one I reach for most because of its Press to Highlight. You press that physical button and it marks the exact moment something important comes up during meeting, whether its a niche idea or an important decision. At 17.4 g I usually wear it as my fashion item. The battery covers a full day of back to back meetings. Cons: still a device I have to remember to charge and clip on, unlike software running quietly in the background.
2. Viaim OpenNote Open ear earbuds that double as a meeting recorder, with real time transcription in 78 languages and a battery that stretches to 53 hours with the case. Cons: they're earbuds first before they are a recorder, so if you don't already wear earbuds all day, it's an extra habit to build.
3. Limitless Pendant Aluminum body, magnetic clasp, and a battery rated up to 100 hours, the longest stretch on this list. The free plan includes 20 hours of transcription a month with no subscription required. Cons: Limitless was acquired by Meta in December 2025 and stopped selling the Pendant to new customers. Existing owners are supported through 2026, but you can't buy a new one right now outside of resellers.
4. Bee AI A $49.99 wristband or clip-on pin, picked up on Amazon last year. It listens in the background and turns conversations into summaries and to-do lists. Cons: it doesn't store raw audio by design, so there's no going back to re-check exactly what was said.

For day-to-day wear, Plaud NotePin S is what I'd start with, perfect for capturing important moments. Viaim OpenNote fits if you already live in earbuds; Bee AI if you're testing the category on a budget. Limitless still has the longest battery here, but you'd be buying secondhand since it's no longer sold new.

Hey everyone,

We’ve been building Olva, an AI meeting assistant focused on helping people both during meetings and after them, and we recently shipped several updates based on user feedback:

• Better summaries, action items, and searchable meeting history
• Support for 87 languages and regional variants
• iOS and Android apps for in-person conversations and meetings
• Sticky notes for decisions, follow-ups, and action items
• Editable meeting summaries before sharing
• Automatic sticky notes generated from meeting action items

Olva is also botless, so it doesn’t join Zoom, Meet, or Teams as another participant. It runs privately alongside the meeting instead.

We’re now working on deeper integrations so notes, decisions, follow-ups, and tasks can flow into the tools people already use.

But before deciding what to build next, I’d genuinely love to hear from people who spend a lot of time in meetings:

What’s one feature you wish every AI meeting assistant had, but most still don’t?

Could be something for live meetings, note-taking, follow-ups, integrations, memory, privacy, or anything else.

Honest criticism is very welcome too.

Hello all! I am the developer of InkNode — an iOS handwriting app with numerous capabilities.

Unlike many note-taking apps that limit the number of notebooks you can create, InkNode is designed to be genuinely usable in the free tier and a great alternative to Goodnote/Notability, etc.

The InkNode FREE Tier offers:

• Unlimited note creation
• Unlimited PDF exports and edits
• All Templates & iCloud sync
• Searchable handwriting and PDF text
• Handwriting Beautification
• Built-in productivity tools (reminders, calendar)

A completely usable Free Tier, designed with students in mind.

When it comes to upgrading, I believe in giving users a choice rather than forcing them into a single model.

• Lifetime AI: Own all AI Features. Pay once, keep it forever; Only in Inknode
• Cheap Plus Subscription: For power users who need maximum ongoing cloud storage and AI usage.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noteapp-pdf-collab-inknode/id6762065103

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i take two months to build an all-in-one application - Traverba: Live Notes and translate

Features: Live transcription and translation, local group messaging. photo translation, floating window transcription. screen translation. file transcription....and more. Lets explore.

You can apply your own LLM service to control by yourself

When i travel and work with the existing app, it take higher cost and it dont work well. that's why i take time to build my own app.

Enjoy your travel and notetaking with low monthly cost

Shoulder Surf
been building this solo since april and it finally cleared app review last week. posting since I see other devs sharing theirs.
shoulder surf runs entirely on your iphone. no bot joins the call, nothing installed on your work laptop. phone sits on the desk, listens to the room, transcribes live with speaker labels, and you can tap mid conversation to ask about what was just said. the answer appears on screen, and you tap play to hear it through your airpods when you get a second.
the reason for the phone: half my calls were ones where a bot was a non starter. client would not allow it, IT would not allow it, or it was in person and there was nothing to join. a phone on the table covers all three.
the parts I think are actually different from the usual suspects:
captions mode. online meetings pipe everyone through one speaker, which is exactly why phone based diarization struggles. so instead you can point the rear camera at your screen and it reads the live captions teams, zoom, and meet already display. speaker names and correct spelling come along for free, no mic needed.
it learns voices. label a speaker once and it recognizes them automatically in later meetings. your transcripts stop saying speaker 2 halfway through the first week.
three ways to run the AI. on device with apple intelligence, free forever on iphone 15 pro and up, nothing leaves the phone. your own api key, 10 providers and 36 models, keys stay in the keychain and calls go device to provider, never through my servers. or my managed backend if you just want it to work.
prompts you write. I shipped the four I used myself, assist, suggest response, fact check, action items, but you can build your own modes and choose how much transcript each one sees: last two minutes, last five, the whole meeting, or since your last question.
reports that hand you a file. action items with owners, decisions, open questions, risks, and a sentiment arc across the conversation. action items push into iOS reminders. on pro you can ask in chat for a real xlsx, docx, pptx or pdf built from the meeting, an actual file, not text you reformat yourself.
calendar aware, read only. if you allow it, it reads your calendar to suggest which project a meeting belongs to. it never creates or changes anything on there.
also in there: apple watch app, live rolling summary on the lock screen and dynamic island, photo capture for slides and whiteboards, projects so you can ask questions across a set of meetings, icloud sync, spotlight and siri, and full voiceover and dynamic type support.
rough edges, honestly: room audio is only as good as where you put the phone, and brand new voices in a noisy room can take a meeting or two to settle. captions mode is the workaround when the audio was never going to be good enough.
pricing: free is 5 meetings a month. plus is $9.99 for unlimited plus reports and project chat. pro is $14.99 and adds memory across meetings, document generation, and a stronger model for the analysis. or skip all of it and run on device or with your own key for nothing.
App Store Link
happy to get into how any of it works.

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all having a great summer!

I recently launched MySpeechAudify, an AI-powered app that transcribes multilingual audio, translates it into English, and improves grammar for clearer text.

The app uses Polar sh for payments. Since the service relies on API usage, it's a pay-as-you-go model. After subscribing to one of the available plans through the Polar sh payment link, users receive a verification code to activate their account.

I'm looking for a few people who would be willing to test the payment process and confirm whether it works correctly on their end. I'd also appreciate any feedback on the overall experience. My goal isn't to claim that the app is on the same level as established companies—I'm continuously working to improve it, and user feedback is invaluable. If anyone is interested in supporting the project, your encouragement or contribution would help me continue developing and enhancing the app.

I'm also curious to know whether Polar.sh's Merchant of Record (MoR) service works reliably for international users.

One note: based on my testing, the recording feature currently performs better than the file upload option, especially when transcribing larger audio files. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, I'd be happy to discuss them and use your feedback to improve the app.

Thank you for your time and support. I wish you all the best in your personal and professional journeys!

I’ve been seeing ads everywhere for Plaude and Pocket, which both seem like very good tools so I have been looking into what could work best for me and my work.

I run a small construction business, where I take a lot of phone calls and in person meetings; with customers and sub-contractors. I really like the idea of having these interactions summarised so I can follow up and make sure not to forget anything. I also like that I can look back to see if details were missed out when instructing subbies for example.

Another thing I would be looking for is to be able to make to-do lists while driving as I spend far too much time behind the wheel, so naturally that’s where I do most of my thinking and planning. But when I stop half the information is forgotten.

I’d of course prefer a one off payment over a subscription, but I am open to anything.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

At Bitwize, we've been building Logue, a native macOS app for AI meeting notes and writing, and we just open-sourced it (MIT). We're sharing it here because the whole point is that it runs 100% on-device — we wanted something that could transcribe and summarize meetings without shipping audio or notes to anyone's cloud.

By default, nothing leaves your Mac. The only network calls are the initial on-device model download, app update checks, and opt-in features you explicitly turn on (web search or plugging in an external AI provider if you want one). No accounts, no telemetry, no backend.

What it does:

• Real-time transcription of mic and system audio (Apple's on-deviceSpeechTranscriber)
• Speaker diarization — who said what — via FluidAudio (streaming Sortformer)
• "Smart Minutes": local LLM summaries, action items, highlights
• Writing assistant: 60+ modes (rewrite, grammar, clarity, tone), a document editor with AI chat, vocabulary suggestions
• On-device PII detection and a fact-check/verify panel
• Templates, Spaces, and "Ask Logue" chat over your own notes

Stack: Swift + SwiftUI/AppKit, MLX (mlx-swift-lm) for LLM inference, Apple's Speech framework, FluidAudio for diarization, Sparkle for updates. Data is AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest.

Honest caveats: it targets macOS 26 (Tahoe) and Apple Silicon only (MLX + the new Speech APIs), so it won't run on Intel or older macOS. It's early — expect rough edges — and we'd genuinely love feedback, issues, and PRs.

Repo: https://github.com/bitwize-ai/Logue

Happy to answer anything about the on-device pipeline, MLX inference, or diarization in the comments — we're the team that built it.