Anarlog

Note: The team is now building [char](https://char.com). The anarlog community application remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and maintained as the local-first meeting notetaker in this repo. Source-visible enterprise components are commercially licensed.

anarlog

The privacy-first AI meeting notepad.

Open source, local-first, and yours to fork. Granola, rearranged.

Website • Docs • Download • Discord • r/anarlog • @anarlogapp • Status

anarlog is an open-source alternative to Granola. It takes notes in your meetings without sending a bot to join the call: it listens to your device audio, can transcribe on your machine, and keeps app data in a local SQLite database.

It is built for people who want AI meeting notes without handing their conversations to someone else's cloud, and for anyone who needs to get a notetaker past a security review with a straight face.

Why anarlog

• No bot joins your call. anarlog captures audio directly on your device. Nothing appears in the participant list, and nothing records from inside the meeting.
• Local when you choose it. On supported Macs, available built-in transcription models run on-device. Local Intelligence providers keep summaries and chat on your computer too.
• Your data, in a format you can read. Sessions, notes, and transcripts live in local SQLite. Recordings and attachments are plain local files. Export Markdown whenever it fits your workflow.
• Bring your own AI. Use a supported hosted provider, your own API key, or an OpenAI-compatible local server such as Ollama, LM Studio, or Unsloth.
• Readable source, MIT. The community application is MIT-licensed. Fork it, audit it, sell it, or build it yourself.
• Cloud is opt-in, not required. Hosted AI, encrypted CloudSync, and sharing exist when you want them. Nothing depends on them.
• A front door for your org. Source-visible enterprise components and commercial deployment options give security and IT teams a real path to yes.

What runs where

How AI works

anarlog keeps audio transcription separate from the language model used for summaries and chat. You can change either one without changing the other.