TechCrunch: Talat is a local AI meeting notes app with no subscription and no cloud

Talat is a Mac app for AI-powered meeting notes that keeps everything on your device. Built by developers Nick Payne and Mike Franklin in Yorkshire, England, it is a 20MB download that requires no account creation, charges no subscription, and sends no analytics back to the developers. The pre-release price is $49, rising to $99 at the 1.0 release.

The app captures audio from meeting tools including Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet, transcribes in real time, and attempts speaker assignment during the session. Users can take inline notes alongside the transcript. There is no backend storing your calls.

Talat runs the Qwen3-4B-4bit model locally, which the developers say works on modest hardware. Users can switch to any cloud LLM provider, or point the app at Ollama. Planned integrations include Google Calendar, Notion, and a webhook system that pushes data to other tools when a meeting ends. The app also exposes an MCP server for connecting to AI assistants.

The positioning is a deliberate response to tools like Granola — valued at $250 million and widely used in tech circles — which store recordings and notes in the cloud. Talat bets that a segment of users will pay a one-time fee for full local control, even at the cost of fewer features at launch.

For product managers who handle sensitive conversations — competitive discussions, executive briefings, early-stage hiring — the appeal is the absence of any third-party data handling. The trade-off is an early-stage product that is rougher than subscription-based alternatives. Payne and Franklin are bootstrapping and plan to keep the core product a one-time purchase.