Meeting Notes & Transcripts
Notices when a call starts, records it without a bot joining, and turns it into a searchable transcript with speaker names, a summary and action items. All of it runs on your own computer.
Pay once per version · 14-day money-back guarantee · Nothing uploaded
How it works
Install it once. After that it just works in the background.
Join your call as usual
When Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Slack or another call app starts using the microphone, recording starts. No bot ever joins the meeting.
It records and listens
Records the meeting window and both sides of the audio. Jot timestamped notes in a small window, and ask questions of your own documents while you talk.
Everything is written for you
When the call ends you get a transcript with speaker names, a summary and action items — made on your computer and saved with the recording.
Product tour
From purchase and license key to everyday use, in about a minute and a half.
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- Meeting Notes & Transcripts: Records Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls without a bot, then turns them into transcripts with speaker names, summaries and action items. Everything runs on your own computer. (Desktop software for Windows and Linux; Pay once per version, no subscription; Sold through Lemon Squeezy)
- Pick a license: Personal: $149, one person on up to 2 computers. Business: $249 per seat down to $200 per seat in larger packs (1 to 25 seats), with office server mode.
- Lemon Squeezy checkout: Checkout, payment, tax and the receipt are handled by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record.
- License key by email: Lemon Squeezy emails the receipt with a license key and the installer download. The buyer can also find both on their Lemon Squeezy order page. (Installer for Windows or Linux; License key, activated once online)
- Enter the key in setup: The installer asks for the key and activates it with the Lemon Squeezy License API.
- Activated: The key shows its plan. Each license works on a set number of computers, and a computer can be deactivated to move the license.
- Choose how it runs: On this computer, or using the company's office server (Business).
- Installs what this computer needs: Setup checks the hardware and installs the right speech and AI models.
- Records when a call starts: A window takes notes while you record. No bot joins the meeting.
- Live assist: Answers questions during the call from your past meetings and documents.
- Every meeting in one place: Search, filter and see where your time goes.
- Transcript with speaker names: The video, a timed transcript and who said what.
- Summary and notes: Made on your own computer, with nothing uploaded.
- Action items: Collected from every meeting, with owners and due dates.
- Ask your meetings: Questions answered with sources from your meetings.
- 14-day money-back guarantee: A refund request inside 14 days is refunded right away and the license key is disabled.
- Meeting Notes & Transcripts: Personal $149 · Business from $200 per seat · pay once per version, with every update to it (a new major version is an optional, discounted upgrade). (14-day money-back guarantee; Full documentation at studerworks.com/docs)
See it in action
Screens from the app with sample meetings. Use the arrows (or swipe) to go through them; click a picture to see it full size.
Features
Everything the subscription note-takers do, without the subscription or the upload.
Bot-free recording
Starts on its own when a call app uses the mic and stops a few seconds after it lets go, so back-to-back calls stay separate.
Local transcription
Accurate transcripts with word timings, made by speech models running on your own graphics card or processor.
Knows who spoke
Name a voice once and it's recognized in every later meeting. Review suggestions with short audio clips.
Summaries & action items
Summary styles from brief to detailed, plus action items you can tick off across all meetings.
Tags & folders
Tag meetings by client or project. Each tag can copy its recordings into its own folder automatically.
Ask your meetings
Ask a question and get an answer from every past transcript and summary, with links to the exact moment.
Live assist
Point a tag at a folder of documents. During the call, questions are answered from those documents as they're asked. Needs an NVIDIA graphics card.
Office server mode
Business licenses can run the heavy work on one Linux server in the office; laptops fall back to local processing when it's away.
Password & encryption
Optionally lock the app with a password and keep every recording, transcript and summary encrypted on disk. Recording never stops to ask.
Works with AI assistants
A built-in MCP server lets Claude, Open WebUI and other assistants search your meetings — on your terms.
How it compares
Other note-takers are subscriptions that send your meetings to their cloud. Here is how they line up on the points where Meeting Notes & Transcripts is different.
| Feature | Meeting Notes & Transcripts | Otter.ai | Fireflies.ai | Fathom | tl;dv | Read AI | Krisp | Granola |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | YesPay once per version; major upgrades optional, discounted | NoSubscription | NoSubscription | NoSubscription | NoSubscription | NoSubscription | NoSubscription | NoSubscription |
| Desktop app for Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Records on Windows without a bot joining the call | Yes | Yes | YesNotes only; audio not kept | NoMac only for now | YesAudio only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transcription runs on your own computer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | PartlyEnglish | No |
| Summaries and questions answered on your own computer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Recordings and notes kept on your own disk, not in the provider's cloud | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | PartlyEnterprise plan | No |
Checked November 1, 2026, from each company's own website and help pages, for their regular paid plans. Plans and features change, so check with each provider for current details. Note-takers built into one meeting platform (Microsoft Teams Premium and Copilot, Zoom AI Companion) are left out; they work in that platform and run in Microsoft's or Zoom's cloud. Product names are trademarks of their owners; Studer Works is not affiliated with them.
Pricing
Pay once for this version and get every update to it. Owners get a discount when the next major version comes out. Prices in US dollars; sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where it applies.
Personal
For one person on up to 2 computers. Every feature, all updates for this version, and a discounted upgrade to the next major version.
Business
Per seat, for teams and offices. Everything in Personal, plus office server mode on your own Linux server and a license for company use.
Enterprise
For larger organizations.
- Everything in Business
- Any number of seats
- Volume pricing
- Help with rollout and server setup
14-day money-back guarantee: not for you? Request a refund within 14 days and it's issued right away. Checkout and license keys are handled by our reseller, Lemon Squeezy. A Business purchase gives your company one license key for all its seats. By buying, you agree to the License Agreement and Terms of Use.
System requirements
The setup app checks your computer and only installs what fits it.
Windows
64-bit Windows. Records with the screen and audio built into Windows.
Linux
64-bit Linux with PipeWire audio. Installers for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/openSUSE (.rpm), Arch, and an AppImage for everything else.
Graphics
Uses an NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics card when there is one; also runs on the processor alone, just slower. Live assist needs NVIDIA.
Disk space
About 20 GB for the AI models with the default choices, plus room for your recordings.
Ready when your next call starts
Pay once per version. Your computer. Your data.
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