Hobnob records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings, all on your laptop. No cloud, no sign-up, no internet. Just you and your friendly house-goblin.
Free for everyone.
Support the project if it helps you. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Your meetings never leave your laptop.
Real-time transcription as everyone speaks, with speaker labels baked right in.
Structured meeting notes with decisions, action items, and open questions, locally run.
Ask questions while it's happening. Hobnob's bundled LLM answers from the transcript.
Auto-titles meetings from your calendar. 5-minute heads-up with one-click join. Swap Whisper models. Pick your own LLM GGUF. Full control over what runs locally.
Native desktop app for Apple Silicon and Linux. AppImage, .deb, and .pacman packages.
Recordings, transcripts, and summaries are saved on your machine. Whisper runs locally for transcription. The bundled LLM runs locally for summaries and chat. No API keys, no telemetry, no accounts.
Hit record. Hobnob captures your mic and system audio. Live captions appear instantly.
When the meeting ends, Whisper runs a high-accuracy pass. Speaker labels are applied automatically.
Hobnob scribbles your notes with decisions, action items, and questions. Everything stays on your machine.
Free to download and use. ~8 GB RAM recommended. Models download on first run.
macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon) Hobnob-mac.zip
Not signed with an Apple developer certificate.
How to allow it. Any modern distro