{"slug": "show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac", "title": "Show HN: threadfork – AI meeting notes that run on your Mac", "summary": "Threadfork, a new AI meeting notetaker that runs entirely locally on Apple Silicon Macs, has been launched by developer Navneet Nair. The tool captures microphone and system audio without a meeting bot and ensures no meeting data is sent or saved externally, addressing privacy concerns highlighted by Granola's updated policy opting users into model training on de-identified data. Threadfork costs $40/month after a 14-day trial and supports macOS 14+ on Apple M-Series computers.", "body_md": "Hi HN, I built threadfork. It's an AI notetaker where the whole pipeline runs locally on Apple Silicon. Your microphone and system audio gets captured without a meeting bot and most importantly your meeting data doesn’t get sent or saved anywhere.\n\nI've been building in the privacy + local LLM space for the past several years (I started DataFog, an OSS PII detection library with 300K+ downloads); keeping all the processing and data on-device was a day 0 condition for me when building this out. Granola's updated privacy policy, effective later this week, keeps non-enterprise users opted into model training on \"de-identified\" data by default. Having built PII detection for a living, I'll say plainly: de-identifying meeting transcripts is really hard. Names are the easy part; deal terms, client details, and health disclosures are the transcript. For the lawyers, consultants, and therapists I've been talking to, the only version of this that holds up is the model never seeing the data at all.\n\nIt's macOS 14+ on Apple M-Series computers (for now), 14-day trial, no credit card. I have a user running this on an M1 8GB so older machines welcome. $40/month after that. I use this product daily and you can expect regular updates.\n\nWelcome any/all feedback.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996204](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996204)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac", "canonical_source": "https://www.threadfork.com/", "published_at": "2026-07-21 18:30:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 18:43:15.333364+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Threadfork", "Navneet Nair", "DataFog", "Granola", "Apple Silicon", "macOS 14", "Apple M-Series"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-threadfork-ai-meeting-notes-that-run-on-your-mac.jsonld"}}