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Most AI notetakers ask you to trust a privacy policy – Goodmeet is built so nobody can read your meetings, including us.
AI notetakers are useful, and a lot of people now rely on them to capture their calls. The trade-off is control. Once you press record, where your conversation gets processed and who it can be shared with are out of your control.
For a team sync, that’s usually fine. But for those sensitive and private meetings, the AI notetaker is often left out of the conversation. In nearly every product in the category, the conversation is sent to someone else’s server in readable form, what happens to it is a question of policy, and policies change. Plenty of users have already worked this out for themselves, without needing the headlines. They’ll run a notetaker for the routine sync, then close the laptop and reach for pen and paper for the conversation that actually matters – the strategy session, the hiring call, the difficult conversation with a client.
That’s a workaround, not a solution. And it means the tool fails exactly where it would be most useful. The meetings most worth capturing well are the ones people opt out of capturing at all.
Private by design, not by promise #
For over a decade, Goodnotes has built the world’s most popular app for handwritten notes. Today we are launching an AI notetaker you can finally trust with your most important conversations. Goodmeet transcribes your meeting on your Mac. Everything after that runs in a confidential computing environment, sealed so that no one, including us, can access, read or use your meeting content.
For shared notes, Goodmeet uses end-to-end encryption. Notes stay unreadable by anyone else as they move between devices or to a colleague, including by us. “It happens inside a sealed environment called confidential computing, with end-to-end encryption, so not even our own engineers can see your notes,” says Gabriel Jourdan, Product Manager at Goodnotes. “You can sync your notes or share them with your team, but they are only readable by the people you choose.”
What comes next #
The commitment is to bring a more private notetaker to more people who value privacy in their meetings.
Goodmeet is free to try in beta. It runs in English on Macs with Apple silicon (M-series and A-series chips). The team is actively working on expanding device support across desktop, laptop and mobile, and on more features designed around privacy, so the option is there for anyone who wants it.
“Goodnotes is for what people write. Goodmeet is for what people say,” says Steven Chan, Founder at Goodnotes. “Both are now part of Good Systems. And we have one mission: turning good thinking into good work.”
Goodmeet is available now at goodmeet.com.