Meeting notes that write themselves — on your Mac
folo notices when you’re in a call, records both sides, and — by default entirely on your Mac — turns it into a transcript, who-said-what, and action items. Ask across every meeting you’ve ever had. No bot joins the call.
Less than four months of a meeting-AI subscription — and your audio stays on your Mac by default. All kveik software is in beta until 1 August 2026.
The difference
Meeting transcribers usually send a bot into your call and your audio to their servers. folo is local-first. It records quietly on your Mac. Select WhisperKit, SpeechAnalyzer or Parakeet globally to transcribe locally; ElevenLabs uploads meeting audio when selected.
From detecting the call to who-said-what, action items and your invoice — local-first, bot-free and a one-time purchase.
folo detects calls in Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack or Discord and offers to record. No setup per app — it listens to audio, not to integrations.
Audio-based · no per-app setup
System audio + your microphone, captured on your Mac. Nothing joins the meeting. Audio is deleted after transcription by default.
System audio + mic · deleted after transcription
Pick a global transcription backend in Settings: WhisperKit, Apple’s built-in SpeechAnalyzer or NVIDIA Parakeet process audio on-device. ElevenLabs Scribe uploads meeting audio only when globally selected.
3 local engines + cloud option · 25 EU languages + JA/ZH
On-device speaker recognition separates everyone in the room — not just you vs. the rest. Name a voice once and folo recognizes that person in every future meeting. Voice profiles stay in the local speaker database and are not included in cloud-backend requests or webhook payloads.
Named once · recognized every meeting
Every meeting becomes a structured summary — decisions, next steps and a clear list of action items — in templates for General, 1:1, Standup or Sales/Customer. The global backend is Apple Intelligence, Ollama or Local MLX for local processing; Anthropic via a direct API key; or Claude Code (Anthropic cloud via local CLI).
Optional live transcription and a running, AI-written digest during the meeting (beta) — so you can glance at what’s been decided without scrolling back.
Live digest
Decided: ship beta Friday, build owns it.
Open: support handoff doc — Sarah to send.
Updated live · still recording
Ask about one meeting, or search your whole history. Answers come with clickable sources that jump to the exact moment it was said — powered by the same engine you chose, cloud or fully local.
One toggle hands every finished meeting to Døgn, the companion time tracker — so the call you just had becomes tracked, billable time without retyping a thing. Reads your macOS calendar locally (EventKit) to label meetings — no calendar accounts. An embedded MCP server lets Claude/Cursor search your meetings.
Weekly Product Sync
32 min · finished
Døgn
+ 0:32 tracked
One toggle · meeting → billable time
Meet Døgn, the time trackerfolo stores audio and transcripts in its local database. When globally selected, ElevenLabs receives meeting audio. For summaries, folo sends transcript text directly to Anthropic using the stored API key, or the locally installed Claude CLI sends it to Anthropic using its separate CLI authentication. Configured webhooks send only the selected event metadata — local numeric ID, suite UUID when available, title, start/end/duration, language, attendees, status and assignment engagement ID — to user-added HTTPS endpoints, not audio, transcripts or summaries.
| folo | Cloud transcribers | |
|---|---|---|
| Bot joins your call | No | Usually yes |
| Audio leaves your device | No — on-device by default | Yes |
| Speaker recognition | On-device, remembered | Cloud-side, if any |
| Works with any meeting app | Yes — audio-based | Per-integration |
| Pricing | €119 once | €200–360 per year, per seat |
Download
One download, signed & notarized. Updates install themselves from then on.
v0.3.4 · 20.8 MB · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon
All kveik software is in beta until 1 August 2026.
No — local recording, nothing in the call.
Local backends keep processing on your Mac. If selected globally in Settings, ElevenLabs Scribe receives meeting audio. For summaries, folo sends transcript text directly to Anthropic using the stored API key, or the locally installed Claude CLI sends it to Anthropic using separate CLI authentication. Configured webhooks send selected event metadata to user-added HTTPS endpoints, not audio, transcripts or summaries.
Any — it captures audio, not an integration.
Yes — on-device diarization separates each speaker, and naming a voice once lets folo recognize that person in every future meeting.
One backend is selected globally in Settings: Apple Intelligence, Ollama or Local MLX process summaries locally; Anthropic Cloud sends transcript text directly using your API key; Claude Code sends transcript text to Anthropic through the local CLI, whose authentication is separate from folo.
Yes — one toggle sends each finished meeting to Døgn, turning the call into tracked, billable time.
No — €119 once. One-time purchase with free updates.
Refunds are handled by Paddle under their buyer terms — reach out if something’s not right.
Bot-free, on-device, yours to keep.
