Meeting notes without the meeting bot, or the cloud

What it does Yogurt is an Electron app for Mac, Windows and Linux that records your microphone and system audio during calls, transcribes them live, and writes up summaries with next steps. It detects when a call starts in Zoom, Teams or Meet and offers to record — no bot ever joins the meeting. Everything — audio, transcripts, AI processing — stays on your computer.

The interesting bit The whole AI stack is local: Whisper via whisper.cpp for transcription (with Apple SpeechAnalyzer supplying live words on supported Macs), and an open-weight model from the Gemma, gpt-oss or Qwen3 families through llama.cpp for summaries and Q&A. It also ships a local MCP server, so your assistant app of choice can read your meeting notes — read-only, off by default.

Key highlights

• No meeting bot; captures mic and system audio directly, with automatic stop when the call ends
• Answers questions across meetings and links back to the source transcript
• Speaker names from Zoom, Teams and Meet (Mac only, via Accessibility permission)
• Multi-language mode transcribes 99 languages; summaries follow the meeting’s language
• Folders, search, and Markdown export for notes and transcripts

Caveats

• Model downloads are hefty: ~5 GB for the smaller notes model, 14 GB or more for the best one your hardware can run
• The MCP socket has no per-app token — any app running under your account can read your meetings while access is on
• Calendar integration and speaker names are Mac-only; Windows builds aren’t code-signed yet

Verdict Worth a look if you want AI meeting notes without shipping your conversations to someone else’s servers — provided your machine has 8 GB of RAM and disk to spare. If you need cross-platform speaker attribution or a signed installer, wait a bit.