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oats lives in your menu bar and stays out of the way. Hit record, get back to your meeting, forget it's running. When you're done it hands you a clean transcript and a tidy set of notes. No tab to babysit, no bot to invite, no "sorry, can you repeat that?"

You decide where the work happens:

• ☁️ Free, in the cloud — sign in and let Ariso do the heavy lifting. Real-time transcription, zero setup.
• 🔒 Private, on-device — flip one switch and recording, transcription, speaker labels, and notes all run offline. No login. No upload. Nothing leaves your machine.

✨ Features

• 🎙️ One-click recording from the menu bar. Pause, resume, stop — without leaving what you're doing.
• ⚡ Real-time transcription that streams in as people talk.
• 🗣️ Speaker labels — who said what, sorted out for you.
• 📝 Automatic notes — a clean Markdown summary for every recording.
• 📚 Library — every recording, transcript, and note in one place.
• 🔗 Share — native macOS share sheet, or share to the web (Ariso backend).
• 🔄 Auto-updates — signed, notarized, and quietly current.

📥 Install

🍺 Homebrew

# Add the tap (the cask lives in this repo, so point Homebrew at it directly)
brew tap ariso-ai/oats https://github.com/ariso-ai/oats

# Trust the cask, then install
brew trust --cask ariso-ai/oats/oats
brew install --cask oats

Homebrew 6.0 introduced tap trust: third-party taps must be explicitly trusted before they install. The brew trust step grants that once — without it you'll see Refusing to load cask … from untrusted tap.

📦 Direct download

1. Download the latest oats.dmg from the Releases page.
2. Open the DMG and drag oats into your Applications folder.
3. Launch it from Applications. oats lives in your menu bar — look for the icon.

The app is code-signed and notarized by Apple, and keeps itself up to date as new versions ship.

🚀 Getting started

First launch, pick a transcription backend in Settings → Transcription Backend:

☁️ Ariso — free, in the cloud

The default. Sign in, hit record. Audio streams to the Ariso backend, which transcribes it in real time and keeps your meetings so you can revisit and share them from anywhere. Free — pick this if you want zero setup and don't mind your transcripts living in the cloud.

🔒 Local — private, 100% offline

Sensitive conversation? Switch the backend to Local and oats does everything on-device:

• Recording is captured and saved locally.
• Transcription runs locally: CoreML on Apple Neural Engine for macOS, and Parakeet ONNX on CPU for Windows 11 internal QA.
• Notes are written by an on-device language model — no API calls.

No login, no upload — your audio, transcripts, and notes never leave your machine. There's a one-time download for the models: open Settings → On-device models and install the speech model and language model (each shows a green tick when ready). After that, oats works completely offline.

Everything is stored locally under ~/.ariso/recordings/:

🔐 Privacy at a glance

🤝 Contributing

oats is open source, and we'd love your help — a bug report, a feature idea, or a pull request all count.

👉 CONTRIBUTING.md walks through setting up a dev environment, building the app and the on-device sidecar, running the tests, and cutting a release.

📄 License

oats is open source under the MIT License.

🛠️ Built with

Tauri v2 · Vue 3 · Vite · Rust · FluidAudio · MLX · and a lot of Claude Code.