Ownscribe – an open-source, Python-based CLI tool for local meeting transcription, summarization, and search.
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Apr 4, 2026
ownscribe is an open-source, python-based CLI tool to transcribe, summarize, and search meetings – fully locally on your machine.As someone who hates taking notes, but also forgets things easily, I found the idea of transcribing and summarizing meetings automatically neat.
However, all the existing tools out there store everything on their servers, don't work with every type of meeting, and cost $30/month or more.I wanted a tool that just runs locally and uses a very simple format (like .md) to integrate with my other workflows – but there wasn't anything like that. That's why I started to build ownscribe over the past few months and continuously improved it. It started as just a tool for transcription and summarization, and now even allows you to search past meetings with natural language (and a local LLM).At the moment, it is mainly optimised for macOS (although Linux should also partially work). I'd love to have some more feedback on how to make it more useful!
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