oats
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About oats
Oats is a free, open-source app that records Mac meetings and turns them into structured notes and action items.
Oats helps teams and solo workers capture meeting notes without inviting a bot to the call. It works best for people who want meeting summaries and todo lists kept on their own device, not stored in the cloud.
- Records meetings on your Mac with no third-party bot
- Generates structured summaries and action item lists
- Stores notes as plain Markdown in local Obsidian vault
- Tags speakers by voice in recordings
- Syncs action items to a Todos tab
Good to know: Free forever, runs on-device with no cloud upload, available for macOS and Windows (beta), open source on GitHub.
Key features
- On-device recording: Records your meeting right on your Mac with no bot joining the call or data sent to third-party servers.
- Action item tracking: Pulls out todo items from meetings with assigned owners, stored in a separate Todos tab you can tick off.
- Local Markdown storage: Saves notes as plain Markdown in your Obsidian vault so you can open, sync, or move them anywhere.
At a glance
- Category: AI Productivity
- Type: Meeting notetaker
- Jobs: Capture Meetings & Notes
- Evidence: Not yet reviewed
- AIME Score: 70 of 100
- Website: ariso.ai
Alternatives to oats
- Scribbl (AIME Score 92)
- Fathom (AIME Score 85)
- Zoom Workplace (AIME Score 79)
- Otter.ai (AIME Score 73)
- Fellow (AIME Score 72)
- Avoma (AIME Score 71)
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Sources: Details checked on the tool’s own website · Researched by AI Made Easy
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