Yogurt

Yogurt is a free, open-source desktop app from Frigade that records calls without adding a bot to the meeting, transcribes them locally with whisper.cpp, and writes summaries and answers questions with a local open-weight model, with no account required.

Why it matters

For people who want AI meeting notes but don't want a bot joining their calls or their recordings sent to a cloud service: audio, transcripts and AI processing stay on the computer.

Highlights

• Captures your microphone and system audio, so it works with any call app; it offers to record when a Zoom, Teams or Meet call starts and stops when the call ends.
• Transcription uses Whisper via whisper.cpp (plus Apple SpeechAnalyzer for live words on supported Macs); summaries and Q&A use a local Gemma 4, gpt-oss or Qwen3-family model through llama.cpp, picked for your hardware.
• Answers questions across past meetings with links to the source, and supports folders, search and Markdown export.
• Optional local MCP server gives an assistant app read-only access to meetings, notes and transcripts; it is off by default.
• Multi-language mode transcribes 99 languages; speaker names from Zoom, Teams and Meet and calendar access are Mac-only for now.

Taken from the project's own README, docs or launch page. Claims about speed or accuracy are the maker's unless stated otherwise.

Worth knowing: Setup downloads about 5 GB of models first and can fetch a 14 GB+ model after that. No bot joins the call, so you still need to tell other participants you're recording. The Windows build isn't code-signed yet. If you turn on MCP access, any app running under your account can read your notes while it's on, and the connected assistant may send what it reads to its own online model.

Quick facts

Links

• Official site: https://yogurt.so/
• Repository: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt
• Release notes: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt/releases

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Checked 2026-11-12 from the tool's own pages. Prices and star counts change, so confirm on the official site. Listing here is not a ranking or an endorsement.