LokalBot
by stevyhacker
LokalBot is a desktop app that records meetings without a bot, transcribes them on your own computer, and lets you search what you heard and saw on screen. It also offers dictation, autocomplete and rewriting of selected text, using AI models that run locally.
- Stars
- 79
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Swift
- Age
- 129 days
What you can do with it
- Record meetings and get local transcripts, summaries, decisions and action items with citations
- Search across meeting transcripts and screen history by keyword or meaning
- Dictate text into any app and get sentence autocomplete suggestions as you type
Could replace
- Granola
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
A freelancer could offer meeting-minutes or project follow-up write-ups to clients, using the local transcripts and summaries to produce them quickly.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Capture client calls and turn them into summaries and action items without paying for a meeting-notes subscription
- Draft follow-up replies from what was actually agreed in earlier meetings, keeping client data on your own machine
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download the app from the GitHub releases page, or on a Mac install it with the Homebrew command brew install --cask stevyhacker/tap/lokalbot.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Windows and Linux versions are alpha, and the Windows build is not code-signed
- Best support is on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later
- Screen recall records what is on your screen, so sensitive data may be stored locally
- Recording calls may need consent from other participants
- Built by a single developer
Who's talking about it
- It's FOSS (Local AI Weekly): Local AI Weekly #7: Bubble or Not? (28 Oct 2026) Featured in a roundup
Checked 29 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
