--- title: Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative... description: Yogurt is a free, open source app that generates private AI meeting notes. It records calls without adding a bot to the meeting, and produces a summary with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-yogurt-free-private-open-source-alternative-to-granola-w8zhburxd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola | daily.dev og:description: Yogurt is a free, open source app that generates private AI meeting notes. It records calls without adding a bot to the meeting, and produces a summary with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-yogurt-free-private-open-source-alternative-to-granola-w8zhburxd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/w8zhbUrxd.png og:image:alt: Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Yogurt is a free, open source app that generates private AI meeting notes. It records calls without adding a bot to the meeting, and produces a summary with the plan, next steps by person, and personal reminders. It runs on macOS 14.4+ (Apple Silicon), Windows 10 2004+ (x64), and Ubuntu 22.04+ (x64 AppImage), requiring 8 GB of memory. The project is MIT licensed and made by Frigade. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there an open source alternative to meeting bots like Otter or Fireflies that doesn't join the call? Yes, Yogurt is a free, open source, MIT-licensed app that records calls locally without adding a bot to the meeting. It generates AI summaries covering the plan, next steps by person, and personal reminders. It runs on macOS 14.4+ (Apple Silicon), Windows 10 2004+ (x64), and Ubuntu 22.04+ (x64 AppImage) with 8 GB of memory required. _Teams comparing bot-based versus bot-free meeting note tools can track new releases on daily.dev._ ### What are the system requirements for Yogurt, the open source AI meeting notes app? Yogurt requires macOS 14.4 or later on Apple Silicon, Windows 10 2004 or later on x64, or Ubuntu 22.04 or a similar x64 Linux distribution using the AppImage. It needs 8 GB of memory and is distributed under the MIT license, with installers available for all three platforms. _Developers evaluating self-hosted AI tools often check hardware and OS requirements like these on daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 65 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-11-11). **TL;DR:** Launch discussion is friendly and curious, with many developers sharing similar open-source meeting-notes projects for comparison, while a handful raise concerns about speaker diarization, Electron's resource usage, and whether the YC affiliation claim is misleading. **Sentiment:** 40% positive · 45% mixed · 15% skeptical **The case for** - Several people say they've been waiting for exactly this kind of tool and are excited to try it. - Cross-platform support (Windows/Linux, not just Mac) is called out as a differentiator from similar tools. - The default in-call recording-consent warning is appreciated for privacy reasons, especially by someone in a two-party consent state. **The pushback** - Multiple commenters question how diarization (identifying who said what) works and whether it's limited to macOS. - Using Electron is flagged as likely to cause heavy memory usage, compounded by local AI models also consuming resources. - The 'Backed by Y Combinator' claim is criticized as referring to the parent company rather than this specific project, calling it borderline misleading. - Several note the space is crowded with near-identical alternatives (Muesli, OpenOats, OpenWhispr, Steno, Biscotti, FluidVoice, Noted, Anarlog, Talky, Yapsnap, Dictator) and ask how this one differs. - One commenter argues the product is a complement to Granola rather than a true replacement, contrary to the framing. **By community** - hackernews (mixed): Welcoming and curious overall, but tempered by comparisons to many competing open-source alternatives and pointed technical/business questions. **Hottest debate:** Whether this tool is genuinely a 'replacement' for Granola or just a complementary niche tool, amid a crowded field of near-identical open-source alternatives. **Open questions** - How exactly does speaker diarization work, and is it limited to macOS? - Is the local MCP server authenticated, or can any local app read the transcripts? - What is the best current speech-to-text model to use, since Apple's dictation model is considered weak? - Can model selection be customized rather than auto-chosen based on hardware? **Highlights** > My issue is that yogurt is a complement to granola, not a replacement. > — [jonas21 on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459348) > > "Backed by Y Combinator" How exactly? Edit: Ah I see the parent company - https://frigade.com/ > — [QGQBGdeZREunxLe on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458031) > The electron use is giving me pause. It’s going to eat up memory. > — [Aniket-N on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457019) > Yeah Yogurt uses accessibility permissions to grab speaker names from Zoom, Google Meet, etc. But that said, I recommend you let people know if you're going to take a recording. > — [brownrout on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456457) > I also got frustrated with Granola earlier this year and have been building my replacement - Noted: https://takenoted.com/ It shares similar principles but is (currently) closed source and mac-only. Take a look at anarlog as well - it's a great project and I wish I'd found it earlier as I probably would have contributed instead of starting my own: https://anarlog.so/ Let me know if you want to compare notes - I am sure we have hit a lot of the same issues. > — [zaius on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456473) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454625) · 137 points · 65 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How Granola Automates Meeting Progress](https://daily.dev/posts/how-granola-automates-meeting-progress-egfjwfacv) · SitePoint · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings](https://daily.dev/posts/amd-s-gaia-local-ai-now-able-to-transcribe-summarize-meeting-recordings-imeosscem) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Krisp: Voice AI for Meetings](https://daily.dev/posts/krisp-voice-ai-for-meetings-0zywcfzca) · Product Hunt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I self-host Speakr to transcribe every meeting and voice note, and it beats Otter.ai for free](https://daily.dev/posts/i-self-host-speakr-to-transcribe-every-meeting-and-voice-note-and-it-beats-otter-ai-for-free-is0fz6ybc) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#local-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/local-ai), [#electron](https://daily.dev/tags/electron), [#llama-cpp](https://daily.dev/tags/llama-cpp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-yogurt-free-private-open-source-alternative-to-granola-w8zhburxd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-yogurt-free-private-open-source-alternative-to-granola-w8zhburxd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/show-hn-yogurt-free-private-open-source-alternative-to-granola-w8zhburxd"},"datePublished":"2026-11-11T18:02:16.759Z","dateModified":"2026-11-11T23:03:42.976Z","description":"Yogurt is a free, open source app that generates private AI meeting notes. 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