Meeting notes organized around the people you meet.
Savory records your meetings, transcribes them entirely on your Mac, and files every conversation under the people in it. Audio never touches disk.
Capture tools remember the meeting. You need to remember the person.
A stranger in every call
Cloud notetakers join your meeting as a participant and upload the audio to their servers. Your clients see the bot. Their legal team sees the retention policy.
Notes filed by date, useful never
A folder of transcripts sorted by day tells you nothing before your next call. What you need is everything you ever discussed with the person walking in.
Who owes whom, forgotten
Commitments made in meetings evaporate. Savory keeps a two-way ledger per person, so you walk in knowing where things stand.
The people wedge
Every meeting flows into the people it was with.
Open anyone and see your whole history: every meeting, how often you talk, what came out of it, and the open items on both sides of the table.
Explore people-centric organization →Privacy by architecture
Private because it can't be otherwise.
Most tools promise privacy in a policy. Savory enforces it in the build: the code path that would write audio to disk does not exist, and an automated audit keeps it that way.
Audio lives in memory only
Samples are read for on-device transcription, then dropped. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is saved, nothing can leak from a server that was never involved.
Summaries are opt-in and scrubbed
Off by default. When you ask, only the text transcript is summarized with OpenAI or Gemini, and emails, phone numbers, card numbers, and IDs are redacted before it goes.
Your data stays on your Mac
Notes, transcripts, and voiceprints live in local storage under your account. Deleting everything is one biometric-confirmed action.
Three things happen. Only one of them is your job.
Record
Hit Record from the top bar, the menu bar, the floating recorder, or any calendar event. On a Mac, Savory captures your mic and the other side of the call. No bot joins anything.
Transcribe, on device
Whisper runs locally, with live text as people speak and speaker separation on macOS. The model lives on your Mac, so it works in airplane mode.
Organized by person
Meetings file themselves under everyone who attended. Summaries, topics, and action items land on each person's page, next to everything you've ever discussed.
A recorder that stays out of the way. And out of your calls.
A small floating recorder sits wherever you drag it: live waveform, timer, one click to stop. The menu bar keeps quick record a keystroke away. Echo cancellation and speaker separation keep the transcript clean and attributed. And when the meeting ends, the audio is already gone: transcription consumed it in memory, and only the text remains.
More on live recording →One calm app. Three ways to use it.
Pick a mode when you first open Savory: one, several, or all. Each keeps its own space and its own data.
Capture meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items.
The full loop: record, transcribe on device, organize by person, follow through.
Meetings mode → StudentOrganize coursework by term and course, and capture lectures.
The same on-device pipeline, pointed at class. Kept fully separate from work.
Student mode → NotesA focused notebook for everything else.
WYSIWYG Markdown, checklists, note links, notebooks. Export to plain files anytime.
Notes mode →Calm on the surface. Thorough underneath.
Summaries
Overview, key topics, decisions, and action items with owners. Powered by OpenAI or Gemini, only when you ask.
Learn more →Calendar
Google and Apple side by side in Day, Week, and Month views. Record any event in one click.
Learn more →Search
Full-text across transcripts, summaries, titles, and attendees. ⌘K from anywhere.
Learn more →On-device transcription
Three local Whisper models, live text on macOS, airplane-mode friendly.
Learn more →Granola, Fireflies, or Otter? Start with the architecture.
| Capability | Savory | Granola | Fireflies | Otter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transcription runs on your device | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Audio never stored, anywhere | ✓ | ~ | ✕ | ✕ |
| No meeting bot joins the call | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ~ |
| Notes organized by person | ✓ | ✕ | ~ | ~ |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
Pricing that matches the architecture.
The app is free. The AI is the upgrade.
Unlimited on-device transcription, people pages, calendar, and search, free forever. Pro adds AI summaries and action items, with a 30-day free trial.
Questions people actually ask
No. Audio is processed in memory and never written to disk, let alone uploaded. Transcription runs on your Mac with a local Whisper model. The only thing that can leave is the text transcript, and only when you explicitly ask for a summary.
Never. Savory records locally on your Mac, capturing your microphone and the call's system audio directly. Nothing appears in the participant list, nothing asks to be let in, and nothing depends on which meeting app you use.
The text transcript, with emails, phone numbers, card numbers, and IDs redacted, is summarized using OpenAI or Gemini. It's opt-in and off by default. The summary comes back and is stored locally with everything else.
Your next meeting deserves a better memory.
Download Savory, record one meeting, open the person's page. That's the pitch.
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