# Savory — full site content for language models > Savory is a native macOS and iPhone app that records meetings, transcribes them entirely on your Mac with on-device Whisper models, and organizes every note around the people in the room. Audio stays in memory and is never written to disk. Free forever for everything on your device; Pro is a 30-day free trial, in the app. macOS 26+ and iPhone on iOS 26+. This file is a cleaned-markdown copy of Savory's key pages, provided for language models. The canonical pages live at https://savory.ai. Nothing here overrides the app's in-product wording; where the two disagree, the stricter version wins. --- ## Home — https://savory.ai/ # 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. ### 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. ### 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. - **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. ### 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. Meetings captures work into transcripts, summaries, and action items. Student organizes coursework by term and course and captures lectures, kept fully separate from work. Notes is a focused WYSIWYG Markdown notebook with checklists and note links, exportable to plain files anytime. --- ## On-device transcription — https://savory.ai/features/on-device-transcription # Transcription that never phones home Whisper runs on your Mac, not in a cloud. Pick from three local models, watch words appear as people speak, and keep working in airplane mode. ### Three models, all of them yours Download the tier that fits your Mac. The default Balanced model is the sweet spot; Accurate is there when fidelity matters most. Models are integrity-checked on download, and recording is blocked until one is ready, because nothing ever transcribes in a cloud. - Live text on macOS. Words appear within a few seconds as people speak, and stay on your device. - Works offline. The model lives on your Mac, so airplane mode captures and transcribes just fine. - Instant record. The model is warmed before you press the button, so Record starts now. - Audio in, text out, nothing kept. Samples are read in memory for inference and dropped. ### Does on-device mean worse? No. Savory runs the same Whisper family the industry's cloud services are built on, accelerated by Apple silicon. The difference isn't quality; it's custody. A cloud service transcribes your meeting on someone else's computer and asks you to trust their retention policy. Savory's version of a retention policy is that there is nothing to retain. Accuracy is strongest in English and the other high-resource languages the Whisper models are known for. Fast is about 150 MB, Balanced about 500 MB, and Accurate about 3.1 GB; you can switch tiers in Settings at any time. --- ## People — https://savory.ai/features/people # The next meeting is with a person, not a date Savory files every meeting under everyone who attended. Open a person and get the whole relationship: history, rhythm, and the open items on both sides. - **Meeting history, per person.** Every recorded and calendar-known meeting with them, newest first, summaries one click away. - **Cadence and last met, computed from your real calendar.** Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, occasional; you'll notice when a relationship goes quiet. - **The two-way ledger.** Action items split into "They owe you" and "You owe them," with due dates. - **One canonical person.** The same human across two calendars and three email addresses merges into a single page. Built from your meetings, not another database to maintain. People pages assemble themselves from calendars and meetings: attendees become people, transcripts become history, extracted commitments become the ledger. Rename someone once and every surface updates. Savory never invents data it doesn't have. --- ## Summaries and action items — https://savory.ai/features/summaries # From an hour of talking to a minute of reading One summary per meeting: an overview, key topics, decisions, and action items with owners and due dates. Generated with OpenAI or Gemini, only when you ask. - Overview first: two sentences that tell you whether to read on. - Key topics and decisions, with the figures, dates, and names kept verbatim. - Action items with owners, flowing into the per-person ledger and the Action items screen. - "Discussed before": when a topic came up in an earlier meeting with the same people, the summary says so. The only step that ever uses a network, and everything guarding it: recording and transcription never leave your device. Summarization is the one deliberate exception. When you ask for a summary, the text transcript is sent to a leading AI model, OpenAI or Gemini, and the result comes back to your library. Before anything is sent, emails, phone numbers, card numbers, and internal IDs are redacted. It's opt-in, off by default, and per-meeting. Action items are yours after extraction: rename, reassign, set due dates, add your own, or delete them, and your edits survive regeneration. --- ## Security and privacy — https://savory.ai/privacy # Trust the architecture, not the policy This page explains, concretely, what exists in Savory's design, what deliberately doesn't, and how each claim is enforced. **Audio is never written to disk.** The strongest privacy statement Savory makes is structural: the code path that would save audio does not exist. Microphone and system-audio samples are read in memory, handed to the on-device transcription engine, and dropped. An automated audit runs on every change and fails the build if any audio write path appears. There is no file to upload, subpoena, or leak. **Transcription happens on your device.** Savory transcribes with Whisper models that live on your Mac. Nothing is streamed to a server, which is why transcription works in airplane mode. Speaker separation also runs locally. **Summaries: the one deliberate network step.** When you ask for a summary, and only then, the text transcript is sent to a leading AI model and the structured summary comes back to your local library. Before sending, Savory redacts email addresses, phone numbers, card numbers, and internal IDs. Summaries are off by default; a transcript-only meeting stays transcript-only unless you ask. **Voice recognition stays home.** If you turn on "Remember voices," Savory stores a voiceprint on this Mac only. It is never uploaded and hard-deleted when you delete your data. **Where your data lives.** Everything Savory knows about your meetings sits in local storage on your device. At-rest protection comes from FileVault on macOS and system data protection on iOS. Secrets live in the system Keychain. There is no third-party analytics or crash SDK in the app. The marketing website is a separate surface and measures its own traffic and advertising like any other website; none of those tags can reach anything the app holds. **What syncs between devices.** Transcripts, summaries, action items, people, and notes sync through your own private iCloud database, encrypted by Apple in transit and at rest. Audio never syncs because it is never a file; voiceprints never sync by design; calendar caches, consent records, and Keychain secrets stay on the device that made them. **The one server.** Savory requires an account, and the account service holds your email address, sign-in method, consent choices, session records, and purchase and metering records. It holds no transcript, summary, note, person, calendar event, or voiceprint. Full inventory: https://savory.ai/legal/privacy-policy **Deleting is real.** Sign-out removes nothing; deletion is its own explicit, biometric-confirmed act that wipes account content, including voiceprints. Notes and transcripts export to plain files anytime. --- ## Pricing — https://savory.ai/pricing # The app is free. The AI is the upgrade. Transcription, history, and organization are free forever, all on your device. Pro adds AI summaries and action items. **Free — the complete on-device app.** Not a trial, no clock. Unlimited meetings transcribed on device; meeting history, people pages, and the ledger; Google and Apple calendar; full-text search and the command palette; all three modes. No card, no time limit. **Pro — everything in Free, plus AI.** Billed as $149.99 a year, cancel anytime. AI summaries of every meeting, key topics and decisions highlighted, action items extracted for you, leading AI models built in, and personal details scrubbed before anything is sent. A 30-day trial starts in the app; cancel anytime before it renews. In the Mac App Store version, Apple bills you; in the version downloaded from savory.ai, Stripe bills you in your browser as the merchant of record. Same price either way. Transcription runs on your device, so transcribing more costs nothing: no minute caps, no storage caps, no locked history. --- ## Compare — https://savory.ai/compare # The honest table If privacy and people-centric organization matter most, Savory; if team cloud workspaces matter most, another tool. Reflects publicly documented behavior as of July 2026, with the free-plan and summary rows re-checked in September 2026. Your own devices stay in step through your private iCloud database; what Savory does not offer is a shared team workspace. - **Savory vs Granola.** Both skip the bot. The difference is where transcription happens and what the notes orbit around: on your Mac and around people, versus in the cloud and around meetings. - **Savory vs Fireflies.** A bot in the participant list versus no bot anywhere. The architectural opposite. - **Savory vs Otter.** Cloud transcription with collaboration versus on-device transcription with people pages. Architecture is the feature list you can't patch later: choose where your meetings get processed before choosing anything else.