Grounded in how AutoDoc actually works — on-device AI, local storage, optional calendars, and opt-in analytics.
AutoDoc is a free, open-source meeting notes app for macOS and Windows, built by Duet Display. It records screen video, microphone, and system audio, then transcribes the audio and creates editable notes locally. You can replay recording moments from timestamps, search your meetings, and ask questions with Ask AI.
AutoDoc runs transcription, notes, and Ask AI locally and keeps replayable screen recordings on your computer. That requires local storage, model downloads, and processing resources. Other products make different tradeoffs; see our sourced Granola comparison for a specific example.
Search finds matching text in transcripts and notes, then opens the meeting so you can review the context. Ask AI answers questions from your meeting history. Retrieval and responses run locally through Ollama. Review the answers before you rely on them.
No. AutoDoc captures screen video, system audio, and your microphone from your device — the same way local screen recording works. No participant named "AutoDoc" joins your call, and you don't need host permission for a third-party bot.
AutoDoc has been tested with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, Discord, and browser-based calls (Safari, Chrome, Edge, Arc, and others). Because it captures system audio directly, it should work with most meeting applications without platform-specific integrations.
For English, Windows uses Parakeet and Apple Silicon Macs use MLX Whisper with Distil Whisper. Other supported languages use Canary or Whisper large-v3-turbo, depending on the language and hardware. AutoDoc selects the processing path for your computer. Notes and Ask AI use a dedicated local Ollama instance that AutoDoc manages separately from any Ollama you may have installed. No meeting content is sent to the cloud for AI inference.
AutoDoc supports 27 meeting languages on supported hardware. Choose your meeting language during setup or in Settings. Your selection controls transcription, meeting notes, and Ask AI answers. Settings shows which languages your computer supports and which models need downloading.
Language availability depends on your hardware. 8 GB Macs and lower-spec Windows PCs remain English-only. On Windows, CPU-only machines with fewer than eight logical processors or less than 16 GB RAM use the English-only processing profile. See the system requirements and latest release notes for language-specific limitations.
Recording, transcription, and notes work offline after setup. Initial setup downloads local models and runtimes. App and model updates, optional Google or Microsoft calendar connections, and opt-in diagnostics also use the network. See our privacy details.
AutoDoc creates a summary and conversation topics with editable details. Available timestamps let you check the corresponding moment in the recording. Review generated notes before relying on them.
Action items are currently omitted from generated notes while Next Steps is disabled. Information classified as an action item can also be omitted. Review the recording and transcript when you need to check follow-up commitments. See the latest release notes for known issues.
Updating does not automatically regenerate your existing meeting notes. You can reprocess a meeting when you want to generate new notes. Older notes remain supported.
Yes. Copy notes as plain text or export them as PDF, Word, or Markdown.
AutoDoc labels microphone audio as Me and combined system audio as Them. It does not identify individual remote participants. Manual label changes and calendar name suggestions do not separate voices within the system-audio track.
Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Calendar access is optional — used to show upcoming meetings, name recordings, suggest speaker names from attendees, and set auto-record modes (off, once, or series). OAuth tokens are stored encrypted on your device.
Meeting data lives under ~/Library/Application Support/AutoDoc/ on macOS and %APPDATA%\AutoDoc\ on Windows — including recordings, transcripts, notes, and models. Meeting data is encrypted at rest. AutoDoc does not operate servers that store your meeting content.
AutoDoc encrypts stored meeting data with AES-256-GCM. When operating-system credential storage is available, macOS Keychain or Windows DPAPI protects the encryption key. Otherwise, the key is stored locally without operating-system protection. Files you export are separate from AutoDoc's encrypted storage.
8 GB RAM is supported. 16 GB+ is recommended for the best experience on both platforms. Plan for ~10 GB free for first-run model downloads. Intel Macs and Windows on ARM are not supported.
Multilingual processing: 8 GB Macs and lower-spec Windows PCs remain English-only. On Windows, CPU-only machines with fewer than eight logical processors or less than 16 GB RAM use the English-only processing profile. Check Settings for availability on your computer and see supported meeting languages.
On 8 GB machines, AutoDoc uses a smaller local notes model and a lower-impact path: audio is processed sequentially and notes wait until transcription finishes. Windows CPU machines with fewer than 8 logical processors, or under 16 GB of RAM, use that smaller notes model too. Expect a longer wait after the meeting. A GPU on Windows can speed up transcription, but it does not replace the 16 GB+ RAM recommendation.
AutoDoc is licensed under AGPL-3.0. The source repository is public, so you can inspect the code, build from source, or download the latest macOS and Windows releases from GitHub.
AutoDoc is free to download. We may introduce paid tiers in the future for team or enterprise features, but the core local-first experience will remain accessible.
Only if you opt in. Analytics and crash reporting are disabled by default. Meeting content is never included in diagnostics payloads. See our privacy page for full details.
AutoDoc is available now for macOS and Windows. Use the platform download buttons on this site or open the latest GitHub release.
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