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Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM — @-linked together with shared AI memory.

Open-source, local-first Granola/Otter alternative that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client can query. Meetings, calls, and voice memos transcribed on-device into markdown you own.

Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)

⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.

A free, open-source developer workspace. Snippets, notes, HTTP requests, calculations, and dev tools in one local-first app.

Local MCP work notes with persistent sessions, decisions, evidence and resumable tasks.

Powerful note-taking without the hassle.

✎ Distraction-free notes and writing

End-to-end encrypted notes, tasks, files, passwords, journal and bookmarks. Keyed by a 12-word BIP-39 phrase: no email, no password, no account to leak. The full client source for web, desktop and mobile is published, along with the encryption (XChaCha20-Poly1305, HKDF-SHA256, Ed25519) and the threat model, so the privacy claims are falsifiable.

Open-source research workspace for connecting sources, evidence, notes and ideas. Built for academic research with Zotero integration. Available on MacOS, Windows and Linux.

Capture and visualize the data that matters in your life

On-device meeting transcriber for macOS — auto-records Teams/Zoom/Webex, transcribes & separates speakers locally. No cloud. Open-source alternative to Otter/Granola/Fireflies.

Agentic Voice Notes for iPhone and macOS - Rust, Dioxus, LanceDB + RIG + SQLite

Records and transcribes online meetings. Automatically

Binders for macOS: local-first dictation, meeting notes and memory, with an MCP server for your AI tools. Private by design, free, open source.

Native macOS transcription for selected-app audio and microphone input, using Apple’s on-device speech frameworks with durable timestamped Markdown output

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