What is OATS?
Open-source local-first meeting-notes app for macOS with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and a fully offline on-device mode.
Verified product facts
- Type
- productivity appEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- MIT
- Current version
- 0.26.0Developer-stated
- Official website
- github.com/ariso-ai/oats
Last updated . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
Key features
What OATS does at a glance.
One-click recording from the menu bar
Pause, resume, stop — without leaving what you're doing
Real-time transcription
Streams in as people talk
Speaker labels
Who said what, sorted out for you
Automatic notes
A clean Markdown summary for every recording
Library
Every recording, transcript, and note in one place
Share
Native macOS share sheet, or share to the web (Ariso backend)
Overview
Open-source local-first meeting-notes app for macOS with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and a fully offline on-device mode.
OATS runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the productivity category.
Links
Sources
Facts on this page are checked against the sources below. Last updated .
- OATS — official websiteGrade B
- OATS — source repositoryGrade D




