HumlaMeeting notes you can actually audit
Humla is MIT-licensed and public. The “nothing leaves your Mac” promise isn't a policy — it's code you can read.
Free · Open source · macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)
Plenty of note-takers are open source now. What sets Humla apart isn't the licence — it's what the licence lets you verify: a macOS-native app that captures your mic and the call as two separate streams, labels who said what on-device, and keeps every recording on your disk.
MIT licensed
The whole macOS app is public under the MIT licence. Read it, fork it, build your own.
Auditable privacy
“Nothing leaves your Mac” is a claim you can check — the on-device path is right there in the source.
Self-host sync, free
Point Humla at your own PocketBase server and every team feature works with no subscription. Managed Humla Cloud ($5/user/month) is only the hosting — self-hosting is free.
Bring your own key
Use your own OpenAI, Deepgram, or Groq key — or on-device Whisper and no key at all.
macOS-native, not a port
Built on Tauri with Swift capture sidecars, so it feels like a Mac app rather than a cross-platform shell.
Two streams + real diarization
Mic and system audio are kept separate end to end, so speaker labels hold up where single-stream tools blur together.
See a meeting become a note.
New note, record, summary — that's the whole workflow. The cleanup afterwards is none, on a five-minute meeting or an hour-long one.
FAQ
Is Humla really open source?+
Yes — the macOS app is MIT-licensed and public on GitHub. You can read every line, including the on-device transcription path.
What's the catch if it's free and open source?+
There isn't one for the app. Optional managed team sync (Humla Cloud) is paid, but self-hosting the same sync is free — nothing is paywalled in the client.
How is Humla different from other open-source notetakers?+
Most are cross-platform. Humla focuses on macOS-native polish, two-stream mic + system capture, and on-device speaker labels — not just being open source.