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 never phones home.
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.