HumlaPrivate means it never leaves your Mac
For most apps, “private” means encrypted on the way to their servers. Humla's version is simpler: it doesn't send your meeting anywhere.
Free · Open source · macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)
“Private” usually means your audio is encrypted in transit — then decrypted, transcribed, and stored on someone else's cloud. Humla is private a different way: the whole pipeline can run on your Mac, notes live in a local database, and there's no account to create.
Local, not just encrypted
On-device Whisper and diarization mean your audio is never uploaded in the first place — nothing to intercept, nothing to leak.
No account, no sign-up
Download and record. There's no login, no profile, and no cloud project tied to your name.
Local storage
Notes sit in a local SQLite database on your disk. No vendor retention.
No telemetry
Humla has no backend and never phones home — it only talks to the providers you explicitly pick.
Bring-your-own-key mode
Prefer a cloud engine for speed? Only your audio goes to the provider you chose, on your own account — never through Humla.
Open source
MIT-licensed and auditable, so “private” is something you can verify, not just trust.
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
What does “private” actually mean here?+
That your meeting can stay entirely on your Mac. In on-device mode, audio, transcript, and summary never leave the machine.
Do I need an account?+
No. The app has no sign-up. The optional team-sync layer needs an account, but the app itself doesn't.
What if I use a cloud transcription engine?+
Then only that audio goes to the provider you picked, on your own key. Humla has no server in the middle.