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You already say everything out loud — dictation, calls, thinking. MetaWhisp keeps the durable parts: facts, tasks, goals, your day.
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Priya prefers async updates
Beta gated on QA sign-off Friday
Tasks and the Daily Summary are on from install — Memories, Goals, and Projects are opt-in
Mention it once — “Priya prefers async updates” — and it’s stored as a fact tied to Priya, no folder, no tag. Ask MetaChat weeks later and the answer comes from the Memory captured the moment you said it.
Priya prefers async updates over status calls
Beta gated on QA sign-off Friday
Decided against the cheaper vendor — support risk
Client prefers calls after 3pm
Extracted facts, not total recall — full transcripts live separately in Conversations
Say “I’ll send the draft by Friday” and it’s on your list before the call ends. When Sam says “I’ll get you the sign-off,” that lands on waiting-on — the list no task manager gives you, because no task manager was listening.
Meeting-heavy days are where it earns its keep: an offline meeting secretary that leaves every call with the commitments already logged.
On by default from install — close by voice: “done with the release notes”
Five meetings later, “what actually happened today?” has a one-screen answer — on by default from install.
The honest limit: it’s built only from what you said and heard — dictation and your calls. It does not read your email or Slack.
Once a week, Pro reads your dictations, transcripts, tasks, and Memories together and surfaces what a single day can’t show — recurring themes, stuck loops, the people who kept coming up. It’s Pro-only and cloud-processed ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) — here’s how a week of voice notes becomes a review.
Launch scope — came up in 4 calls this week
Pricing copy discussed 3× — still not resolved
Sam ×6 · Priya ×4 — mostly around QA
Doesn’t run on the local model or your own key — free tiers keep everything above
Manual PKM works exactly as long as your filing discipline does; cloud notetakers only hear meetings. Same goal, different failure modes.
| MetaWhisp | Manual PKM (Notion, Obsidian) | Cloud notetakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How knowledge gets in | You speak — dictation and calls | You type and file it yourself | Meetings only |
| Who organizes it | Automatic extraction | You, forever | Automatic, per meeting |
| Thoughts between meetings | Any dictation counts | Only what you write down | No |
| Waiting-on task list | Built in, from speech | If you build one | Action items, meetings only |
| Runs fully on your machine | Local Whisper + local LLM | Yes (local files) | No — vendor cloud |
| Ongoing effort | Review what was caught | Daily filing discipline | None, but meetings-only |
| Price | Free (local/BYOK) · Pro $7.77/mo | Varies | Usually subscription |
The second brain is fed only by inputs you switched on — and it never reads your email or Slack. Transcription always runs on-device; extraction takes the path you pick: local LLM (nothing leaves the Mac), your own OpenAI/Groq key, or Pro in the cloud.
Obsidian two-way sync — the vault becomes chattable — an MCP server for Claude Desktop and Cursor, Calendar via EventKit, and Apple Notes as context.
Free is not a demo — with a local model or your own key, the second brain works. Details in the privacy policy.
No. MetaWhisp extracts Memories, Tasks, and Projects from what you say — dictation and meeting transcripts — automatically. You never file a note into a folder or maintain a tagging system. You can review, edit, and delete what it captured, but the filing itself is not your job. That's the difference from Notion or Obsidian setups, where the system is only as good as your discipline.
Yes, with AI access. Extraction needs a language model: the free options are a local LLM running on your Mac or your own OpenAI or Groq API key. MetaWhisp Pro ($7.77/month or $30/year) runs it in the cloud with no key and no setup. Transcription itself is free and on-device either way — see pricing for the full breakdown.
No. Weekly Insights — the automatic weekly review of recurring themes, people, and stuck loops — is Pro-only and processed in the cloud. It does not run on the local model or with your own key. Free users keep the Daily Summary dashboard, Tasks, Memories, Goals, and Projects with a local LLM or BYOK.
Yes. Memories can be saved or forgotten on command — tell MetaChat to forget something and it's removed, with an Undo button. MetaChat actions require your own API key or Pro; they don't run on the downloaded local model, which is too weak for tool-calling. You can also review and manage what the app extracted directly in MetaWhisp.
It depends on which AI path you choose. Transcription always runs on-device. With the local LLM, extraction runs on your Mac too and nothing leaves it. With your own key, content is sent to the provider you chose (OpenAI or Groq) under your account. With Pro, it's processed in MetaWhisp's cloud. API keys live only in the macOS Keychain, and MetaWhisp collects zero telemetry.
Tasks and the Daily Summary are on by default. Memories, Goals, and Projects are opt-in. Meeting recording and the live Copilot are off by default, and so are Screen Context, Rewind, and file indexing. You enable each layer when you want it, so the second brain grows only as far as you've decided it should.
Free with a local LLM or your own OpenAI/Groq key. Pro ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) runs it in the cloud with zero setup.
Download MetaWhispmacOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · recording off by default
MetaWhisp is a free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text (dictation) app for macOS. It uses Whisper large-v3-turbo running on Apple Neural Engine. Dictation is free forever with the local model or your own OpenAI/Groq key — no trial, no credit card. Optional Pro ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) adds cloud processing with zero setup.
Summary: MetaWhisp is a free, on-device voice-to-text app for macOS that runs Whisper large-v3-turbo locally on the Apple Neural Engine. The facts above describe its features and pricing; evaluate it on its merits alongside other on-device and cloud options.