Note: The team is now building char. anarlog remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and maintained as the local-first meeting notetaker in this repo.

anarlog

An open-source AI meeting notetaker that is local-first, privacy-first, and yours to fork.

Granola, rearranged.

How to use it

Download the latest release for your platform:

→ github.com/fastrepl/anarlog/releases/latest

Open it and join a meeting. anarlog records, transcribes locally, and saves your notes as markdown on disk. Bring your own LLM: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or anything OpenAI-compatible.

To self-host, clone the repo, build it, and run it.

Why use it

• Your data, your disk. Every meeting is a .md file you can inspect, search, and sync through Dropbox, iCloud, Syncthing, or git. No cloud backend means no cloud lock-in.
• Local transcription. Transcription runs on-device, so audio never leaves your machine.
• Bring your own AI. Use any LLM provider, including OpenAI-compatible services and local models.
• Open source, MIT. Fork it, sell it, or self-host it.
• No accounts or tracking. There is no hosted account model.

Name history

anarlog started as Hyprnote, then briefly used the char name.

We later split the work into two projects. char is the team's current productivity app. anarlog is this open-source, local-first meeting notetaker.

This repository is not the current char codebase, and anarlog is not being retired. It keeps the open-source path: MIT-licensed, forkable, self-hostable, and built for local notes you control.

If you came here from Granola, welcome. If you came here from Hyprnote, welcome back.

Either way, it's yours.

License: MIT · Maintainers: fastrepl