# talat

> Local transcription app for meetings, dictation and recordings

talat is a Mac and Windows app that records meetings and transcribes them on the computer itself, so audio, transcripts and notes are not sent to the vendor's servers. It captures both sides of a call without a bot, labels speakers, and writes summaries, action items and chapters with a built-in model or a cloud model that you supply the key for. The same engine handles system-wide dictation and imported audio or video files.

- **Category:** AI Meeting Notes
- **Made by:** Lumikey LTD
- **Website:** https://talat.app
- **Runs on:** macOS, Windows
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

talat is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per month, $89 per year, or $189 once for a lifetime license.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 10 hours of free recording with every feature; no account or credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly | $9 per month | The full app with every update, cancellable at any time from the app. Existing notes stay readable and exportable if you stop paying. |
| Yearly | $89 per year | The same full app and updates as the monthly plan, paid once a year. |
| Lifetime license | $189 one-time payment | One payment with no renewals and every future update included, covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. |

Read from https://talat.app/faq on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with talat before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lifetime license for a one-time $189** (Lifetime license): talat can be bought outright for $189 with no renewals and every future update included. A 30-day money-back guarantee applies. Source: https://talat.app/
- **Yearly plan costs less than 12 months** (Annual discount): The FAQ prices talat at $9 a month or $89 a year, so paying yearly comes to $19 less than twelve monthly payments. Source: https://talat.app/faq
- **$5 off through a referral** (Other savings): A customer's referral code gives a friend $5 off any plan. The referrer gets $5 off a later bill once the friend has been a customer for three months. Source: https://talat.app/refer-a-friend

## Key features

- **On-device transcription:** Speech is transcribed in real time on the computer, using hardware acceleration where available. Recordings, transcripts and notes sit in a local database, and the app works offline.
- **Bot-free meeting capture:** talat records the microphone and system audio as two streams and can start on its own when it detects a Zoom, Teams or Meet call or a calendar event. No bot joins the meeting.
- **Speaker identification:** Transcripts are labeled by speaker on the device, and the app learns voices over time so that it can recognize the same people in later meetings.
- **AI notes with a choice of model:** Summaries, action items and chapters are written by a built-in Qwen model, or by Claude, OpenAI or Ollama if you connect your own provider and API key.
- **Dictation into any app:** A global hotkey starts dictation from anywhere, with tap-to-toggle or hold-to-talk. Text is pasted into the focused app, and an optional LLM pass tidies punctuation and filler words.
- **Import, export and MCP:** Existing audio and video files can be imported and transcribed locally. Notes export to Markdown, Obsidian and PDF, and webhooks and an MCP server pass meetings to other tools.

## Good for

- People who cannot send meeting audio to a cloud service
- Buyers who prefer a one-time lifetime license to a subscription
- Obsidian and Markdown users who want meeting notes exported automatically

## Worth knowing

- The Mac version needs macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon, and Windows needs version 10 or later. There are no mobile, web or Linux apps.
- After the 10 free hours, new recordings need a paid plan, though existing meetings can still be searched, exported and summarized.
- Nothing syncs or uploads, so notes stay on the one computer where they were recorded.
- Summaries from a cloud model require your own provider account and API key; the vendor notes that cloud models usually do better on longer meetings.

## Works with

Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Obsidian, Ollama, Claude

**Tags:** Meeting notes, Transcription, AI features, Local-first, Works offline, Dictation, One-time purchase

## Alternatives

- [Granola](https://toolgpa.com/tools/granola): AI notepad that transcribes meetings from device audio, no bot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/granola-vs-talat)
- [Meetily](https://toolgpa.com/tools/meetily): Open-source meeting recorder that transcribes on your device. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/meetily-vs-talat)
- [Anarlog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anarlog): Open-source, local-first AI meeting notepad with no bot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anarlog-vs-talat)
- [Quill Meetings](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quill-meetings): Local-first AI meeting notes recorded without a bot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quill-meetings-vs-talat)
- [Shadow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shadow): Bot-free Mac meeting recorder that runs your own AI prompts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shadow-vs-talat)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://talat.app/
- https://talat.app/faq
- https://talat.app/about
- https://talat.app/refer-a-friend

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