The notetaker that never records.It hears your call start, writes the note, and files it in Obsidian or Apple Notes.No bot joins. Nothing is uploaded.
macOS 14.4+ · free for 7 days, no card
Live transcript
Them: So timeline-wise we'd want to start fairly soon.
You: We can start in two weeks from our side.
Them: On budget — 25k is too high for this phase.
You: Then let's scope a pilot instead.
Them: Deal. Pilot at €18k for three months.
Transcribed on this Mac. The audio is never written to disk.
31 min · 2 people · €248.00
Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.
Action items
You — send the SOW by Friday
Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO) next week
One mic, one model, one Mac. No word count, no expiry, no monthly seat.
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One mic, one model, one Mac. No word count, no expiry, no monthly seat.
Zoom took the microphone. Fazit opened a session on its own.
On a call
Nothing to press and nothing to add to the invite. Fazit watches which app is holding the microphone, so the session opens when Zoom, Meet or Teams does, and closes when they do.
You finish the call useful and present, then spend twenty minutes rebuilding it from memory. Or you weren't present, because you were typing. Then the call ends and the typing carries on: the follow-up, the summary for your colleague, the reply you have already composed in your head. Six calls a week is most of a working day spent writing down things you already said.
Every other notetaker asks you to trust a retention policy. Fazit removes the thing the policy is about. There is no audio file at any point, so deletion is not a promise anyone has to keep.
Zoom · Sarah — pricing
Your client sees two people in the participant list, because there are two people. Nothing to explain at the top of the call.
Over 31 minutes of capture
Transcription runs on-device and the note is written by a local model on localhost. Dictation uses the same two, so the sentence you speak into a reply is handled the same way as the call. The one-time model download is the only network traffic Fazit ever makes.
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Audio is transcribed in memory and gone the moment text exists. There is no file to leak, subpoena, or accidentally sync to a cloud drive.
For regulated and confidential work
Metering, expiry and per-seat billing all follow from running the model on somebody else's computer, where every minute you speak costs them money. Move the model onto your Mac and the reasons for all three go away at once.
Wispr Flow's free plan stops desktop dictation at 2,000 words a week, and Pro is $12 per user per month on the annual plan.
Fazit does not count your words, because the speech model is running on your Mac and there is no meter to read. Talk for as long as you like, on as many days as you like.
Granola's free plan puts notes older than thirty days behind an upgrade.
Your notes are Markdown files in your own Obsidian vault or Apple Notes. They are readable with or without us, and they stop existing when you delete them and not before.
Both are billed per user, per month, for as long as you keep using them.
€39.99 once, for the first hundred customers. The work happens on hardware you already paid for, so there is no monthly cost to pass on to you.
Figures are from each product's own published pricing page, checked in August 2026; they may have changed since. We make no claim about how either one processes audio, because neither publishes it. What Fazit does is written down on the architecture page, and you can request source access to check it.
One email, no password. A sign-in link lands in your inbox and opens your account. VAT is handled at checkout and your license attaches to the same address.
Start a 7-day trial or buy outright, and the download unlocks in your account. Drag to Applications, open it, point it at your Obsidian vault. The usual Mac install, done in a minute.
macOS asks for the microphone and audio capture on your first session. Fazit installs the local models itself, so there is nothing to configure in a terminal.
Say the honest line, “I take notes with a local tool, it doesn't record audio,” then forget about it. The session starts on its own and the note is waiting when you hang up.