What did we agree on?

Every call,written up.

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

Capturing Zoom31:07

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.

Fazit / 2026-08-02 Sarah — pricing.md

Sarah — pricing

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

Your calls, and everything else you say.

One mic, one model, one Mac. No word count, no expiry, no monthly seat.

Capturing Zoom31:07

Zoom took the microphone. Fazit opened a session on its own.

Listeningno bot joined

On a call

01It hears the call start

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.

Capturing Zoom31:07

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.

On a call

02It writes while you talk

Speech becomes text on your Mac as the call runs. The audio exists in RAM and nowhere else, so there is no recording to upload even if something wanted to.

Capturing Zoom31:07
Cost of this meeting

€248.00

Sarah — VP Sales€139.50

You€108.50

On a call

03It prices the room

It reads the meeting off your calendar, counts who joined, and runs a live cost against the clock. Thirty-one minutes with two senior people: €248.

Obsidian / Fazit / Sarah — pricing.md

Sarah — pricing

Pilot agreed at €18k for three months, starting in two weeks.

Action items

You — send the SOW by Friday

Sarah — intro to Marcus (CFO)

On a call

04It files the note and forgets the call

A finished note lands in Obsidian or Apple Notes: decisions, numbers, and who owes what by when. You keep the note. The audio never existed to keep.

NotesReply to Sarah

Reply to Sarah

Today

Spoken with fillers, a repeated word and a correction, Fazit writes: I'll send Sarah the SOW on Friday, and introduce her to Marcus next week.

Anywhere else on the Mac

05Then hold fn anywhere else

The call ends and the same engine is still there. Hold the key in any app that takes text and say it however it comes out. Start again, change your mind, trail off.

NotesReply to Sarah

Reply to Sarah

Today

Spoken with fillers, a repeated word and a correction, Fazit writes: I'll send Sarah the SOW on Friday, and introduce her to Marcus next week.

Anywhere else on the Mac

06It works out what you meant

Fillers and false starts come out, repeats collapse, and when you correct yourself only the version you settled on survives. That takes understanding, not pattern matching.

NotesReply to Sarah

Reply to Sarah

Today

Spoken with fillers, a repeated word and a correction, Fazit writes: I'll send Sarah the SOW on Friday, and introduce her to Marcus next week.

Anywhere else on the Mac

07It types what you would have written

Punctuated, in your own words, into the field your cursor was already in. No weekly word count, because there is no meter running on your own machine.

Swipe for the rest.

The problem

You are still typing things you have already said out loud.

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.

01

Typing while listening is neither.

Split your attention between the client and the keyboard and you get shallow notes on top of a shallower conversation. Clients can hear it happening.
02

“…what's that joining our call?”

Cloud notetakers put a bot in the room and send your client's voice to someone else's servers. Over six weeks and 47 meetings, 32% of clients asked about the bot unprompted. Nobody asked about the invisible one. Method and sources on request.
03

Your calls never reach your notes.

Your thinking lives in Obsidian. The conversations that actually decide things live in your head for about a day, then nowhere.
The Fazit principle

Not “we delete your recordings.”
There are no recordings.

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.

Participants2

Zoom · Sarah — pricing

SSarah Kleinhost
YYou
No apps or bots

No bot joins the call

Your client sees two people in the participant list, because there are two people. Nothing to explain at the top of the call.

Outbound1

Over 31 minutes of capture

127.0.0.1:11434local model
No transcript uploaded
No other destinations

Nothing leaves this Mac

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.

Fazit2 items

~/Obsidian/Fazit

Sarah — pricing.md4 KB
Marcus — intro.md3 KB
No audio files

No recording to hand over

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

Nothing is retained, so there is nothing to disclose.

Lawyers, therapists, financial advisers and consultants keep banning cloud notetakers for the same reason: a recording on someone else's server is a record you can be asked to produce. Fazit never makes one. You can read exactly how, and request source access for review.
Why this one

The limits you are working around are pricing, not physics.

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.

No weekly word count

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.

No notes that expire

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.

No seat, no subscription

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.

Get started

Four steps to your first never-recorded note.

  1. 1

    Create your account

    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.

  2. 2

    Download and open Fazit

    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.

  3. 3

    Grant two permissions, once

    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.

  4. 4

    Take a call. Watch the note appear.

    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.

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