Guides

Record meetings privately, and know the rules.

Plain-English guides to notetaking without a bot, where your audio really goes, what the law says about recording, and how to run it all yourself.

AI meeting notes without a bot

Bot capture vs local capture, why people skip the participant-list robot, and what to actually look for in a bot-free notetaker.

Where your meeting audio ends up, the AI-training question without the hand-waving, and when each approach is the right call.

One-party vs all-party consent in the US, the state-by-state picture in Australia, and how GDPR treats recordings in the UK and EU.

Run Earshot free with your own transcription and AI keys — even a fully local model — so your audio never leaves your machine.

Enter attendees, salaries and duration to see what a meeting really costs — per meeting and per year. Runs in your browser.

The real 2026 landscape — Meetily, Anarlog (ex-Hyprnote), Earshot, Speakr — and the transcription tools people confuse with them.

How Earshot stacks up against Otter, Fireflies, Fathom and Granola — capture method, data storage, AI training and pricing, compared fairly.

How Earshot records without a bot, where your data lives, self-hosting vs Plus, supported keys, consent and billing — answered plainly.

Earshot records meetings locally on Windows — no bot, no cloud lock-in. Free and open source to self-host, or Plus at $9/month.