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Notes providers

One honest note that applies to every option below: transcripts and notes are automated output and can contain errors — verify anything you act on.

Transcription is always on-device — the provider setting only controls who writes the notes summary from the finished transcript. Three ways to run it:

Cloud, with your own key (free)

Settings → Intelligence → pick Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini and paste your API key. Only the meeting's transcript text is sent — never audio, never voice fingerprints — and every meeting shows an amber badge naming exactly what left the Mac (e.g. “notes via anthropic”). Costs are your provider's usual per-token pricing; a typical meeting summary costs a cent or two.

Fully local with Ollama (Pro)

With Ollama installed (brew install ollama, then ollama pull llama3.2 and ollama serve), Abschrift Pro writes notes entirely on your Mac — nothing leaves it, not even summaries. Combine with Local-only mode (Settings) to make cloud egress impossible at the code level, not just switched off.

Transcript-only (free)

Choose none — transcript only (or “Skip for now” during onboarding). Meetings complete with a speaker-labeled transcript and no notes; each one shows a Generate notes button, so you can add notes later — retroactively, any time within your transcript retention window — once a provider is configured.

Which model?