Summit AI Notes - Private Audio Transcription & AI Summaries
Your conversations, transcribed and summarized. Completely private, entirely on your Mac. Summit transforms your meetings, lectures, interviews, and conversations into searchable, actionable documents—all while keeping your data 100% local and private.
Why Summit?
Privacy First
Unlike cloud-based services, Summit processes everything locally on your Mac. Your audio never leaves your device. No servers, no subscriptions, no compromises.
Dual Audio Capture
Capture both your microphone AND system audio simultaneously—perfect for video calls, online meetings, and recording presentations. Echo deduplication ensures crystal-clear transcriptions without audio overlap.
Intelligent Transcription
Powered by state-of-the-art AI running locally on your Mac. Get accurate transcriptions with automatic speaker identification and support for 99+ languages.
AI-Powered Summaries
Automatically extract key topics, action items, and insights from your transcriptions using on-device AI. Create custom summarization templates for different meeting types—standups, interviews, lectures, and more.
Chat With Your Documents
Ask questions about your transcripts using local AI. Dive deep into single documents or chat across multiple recordings at once. All processing stays on your device.
Calendar Integration
Connect your calendar and automatically start recording when meetings begin. Never miss capturing an important conversation.
Smart Organization
Every recording becomes a searchable document. Organize with folders, track action items with due dates, and find exactly what you need across all your conversations—instantly.
Beautiful & Intuitive
Native macOS design that feels right at home. Clean interface, powerful features, zero learning curve.
Please note! Summit requires a Mac with any Apple Silicon chip and at least 16 GB RAM for optimal performance. Initial model download (500MB-4GB) required for full functionality.
Complete Privacy
Summit is built privacy-first from the ground up:
• All transcription happens on your Mac
• All AI processing runs locally
• Zero telemetry or tracking
• No accounts or sign-ups
• Open about what data we store (only your recordings, on your Mac)
You can optionally use cloud AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini) if you choose—but it's completely optional and always under your control.
Perfect For
* Knowledge Workers - Never miss important details from meetings, calls, and client conversations. Auto-record from your calendar ensures you capture every discussion.
* Students & Educators - Transform lectures into study guides. Chat with your transcripts to review concepts and find specific information instantly.
* Journalists & Researchers - Accurate transcriptions with speaker identification for interviews and research. Find specific quotes instantly.
* Content Creators - Transcribe podcasts, videos, and interviews. Generate show notes automatically with customizable templates.
* Legal & Medical Professionals - Private, accurate transcription for sensitive conversations and documentation. Everything stays on your device.
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The best
Cocoaroast
Tested ~40 note takers. Great transcription, flexible LLM selection, folders, speaker identification with persistent user tagging. Buying a new MacBook when the M6 comes out solely because I want to use the full power of this app
Developer Response
Thank you!
This update adds screen recording with a video player in transcript, plus inline screenshots with timestamps right in your transcripts. Summit now recognizes known speakers live as you record, and you can send action items to Apple Reminders with assignees pre-filled from your meeting.
Folders are more powerful: create subfolders, drag to reorganize, and manage them from a dedicated sidebar section. New document list view modes (Default, Comfortable, Compact) let you choose your layout, and document chats now live in the main Chat menu.
Recording auto-stop now works for manual recordings and stops when your meeting app releases the mic. You can skip summarization on low battery, assign default folders to calendar events. We added OpenRouter support and more on-device AI models.
Plus many fixes: alerts when the mic captures no audio, safer storage folder handling, more reliable model downloads, clearer summarization errors, and better search and live transcription.
Version 1.9.1
The developer, Dmitrii Rozhkov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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Supported Features
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Dmitrii Rozhkov
Size
11.3 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.