Raw meeting notes in.
Awesome notes out.
Pandecho listens, transcribes, and rewrites your scrappy meeting notes into clean, structured summaries with decisions and action items — all running locally on your computer. No bots. No cloud. No one watching.
- acme renewal — pricing pushback?
- maya: send revised deck fri
- legal needs SOC2 doc
- go live… end of Q3 ish
Summary
Action items
Decisions
See Pandecho in 45 seconds
From your calendar to a summary you can talk to — all on your computer, no bots.
Three quiet steps. Zero busywork.
Pandecho sits in the background while you talk like a human — then does the writing for you the moment the call ends.
Capture any meeting
Hit record on a Zoom, Meet, or in-person chat. Pandecho captures your mic and the room — no bot dialing in, no link to paste.
Transcribe on-device
Speech-to-text and speaker labels are computed locally on-device. Every word — and who said it — stays on your computer.
Enhance instantly
A local LLM turns the transcript and your rough notes into a clean summary with decisions and owner-tagged action items.
No bot to invite. Works everywhere you meet.
The AI lives on your laptop
Transcription and summarization both run with on-device models — the same ones Pandecho ships with, no API keys, no usage meter. Turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.
- Local Whisper transcription + local LLM summaries
- Shares models with sister apps — no bloated re-downloads
- Notes saved as plain files you own
No transcript uploads. No "we may use your data to improve our models." Just files on your disk.
Speaker diarization, built in
Pandecho separates you from everyone else and tells participants apart — so action items land on the right person automatically.
- Mic vs. room separation out of the box
- Per-speaker labels via on-device pyannote
- Owner-tagged tasks: “Maya → revised deck”
Templates that match how your team works
Customer discovery, 1-on-1s, interviews, standups — pick a template and every meeting comes out in the structure your team already expects.
- Reusable note templates
- Folders & a familiar left-sidebar library
- Standalone notes too — not just meetings
Everything Pandecho does
One local app for the whole meeting workflow — capture, transcribe, summarize, and act, without sending your conversations to anyone's cloud.
- On-device transcription — records any meeting with no bot joining your call
- Speaker diarization — automatic who-said-what labels
- Local AI summaries — an on-device LLM writes the notes, offline
- Bring your own ChatGPT — optional cloud summaries with your subscription
- Action items — extracted and owner-tagged automatically
- Note templates — standups, 1-on-1s, interviews, discovery calls
- Calendar sync — Google & Outlook auto-title notes and detect meetings
- Full-text search — find any moment across every meeting
- Audio playback — replay the recording synced to the transcript
- Standalone notes — jot notes without a meeting; plain files you own
- Works fully offline — capture and summarize in airplane mode
- Agent access (MCP) — query your meetings from Claude, Codex, or any agent
- Webhooks — fire on every newly processed meeting
- macOS & Windows — native apps with automatic updates
- One-time license — pay once, no subscription
Your meetings, callable from any AI agent.
Pandecho ships an MCP server and a CLI, so Claude — or your own tools — can read your meeting history and answer questions, with the data never leaving your machine.
claude ▸ Querying pandecho-meetings (local)…
From “Acme — Renewal sync” (today):
• Maya → send revised deck by Friday
• You → share SOC 2 doc with legal
• Decision: target go-live end of Q3
psst — the agent reads local note files through the Pandecho MCP server. No export, no upload.
Most “AI notetakers” send your meetings to the cloud. Pandecho doesn’t.
No bot guest in your calls. No transcripts on someone else’s servers. No training on your conversations. Pandecho was built local-first on purpose — because the most sensitive room in your company is the one you’re recording.
“It’s Granola’s magic — minus the part where my customer calls live on a server I’ve never seen.”
Pay once. Yours forever.
One-time purchase, no subscription, no usage meter. Buy a license for each device — the more you buy, the less you pay per device.
$79 / device · 1 license
- 1 device
- On-device transcription & AI summaries
- MCP server & CLI for your agents
- Lifetime updates
$50 / device · save 37%
- 3 devices
- On-device transcription & AI summaries
- MCP server & CLI for your agents
- Lifetime updates
$40 / device · save 49%
- 10 devices
- On-device transcription & AI summaries
- MCP server & CLI for your agents
- Lifetime updates
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Pandecho vs cloud meeting bots
Most meeting-notes tools send a bot into your call and your audio to their servers. Pandecho runs on your computer.
| Pandecho | Typical cloud meeting bot | |
|---|---|---|
| How audio is captured | On-device system + mic — no bot | A bot joins your call |
| Where transcription runs | On your computer (Parakeet) | On their servers |
| Where your data lives | Your computer | Their cloud |
| Summaries & chat | Local model, or your own ChatGPT | Their servers, their AI |
| Pricing | One-time license | Monthly subscription |
| Works offline | Yes, with the local model | No |
Frequently asked questions
Is Pandecho private? Does it send my meetings to the cloud?
Transcription runs 100% on your computer with an on-device model — your audio is never uploaded. For summaries and chat you choose: a fully local model (nothing leaves your device) or, optionally, your own ChatGPT account. There are no Pandecho servers in the middle and no meeting bots.
Does Pandecho use a meeting bot that joins my calls?
No. Pandecho captures system and microphone audio locally on your computer. No bot joins the meeting, so other participants see nothing and you don't need anyone's permission to take notes.
What's a good private alternative to Otter, Fireflies, Granola, or Fathom?
Pandecho is a local-first alternative to cloud meeting-notes tools: on-device transcription, no bots joining calls, and a one-time license instead of a monthly subscription. It works on macOS and Windows.
Does Pandecho work offline?
Yes. With the on-device model, transcription and summaries run with no internet connection. Only the optional ChatGPT summary mode requires a connection.
How much does Pandecho cost?
Pandecho is a one-time purchase with no subscription: $79 for 1 device, $149 for 3, or $399 for 10. There is a free trial, and all future updates are included.
Which platforms and languages does Pandecho support?
Pandecho runs on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows. On-device transcription uses Parakeet V3, which supports English and major European languages.
Try Pandecho on your next meeting.
Free to start. Runs entirely on your computer. Your notes never leave it.
macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · Intel Mac?