ObvetoClient meeting notes that never leave your computer.
Attorney-client privilege doesn’t upload. Neither does Obveto.
Press record on any Zoom, Teams or Meet call. When it ends, the summary, decisions and action items are already written — by your computer, not somebody’s server. No account. No cloud.
Cloud notetakers hear everything.
Otter, Fireflies and friends send the audio of every call to a third-party server — client names, numbers, the things said off the record. For a lawyer, a doctor or anyone under NDA that is not a preference, it is a liability.
Obveto has no server to send to.
The app ships with no network capability at all. Transcription and summarization run on your own CPU. Turn off Wi-Fi and it works exactly the same.
Notes are plain files you own.
Every meeting becomes a Markdown file in your Documents folder. Search across matters, open in Word, attach to the file — no export step, no lock-in.
Built for people who take meetings, not for people who run servers.
Record, transcribe, summarize, search. Every part runs on the laptop in front of you.
Client-ready summaries
Summary, decisions, action items and open questions, written from the transcript and nothing else. Pick a template — general, legal, sales, deposition, stand-up, 1:1 — or write your own sections.
Who said what
Speakers are told apart and every line is labelled. Tell Obveto how many people were in the room and it re-labels the whole meeting in seconds — no re-transcribing.
Search every meeting
Full-text search across transcripts and summaries. Find the call where the deadline was agreed, jump to the line, play the audio at that second.
From a messy call to a note you can send.
What Obveto produces from an ordinary recording — no cloud, no internet, no vendor training pipeline.
Review of the commercial lease dispute. The renewal clause requires 90 days’ notice; the landlord’s letter arrived at roughly 60. Agreed this is the core argument for the reply.
- Lead with the notice-period defect in the reply.
- Hold the rent-abatement point for a later round.
- Dana — draft reply letter by Friday
- Speaker 2 — pull the dated copy of the landlord’s letter
From meeting to note in three steps.
No bot in the call, no upload, nothing to configure.
Record
Press record before any call or meeting. Obveto captures your microphone and the other side’s audio, or takes a file you already have.
Transcribe
Speech becomes searchable text with speakers told apart — on your own processor, queued in the background while you work.
Summarize
Summary, decisions and action items land in a Markdown file in your Documents. Open it in Word, attach it to the matter, search it next year.
One difference per competitor.
Everyone promises you won’t lose your action items. Here’s what they don’t promise.
| Obveto | Otter / Fireflies | Summit | Meetily | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio leaves your machine | Never | Always | No | No |
| Runs on Windows | Yes, and Mac | Yes (web) | Mac only | Yes |
| Setup | Two clicks | Account + bot | Installer | Docker + server |
| Account required | No | Yes | No | No |
Their audio always leaves your machine and needs an account plus a bot in the call. Obveto: never, and no account.
Local too — but Mac only. Obveto runs on Windows and Mac.
Local and cross-platform — but Docker, a backend server and a GitHub install. Obveto: two clicks.
Everything a compliance check asks about, on one page.
Who we are, where data lives, what the app can and cannot do on the network, and how to verify it yourself — written for the person who has to sign off, not for a sysadmin. Law firms, clinics, anyone under NDA.
Read the security & data handling statement →Fifteen free transcriptions. Then a plan that fits.
No account, no card, no timer. The trial counts meetings you actually transcribe, so a download that sits on your desk for a week loses nothing.
Monthly
Maximum flexibility. Cancel any time; the key simply stops renewing.
- Unlimited transcriptions
- Speakers, summaries, search, tasks — every feature
- Offline key — no activation server
Yearly
Just $7.50 a month, billed once a year. Best for steady use.
- Unlimited transcriptions
- Speakers, summaries, search, tasks — every feature
- Offline key — no activation server
Lifetime
Pay once and own Obveto for good. Costs less than 12 months of monthly billing.
- Unlimited transcriptions
- Speakers, summaries, search, tasks — every feature
- Perpetual license, a year of updates included
After the year, the versions you have keep working forever; renewing updates is optional.
Get lifetime accessQuestions people ask before installing.
Does it need a GPU or a powerful laptop?
Does it really never connect to the internet?
Which meeting apps does it work with?
What languages can it transcribe?
Where do my notes live?
What happens when the 15 free transcriptions are spent?
Two clicks to install. Nothing to configure.
Windows 10/11 and macOS 13+. Works on an ordinary office laptop, no GPU needed. iOS and Android: maybe later.