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ownnotes
Every meeting recorded and written up in your browser — and nobody else holds a copy.
The call is starting, you are the one talking, and there is no version of the next hour where you also take good notes. Record it, and read the write-up afterwards on your own computer, where the recording stayed.
Under half a minute of ownnotes being used, recorded through its own interface. Nothing is drawn for the advert and there is no voice-over — every word in it is a word the app itself puts on the screen.
$29once — never again
- Included: Web app + installable app
- Included: Every future update included
- Not included: No device-to-device sync in this version
- Included: Nothing you put in it is copied to our servers
Before you buy — what ownnotes cannot do
- It records your microphone, and the audio of a browser tab you choose to share. Chrome and Edge offer that; Safari and Firefox do not offer audio with a screen share at all, so in those you get your own microphone only.
- Sharing a single application window carries no audio in any browser. It has to be a tab, or a whole screen.
- On a phone or a tablet there is no screen sharing to take audio from, so it is your microphone only.
- It cannot silently record a meeting app. There is no way to point it at Zoom or Teams and have it listen — the browser records only what you hand it through its own picker, and it shows its own indicator the whole time.
- A video track is what the browser demands in exchange for shared audio. ownnotes never renders it, never records it, and keeps no video at any point.
- English only, and there is no per-name speaker labelling. “You” and “Others” come from the two separate tracks rather than being guessed, which is the honest version and not the fancy one.
- Transcription runs in the tab on a model of about 67 MB that downloads once. On a long or busy call it can fall behind and catch up after you stop; the recording is kept regardless.
- Meetings are held in one browser on one computer, and there is no sync and no account holding them — so the exports are the backup, and a browser told to clear its site data will clear the meetings.
One payment. No subscription, no trial to forget to cancel — the demo on the product page is the real app, so you already know what you're buying.