GitHub - FrigadeHQ/yogurt: Private AI meeting notes. Free and open source.

• Mac uses ~/Library/Application Support/Yogurt.
• Windows uses %APPDATA%\Yogurt.
• Linux uses ~/.config/Yogurt, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Yogurt if set.

A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14.4 or newer, a 64-bit PC with Windows 10 (version 2004) or newer, or a 64-bit Linux computer with Ubuntu 22.04 or newer. Each needs at least 8 GB of memory. If your computer is too slow, Yogurt tells you during setup. Calendar and speaker names from calls are Mac only for now.

Click More info, then Run anyway. Windows shows this for new apps that aren’t signed with a Microsoft certificate yet. Yogurt is open source, so anyone can check what it does.

No. Yogurt records your microphone and the sound playing on your computer. No bot joins the call, so let the other people on the call know you’re recording.

Yes. Your recordings, transcripts, and notes are saved locally on your computer.

Yes. Yogurt is free and open source under the MIT license. No account is needed.

Yes. After a one-time download of the AI models, transcription and summaries run locally on your computer.

It depends on your computer. Yogurt downloads a smaller notes model first, about 5 GB, then the best one your computer can run well, which can be 14 GB or more. Recording works once setup finishes, and notes and questions work offline once the notes model is in.

In Settings → AI apps, turn on access, copy the helper command, and add it as a local MCP server in your assistant app. Access is off by default. The app can read your meetings, notes and transcripts, but cannot change them. It may send what it reads to its own online model. Turn access off in Yogurt to stop further reads.

Access is off until you enable it in Settings → AI apps. Apps get read-only access to meetings, notes and transcripts. Mac and Linux use a socket in your profile folder with 0600 permissions, so only your user account can open it. Windows uses a named pipe with a new random name each launch, stored only in your profile folder. There is no per-app token, so any app running under your account can read while access is on. Settings shows connected apps by their self-reported names.

Transcription uses Whisper through whisper.cpp, with large-v3-turbo or a smaller model depending on your computer. On supported Macs, Apple SpeechAnalyzer supplies live words while Whisper produces the saved transcript. Summaries and answers use a local open-weight model from the Gemma 4, gpt-oss or Qwen3 families, chosen for your hardware and run through llama.cpp. The app uses Electron and needs no account.

Pick Multi-language in Settings → Language → Spoken language to transcribe 99 languages. You can also switch from the English menu in a note’s footer before or during recording. English only is the default. Summaries follow the meeting’s main language; answers follow your question’s language. Settings also offers 32 app languages.

You can record calls in any app because Yogurt captures your microphone and system audio. Call detection covers Zoom, Teams and Meet. On Mac, Yogurt can also read their speaker names with Accessibility permission, when the call app shows who is speaking.

It checks which apps are using your microphone. For browser calls, it also checks the tab title or a nearby calendar event with a call link. This triggers an offer to record; recording starts only when you choose to.

On Mac, allow Calendar access in Settings. Yogurt reads the calendars already on your computer and lets you choose which ones to show. You do not sign into a calendar account in Yogurt.