Knows who said what
Your microphone and the call are recorded as separate tracks, so your words are always yours. The other voices are told apart on your computer, and you can name them in a click.
Private, fast, no bots
Meeting notes
without the
meeting bot
Record any call and get notes while you talk, then a transcript and a full write-up when it ends. Or hold a key and speak to type anywhere. Audio is transcribed on your computer and never uploaded.
0.3 s
From releasing the dictation key to typed text
24×
Faster than real time: an hour of meeting in about 2½ minutes
0 bytes
Of audio uploaded. Speech recognition runs on your computer
Timings measured on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip.
Meeting notes and dictation in one app
Everything said, written down
Notes while you talk
A panel beside the call keeps what to ask before the end, follow-ups and decisions, updated every minute. It's hidden from screen sharing.
- Who owns the analytics fix?Ask
- When do pricing tests restart?Ask
- Dan sends the revised timelineFollow-up
- Launch moves to ThursdayDecision
Notes worth reading
When the call ends: a TL;DR, decisions, action items with owners, and the discussion by topic. Export to Markdown.
Dictate into any app
Hold a key (or fn on a Mac), speak, let go. Your words show as you say them, and fillers and false starts are tidied only when there's something to fix.
The right tone for each app
Casual in chat, formal in email, exact in your editor and terminal. Change any app's style.
- SlackCasual
- MailFormal
- VS CodeTechnical
See how the call went
Who talked and for how long, a timeline of who spoke when, questions asked and the longest monologue. Worked out on your computer.
Search every meeting
Full-text search across every transcript, kept in a local library on your computer.
Nothing joins the call
Works with every call app
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Microsoft Teams
- Slack huddles
- Webex
- Any browser tab
Quill records your microphone and your computer's audio, so if you can hear it, Quill can write it down.
On a Mac, Quill notices when a call app starts using your microphone and offers to record, then to stop when the call ends.
Local first
Private by design
Audio stays on your computer
Whisper transcribes on your own hardware, on the GPU on Apple Silicon and on Windows graphics cards. Recordings are kept as compact FLAC files in a folder you choose.
You choose where text goes
Notes, live notes and dictation clean-up use a model you pick: through OpenRouter, only to providers that don't store or train on your data, or with Ollama on your own machine, so nothing leaves it at all.
Keys in your OS keychain
API keys live in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager, never in files or logs.
No telemetry
No analytics, no tracking. Besides your model, Quill only downloads speech models and checks for updates once a day. Logs never contain what you said.
Open source
Read every line on GitHub. MIT or Apache-2.0, your choice.
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Pay for what you use, not a seat
Quill is free. Notes are written by a model you choose, and you pay that provider directly: about 3 cents an hour of meeting with live notes, or nothing with a local model.
A year of notes and dictation, for one person
US dollars. Paid plans billed annually.
| Feature | Quill | Wispr Flow | Granola | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting notes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dictation into any app | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Records without a bot in the call | Yes | Yes | Yes | Usually a bot |
| Where speech is turned into text | Your computer | Their cloud | Cloud providers | Their cloud |
| Your data trains models | Never | A setting you choose | Anonymized, unless you opt out | De-identified, per its policy |
| Works fully offline | With Ollama | No | No | No |
| Price for one person | Freeplus model use | $15/mo$12/mo yearly | $14/mofree plan keeps 30 days | $16.99/mo$8.33/mo yearly |
| Mobile apps | Not yet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shared team workspace | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
List prices and policies from each company's own pages, checked October 2026; free plans with limits are also available. Quill's estimate is OpenRouter's price for the default models with 10 hours of meetings a week, live notes on. Sources: Wispr Flow pricing, privacy; Granola pricing, security; Otter.ai pricing, privacy policy. Wispr Flow, Granola and Otter.ai are trademarks of their owners.
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Quill v0.3.0 is free. On first launch it offers to download its speech models (about 1.7 GB).
macOS 14.6 or later on Apple Silicon · Windows 10 or 11. Early builds aren't signed yet, so the first launch asks for one extra approval. All releases