Sonari 0.34 · Private meeting intelligence for Mac

Every meeting.
Entirely yours.

Press Record once. Sonari privately captures, transcribes, and organizes the conversation on your Mac—then shows the evidence behind every insight.

macOS 14.2+ · Apple silicon · No meeting bot · Meeting processing stays local after model setup

Sonari
Verified Local
LIVE · 38:42
Product council
Bookmark
Microphone · You−18 dB
App audio · Product team−22 dB
TranscriptSummarySlides
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Serge

Let’s keep the source receipt visible. Trust should be part of the product, not a footnote.

AM
Amelia

Agreed. I’ll own the customer validation plan and bring findings to Friday’s review.

Transcribing on this Mac…
Meeting intelligence

What changed

✓

DecisionKeep evidence receipts visible in the primary workflow.

↳ Serge · 38:06 · Open source
→

Action · AmeliaDeliver the customer validation plan by Friday.

↳ Amelia · 38:19 · Open source
Ask this meeting ⌘ K
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Source-safe captureTwo isolated tracks with live health.

02

Receipt-backed intelligenceEvery insight opens its evidence.

NO BOT IN THE ROOMON-DEVICE SPEECHLOCAL SUMMARIESENCRYPTED VAULTYOU CONTROL RETENTION
SONARI 0.34 — READY TO DOWNLOAD

The complete workflow.
Now ready for your Mac.

Sonari 0.34 is a signed, notarized release built for real professional work—from a scheduled meeting to a verified brief, follow-up, and durable private memory.

Signed, notarized, and running on macOS
0.34public release

Build 54 for Apple silicon

203release checks

Complete regression suite passed

Applenotarized

Developer ID + Gatekeeper accepted

Localmeeting AI

Speech and summaries stay on your Mac

30-DAY PROFESSIONAL TRIAL

Use Sonari on the meetings that matter.

Install the full private workflow on your own Mac and evaluate every professional feature for 30 days. The installer is Developer ID signed, Apple notarized, and ready for secure automatic updates.

  • ✓One-button recording and audio/video import
  • ✓Live and refined transcripts with speakers
  • ✓Evidence-linked summaries, actions, and Ask Sonari
  • ✓Calendar-aware meeting prompts and private brief email
  • ✓Professional memory, exports, and encrypted sharing
  • ✓Downloadable speech and local language-model choices
Download for Mac ↓See how it works
macOS 14.2+ · Apple silicon · 30-day evaluation · No meeting bot
THE EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE

Close the window.
Keep Sonari ready.

The fastest path is deliberately simple: start the meeting, stay present, and return to a private record that is already organized.

01

Ready everywhere

Keep Sonari in the menu bar after its window closes, or have it open when you sign in. It stays quiet until you choose to record.

02

One intentional press

Start or stop from any app with ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ R. Sonari shows both microphone and app-audio health while the meeting is being saved.

03

A useful result

Open a polished brief, chronological outline, decisions, questions, and actions—each linked back to the local transcript evidence.

See the five-step quick start →
Sonari is readyAvailable from the menu bar
⌃ ⌥ ⌘ R
✓
Private brief readyProcessed on this Mac
4Decisions6Actions12Citations
01 — HOW SONARI WORKS

From one button
to a trusted record.

Sonari keeps the complicated machinery out of your way. You capture the conversation; it builds the organized, evidence-linked result.

01

Capture

Choose Record or drop in an audio or video file. Sonari keeps microphone and app audio on separate tracks.

Mic · app audio · imports
02

Understand

Speech models transcribe, identify speakers, apply your vocabulary, and read captured slides on this Mac.

Transcript · speakers · OCR
03

Verify

Sonari turns the conversation into a summary, decisions, questions, and actions—with a source receipt for each insight.

Summary · citations · review
04

Act

Send a follow-up, track commitments, prepare for the next meeting, or export the exact record you need.

Actions · follow-up · continuity
QUICK START — YOUR FIRST MEETING

Just press Record.
Sonari handles the rest.

  1. 1
    Press Record

    Choose Record from Home or the menu bar. Sonari uses your saved microphone and app-audio choices.

  2. 2
    Check the two signals

    Green moving meters confirm that Sonari can hear you and the meeting. If one is quiet, open Check capture.

  3. 3
    Meet normally

    Watch live captions, press ⇧⌘B for a bookmark, and keep using other apps while Sonari works.

  4. 4
    Stop recording

    Use the red Stop Recording button, press ⌘ . in Sonari, or use ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ R from any app. Your original audio is saved immediately.

  5. 5
    Review the result

    Open Summary first, confirm speakers and actions, then select any citation to hear the source.

OR

Already have a recording? Drop an audio or video file anywhere in Sonari to run the same workflow.

01 — THE SONARI DIFFERENCE

Meeting AI grew powerful.
It also grew distant.

Most assistants send the most sensitive room in your business somewhere else to be understood. Sonari takes a different path.

It gives you the convenience of meeting intelligence with a privacy boundary you can see, evidence you can inspect, and data you can take with you.

Twoisolated audio tracks
Eightdownloadable speech models
Zeromeeting-content uploads required
Everyinsight linked to evidence
02 — ONE PRIVATE SYSTEM

From sound
to signal.

Sonari protects the full chain: what was said, who said it, what it means, and what must happen next.

01

Capture with confidence

Record your microphone and app audio as isolated tracks, choose the exact input device, and verify both sources before the meeting starts.

Live waveforms · device preflight · interruption recovery
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02

Know what is true

Transcription, speaker identification, and meeting intelligence run on your Mac. Every decision and action keeps a receipt to its exact source.

On-device speech · local summaries · transcript citations
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03

Turn talk into momentum

Move from one conversation to a durable system of actions, follow-ups, people, recurring context, and daily or weekly briefings.

Action Center · follow-up drafts · relationship memory
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03 — THE COMPLETE MEETING OS

Not another
transcript archive.

Every feature is designed to help you stay present now and become more effective after the room goes quiet.

REC↗

Record anything

Capture mic plus any app—or everything—with independent tracks. Import audio and video by dropping it anywhere. Continue through device changes without losing the meeting.

Mic + app isolationAudio/video importSource recovery
TXT↗

Understand every voice

Watch a responsive live draft, then refine it with your choice of eight downloadable speech models. Identify speakers, learn corrections, and apply client-specific vocabulary.

Local WhisperDiarizationMultilingual transcription
ASK↗

Ask with evidence

Ask Sonari answers from the meeting—not from guesswork. Every answer includes the speaker, quotation, and timestamp, and opens the original audio in one click.

Grounded Q&AExact citations⌘K everywhere
ACT↗

Close every loop

Collect commitments across meetings, assign owners and dates, snooze work, sync selected items to Reminders, and draft follow-ups from verified decisions and open questions.

Action CenterRemindersFollow-up composer
MEM↗

Build private memory

Reconnect every person, company, decision, and unanswered question. Prepare for recurring meetings with continuity from the last conversation—not a blank page.

People + CompaniesMeeting prepRecurring context
CTX↗

Keep the visual context

Bookmark important moments live. Capture slides, read whiteboards with local OCR, or optionally record the screen. Everything remains attached to its meeting timestamp.

Live bookmarksSlide + whiteboard OCRScreen context
ACC↗

Make meetings accessible

Open large presentation captions with speaker colors, place translations beside the original transcript, and export precise subtitles without changing the source record.

Presentation captionsSide-by-side translationSRT + VTT
SYS↗

Fit your workflow

Use templates, folders, tags, favorites, bulk actions, a local read-only API, an MCP server, Apple Shortcuts, and encrypted packages that preserve the meeting record.

MCP + APIEncrypted sharingApple Shortcuts
04 — PROOF, NOT PROMISES

A trust boundary
you can inspect.

Privacy should be an observable product behavior. Sonari shows what it captured, what it connected to, and which transcript lines support its conclusions.

01

Verified LocalSee Sonari’s active network connections, separated by recording, processing, and idle state.

02

Integrity reportInspect frames, silence, empty buffers, overloads, clock drift, and recovery status after capture.

03

Private VaultProtect content with authenticated encryption, a Keychain-backed key, and Touch ID or Mac password unlock.

04

Source receiptsKeep decisions, actions, questions, and quotes connected to the words and timestamp that support them.

SONARI TRUST PATHLIVE
CAPTUREMic + app audiotwo isolated tracks
THIS MACSpeech + intelligenceWhisper · SpeakerKit · Ollama
CONTROLYour private vaultKeychain · ChaChaPoly · recovery
✓

Meeting contentLocal process

ON MAC
✓

Summary service127.0.0.1 loopback

LOCAL

External connectionNo meeting transfer detected

NONE

Model downloads, software updates, and license validation may use the network. Meeting content does not need to.

05 — A DIFFERENT CATEGORY

Convenience without
surrender.

Sonari’s advantage is not one isolated feature. It is the combination of private capture, local intelligence, evidence, and follow-through in one native product.

CAPABILITY
SONARI
CLOUD MEETING AI
Otter · Fireflies · Fathom
CLOUD-ASSISTED NOTES
Granola
LOCAL TRANSCRIPTION
MacWhisper
Where the meeting is understood
✓On your Mac by default
Primarily in a vendor cloud
Cloud transcription + AI providers
On-device transcription; AI varies
Bot-free capture
✓Yes — native app audio capture
Available in some desktop apps
Yes — device capture
Yes
Local summary intelligence
✓Yes — local Ollama models
Not the default architecture
No — external AI providers
Available with local model setup
Evidence attached to insights
✓Verified source receipts
Timestamps and citations vary
Transcript-linked notes
Transcript search and timestamps
Beyond the transcript
✓Actions, briefings, continuity, people, visual context
Strong team workflows + integrations
Notes, chat, templates, sharing
Deep transcription + export tools
Control and auditability
✓Vault, local network audit, recovery + integrity reports
Enterprise cloud controls
Cloud security controls
Local files and model controls
VS 01

Cloud meeting agents

Choose Sonari when the meeting should remain under your control and evidence matters more than centralized cloud administration.

VS 02

Cloud-assisted notepads

Choose Sonari when bot-free capture is not enough—you also want local speech, local summaries, retained source audio, and recovery.

VS 03

Local transcription apps

Choose Sonari when you need a complete meeting system: agenda, actions, briefings, continuity, cited answers, people, and visual context.

Fair comparison matters. Cloud-first tools can be a stronger fit for organizations prioritizing mature SaaS integrations, centralized administration, and large shared workspaces. Public product architecture reviewed July 2026. View sources.

06 — PROFESSIONAL USE CASES

One private system.
Different professional wins.

Select your work to see exactly how Sonari turns a consequential conversation into a useful professional record.

Client intake · witness interview · strategy call

Turn a client interview into matter-ready working memory.

Preserve the exact conversation while building a usable chronology of facts, issues, commitments, and unanswered questions.

01Capture voices + bookmarks
02Apply matter vocabulary
03Build issues + chronology
04Verify every source
SONARI CREATES
  • ✓Speaker-labeled transcript
  • ✓Fact and issue chronology
  • ✓Citation-backed quotations
  • ✓Matter actions and follow-up
WHY IT FITS

Keep meeting content on the Mac and connect it to the correct client or matter. Recording-consent and firm policies still apply.

Explore the complete legal workflow →

Sonari supports professional confidentiality workflows but does not replace your organization’s consent, retention, security, or regulatory obligations.

SONARI

Thirty days to make
every meeting useful.

Keep the conversation. Keep the context. Keep control.

Download Sonari 0.34 ↓Signed and notarized · Apple silicon · 30-day evaluation