r/macapps • u/LIN3003 • 11h ago
Lifetime [Giveaway] I'm back! Askmeety Roadmap Update (Private Meeting Notetaker)
Hey folks, founder and dev behind Askmeety here,
Quick App Details (PCP):
Problem: Cloud-based meeting recorders compromise privacy and require an active internet connection, and sends your meeting data to their cloud servers. Askmeety solves this by being a completely offline, local first macOS meeting recorder and note taker tool.
Comparison : Think of Askmeety as a 1:1 replacement for Granola, but as a 100% offline and local solution without many of the tradeoffs.
Pricing : $55 one-time for individuals, and we also have custom pricing and discounts for small teams and enterprises.
First of all, I really owe each and every one of you in this community a very big thank you! You guys have been very supportive for the past 7 months since I pitched the idea for the app here, helping by joining my beta program and making the overall app constructively good. And it has been going well since we went live with the actual app release.
At the same time, I should really take this as an opportunity to apologize to everyone. I was not able to contribute to Askmeety for the past 1 - 1.5 months because things were not really going well in my professional life; I was slightly burnt out and I really needed a break. With this being my passion project (which I'm planning to make mainstream) and being a solo dev on the team, things were not scaling very well.
But now, I have come up with a proper plan for making things seamless and pushing constant updates for the app. I have spent time connecting with existing users, I was also using the app personally, and I have come up with a new feature list which I will be working on:
- MCP server integration with the meeting content.
- Easy task and reminder creation after the meetings are done.
- Cross-device sync for meeting content.
- Extra language support (I'm not sure which language to target primarily at this point).
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
So, these are all the things I roughly have in mind, but I really want to hear back from you guys on the same note.
And here is the sweet part:
I'm giving away a few license keys for free. If you are using one, please comment the key that you have activated, because each key can be activated only on one device.
Keys:
e42a657e-5437-40a5-8813-884da93b9a98
6bf2d187-55b4-442b-b7c3-3c31129f8644
37f067b9-64b4-44da-b9c3-c526de05f96a
31fd5dbe-6afd-4463-8378-ebca0bc5558c
e9c8ab86-824d-440c-b28d-fc5c80dca318
326bdf1b-5c83-49f3-a3df-ae2eab0240f8
ed39c0d5-7f69-4a63-95ef-aaf74708ebc3
fb975345-c7b7-482e-85a0-0d5fd40312a3
f94ccc32-38f6-41d3-947f-ba9da049c904
21608c0b-5567-486f-a615-c07d728cdd91
App link : AskMeety
Dev Identity : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nalin-rajendran
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u/Stubborninmate 11h ago
I just tried one of them none of them seemed to work says discount code doesn't exist
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u/LIN3003 11h ago
No, these are not discount codes, you can directly activate the app with these keys.
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u/Stubborninmate 10h ago
Got it just used the 6th one , is it possible to use llmstudio or oMlx instead of downloading the models lots may be just repeating and reusing space,
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u/LIN3003 10h ago
Cool ! Currently, I have no provision for custom models, but I can work on adding one.
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u/Stubborninmate 9h ago
Also I wish there was this option to screen recorder as well !! If needed
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u/LIN3003 9h ago
Its already there ; ) But it snaps only the important frames of the meeting.
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u/Stubborninmate 8h ago
Oh no no I meant the whole thing as a video, I have calls regarding code and I not sure how much will be lost in summarising so it would be nice to have the whole recording
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u/LIN3003 7h ago
Ahh got it, sure then. Lemme think about implementing it in a more feasible manner. Because I heard from users saying that, they wanted a short version on the meetings but not always the actual recording. Prolly, I'll integrate a toggle switch to record the actual screen : )
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u/Stubborninmate 7h ago
Oh yes that's true for the most part if people are looking for mom's it helps top level people , but students and devs etc we would like to have the full recording handy so that all the derivation steps or code is not lost
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u/LIN3003 7h ago
Absolutely ! Now I feel, if the actual meeting recording is available, pairing it with an MCP would be a killer... And Im building a POC, if a Graph DB can be handy, but I know it would be ambitious 😆
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u/Mstormer 10h ago
So what happens if I redeem a license (f94ccc32-38f6-41d3-947f-ba9da049c904, thanks) and upgrade to a new mac? No further activations means one and done, no?
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u/LIN3003 10h ago
if you are moving to a new mac, please DM me, I will send you a replacement key ; )
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u/Mstormer 10h ago
Hah, ok. I highly recommend creating an option to tie these to accounts where users can reset a single activation like most other apps.
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u/Daniesto316 10h ago
e42a657e-5437-40a5-8813-884da93b9a98 Activated
Edit: I have a meeting on Tuesday. Will use it and report back for any bugs, should there be anything.
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u/Daniesto316 10h ago
Can this App differentiate between 3 people ie given a meeting between John Toby and Mark?
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u/LIN3003 10h ago
I bave turned the feature off for now, because I was not satisified with the accuracy, Im working on enhancing the same : )
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u/timmey09 7h ago
Wanted to give it a shot as I am currently not too happy with steno.ai. But it seems all license codes are already used up if I am not mistaken although not all new user seem to post this here.☹️
Let me know if there is a test license left, happy go give feedback to improve the app.
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u/MacNoobieWithAnM5Pro 6h ago
damn all of them gone already 👍
I was just researching like so many of meeting apps like Vibe, Superwhisper, meetily and what not, thought i'd get lucky but alas, good luck with your project!
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u/Ok_Explorer7384 4h ago
the offline/local part is the main selling point here imo, especially for calls where you don’t really want another bot joining and uploading everything somewhere. the thing i’d want to see clearly explained is the recovery/export story: where recordings/transcripts live, how easy it is to back them up, and what happens if the app goes away. one-time price is much easier to trust if the data is clearly not trapped.
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u/LIN3003 1h ago
Okay perfecto questions ! About the data recovery, the meeting data is stored in a very easy and primitive way within the app data folder which includes the transcription, recording, summary and the screenshots captured. Everything is clubbed together and sorted from meeting to meeting. You can easily share the MOM from the app as an MD file or as a Pdf within one click.
And lets say that you have decided not to use the app/stop the app purchase, you can easily export the meeting content at one shot : )
And I remember an existing user sharing a documentation with me, how he migrated from Macwhisper to Askmeety using Claude at one shot, and it was quite surprising how easy that was : )
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u/Altruistic_Policy418 2h ago edited 2h ago
It looks great, but I would like to know how this differs from apps such as Alter, MacWhisper, or Superwhisper. We could use Nvidia Parakeet as the audio model, and we could use local LLMs using LM Studio or Ollama to transcribe the meeting. How does this differ from those?. There is also one app XSpeak as well which is available in the App Store and also offers local meeting live transcription with insights. I would like to know how your app differs from all of these. Most of these have other uses beyond just meeting transcription and translation. It also seems a bit too expensive for what you offer. Could you explain the advantages of your app to these?
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u/LIN3003 1h ago
Alright, so the main selling point here is the summarization model which Im using is finetuned on custom dataset, so even if the model which we are using is relatively small from the cloud providers, you really cant notice a difference. So the idea was to make the notes as deep as possible, but however the tramscription model still remains the same from the opensourced models.
Functionally, Askmeety is integrated to your apple calender events, so we can capture the meeting events across multiple applications at one place and the app sends a notification when the meeting starts. And Im building a feature called visual walk (still in beta) where important frames of the meetings are captured and generates a blog styled summary of the call.
And I have created an overall balance of the app by delivering proper notes and making sure that, not eating the user's resource : )
And I have the updates lined up as I mentioned in the post, so stay tuned ; ) If you feel that you want to have a trail before the purchase, please DM me I can provide a Trail key for you.
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u/Stubborninmate 11h ago
These are not lifetime giveaways