oats-skills

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oats lives in your menu bar and stays out of the way. Hit record, get back to your meeting, forget it's running. When you're done it hands you a clean transcript and a tidy set of notes. No tab to babysit, no bot to invite, no "sorry, can you repeat that?"

You decide where the work happens:

• ☁️ Free, in the cloud — sign in and let Ariso do the heavy lifting. Real-time transcription, zero setup.
• 🔒 Private, on your Mac — flip one switch and recording, transcription, speaker labels, and notes all run offline. No login. No upload. Nothing leaves your machine.

✨ Features

• 🎙️ One-click recording from the menu bar. Pause, resume, stop — without leaving what you're doing.
• ⚡ Real-time transcription that streams in as people talk.
• 🗣️ Speaker labels — who said what, sorted out for you.
• 📝 Automatic notes — a clean Markdown summary for every recording.
• 📚 Library — every recording, transcript, and note in one place.
• 🔗 Share — native macOS share sheet, or share to the web (Ariso backend).
• 🔄 Auto-updates — signed, notarized, and quietly current.

📥 Install

Requires Apple Silicon (M-series) and macOS 14 or later.

🍺 Homebrew

# Add the tap (the cask lives in this repo, so point Homebrew at it directly)
brew tap ariso-ai/oats https://github.com/ariso-ai/oats

# Trust the cask, then install
brew trust --cask ariso-ai/oats/oats
brew install --cask oats

Homebrew 6.0 introduced tap trust: third-party taps must be explicitly trusted before they install. The brew trust step grants that once — without it you'll see Refusing to load cask … from untrusted tap.

📦 Direct download

1. Download the latest oats.dmg from the Releases page.
2. Open the DMG and drag oats into your Applications folder.
3. Launch it from Applications. oats lives in your menu bar — look for the icon.

The app is code-signed and notarized by Apple, and keeps itself up to date as new versions ship.

🚀 Getting started

First launch, pick a transcription backend in Settings → Transcription Backend:

☁️ Ariso — free, in the cloud

The default. Sign in, hit record. Audio streams to the Ariso backend, which transcribes it in real time and keeps your meetings so you can revisit and share them from anywhere. Free — pick this if you want zero setup and don't mind your transcripts living in the cloud.

🔒 Local — private, 100% offline

Sensitive conversation? Switch the backend to Local and oats does everything on your Mac:

• Recording is captured and saved locally.
• Transcription runs on the Apple Neural Engine (Parakeet ASR + speaker diarization).
• Notes are written by an on-device language model — no API calls.