Google releases free experimental offline AI meeting note-taking app for Mac
Overview
Google has released AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental Mac app that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline and turns shorthand notes into polished notes using its on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model.
Google says files, meeting audio, and notes never leave the computer. Per Google's FAQ, the app is optimized only for Macs with Apple Silicon.
TechCrunch adds that the app also offers split-screen shorthand notes, transcripts, and a Gemma 4-powered assistant that can answer questions from uploaded documents, and positions it as a local-first rival to Granola. The on-device approach is presented as a distinguishing feature among a growing number of AI note-taking apps.
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- The Verge · AIGoogle's experimental AI Edge Foresight transcribes meetings fully offline on Mac
AIGoogle has released AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental note-taking app that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline on macOS. It runs on the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model and turns shorthand notes into polished notes based on the transcript. Google says files, meeting audio, and notes never leave the computer, and the app is currently optimized only for Macs with Apple Silicon.
- TechCrunch · AIGoogle launches Google AI Edge Foresight, a local-first Mac meeting note-taker rival to Granola
AIGoogle released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac app that captures meeting notes offline using the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model with 740 million parameters. The app offers split-screen shorthand and AI-generated notes, transcripts, and a Gemma 4-powered assistant that can answer questions from uploaded documents. Google's FAQ says it is optimized for Apple Silicon.
- Testing CatalogGoogle releases Foresight macOS app using Gemma 4 for voice notes
AIGoogle released the Google AI Edge Foresight app for macOS, powered by Gemma 4 and EmbeddingGemma 2. The app can connect to Google Drive to build a knowledge graph and, when transcription is active, uses local Gemma 4 E4B or Gemma 4 12B models to transcribe voice notes into new documents. EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open-weight, Apache 2 licensed 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model with an 8K context window.
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