What AI models does Azynote support?

Azynote currently uses Google Gemini as its AI provider. You bring your own API key: Gemini offers a generous free tier, so most users pay nothing for AI usage. Support for additional LLM providers is planned, and local LLM support is on the roadmap for a fully local experience.

Is my data stored in the cloud?

Your notes and transcription stay entirely on your Mac: no audio is ever uploaded or stored anywhere. When you use AI features, your data goes directly to Google via your own API key. We are never in the middle. Local LLM support is on the roadmap to enable a fully offline experience.

How does the transcription work?

Azynote transcribes your meetings in real-time, directly on your machine. There's no audio file created, no upload to a server, no processing delay. When the meeting ends, your transcription is already complete and ready to use.

Can I use my company's approved AI key?

Yes, that's the whole point. If your company has already approved Google Gemini, you use that same key with Azynote. Your data flows directly to Google under your existing agreement.

Bring Your Own Key. You create a free Google AI API key in 30 seconds, paste it into Azynote, and you're ready to go. This means your data goes directly from your machine to Google's AI: we're never in the middle.

Can I use Azynote with other AI tools?

Yes. Azynote includes an MCP server, so any MCP-compatible tool (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) can query your meeting knowledge directly.

What happens if I don't renew?

Azynote keeps working. You keep all your data and features. You just won't receive new updates or support until you renew.

Who will really benefit from this application?

Azynote is designed for anyone who manages multiple subjects through frequent meetings: SEs, CSMs, Account Executives, consultants, project managers. We're launching with a focus on Solution Engineers first.

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Fred Azarty·May 26, 2026·6 min read

Azynote 1.1.0: Who Said What, Global Hotkeys, and More

A few weeks after shipping 1.0, I promised that speaker diarization was next on the list. Today it ships, along with a handful of other things I have been sitting on. This is the biggest update since the initial release, so let me walk through what is actually in it.

Who Said What: on-device speaker diarization

This is the one I have wanted the most.

Transcripts are useful. Transcripts that tell you who said what are a different level of useful. With 1.1.0, Azynote separates voices automatically as the session runs. It works across both your microphone and system audio, tags every line with a colored speaker dot, and shows a key of everyone in the room at the top of the transcript panel.

Drop in an existing audio file and Azynote asks how many speakers to expect, then runs the same process in batch.

The part I care most about: it all runs on your Mac. The audio never leaves the machine. No cloud upload, no external API, no copy going anywhere. The whole point of the local-first approach is that your conversations stay yours, and diarization was the feature most at risk of breaking that promise. It does not.

Improve Transcript: cleaning up what Whisper misses

Whisper is excellent at capturing speech. It is imperfect at proper nouns, unusual acronyms, and product names spelled nothing like they sound. After a session with a client you have called by first name all day, you do not want "Daniel" transcribed as "Danielle" throughout.

There is now an Improve button in the transcript panel. Click it and Azynote sends the transcript text (not the audio, never the audio) to Gemini, which returns a cleaned version. If your session is linked to a calendar event, Azynote also passes the attendee list, so generic "Speaker 1" labels get replaced with actual names automatically.

Azynote also runs this pass automatically right after a session ends, so in most cases you will not need to click anything.

And if you preferred the original, Revert is always one click away. Nothing is irreversible.

Reach Azynote from any app: global hotkeys

Until now, chat and voice lived inside the Azynote window. If you were heads-down in another app, that was a context switch away.

1.1.0 adds three global hotkeys that summon Azynote on top of whatever you are doing:

Ctrl+Shift+C opens the chat panel.
Ctrl+Shift+V jumps straight into a voice conversation, mic already live, no clicking first.
Ctrl+Shift+O opens the Command Panel: select text anywhere in macOS, open the panel, pick a transform (proofread, improve, translate, and more), and the result is pasted back in place.

The Command Panel is the one I am most curious to see how people use. It turns Azynote into something you can reach from your email client, your notes app, your browser, without switching windows or losing your place.

Smart Calendar Subjects: rules, not guesswork

Azynote can link sessions to calendar events, and those events can automatically inherit a subject. In 1.0 that was a manual step. In 1.1.0 you can write per-subject rules that fire automatically as events load.

Rules match on event title, attendee, description, or which calendar the event lives in. There is a new Rules tab in each subject's detail view, and the chat agent can create and manage rules too if you prefer talking through it.

For people who run the same recurring calls (weeklies, customer syncs, internal reviews) this means those events are already tagged before you even open Azynote.

Delegate Tasks: hand off action items to the agent

Open action items in a OnePager now have a Delegate button. Click it and the task is handed to the chat agent, which does the work and writes its answer right back under the task, stamped "Done by Azynote".

It is a small addition on the surface but it changes how I interact with post-meeting outputs. Instead of moving items to a separate task manager, I can close the loop right inside the session.

Editor Snippets: shortcuts for things you type over and over

The note editor already had @t to insert a timestamp. Now it has a full snippet picker. Hit @ and you get a menu; beyond the built-in timestamp, you can define your own snippets in the new Editor tab in settings and drop them in as you type.

Not a huge feature, but the kind of thing that quietly saves thirty seconds a dozen times a day.

A few smaller fixes

The most noticeable bug fix: closing one of several open windows no longer caused it to reopen. That one had been annoying me for a while.

If you are already on 1.0, the update is waiting for you. If you have not tried Azynote yet, the first 14 days are free: azynote.com.

Feedback is always welcome at support@azynote.com.