Pricing

Azynote is free. No trial, no tiers, no account, no card.

That is a change. Azynote used to be a paid app, and I wrote a long page here defending that model as fair to both sides. I still think it was fair, and I would defend the app that people paid for. What changed is not what the app is worth. It is what I want this to be.

What I was actually selling

From the beginning the point was never "an app that takes meeting notes". The point was an app that takes meeting notes without sending your meetings anywhere.

Your meetings are your most sensitive material. Client strategy, internal disagreement, the number someone said out loud before they meant to. My whole reason for building this was that none of it should have to travel to a server for you to get value out of it.

Transcription has been local from day one. Storage has been local from day one. But the intelligence, the part that turns a transcript into something you actually use, ran on Google. So the most interesting step in the pipeline was a cloud call. I always said so plainly, and it still sat badly with me, because it was the one part of the promise I could not keep on my own machine.

Where local models are now

Good enough to be the default.

Azynote ships with a model that runs entirely on your Mac and handles OnePagers, chat, the command panel, and search indexing. On a Mac with 16 GB of memory or more, you can run the whole product with nothing leaving the machine. That was not true a year ago and I did not expect it to be true this soon.

I want to be precise about quality, because you should hear it from me rather than discover it on a session that matters. The local output is close to the cloud output. Close is not the same as there. Gemini still holds the ceiling today, local holds the promise, and the gap has been closing faster than I expected.

So, free

The app is free. Every feature, no locked tiers, no upsell inside the product.

The local engine is the default and needs 16 GB of memory. If your Mac has less, or if you want the current ceiling on quality, you can point Azynote at Gemini, at any OpenAI-compatible provider, or at the Claude CLI. Your key, your account, your call. Azynote is never in the middle.

How I pay for this

I do not. I lose money on it, and I would rather say that plainly than leave you looking for the catch.

There is no analytics. There is no account system. Nothing about your meetings reaches me, which means there is nothing for me to sell even if I wanted to, and I do not want to. A free app that quietly monetises its users is exactly the thing I built this to avoid.

The honest framing is that Azynote is an exploration space. I am trying to find out what a work companion looks like when nothing has to leave your machine, and the hosting, the developer account and the hours are what that exploration costs me. I share the result with the people who recognise something of themselves in the idea. If that turns into a way to fund the work later, good. It is not the reason I am doing it.

What this means for you

• Download it and use it. There is nothing to evaluate against a countdown.
• Nothing you have is going to stop working, get gated, or move behind a login.
• New features and support arrive at my rhythm. This is one person sharing something he built, not a company with a queue and a service level. I would rather say that up front than have you discover it on the day you need something urgently.
• If you already bought a license, it still validates and you now have the same thing as everyone else. Write to me and I will refund you.

If you think I am getting this wrong, or you see an angle I am missing, write to support@azynote.com. I have changed my mind about this once already, in public, so clearly I am open to it.