Dollop is now three things.
When we shipped Dollop, the pitch was simple: voice dictation that runs on Apple Foundation Models, with a chat overlay you can summon over any app. Two pillars. Today we add a third.
- Dictation (⌥ Space): clean text at your cursor in any app.
- AI chat (⌃ S): a floating overlay, optionally screen-aware, for asking and rewriting.
- Meeting Notes (⌃ R): record any class or call; get a transcript, a summary, and action items.
All three run on-device. All three are free.
What Meeting Notes does.
Hit ⌃ R before a Zoom call, an in-person meeting, or the start of class. Dollop captures audio (system audio for calls, the mic for in-person), and the moment you stop:
- You get a full transcript, with speaker turns.
- You get a summary: the gist, the decisions, what changed.
- You get a list of action items, with who said what.
- It is all searchable across your full meeting history.
You can copy any of it out, paste it into Notion or Linear, or hit "send to chat" to keep talking with the meeting transcript as context.
Why on-device matters here.
The cloud-meeting-notes category (Otter, Fireflies, Granola, Read.ai) has the same architectural posture: your audio uploads to a server, gets transcribed in the cloud, often gets used for product training, and the recording lives somewhere you don't control. For a casual team retro, that's fine. For a sales call with a prospect under NDA, a board meeting, a one-on-one, a customer interview, a therapy session, a hiring conversation, a class with a professor who hasn't consented to recording, that posture is the entire problem.
Meeting Notes processes everything on your Mac. The transcript model runs on Apple's Neural Engine, the summary runs on Apple Foundation Models. There is no upload step. The recording, the transcript, the summary, the action items: all of it lives in your local Dollop library. You can delete any of it at any time, and "delete" actually means delete.
Still 0 GB of RAM.
Meeting Notes uses the same architecture as the rest of Dollop: ride on the foundation model Apple already keeps warm in the OS, don't load a separate model into your memory. So even with hours of recording in the library, the app itself contributes nothing on top of the OS baseline. Useful when you have a Zoom call, slides, a browser, and an IDE all open and the laptop fan is already trying.
How students, founders, and teams use it.
- Students: record lectures, walk back to the dorm with a clean summary in your pocket, search across the semester before an exam.
- Engineers: capture the design review, get the action items as a checklist, drop them straight into Linear.
- Designers: record the client crit, get the feedback as bullets you can act on, no notetaker context-switch.
- Founders: record the investor call, the customer interview, the board meeting; have the transcripts on hand, on your Mac, no cloud routing of sensitive conversations.
Available today, free.
Meeting Notes ships in Dollop starting today. No upgrade, no tier, no extra purchase. If you already have Dollop installed, update to the latest version and the feature is there. If you don't, the download is free, and the full app is the free app.