Windows app for meetings

Meeting notes that stay on your machine.

referat records the meeting, transcribes it and writes finished minutes — summary, decisions and action items. You decide where the AI runs. Nothing leaves your machine unless you choose it.

Download for Windows — free See how it works

Version 0.1 — Windows 10/11

Privacy by design

Your data, your terms.

referat is built so sensitive conversations never have to leave your company against your will.

Recorded locally

Audio is captured and saved on your own machine. No recordings are uploaded automatically to any cloud service — they stay where you can see them.

You choose where the AI runs

Run the AI locally on your machine, on your company's internal server or with a cloud provider. The choice is yours — and you can change it at any time.

No subscription required

The app is free to download and use. If you run your own or a local AI, you pay nothing extra — no monthly fees, no accounts.

How it works

Three steps to finished minutes.

From install to shareable minutes without a manual. No terminal, no technical terms.

  1. Step 1

    Record

    Press one big button. referat captures both your microphone and the meeting's system audio — whether you're in Teams, Zoom or a physical room.

  2. Step 2

    Get the minutes

    When you stop, the app transcribes and summarizes automatically. You get a summary, decisions and action items with owners — plus a fully searchable transcript. Turn on speaker identification and the transcript also shows who said what.

  3. Step 3

    Ready to share

    Export to Word or Markdown, or copy straight into an email. The minutes are editable and ready to send to the participants.

For IT

Point the app at your own AI.

referat doesn't lock you into a vendor. Transcription and summarization are configured independently against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

  • OpenAI-compatible endpoints for transcription (/v1/audio/transcriptions) and chat completions.
  • Internal server, Azure OpenAI or Anthropic — ready-made presets, or enter your own base URL.
  • Keys are stored encrypted locally with Windows DPAPI (Electron safeStorage) — never in plaintext, never in the cloud.
  • Optional speaker identification via an open-source companion server you host yourself — on the user's machine or one GPU box for the whole office. Setup guide.
  • No telemetry. The app doesn't phone home. Outbound traffic only goes to the endpoints you specify yourself.
Data flow: you choose where the AI runs The referat app sends data to a choice you make, which points to either your local machine, your company's internal server or a cloud service. referat you choose Local machine on your device Internal server on your network Cloud optional
The app only sends data where you point it.

Frequently asked questions

Questions and answers

Does it cost anything?

No. The app is free to download and use. If you run the AI locally or against your company's own server, there are no additional costs. If you use a cloud service like OpenAI, you only pay that provider's usual fee directly to them.

Can it show who said what?

Yes, as an optional feature. A small open-source companion server labels the transcript by speaker ("Speaker 1", "Speaker 2"), and you can rename the labels — the names carry into the minutes. IT can host one server for the whole office, or power users run it on their own machine. There's also an opt-in setting that recognizes saved voices at later meetings and suggests the name — always as a suggestion you confirm, never applied silently. See the setup guide.

Where are the recordings stored?

Locally on your machine. Audio files, transcripts and minutes are saved on your computer. Nothing is uploaded automatically — the app only talks to endpoints you chose yourself: text goes to your AI service for transcription and summarization, and the optional speaker identification talks only to a local server you run.

Which AI services are supported?

Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint for transcription and chat, plus Anthropic for summarization. That includes local servers (such as Ollama), OpenAI, Azure OpenAI and your own internal endpoint. Transcription and summarization are set up separately.

Does it work with Teams, Zoom and Meet?

Yes. referat records your computer's system audio and therefore works regardless of which meeting tool you use — Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or a physical meeting in the room. No plugin or integration is needed, and no bot joins the call.

Do I need to be technical?

No. A guide walks you through first launch and everything is configured through a friendly, plain-language interface. You never need to open a terminal. If you want to run the AI against your company server, IT gives you an address to paste in.

What does it take to run AI locally?

A local AI server on your machine (such as Ollama for the minutes and a Whisper-compatible service for transcription). Our Local AI setup guide walks you through it step by step. A reasonably modern computer with enough memory is recommended — otherwise the cloud or server mode works just as well.

What language is the app in?

The app interface is currently Swedish, and the default minutes template produces Swedish minutes (the transcription follows the spoken language). An English UI is on the roadmap. This website and the documentation are in English.

Ready to try referat?

Download it, record your next meeting and get the minutes for free.

Download for Windows — free

Version 0.1 — Windows 10/11