Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Louis, a 21-year-old computer science student from Germany.
I built Earnote because I could never keep up taking notes in lectures – and every tool I found uploaded my recordings and wanted a monthly subscription. As a student I didn't want either.
How it works: put your phone on the table and record (or share a voice memo, an interview or a lecture video to the app). Earnote transcribes it with Whisper right on the device and writes a note: summary, the tasks and deadlines that were actually mentioned, flashcards to quiz yourself and a PDF study sheet. On iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on the phone, so it works in airplane mode.
No account, no ads, no subscription. Everything you need is free; there's an optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad (speaker detection, asking questions about a note, translation). The Mac app is free and open source (MIT).
I'd love to hear: what's missing in your study or meeting workflow? I read every comment.
I like that the transcription stays on the device and there's no account. I'm on Android though. Whisper runs fine on phones these days, so is an Android version something you'd look at, or does the on-device note writing depend on Apple's own models?
what i always miss is the out loud correction, i say a wrong date then fix it a sentence later and notes never catch which one i meant
Love that Earnote writes the lecture notes right on the device, so my recordings never have to leave the machine for a subscription.
About Earnote on Product Hunt
“Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device”
Earnote launched on Product Hunt on October 17th, 2026 and earned 84 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.
Earnote was featured in Productivity (663.7k followers), Open Source (69k followers), Education (79.4k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 256.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Earnote?
Earnote was hunted by Louis Klinke. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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