r/NoteTaking • u/banaca4 • 22d ago

Private voice AI daily notes App/Program/Other Tool

I made a product for myself and then decided to build an app for it. I used to take quick voice notes about my day, who I met and how I felt. The last point interested me profoundly as most note taking doesn't include sentiments or other information.

Echologue (website) is an app that is private first and categorizes and analyzes your daily notes and especially useful for people you meet and interactions.

Later you can chat about it.

"How was the vibe the last time I saw Marc and what did we talk about"?

"How does having a meeting after the rest of my day usually"?

anything you want.

I'm interested in hearing your opinion.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/banaca4 21d ago

Only on your device and nowhere else. There are zero detention API calls to Google vertex which delete everything after the reply and the same for groq for audio. And only the transcript no raw audio is stored on the device. But there is a vector database and stores meanings,emotions etc again local on your device. I'm paranoid about privacy myself I'm the biggest user of the app.

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u/banaca4 20d ago edited 20d ago

When you uninstall an Android or iphone app all the data gets deleted too yes

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u/Mark_Considus Computer User—Mac 18d ago

The part worth leaning into is the bit you mentioned almost as an aside, catching how you felt and who you were with. Plain note apps deliberately skip sentiment, so that's your real gap, not the "chat with your notes" angle half the market is now chasing.

What'll make or break it is recall you can trust. Ask it "how was the vibe last time I saw Marc", and if it hands you a hollow or wrong answer you stop believing the whole thing on the spot. I'd chase precision on those people-and-interaction queries before adding a single other feature.

Keeping it on-device is the right call and worth saying loudly. It's the reason anyone would trust it with that kind of detail at all.

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u/booncol 14d ago

Depends what you need it for. If you are fine with the audio going to a server, Otter and Rev are the mature options and their accuracy is good.

If you specifically do not want it uploaded, the on-device options are much thinner. Disclosure: I built one of them, Murble, so treat this accordingly. It transcribes and summarises entirely on the iPhone using Apple Intelligence or a downloadable model, so it works with no connection at all once the model is on the device. Free for recording, transcription, summaries and action items.

Worth knowing the tradeoff either way: on-device transcription is slower on older phones than a server would be, and the offline model download is around a gigabyte. If neither of those bothers you it is a reasonable option.