embral

A desktop app for realtime transcription and voice dictation, designed for how you actually take and use notes.

Embral respects your privacy, and can be configured for use fully offline with no data egress.

Learn more & try out the demo on embral.app.

Download and setup

Download the latest release for your platform: Windows, macOS, or Linux.

In onboarding:

• Set up local models for transcription & summarization, or login to a cloud account for higher quality and more battery life
• Configure how you want to trigger meetings and dictation
• Connect to your AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, or any other MCP client)
• Connect to your existing notes or workflows (Markdown export, webhooks)

Embral is designed to be highly configurable - explore the Settings tab to make it work better for you.

Screenshots

embral-claude-demo-edited.mp4

View more screenshots

Meeting summary	Transcript with speaker labels
Speaker profiles	Dictation history
Settings	The dictation overlay

What you can do with embral

• Record & transcribe meetings with configurable audio sources, automatic call detection, and optional best-effort speaker labeling
• Type your own notes and paste in screenshots for later reference & use by integrations
• Generate structured meeting notes with an on-device (or cloud) language model
• Dictate into any app via global hotkey, with on-device or cloud AI cleanup
• Leverage workflow integrations so your notes actually save you time
  • Chat with your notes in any MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, etc.)
  • Mirror your finished notes as Markdown (e.g., into an Obsidian vault)
  • Trigger post-meeting workflows via webhook

This repository

This codebase is an offline core of embral, and can be built for a local-only version without any cloud capabilities or telemetry. The full app distributed via the releases page adds optional paid cloud functionality (faster and more accurate transcription, cloud summaries).

Prerequisites:

• Tauri prerequisites
• Rust
• Node.js 22+ and pnpm

Building the offline-only version

pnpm install
pnpm tauri build

Contributing to development

pnpm tauri dev

Feedback is highly appreciated and can be submitted using Issues in this repo.

License

MIT