About Hearkeeper

Why it exists

Most AI note takers work the same way: a bot joins the call, the audio goes to someone else’s servers, and the people in the meeting often don’t know. That is convenient, and it is also a lot to ask of a conversation that might be about a client, a patient, a salary or a lecture you paid for.

Hearkeeper takes the other route. It records your microphone and your computer’s audio on your own Mac, transcribes it there, and writes the summary, decisions and to-dos there too. Nothing is uploaded unless you decide to connect a team server or your own API key. And because recording people is a serious thing, Hearkeeper makes sure everyone knows.

What we will not compromise on

• Local first. The app works fully offline. It makes no network request unless you set one up.
• Recording is always visible. Every recording starts with a consent step and keeps a receipt. The recording pill stays on screen, shows in screen shares and has no hide button. There is no “invisible” mode, and there never will be.
• Icelandic is first-class. Hearkeeper is built in Iceland, and Icelandic, one of the harder languages for speech recognition, gets the same care as English. It also transcribes 98 other languages.
• No telemetry by default. If we ever ask for usage data, it will be opt-in and documented.
• Your data is plain and portable. Audio and notes are your own files, and notes export to Markdown. Nothing is locked into a format only we can read.

Who makes it

Hearkeeper is made by Drangalia ehf., a small software company in Reykjavík, Iceland, founded by Birkir Laufdal Arnarsson. We build it with the people who will use it: the waitlist is how we decide who tries it first, and every email we get is read by a person.

Where it stands

Hearkeeper is in private testing on the Mac (macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon and Intel). Other platforms come after the Mac. We will announce pricing before launch. If you want to try it early, join the waitlist; we will write when there is a build for you.

Contact

Write to hello@hearkeeper.com. For how we handle the waitlist’s data, see the privacy notice.