On Your Mac
Why we built this.
Your meetings are the most sensitive text you produce all week. Salaries, strategy, the thing someone said they should not have. We wanted a tool that could hold all of it and never hand it to anyone, including us. So we built one that runs entirely on your own machine, with no account to create and no server on our side that could ever read a word.
What actually leaves your Mac
Inkling works fully offline. With the built-in AI, it makes no outbound connections while it records, transcribes, and writes. There are exactly three moments it ever reaches the network, and none of them send your audio, transcripts, or notes anywhere.
Downloading an AI model you picked
When you choose a transcription or notes model, Inkling fetches it once from its public home. It happens only when you ask for it, and it carries none of your meeting content.
A cloud model, only if you set one up
Notes run on a local model by default, so nothing leaves. If you deliberately connect Claude or GPT with your own key, the transcript you ask it to write up goes to that provider, on your account and their terms. That connection is yours, not ours.
Checking whether a new version exists
Inkling asks the release feed a single question: is there a newer Inkling? The request carries no meeting data, just that question.
That is the whole list. Your recordings, transcripts, and notes are never uploaded by Inkling.
Nothing to sign into, nothing watching you
No usage tracking
Inkling does not phone home about how you use it. There is no telemetry in the app.
No account, no copy
No login, and no server-side copy of your meetings that could be leaked, sold, or subpoenaed.
The trouble with cloud recording systems
Cloud notetakers are convenient and often write excellent notes. The trade is where your conversation ends up. We are not going to make that trade for you, and we are not going to do you dirty about it either. So instead of our own claims, here are other people's receipts.
PromptArmor, a security firm, published a teardown of a widely used cloud notetaker in this class. It found that notes shared by link were viewable by anyone with the link, and were used to train the vendor's models unless the user manually opted out.
In that same analysis, opting your content out of training required creating an account, and people who merely viewed a shared note, without an account, fell outside the protections the vendor extended to its signed-in customers.
PromptArmor also flagged indirect prompt injection as the core AI-specific risk: malicious text inside a meeting or an uploaded file could be used to exfiltrate data or phish, because the untrusted transcript is fed straight to a model. Earlier, a hard-coded key in a beta build was reported to expose private transcripts.
None of that is possible with Inkling's built-in AI, because there is no shared link, no training pipeline, and no vendor in the path. There is no cloud in the path.
Source: PromptArmor, security risks and remediations for a cloud AI notetaker. Findings describe that product as analyzed and may change as it does.
It is all just files you can hold
Everything Inkling makes lives in plain files on your Mac: recordings, transcripts, speaker labels, notes, templates, and settings. Because they are ordinary files, you can back them up, move them, or delete every last one whenever you like. The install page walks through setup.
You own it. It's yours. Enjoy.
It's about time.