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This release turns on Oris Pro: note templates and structured, quote-grounded notes, unlocked by typing your email into the app and clicking the confirmation that lands in your inbox. Free while Oris is in beta. And Oris moves into the menu bar: start a recording, or a template, from the icon or a hotkey.
Save time on meeting notes by letting Oris turn each call into a structured first draft, ready for you to check and use.
Meeting notes and quick captures now land in Apple Notes, transcribed on your Mac — with meeting summaries generated locally by default.
Oris 0.7 ships a record strip in the app, a Markdown-folder destination for non-Obsidian setups, and a receipted delivery core that surfaces stalled notes instead of losing them.
The Oris roadmap is now public.
Quick Note is a global hotkey that captures a spoken note from anywhere on your Mac, transcribes it on-device, and lands it in your in-app inbox or straight into a vault note. No window to open. No meeting required.
The Recordings tab now shows your full history: what landed where, whether the summary succeeded, and what you can still do about it. The completion notification learned the same numbers.
Oris runs on-device meeting transcription and writes a structured summary, decisions callout, and full transcript into your Markdown vault after each call.
A precise breakdown of where each Oris processing step runs: transcription stays on your Mac, and summarization is yours to configure.
A model warming up used to look exactly like a hang. Now every wait says what it's doing — during setup, mid-recording, and on your longest meetings.
Oris transcribes your meetings on-device via WhisperKit and writes the notes as Markdown to your vault; public beta is open at orisnotes.com.
A new card in the app shows how you've used Oris — including the one stat only a two-track recorder can tell you: how much of the conversation was you.
If you're on the waitlist, you're in first. A local-first Mac app that records both sides of a call and lands clean notes in your Obsidian vault.
Oris now walks you through first setup with a guided tour, checks for updates in the background, and summarizes meetings natively on-device.
We replaced Oris's ~1.2GB Python stack with a single 67MB native binary. Transcription and summaries both run on-device through Apple's frameworks, your meeting audio still never leaves your Mac, the transcripts came out cleaner — and as a bonus the engine now runs on roughly twelve more macOS versions than before.
We rewrote Oris's transcription and summarization engine from Python to Swift one module at a time — built with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 through Claude Code and dynamic multi-agent workflows, with the old pipeline kept as a byte-for-byte reference and a separate frontier model reviewing every PR. Here is what that actually looked like, including the bug that survived a green test suite, a code review, and an integration test.
Oris summarizes with a provider you choose, billed to you, on a key you hold. That's a permanent architectural commitment, not a launch promo.
How a Mac can record both the mic and system audio into one dual-track file without anyone joining your call.
The default for every meeting tool is to upload your audio to a server. Oris starts from the other side of that default.
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