Releases 0.11
Searchable settings and meeting detection
Settings moved into a searchable left rail (⌘F), meeting detection is back on, the wait after a recording shows a percentage, and anything that fails has an Open log button.
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Notes from building Oris.
Build-in-public posts, technical deep-dives, and reflections on making indie software that respects the people who use it.
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- Releases 0.10
Dictation in any app
Oris 0.10 ships dictation anywhere on your Mac. speech to text at the touch of key and the transcription lands in the app in front of you.
- Field notes
Oris vs Granola, Otter, Fireflies, and MacWhisper
How Oris stacks up against Granola, Otter, Fireflies, and MacWhisper: capture approach, where notes land, and what changes day to day.
- Releases 0.9
Oris Pro, free in beta
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.
- Field notes
Save time on meeting notes after every call with Oris
Save time on meeting notes by letting Oris turn each call into a structured first draft, ready for you to check and use.
- Releases 0.8
Apple Notes is now a destination
Meeting notes and quick captures now land in Apple Notes, transcribed on your Mac — with meeting summaries generated locally by default.
- Releases 0.7
Recording without Obsidian
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.
- Field notes
Oris Roadmap
The Oris roadmap is now public.
- Releases 0.6
Quick Note
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.
- Releases 0.5
Recordings history
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.
- Under the hood
On-Device Meeting Transcription and Summary: What Oris Writes
Oris runs on-device meeting transcription and writes a structured summary, decisions callout, and full transcript into your Markdown vault after each call.
- Under the hood
On-device by default, cloud by choice
A precise breakdown of where each Oris processing step runs: transcription stays on your Mac, and summarization is yours to configure.
- Releases 0.4
Status while models load
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.
- Releases 0.4
Oris is now in public beta
Oris transcribes your meetings on-device via WhisperKit and writes the notes as Markdown to your vault; public beta is open at orisnotes.com.
- Releases 0.4
Usage stats
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.
- Releases 0.4
Oris is in private beta
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.
- Releases 0.4
Guided setup and background updates
Oris now walks you through first setup with a guided tour, checks for updates in the background, and summarizes meetings natively on-device.
- Under the hood
Going Native: A 67MB Binary, On-Device Models, and Cleaner Transcripts
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.
- Under the hood
Rewriting Our Engine with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows
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.
- Field notes
Bring Your Own Key, Forever
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.
- Under the hood
Capturing Both Sides of a Call on a Mac, Without a Bot
How Apple's CoreAudio process tap captures system audio, paired with the mic, to record both sides of a Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet call into one dual-track file, with no bot joining the meeting.
- Field notes
Why Meeting Transcription Should Stay on Your Mac
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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