Founders selling their own product
Nobody is listening to your calls. Nobody is going to tell you that you priced in the first four minutes, again.
The first on-device meeting coach
You cannot spot your own pattern.You were busy talking.
HuddleOwl coaches you through the call, then scores how you ran it, quoting the line from the transcript that earned every score.
Apple Silicon, 164 MB · free forever for individuals · v0.1.9
Live coaching
Cards arrive while you are still talking. Every one of them quotes the line that triggered it.
- You moved to price before you found the cost
- That objection went unanswered
- No date, no owner, no next step
- They said budget and you changed the subject
- Three questions in a row, none of them open
- The room went quiet and you filled it
- A buying signal you did not pick up
- You answered a question they did not ask
- Two minutes of monologue
- 23
- languages
- transcribed on device
- 0
- bytes uploaded
- ever, in local mode
- ~40s
- to a scored brief
- from hang up
- $0
- in API costs
- running fully local
- 100+
- AI providers
- or bring your own endpoint
The difference, in one block
One of these tells you what happened.The other tells you what to do.
Your notetaker
Discussed pricing and timeline. Client raised some budget concerns. Agreed to follow up next week.
Accurate. Also unusable.
HuddleOwl
- Next step1/5
Call ended on “let’s stay in touch”. No date, no owner.
- Objection2/5
“It’s a lot for a team our size” went unanswered.
- Discovery3/5
You moved to price 40 seconds after they said “budget”, and never came back to what the delay costs them.
Practise this nextAsk what a problem costs before you price the solution.
A notetaker makes the meeting legible. HuddleOwl makesyou better at the next one.
Also a notetaker
Every AI meeting note you expect.None of the per-seat bill.
HuddleOwl is not instead of your notetaker. It is one, and then it keeps going. Transcript, summary, decisions, action items with owners, a follow-up email in your voice: all of it, on a machine you already own, for nothing per call.
- Full transcript, both sides23 languages, no bot in the participant list
- A summary with a verdictnot four paragraphs restating the call back at you
- Every decisionpulled from the whole transcript, including the first five minutes
- Action items with ownersand the date, when the call gave one
- A follow-up emaildrafted in the tone you picked, ready to send
- The next step as a calendar inviteone click, straight into your calendar
- Full-text searchacross every transcript, cue and email you have ever run
- Import a recording you already havesame notes, same scoring, no live call needed
Meeting record
Nine decisions and seven owned actions out of one call, including the ones settled before anybody had opened a notes app.
Notes elsewhere
$170 to $240
a year, per seat, for the transcript and the summary. Every call goes to somebody else's server to get there.
Notes here
$0
in API costs, on device. No per-minute transcription, no per-token summary, no per-seat markup. And then it scores how you ran the call, which none of them do.
Four things nothing else does
The notes are the table stakes.These four are why it exists.
Everything that coaches you live is cloud. Everything that runs on your machine is a notetaker. HuddleOwl is the only one that is both.
01
Coaching nobody else in the call can see
Visible to you, absent from the recording, the Zoom share and the Loom. Clicks pass straight through to whatever is underneath.
See it02
Every score quotes the line that earned it
A cue that cannot point at the sentence it reacts to is discarded before you ever see it. That rule lives in the backend, not in a prompt.
See it03
It reads the entire call, not the last five minutes
Map reduced across the full transcript, and the chunking never splits a speaking turn, so a quote is never half a sentence.
See it04
The whole thing runs with the wifi off
Download a model once and there is no account, no API key and no network. Same rubric, same quotes, same speed.
See itWhile you are talking
Coaching that arrivesin time to use it
A note you read tomorrow changes nothing about today. HuddleOwl watches both sides of the call as it happens and puts a card in front of you when there is something to do about it: a question you skipped, an objection you talked past, a buying signal you did not pick up. The signal scores move as the call moves, so you can see it slipping before it has slipped.
- Both sides, no bot
- Native system audio on macOS, loopback on Windows. Nothing appears in the participant list.
- Cues that quote the call
- A cue that cannot point at the line it reacts to is discarded before you see it. That rule lives in the backend, not in a prompt.
- Your tone
- Direct, supportive, friendly or blunt. The coaching sounds like something you would actually take.
HuddleOwl
About 40 seconds after you hang up
The review a QA lead would write,on every call you take
Not a summary. A scored rubric for the role you were playing, a verdict, and the one next step that matters. Sales is graded on discovery depth, listening, objection handling, value framing and next step. PM, recruiter and product each get their own. A dimension the call never tested is left unscored, never quietly given a zero.
Post-meeting brief
It reads the entire call
Most tools summarise whatever fits in one context window, which on a 40 minute call means the last few minutes and a confident tone. HuddleOwl map reduces the whole transcript, and the chunking never splits a speaking turn, so a quote is never half a sentence.
Post-meeting brief
The part that makes it trustable
Every score carriesthe sentence that earned it
The scorecard does not tell you to work on discovery. It says 3 out of 5, and here is the line you said. Click any dimension on the web and it opens the reason and the quote. You can disagree with a score, which is the whole point. You cannot disagree with a transcript.
Every score carries its evidence
Visible to you, invisible to screen share
Coaching nobody elsein the call can see
Not dimmed, not minimised. The overlay does not appear in the recording, the Zoom share or the Loom. Clicks pass straight through to whatever is underneath, so you keep working with it sitting on top, and Cmd Shift H brings it back from anywhere if you lose it.
Stealth mode
Stealth mode
Held still
At 50% over an unknown desktop a themed palette composites to a smear, so the whole app drops to the highest contrast pair it has: white on black. The translucency slider and the click-through toggle sit next to the badge, and the mode costs no other space. On a window narrow enough to park beside a call, every row still belongs to the call.
No account. No API key. No network.
The whole thing runswith the wifi off
Live transcription, live coaching, the brief, the follow-up email. Download a model once and HuddleOwl needs nothing from anyone. This is not a degraded offline mode: same rubric, same evidence quotes, roughly 40 seconds to a brief.
Settings, on-device models
Where this is true today
The on-device engines ship on macOS. On Windows, HuddleOwl runs against a cloud model of your choosing while the local engines are being built. This page will say so the day that changes, and not before.
Or bring your own
Prefer a cloud model anyway? Point HuddleOwl at over 100 providers or at your own endpoint and pay your provider directly. There is no per-seat AI markup from us.
Where it sits
The whole category,in one table
Read the four locked rows and the two coaching rows together. Nobody else has both columns.
Swipe the table sideways to see the rest.
| Capability | HuddleOwl | Otter | Granola | Fireflies | Meetily | Hyprnote | Cluely | Gong |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the call | ||||||||
| Nothing joins the call | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Captures both sides locally | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Live transcription | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Coaching cues during the call | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Partial, or paid tier only |
| Every cue quotes the exact line | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Hidden from screen share | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| After the call | ||||||||
| Post-call summary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scores how you performed | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Partial, or paid tier only | Yes |
| Evidence quote behind every score | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Partial, or paid tier only |
| Role-specific rubrics | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Partial, or paid tier only |
| Coaching tone presets | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Follow-up email drafted for you | Yes | Partial, or paid tier only | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Next step to calendar (.ics) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Partial, or paid tier only |
| 🔒 Where your call lives | ||||||||
| Runs 100% on your machine | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Works with no internet | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Works with no account | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Delete a folder, it is all gone | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Bring your own AI key | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Choose your own model | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Import an old recording | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
full support · partial, or paid tier only · not available. Compiled from public information, August 2026. Verify anything you plan to rely on.
What one person pays, per year
List price for a single seat, before any annual discount.
- HuddleOwl
- Free
- Hyprnote
- Free
- Meetily
- Free, or about $120 for Pro
- Granola
- about $168
- Otter / Fireflies / Fathom
- about $168 to $240
- Cluely
- about $240
- Gong
- about $1,200 to $1,800
On device you pay nothing per call: no per-minute transcription, no per-token coaching. Prefer a cloud model? Bring your own key and pay your provider directly. There is no per-seat AI markup from us.
Who it is for
Built for the person on the call,not the person reading about it
Solo sellers and consultants
The coaching a sales manager gives, without the sales manager, and without a recording going to a vendor.
Recruiters and hiring managers
Scored on role fit, ownership signal, skill confidence and red flags, with the answer that earned each one.
Anyone who cannot let a call leave the room
Legal, health, HR, anything under an NDA. The wifi can be off and nothing about the coaching changes.
How it works
Three steps,and none of them is a sign up
- 01
Download and open
No account, no email, no key. It opens straight into the app and asks you nothing.
- 02
Set a mission
One line about what this call needs to achieve. That single line is what you get scored against.
- 03
Take the call
Cues while you talk, and a scored brief about 40 seconds after you hang up.
Free forever
Free, forever, for individuals.Teams pay for teams.
Not a trial and not a freemium ladder. If you use HuddleOwl for your own calls, it is yours. No card, no account, no seat count.
Apple Silicon, 164 MB · free forever for individuals · v0.1.9
macOS says the app is damaged. What now?
HuddleOwl is not notarised with Apple yet, which is a signing formality rather than anything about the build. Run this once in Terminal, then open it again:
xattr -cr /Applications/HuddleOwl.appNotarisation is on the list.
For teams
Using this with a team?
HuddleOwl is built for one person on one machine, and that is the version that exists today.
Shared rubrics, team benchmarks and an admin view are things we will build when enough teams ask for them, not before. If that is you, tell us what you actually need and we will come to you first.
FAQ
The questionspeople actually ask
Does anything join my call?
No. There is no bot, no extra participant and no calendar connection. HuddleOwl listens to your microphone and your system audio on your own machine, so nobody on the call sees anything different.
Does my audio leave my machine?
On a Mac with the on-device models selected, no. Nothing, at all, including when the wifi is off. If you choose a cloud model instead, your transcript goes to the provider you picked, using your key, and never passes through us.
Is it really free?
Yes, for individuals, permanently. No card, no trial clock, no feature held back to sell you later. Teams will eventually pay for team features that do not exist yet.
What about Windows?
The app runs on Windows 10 and 11 and captures both sides of the call through loopback audio. The on-device engines are macOS only today, so on Windows you currently point HuddleOwl at a cloud model of your choosing. Windows local engines are being worked on, and this page will say so the day they land.
Which models does it run?
A Whisper-family transcription model and a local coaching model, both downloaded once from inside the app. Together they are about 3GB and want 8GB of RAM. Or point it at any of 100+ cloud providers, or at your own endpoint.
Is stealth mode above board?
It hides the coaching overlay from your screen share so the person you are talking to does not watch you being coached. It does not hide that you are recording, and it does not touch anything on their side. Recording law is yours to follow where you are.
Where is my data kept?
In a folder on your disk that you can open from inside the app. Transcripts, cues, briefs and draft emails all live there. Delete the folder and there is nothing left anywhere, because there is no server holding a copy.
Can I import an old recording?
Yes. Drop in an audio file you already have and it comes back with the same transcript, the same rubric and the same evidence quotes as a live call.
Why does macOS say the app is damaged?
Because HuddleOwl is not notarised with Apple yet, which is a signing formality rather than anything about the build. Run xattr -cr /Applications/HuddleOwl.app once in Terminal and open it again. Notarisation is on the list.