I Built Sondine Because I Keep Forgetting the Best Parts of My Conversations
Sondine is a macOS app that captures and transcribes every conversation locally. No cloud, no account, no bot. Here's why I built it — and where it's going.
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Desktop-first
Your conversations deserve a memory.
You shouldn't have to choose between living a conversation and remembering it. Sondine captures every word on your Mac — privately, automatically, searchably.
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The problem
Meetings end. Memory fades. Context is lost.
Live
Alex
Sarah
Marc
Alex
Sarah
Marc
What you get
Everything happens automatically.
we should migrate to v3 endpoints before june and lock the auth deadline to march 28th
API Migration Standup
Migrate to v3 before June
Auth deadline: March 28th
Conversations organize themselves
Titles, summaries, action items — generated from your voice without lifting a finger.
deadline47 results
API Migration Standup10:30 AM
"...the deadline might shift if we need to handle legacy tokens"
Sprint PlanningYesterday
"...the deadline is tight but doable..."
Instant search
Find any word across weeks of conversations. Like Cmd+F for your memory.
Kubernetees
Ostein
EBITDAalready correct
Learns your vocabulary
Names, jargon, acronyms — auto-corrected without erasing the original.
No connection
Still transcribing...
Works offline
No cloud, no connection needed. Everything runs locally, even in airplane mode.
Conversations
0
Hours captured
0h
This month
+23%
Stats & insights
Conversations captured, hours transcribed, words per day — your voice in numbers.
Your voice stays yours.
Most transcription tools send your voice to the cloud. Sondine doesn't. Everything is processed and stored on your Mac. No server, no provider, no one but you ever sees your data.
none
AI providers with access
0 bytes
Data sent to external servers
none
Third-party access
0
Local transcripts
only you
Who can read your data
never
Account required
No OpenAI. No Google. No server anywhere. Your transcripts live on your Mac and nowhere else.
is built for you.
Sondine for Developers
Pair-programming sessions, architecture discussions, standup decisions — Sondine captures everything so you never have to write meeting notes again.
What's next
This is V1. Not the finish line.
Sondine is built on a modular architecture designed to grow. The foundation is solid — here's where we're heading.
Coming next
iPhone companion
Capture on the go. Record locally on your iPhone, then sync everything back to your Mac. Your pocket becomes a second microphone.
Cloud sync
Opt-in sync between your devices. Your conversations, everywhere you need them — without sacrificing privacy.
Later
Web app
Search, browse and revisit your conversations from any browser. Your archive, accessible anywhere.
Bring your own database
For teams and companies who want full control: plug in your own Turso database. Same features, your infrastructure.
Built for today. Architected for tomorrow.
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Never lose a conversation again.
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