FasterNotes
FasterNotes
Record voice notes on your phone, anywhere. FasterNotes transcribes with Whisper and summarises with Ollama — all on your own machine. No cloud accounts. No subscriptions. Nothing leaves your desk.
From install to your first AI-summarised note in under five minutes
Download and run the installer. FasterNotes starts a local server in your system tray — no configuration needed on first run.
Open the dashboard, click "Connect Phone", and scan the QR code from inside the phone app. No app store needed — it's a web app you can add to your home screen.
Tap the mic on your phone and speak. Notes queue offline in your browser and sync automatically when you're back in range.
Your PC runs Whisper to transcribe, then Ollama to extract summaries, action items, and tags — structured notes, automatically.
Built for one user running their own setup — no SaaS overhead, no vendor lock-in
Notes queue in your phone's browser storage and sync automatically when the server is reachable. Record in a meeting, upload when you get home.
faster-whisper runs entirely on your CPU. Supports auto language detection and forced modes for Danish, Swedish, and English.
Skills are editable Markdown files that define the prompt, output shape, and actions. Ships with meeting notes, journal, quick-note, and curator.
Nothing leaves your machine by default. The server only listens on your local network; your audio, transcripts, and summaries stay on your own disk.
Today your notes queue offline and sync the moment you're back on your home Wi-Fi. A managed, zero-setup remote sync — reach your server from anywhere — is on the way.
Compose notes with voice, typed text, and photos in one message. Vision-capable Ollama models can read image content directly.
FasterNotes is glue around two best-in-class local tools — both run on your own machine
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model. FasterNotes runs faster-whisper, a high-performance local build, entirely on your CPU — your audio is transcribed without ever leaving your PC.
github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisperThe easiest way to run open large-language models locally. FasterNotes uses it to turn each transcript into a summary, action items, and tags — all generated on your own machine, no API keys.
ollama.comWindows installer — one click, starts automatically on login.
Download for WindowsUnsigned installer — Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click "More info → Run anyway".
The Whisper model (~460 MB) downloads automatically on first launch.
Yes, always. FasterNotes is free and open source. There are no plans, no trials, no paywalls — the full feature set is available from day one.
No. Your audio, transcripts, and summaries stay on your Windows PC in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FasterNotes\. The server only listens on your local network. (A managed remote-sync option is coming soon; even then, traffic stays encrypted and your note content never leaves your own machine.)
Whisper auto-detects the spoken language. The phone app also lets you force a language — currently Danish, Swedish, and English have dedicated modes. For best accuracy in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish, switch to the NB-Whisper model in Settings (downloads ~1.5 GB on first use).
No. Whisper transcription works completely standalone. Ollama is only needed for AI summaries, action items, and tags. If Ollama isn't running, notes are transcribed and saved without a summary — you can always re-transcribe and re-summarise later.
Open the desktop dashboard and click "Connect Phone", then scan the QR code from inside the phone app — no app store required. The phone connects over your local Wi-Fi. (Pairing that works from anywhere over the internet is coming soon with managed remote sync.)
Yes. Notes always queue in your phone's browser storage first, then sync automatically when the server is reachable — so you can record in a meeting and they upload when you get home. Real-time sync from anywhere (without waiting to get home) is coming soon.
FasterNotes is a web app — there's nothing to install from an app store. After pairing, open the address from the QR code on your phone, then add it to your home screen so it launches full-screen like a native app:
iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button → Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): tap the ⋮ menu → Install app (or Add to Home Screen).
Once added, it works offline — notes queue on your phone and upload automatically when your server is reachable.
All notes are stored in a SQLite database at %LOCALAPPDATA%\FasterNotes\activity.db, with full-text search built in. You can also configure a vault folder and use the journal or curator skills to write notes as Markdown files to any folder — great for Obsidian or similar tools.