Google releases an offline-first AI meeting notes app for Mac
AI Edge Foresight uses on-device Gemma models to turn meeting audio and shorthand notes into summaries and to answer questions from local documents.
Meeting notes processed on the Mac
Google has released AI Edge Foresight, a macOS app for recording meeting audio, expanding shorthand notes into fuller summaries, and retrieving information from a user’s work documents. TechCrunch reported the release on October 8 and compared the app with Granola. Google’s product page offers a Mac download and says the app works with video calls as well as in-person meetings. Users can inspect a transcript, ask questions through a chat interface, or receive contextual prompts during a conversation. The company says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon; it has not announced a Windows version on the product page.
Local processing is the central claim
Google says Foresight runs its AI inference locally, with EmbeddingGemma 2 handling multimodal retrieval and Gemma 4 supporting answers. Its FAQ says personal files, meeting recordings, and transcripts stay on the computer and that the app can function without an internet connection. Those are Google’s privacy and performance claims, not findings from an independent technical audit. The app can connect local folders and Google Drive as knowledge sources, so users should still review the permissions and source material they choose to add. Google presents Foresight as a way to retrieve relevant information during meetings, but its public page does not establish how accurately it transcribes every speaker or answers questions in real-world use.