LokalBot
Product Hunt Stevan Bogosavljević
LokalBot launched its second product: a Mac app that finds things you said or saw. It searches saved transcripts and screen text locally, with links back to the source.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Stevan Bogosavljević — read the original for the full story.
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LokalBot is back with its second Product Hunt launch, and this time the pitch is simple: help Mac users find the thing they said, saw, or meant to follow up on. The app searches meeting transcripts and screen text that you choose to save, so you can pull up a decision from a call or a page you had open without digging through everything by hand.
The company is leaning hard into a very specific promise: the app runs locally by default. That matters because the whole product is built around personal work memory, the kind of material people usually don’t want sprayed across the internet just to make search a little easier. The source also says it’s free and open source for Mac.
There’s a nice bit of restraint in the setup. LokalBot isn’t trying to be your all-purpose assistant or another chatbot with a bigger logo. It is narrower than that, which is usually a good sign. Search the transcripts. Search the screen text you saved. Show the source link. Done.
The launch is tagged under Productivity, Open Source, and Artificial Intelligence, which fits the mood of the product pretty well. It sounds less like hype and more like a small tool for people who live inside calls, notes, and tabs all day and want one place to recover the thread.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sort of AI product that actually earns its keep: local, specific, and not begging for your life story. The industry keeps acting like “smart” means “cloud first,” when a lot of users would happily settle for “doesn’t leak my meeting notes.”
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