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Google’s Foresight Takes Meeting Notes Offline on Mac

Google AI Edge Foresight is an experimental Mac app that transcribes meetings and writes notes on the device. Here is what it does and what is unclear.

Freelancer typing on a laptop at home, representing Google AI Edge Foresight's private AI note-taking app

Picture a meeting where you scribble three words of shorthand and walk out with a full set of notes. That’s the idea behind AI Edge Foresight, which Google released on October 6, 2026. It’s an experimental Mac app that listens to a meeting, transcribes it, and expands your shorthand into fuller notes. The processing happens on the device, and after a one-time model download the app can run without an internet connection, according to TechCrunch and Notebookcheck.

The setup is simple. You type shorthand on one side of the window, and the app writes AI notes from the transcript on the other. It captures audio through the Mac’s microphone and system audio, so it works across meeting apps and in-person conversations, according to TechCrunch and Let’s Data Science. An assistant answers questions about the meeting, and it can also draw on a knowledge base you build from PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown, and web bookmarks, per TechCrunch. Android Authority adds that it detects questions asked in a meeting and generates answers in real time.

Google describes it as “a context-aware meeting companion that runs on a Mac.”

Two models do the work. Google says EmbeddingGemma 2 indexes content, and Gemma 4 powers the assistant. TechCrunch lists EmbeddingGemma 2 at 740 million parameters and says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon. Android Authority says the models take about a minute to download, once.

Many note-taking apps send audio to company servers. Foresight keeps audio, transcripts, and files on your Mac, according to Android Authority and Notebookcheck. That may suit people who handle private conversations. It doesn’t by itself satisfy a workplace or legal privacy rule, though, and some places require everyone’s consent to record. Check your own requirements first.

Why It Matters to You

If you take meeting notes on a Mac, Foresight can turn your shorthand into fuller notes and answer questions about the meeting without sending audio to company servers. Android Authority says the app is free to download. It’s experimental and Mac only, so check recording consent rules where you live before you use it.

What isn’t settled

  1. Android Authority says the app is free to download. TechCrunch gives no price, and Google hasn’t said whether that will change.
  2. Google labels Foresight experimental. Notebookcheck calls it primarily a showcase for developers and “a showcase with potential.” We found no support or update commitments.
  3. It runs on Mac only. None of the sources we opened mention Windows, iPhone, or Android versions.
  4. Notebookcheck says Google hasn’t confirmed how well transcription works for non-English meetings.
  5. TechCrunch speculates that Google could one day build a cloud version into Gemini. That’s the reporter’s guess, not a Google plan.

Two quick questions

Does Google AI Edge Foresight need the internet?

After the one-time model download, the app can run offline, according to TechCrunch and Notebookcheck.

Is my data sent to Google?

Google and the reports say audio, transcripts, and files stay on the device. TechCrunch notes it found no further detail on data handling, so read Google’s terms before relying on it.

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