Meeting tools are usually priced per seat per month, and often per minute of audio on top. That makes sense for them: every recording costs the vendor transcription compute, storage and bandwidth, forever. A subscription is how they pay for it.
unottr does not have those costs. Transcription runs on your hardware. The files stay on your disk. There is no server holding your history that we need to keep running. So we priced it like what it is: a desktop app you buy once.
What the price is for
$6.90, once, buys the packaged desktop downloads for Linux x64 and Apple Silicon, and support. It is not a per-recording fee and there is no meter on how many meetings you transcribe or how long they run. A one-hour weekly meeting for a year costs the same as a single ten-minute call.
What it does not include is AI model usage. The app ships with the connections, not the models. Ollama or LM Studio on your own computer run without any provider fee. Hosted providers bill against your own account, directly, with no markup from us.
What the licence means
The software is MIT licensed. You can read the source, build it yourself, change it and redistribute it under the terms of that licence, whether or not you pay. The purchase covers the convenience of signed, packaged builds and someone to email when something breaks.
Checkout states which versions are included and what update entitlement comes with them. Your MIT rights do not expire either way.
Why not free, then
A price, even a small one, is a commitment in both directions. It funds the time to test release builds on real hardware, answer support, and keep up with model and platform changes. And it keeps the incentives straight: there is no reason to collect data, show ads or nudge anyone toward a cloud tier, because the product is the app and the app is what you paid for.
Why not more
The honest answer is that a local tool should not cost like a hosted service. There is no infrastructure bill scaling with your usage, so the price does not scale with it either. We would rather many people keep their meetings on their own computers than a few people pay a lot to do it.
If the app does not run on a supported platform, there is a 14-day refund. The pricing page and the refund policy have the exact terms.
