Google has introduced Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac app for capturing meeting notes and finding answers from meeting content and uploaded documents. It can work completely offline, using an on-device model, and supports both in-person meetings and meetings across apps.
Notes, transcripts and an assistant in one app
The app presents a split-screen workspace: users can write shorthand notes on one side while AI-generated notes appear on the other. They can also take manual notes while a meeting is being transcribed, giving them a way to record their own observations alongside the transcript.
Afterward, users can view the meeting transcript or chat with a Gemma 4-powered assistant to get answers. That makes the app useful for more than producing a summary: the transcript remains available, and users can ask questions about the meeting.
The app also accepts documents for a searchable knowledge base. Supported uploads include PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office formats, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks. When a point connected to information in that knowledge base comes up, the app can answer questions in real time using meeting notes and documents.
Designed to work without a connection
Google says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon and can work completely offline. Its meeting capture uses the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, which has 740 million parameters. That local processing means users can work with meeting notes while traveling or somewhere without an internet connection.
Offline operation is a central part of the product’s design. Users can capture meetings, consult transcripts and use their notes in situations where a connection is unavailable. The combination of local meeting content and uploaded reference material also gives the assistant context for answering questions, rather than limiting it to a single meeting transcript.
The article places this launch alongside an earlier Google AI-powered dictation tool released in April that also worked with local models. That earlier app was experimental and did not reach mainstream usage. Foresight may, in part, demonstrate what Google’s Gemma series of offline models can do in a practical productivity app.
A new entrant in a crowded category
Google AI Edge Foresight has a workflow similar to Granola: both offer a split-screen view for shorthand notes and AI-generated notes, and both let users write notes while transcription is underway. Google’s app adds transcript access, an assistant powered by Gemma 4 and the option to bring external documents into a knowledge base.
The meeting note-taker market is already busy, but new products continue to arrive. In the last few months, dictation company Wispr and scheduling company Calendly released their own note-takers. Productivity startup Superhuman, formerly Grammarly, acquired YC-backed note-taker Fathom last month.
Google’s release is a Mac app, and the source describes its offline and on-device capabilities. It also raises the possibility that Google could release a consumer meeting note-taker across video calling apps through its Gemini apps, relying on cloud models. That is presented as a possibility, not an announced feature. For now, Foresight’s distinct offering is a meeting workflow that can run locally and draw on both conversations and uploaded reference material.