Google’s offline meeting-notes app puts Gemma 4 on device

Notes, transcripts and a local knowledge base

The app’s split-screen layout separates short notes from AI-generated notes, much like Granola. Users can write notes while a meeting is being transcribed, review the transcript, or ask the Gemma 4 assistant questions.

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Users can also upload reference material to build a knowledge base. Supported formats include PDF, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks. During a conversation, the app can draw on both those materials and meeting notes to answer questions about related topics in real time.

Google says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon and can run entirely offline. That makes it useful where connectivity is poor, but the more notable test is whether a local model can answer from a user’s own documents well enough to make a separate cloud service unnecessary.

A product, and a demonstration

Google’s earlier dictation app was experimental and never became a mass-market product. AI Edge Foresight may have a different purpose: putting the capabilities of its offline Gemma models in front of users, rather than immediately building a broad meeting-assistant business.

Google could still release a consumer version that works across video-calling apps through Gemini apps and uses its cloud models. That would be a different proposition from a tool designed to work locally.

The category is already crowded, but new products keep arriving:

I think the offline constraint is the point, not a temporary limitation. The announcement is quiet about how well Gemma 4 handles questions against uploaded documents, and that is the harder capability to judge from a feature list. If the local version proves useful, Google has a case for on-device AI; if it does not, a future cloud product would be competing in a market that already has plenty of meeting notes.