Duto Keeps the Notes File on Your Mac

Why it surfaced

This is a notably specific counterproposal to cloud-first note-taking: no account, sync, telemetry, or uploaded audio, with a six-megabyte Rust app that leaves the database readable on the user's own disk. The site also makes a clear, unusually confident promise about ownership: pay once, keep the app, and export the notes whenever you like.

Duto is a macOS notes app for clipping text, pinning working notes, and transcribing speech or system audio into a local SQLite database.