June, a local AI space for Mac: agent, dictation, and meeting notes

June, a local AI space for macOS by OpenSoftware, offers an agent, dictation, and meeting notes with local data storage starting at $20 per month.

June brings together multiple AI uses on a Mac—a local agent, chat, voice dictation, and automatic meeting notes—all centered around a stated principle: data remains on the machine. The OpenSoftware application is open source under an MIT license and operates locally by default, including files, transcriptions, sessions, and the agent's memory.

Dictation activates in any application: a shortcut, you speak, and the text appears where the cursor is. For meetings, June detects compatible calls and drafts a summary (decisions, actions, follow-up items, transcription) without a bot joining the video conference. The agent, built on Nous Research's open-source Hermes framework, runs locally in sandbox mode and handles tasks, reports, and scheduled routines.

For inference, requests pass through a backend in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that keeps the keys server-side. Traffic first targets so-called private Venice AI models, with no retention or training; access to anonymized frontier models remains optional, with a lesser guarantee since the upstream provider can retain data. June runs on macOS, in a free version or Pro for $20 per month.