Meeting & Voice Recorder →
One-press recording to MicroSD with local Whisper transcription on your localhost, structured summaries, and action items synced to Obsidian & MemoryHive.
Local-first pocket AI recorder
The AI pocket recorder that never sells your voice.
Built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3 with a 1.8" AMOLED touch display. Raw audio lands on your MicroSD first, transcribes on your localhost Whisper server, and syncs directly to Obsidian and MemoryHive.
Clock & Briefing
Clock, Weather & Daily Briefing
Wake-on-lift 1.8-inch AMOLED watch face with live local weather, moon phase, step counter, and an AI Daily Briefing pulled from your localhost.
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Voice Recorder
One-Press Voice & Meeting Recorder
Capture meetings, lectures, and quick voice memos directly to your MicroSD card in uncompressed WAV — zero cloud dependency required.
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AI Agent
AI Agent Voice Assistant
Hold-to-talk Q&A grounded in your Obsidian vault, worklogs, and MemoryHive summaries — running on your localhost by default.
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Recordings & Sync
Recordings, Notes & Sync Status
Browse recent clips, AI meeting notes, and sync status directly on the 1.8-inch touch display with instant playback.
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Tasks & Playback
On-Device Tasks & Audio Playback
Review action items extracted from your meetings, jump straight to the exact audio clip, and mark tasks done from your pocket.
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Focus, Mesh & Tools
Focus Timer, Companion, MeshCore & Security
Beyond recording and AI, AraPod S3 packs a Pomodoro focus timer, stopwatch, battery telemetry, Squatchy companion, off-grid MeshCore LoRa, and PIN lock.
Explore Focus, Mesh & Tools →What it does today
Designed for private capture and instant recall
AI Agent Voice Assistant →
Hold-to-talk Q&A grounded in your notes and worklogs. Runs on your localhost by default, with explicit per-session approval before any cloud model is used.
31 Watch Faces, Music & Tasks →
1.8" AMOLED touch UI with 31 custom watch faces, local MP3/WAV player, on-device tasks, Squatchy RF scanner, and MeshCore companion messaging.
Hardware blueprint
Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8
MCUESP32-S3R8 240 MHz
Display1.8" 368×448 AMOLED
Memory16MB Flash · 8MB PSRAM
AudioES8311 + Digital Mic
StorageMicroSD (SDMMC)
Sensors / PMICQMI8658 · AXP2101
Plans & Hardware Kit (AGPL-3.0)
Own your data, or let us host your sealed container
Home (BYOD)
$29 / year
+ shipping and handling
Run the AraPod server on your localhost (Mac, Linux, Pi, or NAS) with MemoryHive included.
Hosted
$68 / year
+ shipping and handling
Sealed hosted container, remote road gateway, and MemoryHive sync. Export anytime.
Hardware Kit
~$99 kit + 1 yr
+ shipping and handling
Pre-configured Waveshare ESP32-S3 AMOLED kit including your first year of Hosted service.
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