Every note you ever took.
In one place, on your Mac.
Your voice recorder keeps its notes in one app. Your paper tablet keeps its notes in another. Neither can see the other, and you are paying a subscription for both. SageArchive brings all of it onto your Mac, writes it down, and lets you ask questions across the lot — without any of it leaving your computer.
$49 once. No subscription — that would rather defeat the point.
The two subscriptions it replaces cost more than that every five months — every year, forever.
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The problem
Four devices. Four apps. Four bills.
You bought the recorder so you could stop scribbling through meetings. You bought the paper tablet because you think better by hand. Now the conversation lives in one company's app, the sketch that explains it lives in another's, and there is no single place to look for either.
And you are renting both of them, every year, for the privilege of searching notes you already own.
Prices as published by Plaud and reMarkable, checked September 2026.
What it does
One archive. One search box. One question.
Ask a question, get an answer with receipts
"What did we agree about the renewal?" It answers from your own notes and shows you every passage the answer was built from. Click one and you land on the exact second of the recording, or the exact lines on the page. It cannot invent a source, because the answer is assembled only from passages it actually found.
Find it however you remember it
The exact phrase, roughly the phrase, or just what it was about — four kinds of search run at the same time and the best results come back together. Results appear as you type. It also understands the things ordinary search chokes on: IP addresses, serial numbers, and a date whether you wrote it 28 Jan, 1/28 or 2026-01-28.
Nothing leaves your Mac
Writing your recordings down, searching them and answering questions about them all happen on this machine. There is no SageArchive account and no SageArchive server. If you ever want to send something to a cloud model you can — but you switch that on yourself, one device at a time, and the app tells you exactly what would be sent before it goes.
Speed
An hour of meeting, written down in about a minute.
We measured it: on an Apple-silicon Mac, SageArchive transcribes audio roughly fifty times faster than it takes to listen to it, and it does not slow down as the machine warms up — we ran it flat out for an hour to be sure. A backlog of several hundred hours is an overnight job, not a project.
It also costs nothing per minute, because there is no per-minute meter to run. The work happens on hardware you already bought.
Handwriting
Your handwriting, actually searchable.
Pages from a reMarkable or an inq pen are read, and the words are lined back up with the place on the page they were written. So when an answer comes from something you scrawled in a margin eighteen months ago, it can show you the margin.
Being straight with you about this one: roughly two handwritten lines in three get an exact highlight. The rest are still read, still searched and still quoted — they just do not get a box drawn round them, and the app says which is which rather than guessing at it.
What it reads
Bring whatever you already carry.
Adding the next device is deliberately easy — the app was built so that a new recorder or tablet is a small piece of work rather than a rewrite. If you have something that is not on this list, tell us what it is.
Where we are
We will always tell you what we have actually tested.
SageArchive is built and running, and it is not finished. Some of it we have run end to end and measured. Some of it is written and complete but has not yet been tried against a real account, because we did not have one of every device to test with. We think the difference matters, so we publish it rather than blur it — and where something cannot run, the app says so in a plain sentence instead of pretending.
- VerifiedImporting a folder of audio — run end to end, start to finish.
- VerifiedTranscription on your Mac — measured over a full hour of continuous work.
- VerifiedSearch and Ask — real questions, real answers, sources that resolve.
- VerifiedReading handwriting — measured against real handwritten pages.
- VerifiedRecording, including a crash mid-recording — the audio survived and became a note.
- In testingSigning in to each device's account — written for all four, being tested against real hardware now.
- In testingOptional cloud transcription — off by default, and not yet exercised against a live account.
Coming
Two things we are building next.
Bring in notes from apps you already use
Apple Notes, Obsidian, Evernote, Notion. One direction only, read only, and you choose which notes come across — this is not another thing that quietly hoovers up everything you have ever written. Keep writing wherever you already write. Just decide what your archive, and the model answering your questions, is allowed to see.
An iPhone companion
Read your archive on your phone. On the same Wi-Fi it talks straight to your Mac and nothing goes anywhere else. Away from home, only the notes you have chosen to carry travel — as text, through your own iCloud, encrypted so that not even Apple can read them. Never the audio, and never everything by default.
Stop renting the right to read your own notes.
SageArchive is in testing now. Leave your email and we will tell you when it ships — nothing else, and never your address to anyone.
$49 once. No subscription.
Not $49 a year. Not $49 a month. Forty-nine dollars, and then the archive is yours.