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Doctify Local Assistant vs the alternatives
What today's options ask you to give up, and what we are building instead.
| Doctify Local Assistant | Cloud AI scribes | Cloud dictation | Typing your own notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writes the note for you | ✓ Draft to review | ✓ Yes | ✕ You dictate it | ✕ No |
| Works offline | ✓ Yes | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✓ Yes |
| Patient audio stays on your device | ✓ Yes | ✕ Uploaded | ✕ Uploaded | ✓ Yes |
| Patient data reaches the vendor | ✓ Never | ✕ Yes, on their servers | ✕ Yes, on their servers | n/a |
| Your data used to train AI | ✓ Never: we can't access it | ~ Depends on the contract | ~ Depends on the contract | n/a |
| Extra vendor for compliance to review | ✓ None: data stays with you | ~ BAA and risk assessment | ~ BAA and risk assessment | ✓ None |
| You approve every word | ✓ Yes | ~ You edit the AI draft | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Native Mac and Windows | ✓ Both | ~ Often browser or phone | ~ Varies | n/a |
| No contract | ✓ None | ~ Varies | ~ Often long terms | ✓ None |
| Cost | $89 once | Monthly subscription | Monthly subscription | Your evenings |
General comparison based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Features and prices vary by product. Doctify Local Assistant is in early access; its features may change before launch.
Nothing is uploaded: your records stay on your own computer.
Reason for visit
- Dry cough for three weeks, worse at night
- Mild breathlessness on stairs, no fever
Plan
- Chest examination and chest X-ray
- Review in one week
Follow-up
- Earlier review if breathlessness worsens
Summarise this consultation note in three lines.
No fever. Chest examination today.
Plan: chest X-ray, review in one week.
Less typing after clinic. Nothing leaves your computer.
Speech recognition and note drafting run on your own machine. You talk to the patient, review the draft, and keep control of every word.
The speech model runs on your Mac or PC. It keeps working when the internet doesn't, and nothing is uploaded to a cloud service to be transcribed.
Get early access →- Reason
- Dry cough for three weeks, worse at night.
- Plan
- Chest examination, consider chest X-ray, review in one week.
Start a recording, talk to your patient as you normally would, and get a draft in your own structure. It is a draft: you edit it and you decide what goes in the record.
Get early access →- 1Press recordOne shortcut, before the patient comes in.
- 2Have the consultationNo dictating, no typing while they talk.
- 3Review the draftEdit, then copy it into your record.Draft
Hold a hotkey, speak, and your words appear where your cursor is: your patient record, a form or a document. Nothing to integrate, nothing to replace.
Get early access →- Patient record typing herePatient reports three weeks of dry cough
- Clinical form typing hereChest clear on auscultation, no wheeze
- Progress noteReviewed today, cough improving
The engine is open source and built on well-known speech models, so it is not a black box. You can see what it does, and there is no lock-in to a vendor's cloud.
Get early access →- Open-source, MIT-licensed engine
- Works offline
- Mac and Windows
- Runs local speech and language models
Everything Local Assistant does
One page per feature, each describing what the desktop app does today.
- Consultation notesRecord the consultation, get a draft note made on your computer.
- Medical dictationHold a shortcut, speak, and the text appears where your cursor is.
- Evidence searchA de-identified, approved PubMed search from your notes.
- De-identificationIdentifiers removed on your computer before anything is searched.
- Linked notes[[Note links]], @patient mentions and a graph of your notes.
- PrivacyWhat stays on your computer, and the few things that do not.
- Bring your own AIOptional: OpenAI or Mistral with your own key, off by default.
Your patients' data stays yours.
The engine is open source. Here is how we handle your data.
Patient audio never reaches us
When you work locally, open models transcribe on your own computer. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else.
No recordings kept on our servers
Local mode never uploads audio, so there is nothing for us to keep. We will state clearly if you ever turn on a cloud option.
We do not train models on your consultations
Your recordings and notes are not used to train models. They never leave your machine in the first place.
Do not take our word for it
The engine behind Local Assistant is open source under the MIT licence, so you or your IT team can check how it handles data.
Look up the evidence without exposing your patient.
Ask a clinical question from your notes. Doctify searches PubMed for you, and only a de-identified question you have read and approved leaves your computer.
- Ask, or add your notesType a question or pick one or more notes. Nothing is sent yet.
- Identifiers removed on your computerNames, phone numbers, ID and record numbers, addresses and exact dates are stripped locally before anything else happens.
- You read the exact textYou see, and can edit, the words that would be sent. Automatic removal can miss something, so this check is yours.
- Only PubMed is askedAfter your click, the de-identified question goes to PubMed (US National Library of Medicine). You get the published sources: title, journal, year.
Doctify shows sources, not answers. You read them and apply your own clinical judgement.
Your computer. Your models.
Run speech recognition locally, speak commands, teach it your vocabulary, and work in your own language.
Your machine, your models.
Pick a speech model that fits your computer, from fast to most accurate. Everything runs locally.
Give instructions by voice.
Say "tidy this up" or "put the plan in bullet points".
"Tidy this note and put the plan in bullet points."
• Chest X-ray
• Review in one week
It learns your vocabulary.
Drug names, colleagues and local terms the AI might miss.
Speak in your language.
Dozens of languages, with automatic detection. Switch mid-conversation.
Pay once. Keep your scribe for life.
A founder offer for the first 10 doctors: Local Assistant with no subscription, plus a private call with the founder to get the most out of AI in your practice.
Local Assistant, lifetime licence
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Consultation notes
- Record the visit, get a structured draft note
- Telehealth calls captured from your speakers, no bot joins the call
- A structured draft note in one click
- Link notes and mention patients with @name
- Import recordings and voice memos
- Search all your past notes
Dictation
- Dictate into any app: patient record, forms, documents
- Unlimited dictation, no word limits
- One push-to-talk shortcut
- Clean punctuation, numbers and doses
- Your vocabulary: drug names, colleagues, local terms
- Voice shortcuts for your standard text
- Dozens of languages, with automatic detection
Privacy
- Runs on Mac, Windows or Linux, works offline
- Patient audio never leaves your computer
- Works on locked-down hospital networks
- You decide what is kept: delete the audio once the note is signed
- Choose the local AI model that fits your computer
- No recordings kept on our servers
- Never used to train AI models
- Open-source, MIT-licensed engine
Founder bonus
- Private call with the founder
- Help with setup on your computer
- Lifetime updates included
- Priority support
- Early access to new features
- A say in what we build next
Prices in US dollars. One-time payment for lifetime access, limited to the first 10 doctors. Local Assistant is in early access: features are being finalised with our first users.
Notes on your own terms.
Be among the first to try the offline scribe. Request early access: free, no payment today.
Frequently asked
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