Ugle
Ugle builds high-performance, private utility software for media professionals, newsrooms and podcasters. Its flagship local-first application indexes spoken words in audio and video on the user's own machine, enabling semantic search and timestamped clip retrieval without uploading media or transcripts.
At a Glance
- Newsrooms and editorial teams
- Podcast production teams
- Journalists and investigative reporters
- Video editors
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AI Tools by Ugle
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Local Audio and Video Search
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Latest News
Ugle Is Now Live on Product Hunt — official Product Hunt launch of the local-first AI media search tool
Why we built Ugle local-first — updated explanation of the move from cloud uploading to on-device inference
The 90+ Languages Supported by Ugle — announcement of broad on-device language coverage
What 95% transcription accuracy actually means — publication of accuracy benchmarks and recording-condition guidance
Products & Services
A macOS and Windows desktop application that indexes audio/video archives locally, transcribes speech on-device, supports keyword and semantic search, returns timestamped passages, and exports selected clips as MP4, MP3 or WAV.
Market Position
Ugle positions itself as a privacy- and architecture-first alternative to cloud transcription and media-search tools: transcription, semantic indexing and search run locally, with no uploads, no telemetry and no per-search fees. Product Hunt discussions explicitly contrast the use case with cloud services such as Descript and Otter, while Ugle competes on source protection, offline operation and fast retrieval rather than cloud collaboration.
Leadership
Founders
Tejas Pancholi
Product Hunt identifies Pancholi as the maker/founder who built Ugle. His public LinkedIn profile describes him as a technology leader and architect focused on SaaS, AI/ML and cloud, and also as an advisor and investor.
Founding Story
Ugle began after its creator could remember that a specific thing had been said in one of hundreds of hours of recordings but could not find it by scrubbing files or searching filenames. The first version uploaded files to a server, but an investigative journalist's immediate question—where the audio went—made the team reconsider the architecture. Ugle was rebuilt around on-device transcription and local indexing because source-sensitive journalism workflows should not require trusting a cloud server with recordings.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Annual per-machine software licences for individuals, custom commercial subscriptions for organizations, and enterprise deployments with centralized administration, MDM packaging, air-gapped support and priority IT onboarding. Ugle emphasizes no per-search token or usage-based fees.
Pricing Tiers
One personal licence, unlimited library size, 90+ languages, clip export and updates for 12 months. Solo licences activate on up to two machines owned by the same person.
No file limit and no credit card; after 15 days the app continues in read-only mode with the existing index searchable.
Education licences require enrollment or employment verification; non-commercial use requires confirmation that no commercial benefit is being earned.
For newsroom-wide, large-team or air-gapped deployments; includes team licensing, centralized administration, consolidated billing, MDM packaging and IT onboarding options.
Target Markets
- Newsrooms and editorial teams
- Podcast production teams
- Journalists and investigative reporters
- Video editors
- Researchers and other media professionals
- Organizations with sensitive, unreleased or source-protected recordings
- Newsroom editors finding soundbites in unreleased footage before a deadline
- Podcast producers searching large back catalogues for guest answers, themes and clips
- Journalists maintaining a private, searchable archive of source interviews
- Video editors and researchers retrieving moments from large audio/video archives
- Teams working with sensitive recordings that cannot be uploaded to cloud transcription services