Standard & Pro Editions

The Short Version

The vast majority of what makes Harvestry useful — transcription, screenshot capture, the interactive HTML export, the transcript panel, annotations, and even Claude and ChatGPT consolidation — is in Standard. If you're not sure which edition to buy, start there.

Pro adds three things that matter to a specific kind of user: translating foreign-language audio into English transcripts, the ability to run LLM consolidation entirely on your Mac without any data leaving the device, and the ability to export your study documents directly into Obsidian or any Markdown-based knowledge base. If any of those sounds important to you, Pro is worth it.

Feature Comparison

What Pro Adds, in Detail

Translation into English

Transcription — speech to text in the language it was spoken — is part of Standard, in every language Whisper supports. Pro adds translation: foreign-language audio becomes an English transcript in a single on-device pass, with screenshots, audio sync, annotations and consolidation all working normally on the result.

Two honest limits. Whisper translates into English only, so pairs like French → German aren't possible at this stage — the Pro Notes language setting covers that case by translating the consolidated notes instead. And quality varies a great deal by source language: widely spoken languages are excellent, while low-resource ones are supported but noticeably weaker. Since everything runs locally and re-running costs nothing, test your own material during the free trial before deciding.

On-Device LLM Consolidation via Ollama

Standard includes hosted consolidation via the Claude and ChatGPT APIs, which send your transcript to Anthropic or OpenAI over HTTPS to generate structured study notes. Pro adds the ability to run the same consolidation step using a local Ollama model instead — entirely on your Mac, with no data leaving the device.

This matters in a few specific situations:

• Lectures containing sensitive, confidential, or personally identifiable content you don't want to send over a network
• Users who prefer a fully air-gapped workflow for privacy reasons
• Users who want to avoid per-token API costs on high-volume processing
• Anyone who already has a capable Mac (32 GB+) and wants to use local models like Gemma 4 or Qwen3 that produce excellent results on Apple Silicon

For guidance on which Ollama models work best on different Mac configurations, see Choosing an Ollama Model.

Configurable Consolidation Prompt

Both Standard and Pro send the same default system prompt to the LLM — asking it to produce structured Markdown with topic headings, bullet summaries, and key takeaways. Pro users can edit this prompt in Settings → Consolidation → System Prompt.

This is useful if you want the model to produce something different — a Q&A format instead of bullet points, a specific academic citation style, a more concise executive summary, or output in a language other than English. A Reset to Default button restores the original prompt at any time.

Obsidian & Markdown Export

In addition to the self-contained HTML export, Pro will add a Markdown export that writes your study document directly into a folder you choose — compatible with Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, Bear, or any tool that reads Markdown files from a directory. Screenshots are saved alongside the Markdown file and referenced with relative paths, so the document stays portable.

This is designed for users who already maintain a personal knowledge base and want Harvestry to feed into it automatically rather than managing separate HTML files.

Which Edition Should I Buy?

Both editions include a free trial. Download Harvestry and process your first videos before deciding — you can upgrade to Pro at any time.