Meetily
Top pickMIT-licensed meeting notes that record, transcribe and summarise entirely on your own machine.
Meetily is a desktop meeting assistant from Zackriya Solutions that captures your device audio, transcribes it in real time with Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet, and writes summaries through a model of your choosing — Ollama on the same computer if you want the whole loop local, or Claude, Groq, OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint if you don't. Recordings, transcripts and models stay on the machine. The Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free; a separate Pro licence adds diarization, templates and richer exports, so it is honest to call this open-core rather than purely open-source.
What it does well
- +Audio, transcripts and summaries can stay entirely on your device — the project's own documentation states all processing is local
- +Packaged installers for macOS and Windows, with Metal and CoreML enabled on Mac and a Vulkan Whisper build on Windows; the README also lists Linux
- +Your choice of model at both ends: Whisper or Parakeet for transcription, Ollama locally or Claude/Groq/OpenRouter for summaries
- +Actively developed and widely used — v0.4.1 released 2026-09-12, roughly 31,000 GitHub stars
- +The free Community Edition is genuinely usable, not a demo: live transcription, imports and local summaries are all in it
Where it falls short
- −No bot joins the call, so it records the audio on the machine you are meeting from — it cannot cover a meeting you attend from your phone
- −Speaker diarization, custom summary templates and PDF/DOCX/Markdown export sit in the paid Pro licence, not the free edition
- −The Windows installer needs an AVX2-capable x64 CPU, and CUDA acceleration requires building from source with an NVIDIA toolchain
- −You own the maintenance: model downloads, updates and disk space are yours, and there is no mobile app or web workspace
- −Transcription speed and accuracy depend on your hardware and the model size you pick — test it on a real recording before committing
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