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Meetily

Meetily is a privacy focused, open source AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes meetings entirely on your own device instead of the cloud.

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Description

Meetily transcribes meetings locally through Parakeet or Whisper, including speaker recognition, and summarizes them through Ollama. Processing is built on Rust and runs without any cloud connection. The tool works with common video conferencing platforms such as Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Slack Huddles and Webex, and is available as open source under the MIT license.

For summarization you can choose between local Ollama and optional cloud models such as Claude, Groq or OpenRouter, or your own OpenAI compatible endpoint, while the actual transcription stays local. As the community edition of a comparatively young project, its maturity and platform coverage are not at the level of established cloud providers such as Fireflies or Otter, and local processing also requires sufficient compute power on your own device.

For teams and individuals who value confidentiality more than the convenience of a fully managed cloud solution, Meetily is a serious alternative in the meeting assistant space.

Strengths

Fully local processing

Recording and transcription run entirely on your own device, according to the vendor, and audio data does not leave it.

Open source code

The code is available under the MIT license on GitHub (Zackriya-Solutions/meetily), and the community edition is free for individuals.

Broad platform reach

Meetily works with Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other video conferencing platforms, according to the vendor, without an additional bot joining the call.

Import audio after the fact

Existing recordings can be imported and processed, independent of live participation in the meeting.

Industry-specific positioning

The vendor targets Meetily specifically at industries with high confidentiality requirements, such as healthcare, legal and financial services.

Assessment

AI features

Real-time transcription Live notes during the meeting, with the vendor's stated aim of capturing every spoken word accurately.
Speaker identification Speaker diarization attributes every voice in the transcript, both live during recording and on imported audio. According to the vendor, this feature is reserved for the Pro version.
AI summaries Automatically generated, structured meeting summaries condense long transcripts.
Audio import with transcription Imported recordings in formats such as MP4, M4A, WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, MKV, WebM or WMA are transcribed as well.
Selectable model source For summarization you can switch between a locally running model and your own API key for a cloud provider.
Multilingual recognition According to the vendor, transcription recognizes terminology in more than 99 languages, including 27 EU languages.

Suitable for

Teams and individuals with high privacy requirements who do not want to send meeting transcripts to the cloud
Users who want to run transcription and summarization locally on macOS or Windows
An alternative to cloud based meeting assistants when confidentiality matters more than convenience
Less suitable for Less suitable for teams that prefer an immediately usable, fully managed cloud solution without their own compute load

Limitations and notes

Speaker identification only in Pro According to the vendor, the free community edition only covers basic transcription, while speaker diarization and further features are reserved for the paid Pro version.
Compliance is the operator's responsibility According to the vendor, HIPAA does not certify products, and compliance with requirements is the responsibility of the organization deploying Meetily.
Pricing model The Pro version costs around 10 US dollars per user per month billed yearly, with a separate enterprise tier at an individual price for self-hosting and volume licensing.
Own compute requirements Since transcription and processing run locally, your own device needs sufficient compute power, and the cloud option for summarization adds the API cost of the chosen provider.
Comparatively young project As an open source project by Zackriya Solutions, maturity and platform coverage do not consistently reach the level of established commercial providers such as Fireflies or Otter.

Quick start

Install the community edition from github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily locally, based on the MIT license and free of charge.
Start a meeting in Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or another video conferencing platform as usual; Meetily records and transcribes locally in parallel.
Alternatively, import an existing audio file; supported formats include MP4, M4A, WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG and WebM.
For summarization, choose between a local model and your own API key for a cloud provider.
Find recorded meetings, including transcript and summary, under "Previous Meetings".

Tips

Meetily is particularly suited to confidential meetings in legal, healthcare or financial services, because according to the vendor no additional bot joins the call and no audio data is uploaded to a third-party cloud.
If you need speaker identification, check in advance whether the paid Pro version is required; according to the vendor, the community edition does not cover it.
For self-hosting, a Business Associate Agreement or volume licensing, Meetily offers a separate enterprise tier aimed at larger organizations with their own IT operations.
Existing meeting recordings can be imported and transcribed or summarized afterward, independent of live participation.
Before production use, check github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily, where the open source code is available for your own review.

Access

The community edition of Meetily is open source under the MIT license and free to use, based on the compute power of your own device. For optional cloud summarization through Claude, Groq or OpenRouter, the respective provider's API costs apply. Check meetily.ai directly for information on any further editions.

Alternatives

otter.ai — freemium

Otter.ai

Established hosted meeting assistant with live transcription, free tier plus paid plans.

fireflies.ai — freemium

Fireflies.ai

Commercial meeting recorder with summaries and CRM integrations, a direct market counterpart.

fathom.video — freemium

Fathom

Free hosted note-taker with paid team features, a widely used alternative to self-hosted solutions.

gong.io — kommerziell

Gong

Enterprise platform for conversation analysis and meeting intelligence, the commercial heavyweight in the same space.

Last reviewed: 27 July 2026 · Pricing, plans and features are a snapshot in time. Check the provider's own page before deciding.

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