Meetily

What does Meetily do?

Meetily is "a privacy-first AI meeting assistant that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your infrastructure", in its README's words. It captures the microphone and the system audio at the same time, which is how it hears both sides of a Zoom, Teams or Meet call, and it shows a live transcript as the meeting happens.

Transcription runs on the machine with Whisper or NVIDIA's Parakeet. Summaries come from a language model you configure: the README recommends Ollama for a local one and also supports Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, OpenAI and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It can import an existing recording and transcribe it, a feature marked beta.

Key facts

• Licence: MIT on the community edition. Meetily PRO is a paid product the README says is built on a different codebase.
• Captures microphone and system audio at the same time, with what the README calls intelligent ducking and clipping prevention.
• Live transcript while the meeting happens, from Whisper or Parakeet running locally.
• Summaries through Ollama (recommended, local), Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
• Import of existing audio files for transcription, marked beta.
• Installers: Windows x64 setup (needs an AVX2-capable CPU) and a macOS .dmg for Apple Silicon; Linux is built from source with pnpm and the project's build script.
• macOS enables Metal and CoreML automatically; the Windows build uses Vulkan; CUDA needs a source build.
• Speaker identification, chat with meetings and calendar integration are listed as coming soon in PRO; PDF, DOCX and Markdown exports are listed under PRO.

What does it replace, and where does it fall short?

Meetily replaces Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai for a person or team that cannot send call audio to a vendor. The README states "All processing is done on your machine. No data ever leaves your computer" when the summary model is local too.

Where it falls short: it records from your machine rather than joining the call as a bot. Speaker labelling, chat with your meetings and calendar integration are listed as coming soon in the separate PRO edition, and PDF, DOCX and Markdown export are listed under PRO. The community edition README does not state its own export formats.

How does Meetily run?

A Windows installer (which needs an AVX2-capable CPU) and a macOS .dmg for Apple Silicon. Linux is built from source with pnpm and the project's build script. It is a Tauri app with a Rust backend and a Next.js front end. On macOS, Metal and CoreML are enabled automatically; the Windows build uses Vulkan, and CUDA needs a source build.

The maintainers sell Meetily PRO, "built on a different codebase", with self-hosted deployment, and an Enterprise tier. The README says "Meetily Community Edition will remain free and open source."

Who is Meetily for?

A team in a regulated setting, or anyone who wants a transcript and summary of a call with nothing leaving the laptop. A team that wants a bot in every calendar meeting with shared notes should keep a hosted service or look at OpenWhispr's call detection.

What limits does the README state?

The Windows installer does not select CUDA automatically. Linux requires a source build. Several PRO features are marked coming soon.

Questions people ask

Is Meetily open source?

The community edition is, under MIT, and the README states it will remain free and open source. The PRO and Enterprise editions are separate paid products on a different codebase, so a feature listed under PRO is not in the open-source app.

Does Meetily send my meeting audio anywhere?

No. Transcription runs on your machine, and with Ollama as the summary model the README says no data ever leaves your computer. If you pick a hosted summary model such as Claude or OpenAI, the transcript text goes to that provider with your key; the audio still does not.

Can Meetily record a Zoom or Teams call?

Yes. It captures system audio alongside the microphone, which is how it hears the far side of any call playing through your speakers, whatever the meeting software. It records from your own machine rather than joining the call as a separate participant.

How does Meetily compare with Otter.ai and Fireflies?

Meetily gives you the same loop, capture, transcript and summary, on your laptop with nothing uploaded and no per-seat bill. Otter and Fireflies send a bot into the call from your calendar and share notes across a team, which Meetily's community edition does not. The alternatives to Otter.ai and alternatives to Fireflies.ai pages compare the four options.

Which platforms does Meetily support?

Windows with an installer that needs an AVX2-capable CPU, macOS with a .dmg for Apple Silicon, and Linux built from source. The README's feature list says all three; its header badge names macOS and Windows as the supported ones.

Sources

• Meetily README and MIT LICENSE: github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily, read 2026-09-16.