Meetily is a privacy-first meeting assistant built around local processing. Instead of sending audio to a cloud service, the desktop app captures system audio on Windows or macOS, transcribes it on-device with Whisper-based speech recognition, and keeps recordings on your machine. Because it grabs system audio rather than joining the call as a bot, it works with essentially any conferencing tool, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Discord, and Slack huddles, with no integrations or browser extensions to configure.
Summaries are pluggable. You can point Meetily at a local LLM for fully offline note-taking, or supply your own API key for providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq so only the transcript is sent for summarization. Speaker diarization labels who said what, both live during recording and on imported audio, and the resulting notes can be exported as Markdown, PDF, or DOCX. A community edition is free and MIT-licensed, while a Pro tier adds features such as speaker identification and higher limits.
With over 30,000 GitHub stars and hundreds of thousands of downloads, Meetily has become a popular self-hosted alternative to cloud note takers like Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Granola. The project is available as a desktop app for Windows and macOS, and its on-device design makes it a fit for teams that need GDPR or HIPAA-minded handling of sensitive conversations.
