Key Takeaways
- Meetily is free and open-source under the MIT license; developed by Zackriya Solutions
- Captures meetings via direct system-audio capture — no bot joins Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams calls
- Local transcription through a bundled whisper.cpp-based Whisper engine (tiny through large-v3) plus NVIDIA Parakeet, GPU-accelerated (Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Windows)
- AI summarization defaults to a local Ollama model; optional cloud alternatives include Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- A separate paid Meetily Pro tier costs $10/user/month (or $120/year), adding speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment, per Meetily's own pricing page
- Built as a Tauri desktop app (Rust backend, Next.js frontend), per the GitHub repository
- Available for Windows and Apple Silicon Mac; Linux has no prebuilt binary and requires a source build
- GitHub repository (github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily) shows roughly 30,898 stars as of September 2026
📍 In One Sentence
Meetily is a free, open-source (MIT) meeting note taker that captures system audio directly, transcribes it locally with Whisper/Parakeet, and summarizes it with a local Ollama model by default, with a paid Pro tier for speaker diarization and team features.
💬 In Plain Terms
Instead of a bot joining your Zoom or Google Meet call, Meetily runs quietly on your own computer, listens to the system audio, turns it into a transcript locally, and asks a locally running AI model (via Ollama) to write a summary — no cloud service sees your meeting unless you choose to connect one.
What Is Meetily?
Meetily is a self-hosted desktop app that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, positioned as a privacy-focused, local alternative to cloud meeting-notetaker tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies. Instead of adding a bot to your call, Meetily captures the audio directly from your system while you are in a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams session, then runs transcription and summarization on your own machine by default.
- Core function: live meeting capture via system audio, local transcription, and AI-generated summaries — not a file-upload transcription tool
- Local transcription engine: a bundled whisper.cpp-based Whisper implementation (tiny through large-v3) plus NVIDIA's Parakeet model, per the project's GitHub README
- Summarization: a local Ollama model by default, with optional cloud alternatives — Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Architecture: a Tauri-based desktop app with a Rust backend and a Next.js frontend, per GitHub
- Developer: Zackriya Solutions
- Canonical repository: github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily
Meetily's Project History
Meetily has been under active development by Zackriya Solutions, with the most recent verified release being v0.4.1, published September 12, 2025. PromptQuorum could not independently verify a complete version history beyond this release; readers who need the full changelog should check the GitHub Releases page directly, since new versions ship between review cycles.
What Can You Do With Meetily?
Meetily's feature set centers on capturing, transcribing, and summarizing live meetings without cloud dependency for its core function. Here is what each part does, per the project's own GitHub README.
- Live meeting capture — captures system audio directly from Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other platforms; no bot joins the call
- Local transcription — a bundled whisper.cpp-based Whisper engine (tiny through large-v3) plus NVIDIA's Parakeet model, with GPU acceleration (Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Windows) — release notes describe this as roughly 4x faster live transcription with Parakeet and Whisper combined
- AI summarization — a local Ollama model by default turns the transcript into a structured summary; optional cloud alternatives are Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Speaker diarization — identifying which speaker said what is a Meetily Pro feature, per Meetily's own pricing page (see Pricing below)
- 100% local processing — per the project's own README and site, both transcription and summarization run locally with no cloud requirement for the free Community Edition's core function, provided you use the default local Ollama summarization path
- Cross-platform desktop app — built with Tauri (Rust backend, Next.js frontend), available for Windows and Apple Silicon Mac
Usage Examples: Three Ways to Use Meetily
These are concrete workflows built from Meetily's documented features above.
Capture and summarize a Google Meet or Zoom call fully locally
Install Meetily and Ollama, start Meetily before or during your Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams call, and let it capture the system audio directly — no bot joins the meeting. When the call ends, Meetily transcribes the audio locally and asks your local Ollama model to generate a summary, with no meeting content sent to a cloud service.
Use a cloud model for summarization instead of Ollama
In Meetily's settings, connect an Anthropic Claude, Groq, or OpenRouter API key (or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint) instead of using the default local Ollama path. Transcription still happens locally through the bundled Whisper/Parakeet engine, but the summarization step is handled by the cloud provider you configured.
Upgrade to Meetily Pro for speaker diarization on a recurring team meeting
For a recurring meeting with multiple speakers where knowing who said what matters, Meetily's free Community Edition transcribes and summarizes the call, but speaker diarization is gated behind the paid Meetily Pro tier ($10/user/month or $120/year), per Meetily's own pricing page.
Download Meetily for Windows and macOS
Meetily is available for Windows and Apple Silicon Mac as a direct download; Linux has no prebuilt binary and must be built from source. Links below are from the project's GitHub Releases page for the latest verified release, v0.4.1 (published September 12, 2025) — always verify against that page directly, since build URLs and version numbers change between releases.
Platform | Download |
|---|---|
| Windows (x64) | meetily_0.4.1_x64-setup.exe — requires an AVX2-capable x64 CPU |
| macOS (Apple Silicon only) | meetily_0.4.1_aarch64.dmg |
| Linux | No prebuilt binary — build from source per the GitHub README |
The download URLs above currently resolve under an older repository path, Zackriya-Solutions/meeting-minutes, rather than the current Zackriya-Solutions/meetily project home — apparently a leftover from a repository rename. Use github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily/releases as the canonical, current releases page and verify the exact download link there before installing, since versions and URLs change between releases. Intel-based Macs are not covered by the listed macOS build.
Meetily Pricing: Is Meetily Really Free?
Meetily's Community Edition — the open-source app itself — is free under the MIT license, with no cost for its core local transcription and summarization. A separate paid "Meetily Pro" tier costs $10/user/month, or $120/year billed annually, per Meetily's own pricing page, adding speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment on top of the free tier. An Enterprise tier is also listed, with pricing not publicly disclosed.
- Community Edition: free, MIT-licensed, no cost for the core app, local transcription, and local Ollama-based summarization
- Meetily Pro: $10/user/month, or $120/year billed annually, per Meetily's own pricing page
- Pro-only features, per the vendor's own site: speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment
- Enterprise tier: listed on Meetily's site with custom, undisclosed pricing
- Using a cloud summarization provider (Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter) instead of Ollama costs whatever that provider charges for API usage — separate from Meetily's own pricing
Meetily vs. MacWhisper
Meetily and MacWhisper are both local, Whisper-based speech-to-text tools, but they target different jobs. MacWhisper focuses on transcribing existing audio and video files, plus live dictation, on macOS, while Meetily focuses on capturing and summarizing live meetings across Windows and macOS.
Platforms
- Meetily:
- Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon); Linux via source build only
- MacWhisper:
- macOS only, no Windows or Linux build
Primary use case
- Meetily:
- Live meeting capture (Google Meet, Zoom, Teams) via system audio
- MacWhisper:
- Transcribing existing audio/video files, plus live dictation
Transcription engine
- Meetily:
- Bundled whisper.cpp-based Whisper (tiny–large-v3) + NVIDIA Parakeet
- MacWhisper:
- OpenAI's Whisper models + NVIDIA's Parakeet models
AI meeting summarization
- Meetily:
- Yes — local Ollama by default, or a cloud provider (Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, custom endpoint)
- MacWhisper:
- No built-in meeting-summarization step
Bot-based call joining
- Meetily:
- No — captures system audio directly
- MacWhisper:
- N/A — not built for live meeting capture
License / pricing
- Meetily:
- MIT (free Community Edition) + paid Pro at $10/user/month or $120/year
- MacWhisper:
- Free tier + one-time €64 Pro purchase (Gumroad)
Use MacWhisper if you mainly need to transcribe existing recordings or dictate on macOS and do not need a summarization step — see the MacWhisper review for full pricing and feature details. Use Meetily if you want live meeting capture across Windows and Apple Silicon Mac with an AI-generated summary attached, and you are comfortable installing Ollama for the local summarization step. If unsure, pick based on your platform and whether you need live-meeting summaries (Meetily) or file/dictation transcription (MacWhisper).
Who Should Use Meetily?
Whether Meetily fits depends on whether you want a private, local-first alternative to cloud meeting-notetaker tools and are comfortable installing Ollama for the summarization step.
Use Meetily if
- You want a private, local-first alternative to Otter.ai, Fireflies, or Granola for meeting notes
- You mostly meet on Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams and want system-audio capture without a bot joining the call
- You're comfortable installing and running Ollama locally for the AI summarization step
- You run Windows or an Apple Silicon Mac — the officially supported platforms
- You'd rather pay a monthly or annual fee for Pro features like speaker diarization than switch tools entirely
Wait, or look elsewhere, if
- You need Linux support out of the box — Meetily has no prebuilt Linux binary as of this review; building from source is the only option
- You have an Intel-based Mac — the listed macOS build targets Apple Silicon only
- You want speaker diarization without paying for Meetily Pro — it's gated behind the $10/user/month (or $120/year) tier, per Meetily's own pricing page
- You want a tool for transcribing existing audio/video files rather than live meetings — see MacWhisper, whisper.cpp, or Faster Whisper instead
Meetily vs. Other Local Speech Tools
Meetily sits inside a broader local speech-to-text and personal-assistant space. Here is how it compares to other tools in that space — see the Local LLM Software Directory for the full catalog, and the dedicated Meetily vs. MacWhisper comparison above for the closest head-to-head.
- MacWhisper — a macOS-only app for transcribing existing audio/video files and live dictation, built on the same family of Whisper and Parakeet models Meetily uses; see the dedicated comparison section above.
- whisper.cpp — the open-source C/C++ inference engine that powers Whisper transcription across many local tools, including the engine family Meetily's own transcription is built on.
- Faster Whisper — another local Whisper-based transcription engine, optimized for speed via CTranslate2; a relevant option if you only need transcription without the live-meeting-capture and summarization layer.
- Voxa — a local voice assistant in the broader personal-assistants category; a relevant comparison if you want a local AI assistant beyond meeting notes specifically.
Common Mistakes When Evaluating Meetily
Most confusion about Meetily comes from its pricing tiers, its download links, or assuming it works without any extra setup.
Mistake 1: Assuming Meetily is entirely free
Meetily's Community Edition is free and MIT-licensed, but a separate Meetily Pro tier ($10/user/month or $120/year) gates speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment, per Meetily's own pricing page.
Mistake 2: Assuming Meetily works with zero setup
Meetily's default AI summarization path requires Ollama installed and running locally. Without Ollama (or a configured cloud provider), Meetily can capture and transcribe audio, but the summarization step won't work.
Mistake 3: Assuming Meetily joins meetings as a bot
Unlike some cloud meeting-notetakers, Meetily does not add a bot to your call. It captures system audio directly from your own machine while you're in the meeting.
Mistake 4: Being thrown off by the download link's repository name
Meetily's release-asset download URLs currently resolve under an older repository path, Zackriya-Solutions/meeting-minutes, rather than the current Zackriya-Solutions/meetily project home. This is expected — both point to the same project's releases — but confirm you're downloading the correct version from the official Releases page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Meetily?
Meetily (meetily.ai, source at github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily) is a free, open-source, self-hosted AI meeting note taker that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings locally, without a bot joining the call.
Is Meetily free?
Meetily's Community Edition is free under the MIT license, with no cost for the core app or local transcription and summarization. A separate Meetily Pro tier costs $10/user/month (or $120/year) for speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment.
Does Meetily work offline and keep my meetings private?
Per Meetily's own README and site, both transcription and summarization run 100% locally with no cloud requirement, as long as you use the default local Ollama summarization path instead of a connected cloud provider.
What platforms does Meetily support?
Windows (x64, AVX2-capable CPU) and Apple Silicon Mac, as direct downloads. Linux has no prebuilt binary and must be built from source, per the GitHub README.
Does Meetily require Ollama?
Ollama is the default local model Meetily uses for AI summarization. You can instead connect a cloud provider — Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint — but Ollama is what makes the summarization step fully local.
Can Meetily use cloud AI models instead of Ollama?
Yes, for the summarization step only. Meetily supports Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints as alternatives to the default local Ollama model. Transcription itself is handled locally by the bundled Whisper/Parakeet engine regardless.
Does Meetily join my meeting as a bot?
No. Meetily captures system audio directly from your own computer while you're in a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams call — no bot appears in the meeting participant list.
What is Meetily Pro and how much does it cost?
Meetily Pro is a paid tier costing $10/user/month, or $120/year billed annually, per Meetily's own pricing page. It adds speaker diarization, custom templates, advanced exports, and team deployment on top of the free Community Edition.
How does Meetily compare to MacWhisper?
Meetily focuses on live meeting capture and AI summarization across Windows and macOS; MacWhisper focuses on transcribing existing audio/video files and live dictation on macOS only, with no built-in meeting-summarization step. See the Meetily vs. MacWhisper comparison above.
Who develops Meetily?
Meetily is developed by Zackriya Solutions. The canonical source-code repository is github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily, which shows roughly 30,898 stars as of September 2026.