A self-hosted, open-source AI meeting assistant that respects your privacy and runs entirely on your own machine.
🚀 What's Meetily?
Meetily is a privacy-first, fully self-hosted AI meeting note taker. It's designed for professionals, developers, and teams who want AI-powered transcription and summarization without handing over data to third-party SaaS tools like Otter.ai or Fireflies.
With no cloud lock-in, Meetily gives you complete control over your meeting recordings, transcripts, and summaries Whether you're taking meeting notes manually or using a traditional meeting transcription app, Meetily offers a faster, AI-powered workflow — and it's fully open source.
🎉 What's New in v0.0.4
We've been listening to community feedback (especially from Reddit!) and v0.0.4 brings several powerful updates:
🕘 1. Meeting History
Now your meeting data is saved locally and can be revisited anytime. Think of it as your private AI-powered meeting archive.
🧠 2. Multiple AI Providers
You can now configure OpenAI or any custom provider for transcription and summarization. Prefer local models like Whisper or Ollama? Still fully supported.
🪟 3. Windows Installer Support (MSI + EXE)
No more complex builds simple double-click install on Windows 10/11.
🔧 5. Backend Performance Upgrades
- Removed unnecessary dependencies
- Improved process cleanup
- Faster transcription pipeline
🎨 6. Updated UI & Branding
- New logo
- Smoother onboarding
- Better user interface flow
🛠️ Installation Options
Windows:
-
meetily-frontend_0.0.4_x64-setup.exeor.msi
macOS:
- Install via Homebrew or
.dmg
🔐 Why Go Self-Hosted?
Most AI meeting assistants today:
- Require cloud upload
- Requires services you don’t control
- Store sensitive meetings externally
Meetily keeps everything on your system:
- Record & transcribe offline
- Store locally in SQLite
- Optionally use OpenAI / Claude / Groq or Ollama to generate summaries
As a self-hosted AI transcription solution, Meetily ensures that your meeting minutes stay private and secure.
📈 Meetily vs Otter.ai (Quick Comparison)
| Feature | Meetily (v0.0.4) | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Open source | ✅ MIT License | ❌ Closed source |
| Local transcription | ✅ Whisper.cpp / OpenAI | ❌ Cloud only |
| Privacy-first | ✅ 100% local option | ❌ Cloud synced |
| API integration options | ✅ OpenAI, Groq, Claude, Ollama (Adding more support) | ❌ Proprietary only |
| Customizable | ✅ Fully | ❌ Limited |
🔜 Coming Soon
We're actively building and integrating:
- Optimizing Ollama support
- Speaker diarization
- Project-based memory
- Obsidian integration
- OpenRouter support
- Voice-based identity tagging
- Microsoft Teams/Discord support
💬 Get Involved
Built fully in the open, Meetily welcomes contributions, feedback, and testing.
🔗 GitHub Repo
🌐 Project Site
💬 Join the community
If you're looking for open source meeting minutes software that can transcribe, summarize, and organize your calls — Meetily is a strong alternative to SaaS-based tools.
If you care about privacy, want local AI tools, and are tired of SaaS bloat? give Meetily a try and let us know what you think!
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