Alternatives to Meetily
Record and transcribe meetings with local AI processing. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Meetily
Record and transcribe meetings with local AI processing.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Meetily.
Buzz
Turn speech recordings into text with a desktop transcription app.
Buzz is a free MIT-licensed desktop transcription app with microphone transcription and subtitle exports on Windows, macOS and Linux, without Meetily's meeting summaries.
Vibe
Transcribe audio and video files on your own computer.
Vibe transcribes audio and video files locally with batch jobs and subtitle formats, also on Linux, though its optional cloud summarization sends requests externally.
noScribe
Transcribes recorded audio to text on your own computer, with speaker separation.
noScribe transcribes recorded audio locally with speaker separation under GPL-3.0 and runs on Linux too, but it works on recordings rather than capturing meetings.
aTrain
Transcribe recorded interviews on your own computer.
aTrain transcribes recorded interviews locally with speaker detection under AGPL-3.0 on Windows and Linux, dropping macOS support and meeting summarization.
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper for fast offline speech-to-text on your own hardware.
whisper.cpp is a fast offline speech-to-text command-line tool with no Python dependency, requiring separate model downloads and offering no graphical meeting recorder.
Whisper
An open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI for transcribing and translating audio on your own machine.
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model used through the command line and Python, adding translation to English but lacking a graphical interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Handy
Dictate into desktop text fields with local speech recognition.
AnythingLLM
A desktop AI app that answers questions about your own documents, with no account and no API key needed.
Ollama
The simplest way to pull down an open language model and run it on your own machine, from one command or a desktop app.
Superwhisper
A voice dictation app that turns speech into text in any app, using offline or cloud recognition.
