Meetily

Meetily is a privacy-first, open-source AI meeting assistant built by Zackriya Solutions that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your local machine. The core is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub, with a Pro tier offering enhanced accuracy and advanced features for individuals and teams. According to the project's homepage, it has accumulated over 13,000 GitHub stars and 284,000 downloads.

What It Is

Meetily is a desktop application for macOS and Windows (Linux build-from-source) that records system audio and microphone input, runs real-time transcription using Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet models locally, and generates AI-powered meeting summaries. Unlike cloud-based tools such as Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai, Meetily processes everything on-device — audio and recordings never leave the user's machine. It is bot-free, meaning no visible recording bot joins the meeting as a participant; instead, it captures system audio directly, similar to screen recording.

Architecture and Local-First Design

Meetily is built with Tauri, using a Rust-based backend for core processing and a Next.js frontend for the UI. Key architectural choices include:

• Transcription engine: Whisper.cpp and NVIDIA Parakeet (ONNX) models run locally with GPU acceleration (Apple Silicon Metal/CoreML on macOS; CUDA/Vulkan on Windows/Linux)
• Summarization: Pluggable AI provider support — Ollama (fully local), Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint; only the transcript text is sent when using external APIs, never the audio
• Storage: All recordings, transcripts, and summaries stored locally on the user's device
• Platform agnostic: Captures system audio directly, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Slack Huddles, Webex, and any other conferencing software without integrations or browser extensions

Deployment Options

Meetily ships three editions:

• Community Edition: Free, MIT-licensed, open-source; available as native installers for macOS (.dmg) and Windows (.exe), or buildable from source on Linux
• Pro: Enhanced transcription accuracy, custom summary templates, advanced exports (PDF, DOCX, Markdown), auto-detect meetings, and priority support; billed annually per user
• Enterprise: Custom-priced, self-hosted deployment inside the customer's own infrastructure (on-premise, AWS, Azure, GCP, or EU data centers); includes SSO/SAML, admin dashboard, RBAC, audit logging, white-glove deployment, and 24/7 priority support

Update: Meetily v0.4.0

The latest release is v0.4.0, published June 5, 2026. The v0.3.0 blog post highlighted audio file import and retranscription as major additions — users can import recordings in 10 formats (MP4, M4A, WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, MKV, WebM, WMA) and re-process them with a different model or language. The docs site (v1.5.0 feature set) lists pluggable transcription, summary templates, share/export, search and replace, and meeting details as current capabilities. Speaker diarization and calendar integration are listed as coming soon.

Why It Got Attention

The project was the #1 trending repository on GitHub shortly after its February 2025 launch, per the homepage's own claim. The open-source community response — 13K+ stars, 1.4K+ forks — reflects demand for a local-first alternative to cloud meeting tools. The project positions itself explicitly against Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Granola, and Read AI, citing privacy lawsuits and biometric data suits against cloud competitors as context for why local processing matters. The team at Zackriya Solutions built Meetily originally as an internal tool after reviewing the privacy policies of major meeting note-takers and finding that most use customer data to train their AI models.

Compliance and Target Audience

Meetily's local-first architecture makes it inherently compliant by design with GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and ISO 27001 requirements, since no data leaves the user's infrastructure. The product targets healthcare providers, legal firms, financial services, government agencies, and any professional handling sensitive or confidential meeting content. The Enterprise edition adds EU data residency options (Hetzner/Germany, OVH/France, LeaseWeb/Netherlands), LDAP/Active Directory integration, and managed compliance frameworks including DSGVO, RGPD, NIS2, and MiFID II.