The best Jamie alternatives for bot-free meeting notes

If you like Jamie because no bot joins, but want to keep the call itself, Koi records on your Mac and saves the audio, or a video of the screen, there too. Jamie never stores audio. If you want Jamie's style of polished AI notes with a team around them, Granola and Bluedot are the closest. For notes that never leave your computer, Anarlog and Meetily run locally.

We make Koi, so it's first below. It isn't a clean swap: Koi runs only on a Mac, splits a call into You and Them rather than naming speakers, and has no CRM integrations or shared workspace. Everything about the other apps comes from their own sites, checked October 21, 2026. We didn't test any of them.

Jamie runs on your device and captures your microphone and the computer's sound, so no bot joins. It works on Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and any other call, and in person from your laptop or phone. Downloads are for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

Its security page is the part people like. Meeting audio is streamed for transcription and never stored. All data storage and processing stays within the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. Jamie says your data is never used to train models, by it or its model providers. It has ISO 27001, and its SOC 2 Type II audit is still in progress.

On Jamie's pricing page, every plan includes speaker recognition, notes and transcripts in 99+ languages, and a consent email. Free gives 10 AI notes a month for meetings up to 30 minutes. Plus is €21 a month for 20 notes of up to 2 hours. Pro is €39 a month billed yearly for unlimited notes up to 5 hours, with Salesforce, HubSpot, Attio, Dynamics 365 and Pipedrive. Team is €33 a seat a month, billed yearly, with a shared workspace and admin controls.

• There's no recording. Audio is never stored, so if the notes miss something, you can't go back and listen.
• The free plan is small: 10 notes a month and a 30-minute cap per meeting. Even Plus stops at 20 notes.
• Unlimited notes and CRM sync start on Pro, priced in euros and billed yearly.
• Transcription happens in Jamie's cloud. It's the EU, but it's still not your computer.
• SOC 2 Type II is listed as pending, which some IT teams ask for.

None of that makes Jamie a bad pick. If a European client needs the data kept in the EU and nothing kept as audio, it's one of the cleanest answers out there. The alternatives below each trade one of those things for something else.

With Jamie, from its own site:

1. Download Jamie for Mac and sign in.
2. Start Jamie when your call begins, on any platform, or for a meeting in the room.
3. Jamie streams the audio to its servers in Europe, which transcribe it. The audio isn't stored.
4. The notes, transcript and action items appear when it ends.

With Koi:

1. Tap Fn + ⌃ on the call, or click Record on Koi's dock. Or wait: Koi's dock asks "Record this call?" when Zoom, Teams or a Meet call in your browser uses the microphone.
2. Pick Online call, then Audio only or Audio and video. For a room, pick In person.
3. The first time, allow Screen Recording for Koi in System Settings, then quit and reopen it.
4. Stop from the dock or tap Fn + ⌃ again. The page opens with the recording, then You and Them in turns.
5. Say yes to Summarize this call? for notes, to-dos and a follow-up email.

From each company's own site, checked October 21, 2026.

Koi is the better fit when the recording matters as much as the notes: a user interview you want to rewatch, a client call you might need to hear again, or a lecture. The transcript and the audio or video are files on your Mac, and the page is a normal document you can edit and export to Word or PDF. Koi also transcribes audio and video files you drop in, on your Mac.

It depends on what private means to you. Jamie's promise is that your data stays in Europe, isn't trained on, and the audio isn't stored. A local app makes a different promise: the audio is turned into text on your own computer and isn't uploaded at all.

Koi, Anarlog and Meetily make that second promise. Koi still needs a connection to start a recording, to check you have a plan, and if you say yes to notes, the transcript's words go to its cloud AI. Anarlog and Meetily can summarize with a model on your own computer. More in our list of local meeting notes apps for Mac.

Yes, with different limits. tl;dv's Free plan has unlimited recordings and transcriptions, with full AI notes on your first 10 meetings and recordings kept for 3 months. Granola's Basic is free with 30 days of history. Anarlog's free plan has unlimited on-device transcription if you bring your own AI keys or run a local model, and Meetily's Community edition is free and open source.

Koi isn't free. Pro starts with a 3-day trial that needs a card, so you can record a few real calls before you decide. After that, every plan records without a limit, and the same app types what you say in any app with unlimited dictation, on your Mac.

• No bot, and the audio or video kept on your Mac? Koi.
• Notes built from your own jottings, on every device? Granola.
• No bot, with video and CRM sync for a team? Bluedot.
• A bigger free plan, still in the EU? tl;dv.
• Local and free, with a Granola-style notepad? Anarlog.
• Local and open source on Windows too? Meetily.

Bot-free tools don't tell the call they're recording, so say so at the start. Our guide to recording a Teams meeting on a Mac covers the etiquette, and Koi's plans list what each one includes.