The best Meetily alternatives for local meeting notes

If you like Meetily because the call stays on your computer, but want less to set up, Koi transcribes calls on your Mac with no bot, keeps the audio or a video of the screen there, and writes notes only when you say yes. If open source matters most, Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote) is the closest swap. MacWhisper is the pick for local transcripts paid once, and Jamie and Granola if cloud notes are fine.

We make Koi, so read this with that in mind. Koi isn't open source, its notes come from a cloud model, and it runs only on a Mac. Every fact about the other apps comes from their own sites and GitHub pages, checked October 21, 2026. We didn't run tests.

Meetily records, transcribes and summarizes meetings on your own computer. It captures system audio directly, so no bot joins, and needs no browser extension. Speech is turned into text locally with Whisper or Parakeet, and summaries come from a model you pick: a local one through Ollama, or a cloud provider with your own API key. Its site says recordings and audio never leave your device; with your own key, only the transcript is sent for the summary.

The Community edition is free and open source under the MIT license, on GitHub. It includes live transcription, audio and video import, retranscription and local summaries. On Meetily's pricing page, Pro is $120 a user a year, with a 14-day trial that needs no card, and adds speaker names, custom summary templates, automatic meeting detection, PDF, Word and Markdown exports, and MCP, webhooks and a CLI. Each Pro license is for one device.

There are desktop apps for macOS and Windows. The Mac download in the README is built for Apple silicon, and Windows needs a CPU with AVX2. On Linux you build it from source, with a native app on a waitlist.

• Setup. Good summaries mean running a local model in Ollama, or getting an API key from a provider and paying for it.
• Speaker names, templates and automatic meeting detection are Pro features.
• Calendar integration and chat with your meetings are still marked as coming soon.
• It's a young open source project: the README's Mac download is version 0.4.1.
• The Mac build is for Apple silicon, so older Intel Macs are out.
• It records sound, not the screen, so there's no video to rewatch.

For a developer who likes owning every piece, those are features, not bugs. For everyone else, the alternatives below take some of the work away.

With Meetily, from its README:

1. Download the Meetily .dmg for Mac, or the Windows installer, and open it.
2. Pick a local speech model, Whisper or Parakeet.
3. For summaries, run a model in Ollama, or add your own key for a cloud provider.
4. Start recording when the call begins. The transcript appears live, and the summary when you're done.

With Koi:

1. Tap Fn + ⌃ on the call, or click Record on Koi's dock.
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 in Recents.
5. Answer Summarize this call? with yes for notes, or no to keep everything on your Mac.

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

Koi is the better pick when you want local transcripts without running a model server, on an Intel Mac or Apple silicon, with a video of the call and notes that need no API key. It's also one app for more than meetings: unlimited dictation, a calendar, and transcribing audio and video files on your Mac.

• Meetily: the recording, the transcript, and with Ollama, the summary. With your own key, the transcript goes to that provider for the summary.
• Anarlog on Free: the same, with on-device models or your own keys.
• Koi: the recording, video included, and the transcript. With a yes to notes, the transcript's words go to Koi's AI. Starting a recording needs a connection, to check your plan.
• MacWhisper: the transcript, made with local models.
• Jamie and Granola: transcribed in the cloud, and the notes stored there.

For a longer list sorted this way, see the best local meeting notes apps for Mac. If Hyprnote is where you started, our Hyprnote alternatives page covers the renames.

• Local transcripts and video, nothing to set up? Koi.
• Open source with a notepad? Anarlog.
• Local transcripts paid once? MacWhisper.
• Cloud notes, kept in Europe? Jamie.
• Cloud notes on every device? Granola.

Bot-free recorders don't tell the call they're recording, so ask at the start. See Koi's plans to try it on a real call.