Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How

Meetily is a new, free, open-source desktop application that allows users to transcribe and summarize meetings locally on their computers. It offers a privacy-focused alternative to expensive, cloud-based AI meeting assistants by running models directly on the user's hardware.
Why it matters
As AI meeting tools become standard, privacy concerns regarding cloud-based data processing are driving demand for local, open-source alternatives.
This tech isn't just great for interviews—it's perfect for meetings. A variety of services, called meeting assistants, promise to transcribe and summarize your meetings for you. The appeal here is obvious, but these services don't come cheap or without privacy concerns. Generally, using them means uploading a recording of your meeting to some cloud somewhere, which isn't ideal for projects that require confidentiality. And the tools themselves are generally in the $10 to $20 per month range, price-wise.
Now, as I pointed out with transcription software, the tech for building something like a meeting assistant is open source and widely available for free. Meetily brings it all together in a simple package. Yes, the name is awful, but it uses open-source models, has a great free version, and is available on Windows and macOS (Linux users can build it from source).
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