WHAT IS IT?
Meetily is an open source meeting assistant that captures, transcribes and summarizes your calls locally, with zero data leaving the machine. The desktop app (Tauri + Next.js) runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, uses Whisper or Parakeet for real-time transcription, and delegates summary generation to Ollama (local) or any external provider if you accept the network round-trip.
WHY IS IT INTERESTING?
- Local by default: Audio, transcription and summaries can all stay on your machine. No mandatory cloud dependency, so nothing to filter for GDPR or HIPAA compliance.
- Hardware-accelerated real-time transcription: Whisper and Parakeet models in ONNX with Metal on Mac, CUDA on Nvidia GPUs and Vulkan elsewhere. Truly real-time, not after-the-fact batch.
- Speaker diarization: Knows who said what. Mandatory the moment you have more than two participants and want a usable summary.
- Pluggable AI backends: Ollama for fully private local inference, or Claude / Groq / OpenRouter / custom endpoint when you accept the trade-off. No vendor lock-in.
- Re-processing existing recordings: Import an audio file and rerun transcription or summary with a different model. Useful to benchmark quality before wiring it into a workflow.
- Rust + Tauri stack: Small binary, fast startup, fine-grained audio control. None of the Electron-tax memory bloat.
USE CASES
- Consultants and lawyers who can't send meeting content to a third-party SaaS
- Healthcare teams under HIPAA, or GDPR-sensitive offices wanting an assistant with no cloud leakage
- Devs and PMs looking for an Otter/Fireflies-like tool that is self-hosted and auditable
- Solo operators who want to keep call notes inside a local Ollama workflow alongside their knowledge base
- Enterprises needing on-premise meeting intelligence to satisfy data sovereignty requirements