Your Meetings, Never Leaving Your Laptop
Meetily transcribes and summarises every meeting in real time — no subscription, no cloud, no one else reading your conversations.
A meeting recorder that stays home
If you've ever used Otter.ai or Fireflies to transcribe a client call, you've already sent that conversation to a server somewhere in the US. That's fine for most things. It's less fine when the call involves pricing, a difficult employee situation, or a client's private business details.
Meetily does the same job — transcribes your meeting, then gives you a summary — but the whole thing runs on your own computer. Nothing leaves the machine. Not a word.
It works on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Discord, and it doesn't need any special integration. It just listens to your system audio, the same way you would with headphones.
The free version is completely open, no credit card needed, and over 280,000 people have already downloaded it. For teams in healthcare, law, or any field with client confidentiality rules, it's worth a look — it already meets GDPR and HIPAA requirements by design, simply because there's no data leaving your device in the first place.
The honest caveat: you'll need a reasonably modern laptop. It does real processing work locally, so older machines may struggle.
Words worth knowing
Transcription — turning spoken words into written text automatically, the way subtitles work on a video.
Local / on-device — the software runs entirely on your own computer. No internet required once it's installed, no company receiving your data.
Open-source — the code is public and free to inspect, use, and adapt. Think of it like a recipe that anyone can read.
GDPR / HIPAA — data privacy regulations in Europe and the US healthcare sector. Tools that store nothing remotely tick these boxes without extra effort.
If you run any kind of sensitive client meeting and you're currently paying for a transcription tool, it's worth spending ten minutes with Meetily: https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily