Setup
Meetily — Transcribe Meetings Without the Cloud
A free, open-source meeting notetaker that runs entirely on your own computer. Live transcript, written summary, no bot in the call, no account, nothing uploaded.
Free. No email, no signup — the link downloads it.
Stuck on a step? Ask in the community
Cloud notetakers charge per person every month and send a bot into your call, which means the recording ends up on someone else's server — a problem the moment you handle client work, health data, or anything covered by GDPR. Meetily does the same job on your own machine: it listens to your mic and your system audio, writes the transcript live, and produces a summary when you stop. One installer, no Homebrew, no Python, no Docker. This walks you from the download to your first transcript, including the permission almost everyone gets wrong.
What's inside
- Apple Silicon only on Mac — how to check before you download anything
- The two Mac permissions, and why granting one records only your own voice
- The first-launch model download: what it is, why it is slow, and the only step needing internet
- Where the free Community Edition stops and the $10 Pro tier begins