Local Meeting Transcription Was Always Possible. The Reason Nobody Shipped It Was the Setup.

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Meetily, an MIT-licensed Rust and Tauri app with 31,200 GitHub stars, ships Whisper, Parakeet, and Ollama in one binary. Linux still requires a source build.

Aditya Inamdar

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You probably already have a cloud meeting assistant recording your standups, your board meetings, and your one-on-ones. Every word of that audio is stored on a server you do not own, under terms of service you did not read, in a jurisdiction you did not choose. Meetily takes the opposite approach: transcription, summarization, and storage all stay on your machine, and 31,200 developers have starred it on GitHub because of that.

Table of Contents

  1. What Meetily Actually Is
  2. The Privacy Problem With Cloud Meeting Tools
  3. What You Get in the Community Edition
  4. Installation: Three Platforms, Three Experiences
  5. Local Transcription With Whisper and…