This week's tip of the week is Meetily.
AI meeting transcription is genuinely useful, but plenty of people don't want every conversation they have uploaded to a third-party server.
Meetily is a pretty nifty MIT-licensed, open-source desktop app for recording and transcribing meetings.
You can record directly in Meetily, or import an existing audio recording and have it generate a transcript and summary for you.
From there, Meetily gives you a full transcript, summary, key decisions, and action items.
Meetily in action
The part that really stands out is that Meetily is local-first.
Transcription can run locally using Whisper or Parakeet, and if you use Ollama for summaries, the whole workflow can stay on your machine.
If you prefer hosted models, it also supports providers like Claude, OpenAI, Groq, and OpenRouter.
So you get to choose whether your meeting ever leaves your computer.
Installation is straightforward on macOS and Windows from the Meetily releases page. Linux users can build it from source.
Between the polished UI, local processing, import support, and MIT license, this one is definitely worth checking out.
That's it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!
