Is Meetily really free?

Yes. Meetily is open source: the code is public and installing it costs nothing. At most you pay for hosting if you put it on a server, often a few euros a month. Fireflies, on the other hand, costs €15 a month.

Do I need to code to install Meetily?

No. The level is intermediate and the install takes about 15 minutes with the prompt from the page: Claude does the work, you answer its questions.

How is it different from Fireflies?

Meetily does most of what Fireflies does, without a subscription, and your data stays with you. The point by point comparison is on the page.

Yes. With an open source tool installed on your side, your files stay on your machine or your server. Nobody can close your account or change the price.

Free alternative

Free alternative to Fireflies

Fireflies costs €15 a month. Meetily does the same job for free, in open source: you install it on your machine or a small server, and you stop paying.

Public entry price, taken from Fireflies’s website (fireflies.ai). Over a year, that is €180 that stays in your pocket.

What replaces Fireflies

The main alternative

Meetily

🟡 Intermediate⏱️ ~15 min to installSave €15/mo

Meetily listens to your meetings, transcribes them as they happen and writes you a summary. You leave a one-hour call with the minutes already written. The difference with Otter, Fireflies or Granola comes down to one sentence: everything happens on your machine. Transcription runs locally with Whisper or Parakeet, the summary is written by a model installed on your own computer through Ollama, and absolutely nothing goes to a server. When you record a client call, a partners' meeting or a medical appointment, that is the only guarantee that actually counts.

Loucash’s verdict on Meetily

8/10

This is the tool I recommend the moment confidentiality comes up. Otter and Fireflies store your meetings on their servers: when you record a client call, you become legally responsible for that transfer. Meetily removes the problem at the root, since nothing leaves your machine. Two things to know before you start. Summary quality depends on the model you run locally, so on your machine: on a recent Apple Silicon Mac it is very good, on a modest setup the summary will be thinner. And there is a paid PRO edition for some advanced features; the free community edition already covers transcription and summaries. If you are torn between this and OpenWhispr, the line is simple: OpenWhispr is everyday dictation across all your apps. Meetily is the dedicated meeting assistant, with real summaries behind it.

Who it is for: You run back-to-back client calls or internal meetings, and you want the minutes without handing your recordings to a US service.

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The prompt that installs Meetily

Paste this prompt into Claude: it checks the repository, asks you its questions and installs the tool step by step.

Installe Meetily sur ma machine (l'assistant de réunion open source qui tourne en local, repo GitHub Zackriya-Solutions/meetily) : télécharge la dernière release depuis github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily/releases pour mon système d'exploitation (le .dmg sur Mac Apple Silicon, le x64-setup.exe sur Windows) et installe-la. Installe ensuite Ollama et télécharge un modèle de résumé adapté à la puissance de ma machine, puis dis-moi comment le sélectionner dans les réglages de Meetily. Vérifie enfin que la transcription et le résumé fonctionnent sur un court test. Explique chaque étape simplement, je débute.

Review the GitHub repository and check whether it is safe to install given my machine and my infrastructure. Ask me as many questions as possible, using widgets, to clarify my request and be as precise as you can.

Frequently asked questions

Is Meetily really free?: Yes. Meetily is open source: the code is public and installing it costs nothing. At most you pay for hosting if you put it on a server, often a few euros a month. Fireflies, on the other hand, costs €15 a month.
Do I need to code to install Meetily?: No. The level is intermediate and the install takes about 15 minutes with the prompt from the page: Claude does the work, you answer its questions.
How is it different from Fireflies?: Meetily does most of what Fireflies does, without a subscription, and your data stays with you. The point by point comparison is on the page.
Do I own my data?: Yes. With an open source tool installed on your side, your files stay on your machine or your server. Nobody can close your account or change the price.