@KKaWSB: Open-source meeting note-taking tool in the privacy-first track, stars reached 12.9k+: meetily — 100% local AI meeting assistant, real-time transcription + speaker diarization + auto-summary, never touches the cloud. A single-file desktop app built with Rust + Tauri, MIT license, supports …

An open-source meeting note-taking tool in the privacy-first track, stars reached 12.9k+: meetily — 100% local AI meeting assistant, real-time transcription + speaker diarization + auto-summary, never touches the cloud. Built with Rust + Tauri as a single-file desktop app, MIT license, supports macOS and Windows, with frequent releases. It addresses an increasingly acute contradiction: cloud meeting tools like Otter and Fireflies are useful, but your meeting content lives on someone else's servers. For industries like law, healthcare, finance, government, and defense, sensitive conversations should not leave devices under your control. Meetily's selling point in one sentence — all processing happens on your machine, zero cloud calls. Core features: - Local transcription — Uses Whisper or Parakeet models to transcribe on-device; Parakeet is reportedly ~4x faster than Whisper and includes speaker diarization - Dual audio — Captures both microphone and system audio, with intelligent volume balancing and clip protection - Optional summary backends — Default recommends local Ollama, also supports Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint - All data local — Recordings, transcripts, and models are stored in local SQLite with at-rest encryption - Multilingual — Transcription supports English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, etc., with language-specific startup options - Hardware acceleration — Automatically enables GPU acceleration across platforms, plug-and-play from build Usage: On macOS, you can install the backend via `brew install meetily-backend`, download models, and start the service; or build from source with Rust + Node. The core community edition is permanently free and open-source, with Pro and Enterprise editions offering higher accuracy and self-hosted deployment. Ideal for: - Lawyers, doctors, finance, compliance, and others with strict privacy requirements where meeting content cannot go to the cloud - Those looking to ditch Otter/Fireflies subscription fees and replace them with local open-source models - Frequent offline use or cross-platform meetings (Zoom / Teams / Meet) needing automated minutes