Meetily is a solid open-source, on-device meeting notetaker. LUCI shares its privacy DNA — bot-free capture, 100% local processing — and adds what Meetily doesn’t have: memory of your whole day on the computer, not just the calls, readable by the AI agents you already use.
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Life memory for every AI agent: bot-free meeting notes, screen memory, and cross-session recall your agents can read. Mac & Windows, 100% on-device.
Open-source (MIT) local meeting notetaker: live transcription, diarization, local or BYOK summaries. Audio meetings only.
Credit where due: Meetily (MIT-licensed, 22,000+ GitHub stars) proved that on-device meeting transcription is viable — local Whisper/Parakeet speech-to-text, Ollama summaries, no bot in your call, and a free Community Edition with no caps. If you want an open-source audio notetaker you can fork, it's a genuinely good choice. LUCI plays in the same privacy-first, bot-free, fully local category but covers a wider surface: it remembers your screen as well as your meetings, folds both into one persistent memory, and opens that memory to whichever AI agent you use. Meetily transcribes your meetings; LUCI remembers your work.
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| Feature | LUCI | Meetily |
|---|---|---|
| Bot-free capture (no bot joins the call) | Yes | Yes |
| On-device transcription | Yes | YesLocal Whisper / Parakeet |
| AI screen recording & screen memory | Yes | NoAudio meetings only |
| Persistent memory across meetings | Yes | NoPer-meeting notes |
| Memory accessible to AI agents (MCP) | Yes | No |
| Open source | No | YesMIT license |
| Turnkey install (no toolchain for full setup) | Yes | PartialInstallers for Mac/Win; Linux & self-host build from source |
| Cross-platform (Mac & Windows) | Yes | YesLinux in development |
| Pricing | Free — 100% local | Free (MIT); Pro $10/user/mo billed annually |
Meetings + screen memory + agent, 100% local. Free forever.
Billed annually. Community Edition free & uncapped (MIT).
Meetily stores transcripts and summaries locally — export or copy the ones you want and import them into LUCI so past meetings stay searchable.
One signed installer with on-device models included — no Ollama to run, no API key to supply, no toolchain for the full experience.
LUCI records microphone and system audio on your machine like Meetily does. Nothing changes in how meetings feel.
Turn on the AI screen recorder and agent follow-ups — the layers beyond audio notes that Meetily doesn’t cover.
Capture every Zoom, Meet & Teams call locally on your device — no bot joins the call — and turn it into searchable notes and action items.
Meetily hears your meetings. LUCI also sees your work between them — the doc you reviewed, the dashboard you checked, the thread you answered. Its AI screen recorder feeds the same local memory as your meeting notes, so answers draw on everything, not just what was said aloud.
Meetily saves each meeting's transcript and summary. LUCI connects them: ask 'what did the customer push back on across our last three calls?' and get one cited answer instead of three files to reread.
Meetily ends at the summary. LUCI’s memory keeps going — the agent you already run can read what was said and what was on screen, and draft the follow-up from your real context.
Both tools keep audio on your device. LUCI ships the whole experience — capture, transcription, memory, and agent access — in one signed installer with NPU/GPU acceleration handled for you (via Microsoft Foundry Local on Windows). Meetily’s full self-hosted setup expects you to bring a toolchain and, for summaries, run Ollama or supply an API key.
Yes — Meetily’s Community Edition is MIT-licensed, free, and uncapped, with a $10/user/month (billed annually) Pro tier for advanced summaries and team features. If a free open-source audio notetaker is all you need, it’s a fair choice. LUCI is a free product that covers more surface: memory of your whole day, cross-meeting recall, and access for the AI agents you already use.
Yes. Both capture microphone and system audio directly on your machine, so nothing joins your Zoom, Meet, or Teams call. The difference is what happens after capture: Meetily produces a transcript and summary; LUCI adds screen context, long-term memory, and follow-up execution.
No. Meetily is an audio meeting notetaker — microphone plus system audio. LUCI also records and indexes your screen locally, so its memory covers what you saw and did, not just what was said.
Both can transcribe Chinese: Meetily inherits Whisper’s multilingual coverage, and LUCI handles Chinese audio, text, and UI natively across the whole product, including on-device screen understanding and search. If your work mixes Chinese and English beyond meeting audio, LUCI covers more of it.
No — LUCI is closed-source commercial software. Its privacy claims are verifiable by behavior instead: processing is 100% on-device, recordings are stored on your device and encrypted at rest, and capture keeps working with the network unplugged.
Free on Mac and Windows. Fully local.