Meetily Community Edition is the right pick when budget is the main driver or you need a self-hosted, auditable open-source solution - the $0 cost, MIT licence, and Parakeet transcription speed are genuine wins. Typilot wins when speaker diarization needs to be production-quality today, when you want to chat with the transcript through a local LLM, when Linux support is required, or when meetings are part of a broader workflow that also needs voice dictation, text polish, and inline AI commands in every app.
For local meeting recap with privacy, yes - both keep audio on your machine. Typilot adds mature speaker diarization, chat-with-transcript, Linux support, and a full AI typing layer beyond meetings. Meetily wins on the free Community Edition, open-source transparency, and Parakeet transcription speed.
Yes - the MIT-licensed Community Edition is free with no word cap, no account, and no subscription. Real-time Whisper or Parakeet transcription and Ollama-powered summaries are all included in the free tier. The $10/mo Pro tier adds auto-detect meetings, a custom AI connector, and PDF/DOCX/Markdown export.
Speaker diarization is in active development at Meetily - a proof of concept is ready but the full release is pending as of June 2026. Typilot ships mature on-device diarization that labels voices automatically and improves speaker accuracy across sessions.
Typilot ships a first-class native Linux build. Meetily has no official Linux desktop app at time of writing; a community-maintained fork (Meetily-Local on GitHub) adds Linux support for self-hosters via PipeWire audio capture and WebKitGTK rendering.