Open-source Fathom alternatives

Meetily is an open-source AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and condenses meetings entirely on your local machine, so audio and notes never leave your infrastructure. It is aimed at professionals and enterprises that need meeting intelligence without giving up privacy, compliance or control.

Transcription runs locally using Whisper or Parakeet models, and summaries are generated through Ollama with open-source language models, which avoids paying for external APIs. It works offline and supports multiple meeting platforms. The project mentions speaker diarization, and the desktop app is built with Rust for macOS and Windows. Because it is open source, you can self-host and modify it for your own needs.

The community edition is MIT licensed. A paid Meetily PRO tier is offered for users who want better accuracy, richer export options, customizable summary workflows and team features. It suits people who sit in many calls and want searchable notes without sending recordings to a third-party cloud.

Pluely is a desktop AI assistant built with Tauri, Rust, and React. It runs as a translucent overlay with two modes, Ask and Listen, plus a dashboard for chats, meetings, files, prompts, and settings. Ask lets you query anything visible on screen, and Listen transcribes a conversation and suggests answers as it goes. It is positioned as an open alternative to Cluely.

The overlay is designed to stay out of screen shares, and no bot joins a call. The project lists interviews, sales calls, standups, lectures, and live debugging as moments where switching to a browser tab would be disruptive. Builds are provided as .dmg for macOS, .msi or .exe for Windows, and .deb, .rpm, or AppImage for Linux, with a free plan and no account needed to start.

An important change is described in the README: version 1 is distributed as signed binaries rather than open source, because the earlier code was repackaged and sold as clones. The input metadata still lists GPL-3.0, so check the repository for current terms before relying on it as open source.