Meeting Notes
SaaS, open source and skills for meeting notes work — with the limits of each written down.Before you pick
What decides it
Whose servers keep the audio, and whether deletion is real. Every meeting becomes a retained, searchable record, and the summaries count as records too.
What to avoid
Speaker labels are clustering guesses, and overlapping speech collapses into one. The summary inherits the error and assigns action items to the wrong name.
What is changing
Capture is leaving the joined bot. Conferencing platforms now hold detected bots at the lobby by default, pushing tools toward device-side audio and native APIs.
SaaS
Hosted products you sign up for.Leading
Established picks, at the top of today's aggregate.
- 1FathomBest free AI notetaker — unlimited recording, ~30-second summaries, and the highest G2 rating in the category.
- 2GranolaBest bot-free option — captures audio silently without a visible bot joining the call, ideal for solo users.
- 3Fireflies.aiBest for sales teams — broad CRM and integration coverage with searchable transcript history.
- 4Otter.aiBest for real-time live captions during meetings and team transcript collaboration.
- 5FellowFull meeting lifecycle — agendas before, notes during, and AI follow-ups after; a Wirecutter top pick.
Emerging
Newer challengers, surfaced by two or more sources.
- 1Fathom 3.0Records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with or without a joining bot, and lets you search past conversations from ChatGPT or Claude.
- 2SluqeHosted service across phone, desktop and browser that makes a searchable archive of recordings you query in plain language for timestamped answers.
- 3LyraBrowser-based video calling that transcribes each participant separately and fires follow-up emails, CRM updates and tasks during the call, with no notetaker bot.
- 4Wispr Flow Notetaker
- 5Jamy.aiAssistant you invite into Zoom, Meet or Teams calls; it emails back timestamped transcripts and pushes tasks into Trello, Monday, Slack and CRMs.
Open source
Repositories you run yourself.Leading
- 1MeetilyThe recognized #1 self-hosted, open-source meeting notetaker (26.4k★) — local Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization, 100% on-device with no cloud.
- 2Whisper (OpenAI)The open-source transcription foundation (105k★) behind most local meeting-notes stacks — accurate, multilingual, and fully offline. The engine, not a full notetaker.
- 3whisper.cppThe high-performance C/C++ port of Whisper (52.2k★) — fast, dependency-light on-device transcription that powers Meetily and many local meeting-notes tools.
- 4WhisperXWhisper plus accurate word-level timestamps and speaker diarization (23.2k★) — the who-said-what layer that makes raw transcripts usable as meeting minutes.
Emerging
- 1Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistantDesktop overlay that transcribes calls locally, feeds you suggested answers mid-conversation without joining as a participant, and writes notes afterwards.
- 2Hankanman/Parley
- 3MikeSchirtzinger/silent-notetakerRuns the whole transcription and note-extraction pipeline inside a WebGPU browser tab, so there is no app to install and no audio upload.
- 4itskhalil/talkyDesktop app for macOS and Windows where you type notes during a call while local Whisper models transcribe mic and speaker audio separately.
- 5zoom/arloZoom's own open-source sample app showing developers how to build bot-free meeting transcription and summaries on its real-time media streams API.
Skills
Skills you drop into a coding agent.Leading
- 1meeting-notes (claude-office-skills)A dedicated MIT-licensed Claude skill that turns a raw transcript into structured minutes — decisions, owned action items, and a recap. Small community repo (~326★), so ranked mid.
- 2meeting-insights-analyzer (ComposioHQ)A meeting-insights skill from Composio's 69.7k-star skills collection — extracts themes, decisions, speaking ratios, and follow-ups from transcripts.
Emerging
- 1alphaparkinc/genpark-workspace-skillA single instruction file that points an agent at GenSpark Workspace 4.0 for desktop automation, Office documents and its meeting transcription.
- 2alphaparkinc/genpark-gemini-spark-contextual-note-taker-skill
- 3alphaparkinc/genpark-meeting-notes-action-item-extractor-skill
- 4Ootto-AI/claude-inbox-skills
- 5alphaparkinc/genpark-structured-meeting-note-refinement-action-item-synthesizer-skill