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Humla vs Meetily.
Both are free, open-source, and local. The real differences: who's shipped speaker labels, how free “free” is, and Mac-only vs cross-platform.
Free · Open source · macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)
In short
Which should you pick?
- Pick Humla for shipped on-device speaker labels and a fully-free, MIT app.
- Pick Meetily for cross-platform support and community size.
Side by side
How they compare.
An honest look — these two are genuinely similar. Humla ships on-device speaker labels today and is fully free; Meetily leads on cross-platform support and community size.
| Humla | Meetily | |
|---|---|---|
| No bot joins the call | ||
| Runs fully on your device | ||
| Open source (auditable) | ||
| Bring your own AI key / model | ||
| Speaker labels (who said what) | — | |
| AI summaries & action items | ||
| App integrations (Slack, CRM…) | — | — |
| Mobile app | — | — |
| Price | Free | Free / Pro $10/user/mo |
Reflects each product's standard plans as of 2026 — check their sites for the latest.
Why Humla
What you get instead.
- Speaker labels, shipped. Humla does on-device diarization with colour-coded pills today. Meetily lists diarization as “coming soon” and hasn't shipped it in any tier, free or Pro.
- Actually free. Humla's app is fully MIT, and self-hosters get every team feature free. Meetily is open-core: custom summary templates, higher-accuracy models, and (eventually) diarization sit behind Pro at $10/user/month.
- Mac-native, with mic and system audio kept separate. Humla is a signed macOS app that records your mic and the call's audio as two independent streams, so “you said vs. they said” stays clean.
- Your pick of four STT providers — OpenAI, Deepgram, Groq, or on-device Whisper — plus a Norwegian-tuned model for NB meetings.
Demo
See a meeting become a note.
New note, record, summary — that's the whole workflow. The cleanup afterwards is none, on a five-minute meeting or an hour-long one.
Being fair
When to pick Meetily instead.
Humla isn't for everyone. Choose Meetily if:
- You need Windows (or Linux from source) — Meetily is cross-platform; Humla is Mac-only.
- You want a larger, more established community — Meetily has tens of thousands of GitHub stars and an active contributor base.
- You want NVIDIA Parakeet transcription, or to re-transcribe audio files you already have.
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