HumlaHumla vs Meetily
Both are free, open-source, and local. The real differences: whether speaker labels cost money, how free “free” is, and Mac-only vs cross-platform.
- Free, no account
- Open source, MIT
- Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later
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.
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) | Pro only | |
| 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.
What you get instead
- Speaker labels without a plan. Humla does on-device diarization with colour-coded pills in the free, MIT app. Meetily shipped speaker identification in Pro — the free Community edition doesn't have it.
- Actually free. Humla's app is fully MIT and everything in it is free; only optional team sync is paid. Meetily is open-core: speaker identification, custom summary templates, advanced exports and higher-accuracy models 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.
One meeting, from agenda to recap
Write the agenda, record the call, press Summarize. Your note stays on the left while the transcript and the recap fill in on the right.
Six pages, maybe a new CMS?
Keep the brand palette
Who signs off the budget?
Hanna approves budget, wants qu
Speakers are identified when you stop.
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.
Related reading
- What is Meeting bot?A meeting bot is an automated participant that joins a video call to record and transcribe it, appearing in the attendee list like another guest.
- What is On-device transcription?On-device transcription converts speech to text entirely on your own computer, with no audio sent to a cloud service.
- What is Speaker diarization?Speaker diarization is the process of splitting an audio recording into segments by who is speaking, so a transcript can show “who said what.”
- What is AI notetaker vs AI notepad?An AI notetaker records and transcribes a meeting for you; an AI notepad is one you write in yourself while the AI augments your notes with the transcript.
Keep your meetings on your Mac.
Free and open source. Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.