Fathom alternatives for call transcripts and summaries

Compare Meetily, Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote) and OpenWhispr for call capture and notes, with Speakr for a shared recording library.

Fathom records meetings, transcribes the conversation and produces AI summaries for follow-up. A useful replacement needs to capture the call as well as make the resulting record easy to review. Some people need a personal desktop recorder; others need a shared library or meeting data that connects to another application.

Meetily supplies live transcripts and summaries without a call bot. Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote) brings personal notes into the meeting record, while OpenWhispr adds on-device speaker labeling and organized notes. Speakr handles searchable recordings with sharing controls on your server. Vexa is the technical choice for teams building bot capture and transcripts into their own workflow.

A local AI meeting assistant for macOS and Windows that transcribes offline with Whisper or Parakeet and summarizes through Ollama or cloud providers.

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Meetily records microphone and system audio, displays a live transcript and generates summaries with a local or cloud model. It covers Fathom-style capture and follow-up notes in a desktop app without adding a bot to the call.

Open-source dictation software for macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS, with offline transcription using local models or optional cloud processing.

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OpenWhispr detects common desktop calls, labels speakers on-device and organizes searchable notes. Calendar integrations, imported recordings and optional sharing make it useful when meeting records are part of a wider voice workflow.

A local AI meeting notetaker that captures audio without a call bot, keeps records on your device by default and supports local or optional hosted AI.

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Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote) combines bot-free capture with personal notes, editable summaries and meeting chat. Templates and Markdown exports suit people who want to revise the record before using it for follow-up.

An offline transcription app for Mac and Windows that uses Whisper, labels speakers, and runs meeting summaries and chat locally.

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Scrieb covers meeting capture without a bot joining the call. It records system audio, labels speakers and turns the transcript into summaries you can question in the app. Transcripts export to document formats for follow-up work.

A self-hosted transcription app that turns recordings into searchable notes, with WhisperX speaker recognition and local or cloud transcription.

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Speakr pairs recordings with searchable transcripts, summaries and timestamped questions in a self-hosted library. Sharing permissions, groups and signed webhooks suit teams reviewing calls and connecting follow-up to other systems.

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A local AI meeting assistant and interview copilot for macOS, Windows and Linux, with on-device transcription and optional cloud models.

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Natively captures microphone and call audio without adding a bot to the meeting. It turns the conversation into structured notes with decisions and action items, and can suggest recaps or follow-up questions while the call is happening.

A local meeting notetaker for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows transcribes on-device into Markdown and shares chosen context with MCP assistants.

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Minutes creates local transcripts with speaker labels and optional decisions, commitments and action items. Markdown records and selective MCP access suit follow-up through the note tools or assistants you already use.

An open-source meeting bot API for Google Meet, Teams and Zoom, with live transcripts and MCP access, available self-hosted or in the cloud.

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Vexa provides meeting bots for Google Meet, Teams and Zoom, live speaker-named transcripts and a dashboard. It suits technical teams that want an API and webhooks for call capture; self-hosted knowledge agents can prepare briefs and linked meeting pages.

For Fathom, start with Meetily. Other alternatives include OpenWhispr, Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote), Scrieb and Speakr.

Most are Meeting Notes and Transcription; others include Speech-to-Text and Transcription.

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