Fireflies.ai alternatives for meeting transcription
Compare Meetily, Scriberr and WhisperX for recording and reviewing meetings. See how desktop notes, a transcript library and speaker alignment differ.
Fireflies.ai provides meeting transcription, searchable conversations and AI summaries in a hosted workspace. It also accepts uploaded audio or video, which makes the service useful beyond a single live call. People comparing Fireflies.ai alternatives often need to distinguish meeting capture from the work of reviewing recordings later.
Meetily records system and microphone audio locally and can summarize a transcript through Ollama. Scriberr gives recordings a browser-based transcript reader with playback, highlights and notes. WhisperX produces word-level alignment and optional speaker labels for processing audio files. The practical choice is a desktop meeting assistant, a self-hosted review library or a transcription component.
A self-hosted transcription app that turns recordings into searchable notes, with WhisperX speaker recognition and local or cloud transcription.

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

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.

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.

Vexa captures meetings through bots for Google Meet, Teams and Zoom and exposes live speaker-named transcripts, history and webhooks. It suits technical teams connecting Fireflies-style capture to agents or custom applications; self-hosted knowledge agents maintain linked meeting pages.
An offline transcription app for Mac and Windows that uses Whisper, labels speakers, and runs meeting summaries and chat locally.

A self-hosted transcription app turns audio and video into text offline with Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet or Canary, with optional Ollama transcript chat.

A free local AI assistant for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, with document chat, agents and a Docker option for self-hosted teams.

Local transcription app runs offline on macOS, Windows and Linux, with speaker labels, subtitle exports and transcript analysis through Ollama.

Open-source local speech-to-text software that uses Whisper models, adds word-level timestamps and optionally labels speakers.
For Fireflies.ai, start with Speakr. Other alternatives include Meetily, Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote), Vexa and Scrieb.
Most are Speech-to-Text and Transcription; others include Meeting Notes and Transcription.