Meet2Notes
Meet2Notes records, transcribes and analyzes conversations on the user’s computer.
What Meet2Notes is
Meet2Notes records, transcribes and analyzes conversations on the user’s computer. It captures microphone or system audio, transcribes in real time, and creates structured notes with decisions and action items. A rule-driven Live AI Assistant watches provisional transcript segments. Users can ask questions across meeting history and receive answers with timestamped sources. The software separates speakers, saves voice profiles and can recognize speakers across earlier meetings. It can also import common media files for local processing, and transcription, diarization, summarization and embedding engines are selectable independently. Integration options include plugins, pipeline hooks and signed webhooks; a local MCP server can connect to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, Codex and compatible clients. By default, audio, transcripts, embeddings and local models stay in the workspace, and telemetry is off. Remote AI providers require explicit configuration before transcript content can leave the computer; outbound webhooks start disabled. Meet2Notes is free and open source under the MIT license, with Linux, macOS, Windows and web availability. The maker describes it as active alpha and invites contributors, testers and privacy-minded teams.
Good
- Creates notes with decisions and action items.
- Searches meeting history with timestamped sources.
- Recognizes speakers across meeting history.
- Local processing defaults keep content in the workspace.
- Free and open source under the MIT license.
Watch out
- The product is described as active alpha.
- Mobile capture is listed as planned.
- Remote AI providers require explicit configuration.
Who it suits
Meet2Notes suits teams that need meeting transcription, searchable notes and speaker recognition, including the listed project management, recruitment, healthcare, legal, education and consulting use cases. Its local-first defaults may appeal to privacy-minded teams.
Verdict
Meet2Notes combines live transcription, structured notes and searchable meeting history, with local-first privacy defaults. Its active alpha status is worth considering for teams evaluating it.
Plans and prices
From Meet2Notes's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | fully free · open source · local processing |
| Meet2Notes | Free | Fully free · open source · Windows, macOS, Linux |
The facts
Each one read from Meet2Notes's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audio capture
- Capture supports microphones, system audio and imported WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG, AAC, MP4, MKV, WebM and MOV files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Capture
- It records microphone or system audio and imports common media files for local processing.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Changelog
- Version 0.9.0 dated 2026-10-01 added Nemotron 3 diarization defaults, cached voice matching, Bonsai 8B and remote model presets.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Credential storage
- Configured API credentials are stored through the operating-system keyring rather than the application database or browser storage.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Development status
- The site describes the product as active alpha and invites contributors, testers and privacy-minded teams.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- Pinokio lists Meet2Notes as the creator account's single published app.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Engines
- Transcription, diarization, summarization and embedding engines can be selected independently.checked 8 Oct 2026
- GPU support
- Faster Whisper supports CPU on Windows, macOS and Linux, while CUDA support is available on Windows and Linux and llama.cpp can use CUDA, Metal or CPU.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Historical search
- A local RAG index supports questions over one meeting or the complete meeting library with timestamped source context.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent benchmark
- A developer post reports 1–3 second first-text responses after context loading for a two-hour debate using Bonsai 27B 1-bit on an RTX 3070 with 8 GB VRAM and 32 GB RAM, with an initial cold request of about 76 seconds.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent capture report
- A Reddit commenter says Meet2Notes can work with Google Meet without adding a meeting bot.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent directory signal
- StartupScores lists Meet2Notes with a score of 44 and records verified releases dated 2026-08-24 and 2026-09-10.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent functionality report
- A Reddit post reports recording microphone and desktop audio, live and final transcription, diarization, AI notes, historical search and local LLM use.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent privacy report
- A community post says a fully local configuration keeps recordings, transcripts, speaker data, notes, embeddings and RAG data on the user's machine.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Windows offers an install-update.bat bootstrap, while macOS and Linux use the repository install.sh script; Pinokio is also supported.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project provides a local MCP server, signed webhooks and a plugin/provider architecture for extensions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository is released under the MIT License.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License and availability
- The maker describes Meet2Notes as free and open source under the MIT license.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Limit: gated diarization
- Pyannote Community-1 requires accepting Hugging Face terms and configuring a read token.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: hardware variability
- The developer notes that performance and answer quality still need improvement across different hardware and recordings.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: maturity
- A Reddit announcement describes the project as still in active alpha development.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile
- The official comparison marks mobile capture as planned rather than currently available.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: unsigned installer
- The Windows batch installer is not code-signed and may trigger a SmartScreen warning.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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