Parley
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Parley, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Parley's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Parley | Free | Free; bring your own provider keys or sign in to use hosted services |
The facts
Each one read from Parley's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI integrations
- Listed providers include Soniox, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Groq, Qwen, Kimi, Ollama, OpenRouter, and self-hosted endpoints.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Cloud data handling
- The official cloud edition syncs recordings and transcripts to the user's account and uses Cloudflare D1 and R2 for account data, recording metadata, and audio objects transferred over encrypted connections.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Cloud providers
- The privacy policy says cloud live transcription uses Soniox and official AI features use Groq.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Live transcripts
- It produces live transcripts with speakers separated, and its desktop app can capture both sides of an online call.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local operation
- The open-source desktop edition can run entirely on the user's computer with third-party providers and no cloud service enabled.checked 12 Oct 2026
- MCP
- Parley runs a local MCP server that connects AI clients such as Claude to meeting records; the page says it provides 54 tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Meeting capture
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Meeting reports
- After a meeting, Parley creates a report with takeaways, commitments, and next steps linked to timestamps in the recording.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mobile recording limit
- The iPhone app records room audio through its microphone and cannot record phone calls, FaceTime, or audio from other apps.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Parley is an open-source meeting notes app that records conversations, transcribes them, and lets users choose AI models, including local models.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search
- The desktop app can search across its meeting library, including conversations recorded a year earlier.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Summaries and action items
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Support
- Parley directs users to email [email protected] for sign-in, account, sync, data, and general product questions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Transcription languages
- 2checked 20 Sep 2026
- Voice typing
- On Mac, users can dictate into any app with the Option-Space shortcut, and Parley can polish the resulting text with AI.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Android availability
- The maker's English product page says an Android app is built and syncs to the same account, but is not yet on Google Play.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site credits Pathors AI, but the opened maker pages do not state its headquarters or founding year.checked 12 Oct 2026
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