Lawyers & Legal
Privilege-safe by design.
- Client meetings with full attorney-client privilege protection
- Deposition prep with searchable, cited transcripts
- Courtroom-ready notes that trace to exact quotes
Meetly runs in your menu bar, captures any call or conversation, transcribes in real-time with speaker labels, and generates AI summaries — all without anyone on the call knowing.
Other tools send a bot into your call and pipe your audio to their cloud. Meetly captures directly from your Mac's microphone and system audio. Nobody on the call sees anything. Audio never leaves your device. Recording, transcription, speaker identification — all processed locally on Apple Silicon.
Live transcription appears as people talk — no waiting for post-processing. Automatic speaker labels tell you who said what. Click any line to hear the exact audio. The record of what was actually said, not what someone remembers.
AI-powered summaries extract what matters: executive summary, key decisions, action items with owners and deadlines. Choose from templates — Client Call, Internal Sync, Design Review, One-on-One, Incident Retro — or let AI auto-detect the meeting type.
Voice Memory learns the people you meet with regularly and recognizes them automatically in future sessions. Your team, your clients, your stakeholders — identified from the first word. No manual tagging. No confusion about who said what.
‘What did Sarah say about the activation rate?’ Found in seconds with the exact timestamp. Full-text search across every recording, transcript, and summary you've ever made.
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Privilege-safe by design.
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Every design review, searchable.
Never lose a decision.
Why professionals switch
| Feature | Otter / Fireflies | Fathom | Meetly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | Their cloud | Their cloud | Your Mac |
| Recording storage | Their servers | Their servers | Your device only |
| Works offline | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Yes |
| Bot joins call | Yes — visible to all | Yes — visible to all | No bot ever |
| On-device option | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Full private mode |
| Cross-session speaker ID | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Voice Memory |
| Recording limit | Plan-gated | Plan-gated | Unlimited |
| Summary templates | Generic | Generic | 6 specialized types |
Common Questions
No. Meetly captures audio directly from your Mac's microphone and system audio. No bot enters the meeting. No one on the call knows you're recording unless you tell them.
In Private Mode, audio never leaves your device. Transcription runs locally on Apple Silicon's neural engine. The only opt-in cloud feature is AI summaries, which sends transcript text only (never audio) and can be disabled entirely.
Recording and transcription work entirely offline with zero internet connection. The only feature requiring internet is the opt-in AI summaries. Everything else runs locally.
Any app that plays audio through your Mac — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, phone calls, or in-person conversations with your Mac's microphone.
Everything is stored in a local database on your Mac. No cloud sync, no third-party servers, no remote access. Delete a session and it's gone — permanently, from your device only.
On-device transcription requires Apple Silicon (M1 or later). Cloud transcription mode works on any Mac running macOS 14+.
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