Looking for a Meetily alternative?
Meetily and Modwen are both open-source meeting note takers that run on your own computer. The differences: in Modwen everything is free, including speaker identification, and it's built for Arabic and English spoken together.
Side by side
| Meetily | Modwen | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Community: free. Pro: $10 per user per month, billed yearly | Free, all features |
| Source code | Community: MIT. Pro: closed | Apache-2.0, all of it |
| Arabic and English in the same sentence | No Arabic-specific handling we could find; no Arabic interface | Built for it: per-sentence language, dialects, Arabic interface |
| Speaker identification | Pro only | Free, with voice profiles (with consent) |
| Your own local AI model | Custom model connector in Pro | Free: Qwen in one click, or Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM |
| Cloud AI providers | Optional (cloud API keys supported) | Refused in code: local only |
| Microphone and meeting audio | Mixed into one stream | Kept separate, so you and the others are told apart reliably |
| Summary templates | 6 built in; custom templates in Pro | Coming soon |
| Export | Markdown; PDF and DOCX in Pro | Markdown; PDF and DOCX with correct Arabic coming soon |
| Auto-detect meetings | Pro | Coming soon |
| Fast engine for European languages | Yes (Parakeet) | Planned |
| Mac and Windows installers | Yes | Yes (Mac: Apple Silicon) |
Meetily details as published on its website and GitHub, October 2026; they may have changed since. Corrections are welcome on GitHub.
Where Meetily is ahead
Meetily is older and much more widely used, with a large community. It has meeting templates and a fast Parakeet engine for European languages today. If your meetings are only in English or another European language and you're happy with the free tier, it's a solid choice.
Where Modwen is different
- Arabic first. Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian Arabic and MSA, with English terms kept in English inside Arabic sentences, summaries in Arabic or English, and a full right-to-left interface. More on Arabic meeting notes.
- Nothing behind a paywall. Speaker identification, voice profiles and your own model are free. See what's included.
- Local only, enforced. Modwen won't talk to any AI server that isn't on your computer. How the offline pipeline works.