Meetily vs Fathom: Free, Private, No Bots

Meetily is a bot-free AI meeting assistant that processes everything locally on your device. Unlike Fathom which requires a meeting bot to join calls and uses cloud processing, Meetily captures audio directly from your computer without any visible presence. Key differences: No Meeting Bot (vs bot required), 100% Local Processing (vs cloud-based), Free personal use / Pro $10/mo (vs $19-39/month), Complete Privacy (vs third-party processing).

Meetily Community Edition is free and open source. Pro is $10/user/month billed annually (vs Fathom's $19-39/month) - save 50-75%. Individual users save $228-468 annually with free tier. Enterprise has custom pricing.

Fathom's bot must join meetings as a participant, which can: alert all attendees that recording is happening, be blocked by meeting hosts, fail to join if meetings are full, cause awkward moments in sensitive discussions, and require permissions that may not be available. Meetily has none of these issues.

Yes! Meetily works with ANY meeting platform since it captures system audio directly - Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, WebEx, Slack calls, Discord, or any audio playing on your computer. Unlike Fathom which needs specific integrations, Meetily works universally without setup.

Yes, Meetily offers dual transcription engines (Whisper for accuracy, Parakeet for speed) delivering state-of-the-art results. Accuracy varies by audio quality and conditions. The key difference is privacy - Meetily processes locally while Fathom uploads to cloud servers.

Yes! Meetily provides AI-powered meeting summaries, action items, and key points - all processed locally on your device. You get the same intelligent summaries without sending your meeting content to external servers.

Absolutely. Meetily is ideal for confidential meetings because: no bot joins (invisible recording), 100% local processing (nothing uploaded), no third-party access, and works offline. For legal, medical, or executive meetings where Fathom's visible bot would be inappropriate, Meetily is the better choice.

You can export your meeting transcripts and notes from Fathom before switching. While the formats differ, you can keep your historical data for reference. All future meetings with Meetily will be processed locally with complete privacy.