Audio and podcasting
Bluedot alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
Zackriya-Solutions/meetily★28,407 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted AI meeting assistant providing local transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama-based summarization.Open on GitHub ↗Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistant★2,143 GitHub starslicence unclearOpen-source AI meeting assistant offering real-time transcription, AI meeting notes, and local RAG for privacy-first use.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Chrome extension, desktop and mobile capture apps (bot-free inline capture across platforms)
- SOC 2 audited compliance and enterprise security guarantees
- Brand trust and enterprise customer base / SLAs
- Polished integrations and wide import support (Zoom/Google Drive/CRM/ATS connectors)
- Multi-language, large-scale operational transcription at low marginal cost
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Bluedot, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.