Scheduling and meetings

Granola 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.

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The projects

Zackriya-Solutions/meetily28,407MITPrivacy-first macOS AI meeting assistant with local live transcription, speaker diarization, and summarization.Open on GitHub Vexa-ai/vexa2,660Apache-2.0Open-source meeting transcription API with auto-join bots, real-time WebSocket transcripts, and self-host or hosted options.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Enterprise-grade security & admin features (SSO, SCIM, org-wide controls)
SOC 2 Type II attestation and associated procurement documentation
Out-of-the-box integrations catalogue (Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier)
Cross-platform polished native apps (macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch)
MCP connector / turnkey embedding into other apps and centralized billing/usage analytics

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Granola, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.