Shmeetings
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Shmeetings is a desktop app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings using AI that runs 100% locally on your machine. Everything stays on your computer โ no cloud uploads, no data shared with third parties, no accounts to create.
It works with multiple transcription engines including Whisper (any model size), and supports custom LLMs via any GGUF model. You can also use built-in AI models that ship with the app for a plug-and-play experience.
Key features include auto start/stop recording, meeting summaries with AI-generated talking points, suggested questions based on conversation content, drag-and-drop transcription of audio files, and auto-email delivery of meeting notes. You can configure system audio and microphone sources independently.
Available on macOS and Windows for a one-time $39 fee. No subscription. No internet required after download.
Targeted at privacy-conscious professionals, journalists, researchers, and anyone who wants meeting notes without sending their data to a cloud service.
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Shmeetings GetwebstackShmeetings's answer
Privacy + flexibility. Otter.ai, Fireflies, and others process your data on their servers. Shmeetings keeps it on your machine. Plus you can use your own AI models instead of being limited to whatever the vendor chooses. And it's a one-time purchase, not a monthly subscription.
Shmeetings's answer
Currently focused on individual professionals and small teams rather than enterprise deployments. Early adopters include solo practitioners in legal and medical fields who handle confidential client conversations.
Shmeetings's answer
It's the only meeting assistant that runs everything locally with zero cloud dependency while still supporting a wide range of AI models โ from Whisper to custom GGUF files. Most competitors either require cloud processing or lock you into one model ecosystem.
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Privacy-conscious professionals, journalists needing confidential transcription, researchers working with sensitive data, developers who want to use their own AI models, and anyone tired of subscription pricing for basic meeting notes.
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Built because existing meeting assistants either required cloud uploads (a non-starter for privacy-sensitive work) or locked users into expensive subscriptions with limited model choices. Shmeetings was designed to be the tool that respects both your privacy and your wallet.
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Electron for the desktop shell, Whisper (OpenAI) for transcription, GGUF/llama.cpp for local LLM inference, and native macOS/Windows APIs for system audio capture.
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