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Features, pricing, and availability
Task / boundary	ZoneVoice	Meetily
Free scope	Free early preview by invitation; no paid feature tier.	Community is free. Pro is listed at $10/month billed annually ($120/year), with a 14-day trial. Source
Get the conversation in	Import existing audio or video files. Live system-audio recording is not available in this preview.	Live microphone/system-audio capture and audio-file import are documented. Source
Transcribe and summarize	Local Whisper transcription and Gemma notes; models must be installed first. No implicit remote fallback.	Local transcription; summaries can use a local model or a cloud provider with your API key. Source
Check what was said	Timestamped transcript and retained local audio. Source references open the relevant moment.	Timestamped transcripts; playback and seeking when meeting audio is available. Source
Follow people and decisions	Local speaker library and desktop Memory: manually select sources, review replacements, keep history, and ask with citations.	Meeting summaries and transcript workspaces are documented. Pro pricing lists speaker diarization and templates; native meeting chat is still marked Soon there. Source
Take the record elsewhere	Markdown, text, SRT, and JSON exports. Connect Codex or Claude through read-only MCP for selected workspaces.	Pro 1.11.0 has official MCP, CLI, and local API. Reads are the default; recording and summary writes need separate permissions. Source
Version boundary	macOS and Windows previews by invitation. MCP does not expose structured desktop Memory.	Released macOS and Windows apps are advertised. Community, Pro, and Enterprise have different capabilities; MCP described here belongs to Pro 1.11.0. Source

Features, pricing, and availability

Task / boundary

ZoneVoice

Meetily

Free scope

Free early preview by invitation; no paid feature tier.

Community is free. Pro is listed at $10/month billed annually ($120/year), with a 14-day trial. Source

Get the conversation in

Import existing audio or video files. Live system-audio recording is not available in this preview.

Live microphone/system-audio capture and audio-file import are documented. Source

Transcribe and summarize

Local Whisper transcription and Gemma notes; models must be installed first. No implicit remote fallback.

Local transcription; summaries can use a local model or a cloud provider with your API key. Source

Check what was said

Timestamped transcript and retained local audio. Source references open the relevant moment.

Timestamped transcripts; playback and seeking when meeting audio is available. Source

Follow people and decisions

Local speaker library and desktop Memory: manually select sources, review replacements, keep history, and ask with citations.

Meeting summaries and transcript workspaces are documented. Pro pricing lists speaker diarization and templates; native meeting chat is still marked Soon there. Source

Take the record elsewhere

Markdown, text, SRT, and JSON exports. Connect Codex or Claude through read-only MCP for selected workspaces.

Pro 1.11.0 has official MCP, CLI, and local API. Reads are the default; recording and summary writes need separate permissions. Source

Version boundary

macOS and Windows previews by invitation. MCP does not expose structured desktop Memory.

Released macOS and Windows apps are advertised. Community, Pro, and Enterprise have different capabilities; MCP described here belongs to Pro 1.11.0. Source

Meetily entries come from the linked official pricing and documentation, checked on the date above. We have not run both products on the same audio: this is a task-based documentation comparison, not an accuracy or speed benchmark. Features not verified here should not be read as absent.

A fair trial with the same recording

Use one non-sensitive file. Confirm whether file import and the desired export belong to the edition you are testing.
Check the transcript against two known facts, then follow a summary reference back to the source.
Add a second conversation that changes the owner. Check how each product distinguishes the current answer from the earlier statement.
If using MCP, inspect what the client receives, revoke its connection, and verify that another read fails.

Keep cloud summary providers and external agents in the data map: a local desktop app does not make every connected AI client local.

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