Memory Notch
LOCAL AND OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS
Memory Notch vs Meetily
Self-hosted meeting notes in Rust, with local diarization and Ollama summaries.
| Memory Notch | Meetily | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the audio goes | Nowhere | Nowhere |
| Processing | On the Neural Engine | On-device |
| Bot in the call | No | No |
| Speaker labels | Yes, on-device | Varies by setup |
| Platform | macOS 26 | macOS, Windows |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Price | Not released yet | Free, open source |
Details checked September 2026 against Meetily's own documentation. Prices move; treat the figure as a starting point, not a quote.
What Meetily does well
- Live Whisper or Parakeet transcription with speaker diarization, all local.
- Summaries through Ollama, so the model choice is yours.
- Self-hosted by design, with nothing to sign up for.
What it costs you
- Setup is a developer's afternoon, not a download.
- You maintain the model stack yourself.
- No notch integration; it is a conventional app.
Where Memory Notch is different
Meetily and Memory Notch agree on the important thing: the recording stays on the machine. The difference is shape. Meetily is an application with a window you open. Memory Notch lives in the notch itself, opens when you move the pointer there, and folds away while it keeps recording. It writes each recording into ~/memory as a directory of plain Markdown, and the store carries a README explaining its own layout, so a coding agent can read it by path with no MCP server, no export and no API.
It is also a smaller thing than Meetily. One Mac, one person, no team workspace and no integrations. If you need a shared archive or a CRM, Meetily is the better tool and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.