Transcribe meetings, calls and recordings on your own computer, and get the summary and minutes, without your audio leaving the machine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Mexico
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anarlog Alternatives
Apps similar to anarlog include BB Recorder, which is free. Other options are Granola, Offscript, Trace: Meeting Transcripts and Meeting Mind. Audio Transcription Tools like anarlog are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Mac, the web, iPhone, iPad and Windows.
Alternatives list
now recording is a meeting recorder and transcriber that runs entirely in your web browser. Speech recognition is performed on your own device using OpenAI's Whisper compiled to WebAssembly, so the audio is converted to text locally and is never uploaded to a server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
MeetLive is an AI meeting assistant for Google Meet, Teams, Zoom and Tencent Meeting. The extension transcribes live — no bot joins the call — and AI turns transcripts into summaries, action items and answers. Voice translation in the speaker's own voice, 60+ languages. Free plan included.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
China
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A meeting-centered workspace that aggregates audio, video, documents, and research into projects. Shadow works inside your content to search, edit, and generate multi-format deliverables with verifiable citations—tripling collaboration efficiency, cutting manual organization...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
+1
Scrivari automatically records and transcribes your notes, meetings, interviews and podcasts into text, with speaker identification and one-click summaries. Named-entity detection and anonymization, data hosted in France. Free trial 2 hours per month.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
France
EU
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Turn interviews, meetings, lectures and other recordings into editable transcripts with speaker labels and timestamps. Review wording in the browser, export to Word or plain text, and use an AI assistant to ask questions about recordings, documents and research.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
A Mac menu bar app that records, transcribes and summarises your meetings entirely on your own machine — no cloud, no account, no bot joining the call.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Parrot records your calls on your Mac: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or anything else your Mac can hear. No bot joins the meeting. It transcribes on your Mac with Whisper, tells the speakers apart on your Mac, and runs a live assistant next to the transcript.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United Kingdom
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Ottex helps busy professionals turn speech into the right output for each task. In ChatGPT it preserves your exact words. In Gmail it follows your email style. In Linear it creates structured tickets. Create reusable workflows with instructions, tone, examples, and formatting...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- iPad
Germany- EU
+2
Free, open-source meeting recorder and Markdown knowledge vault for macOS. Private on-device transcription, BYO AI, plus CLI and read-only MCP access for agents. No accounts, subscriptions, telemetry, or cloud backend.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
+1
VocaScript is a transcription platform for long recordings: lectures, interviews, podcasts, courses and streams that run for hours. Upload a file, paste a link to publicly accessible media, or transcribe as you browse with the extension.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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