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MeetingBro
What MeetingBro is
MeetingBro is a free, MIT-licensed open-source meeting assistant for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It captures computer audio from Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, BBB, and other platforms rather than connecting through meeting APIs. The software provides live transcription, translation, rolling summaries, and a Meeting Board listing topics, decisions, action items, and open questions. Transcripts, summaries, and notes can be exported to Markdown, and an in-app history browser supports revisiting, re-exporting, or deleting meetings. Whisper transcription and audio capture run locally, with no API key required for transcription. Without a configured language-model provider, summaries use local heuristics or keyword extraction. Optional providers include OpenAI, Groq, Mistral AI, OpenRouter, Together AI, Ollama, and AWS Bedrock through a proxy. Live translation and translated subtitles are described for Chinese, English, and German. Installation scripts require Python 3.12+ and Node.js 20+.
Who it suits
MeetingBro suits students, professionals meeting in a second language, researchers needing multilingual transcripts, privacy-conscious users, and developers. It is also suited to people using different meeting platforms.
What it does well
- Free MIT-licensed open-source software
- Captures audio from several meeting platforms
- Provides transcripts, summaries, and action items
- Exports records to Markdown
- Transcription needs no API key
What to know first
- System audio needs extra setup on macOS and Linux
- Installation scripts require Python and Node.js
- Only three translation languages are listed
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| MeetingBro | Open-source · MIT license | Free |
As github.com lists them, read 12 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
MeetingBro combines local audio capture, transcription, translation, and structured meeting notes without requiring a transcription API key. Its cross-platform support is broad, though system-audio setup differs by operating system.
Facts from MeetingBro's own pages
- Audio capture limits
- Microphone capture is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux; system audio is native on Windows and requires loopback setup on macOS and Linux. · github.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Audio setup limits
- Windows supports system audio natively, while macOS needs a virtual loopback device and Multi-Output Device and Linux needs PulseAudio or PipeWire loopback setup. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Exports and history
- Users can export transcripts, summaries, and notes to Markdown and revisit, re-export, or delete past meetings in the in-app history browser. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Fast captions
- An optional streaming preview can show captions in about 1.5 seconds using the existing Whisper model, with the main transcript correcting the preview. · github.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · github.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Installation
- The maker's quick-start instructions use terminal install and start scripts and list Python 3.12+ and Node.js 20+ as requirements for those scripts. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker lists students, professionals attending meetings in a second language, researchers needing multilingual transcripts, privacy-conscious users, and developers as intended users. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Transcription languages
- 3 · github.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Languages
- Live translation and optional translated subtitles support Chinese, English, and German. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The project is released under the MIT license. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- LLM integrations
- Optional LLM providers include OpenAI, Groq, Mistral AI, OpenRouter, Together AI, and Ollama; Ollama can run locally. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Meeting capture
- desktop · github.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Meeting compatibility
- It captures computer audio to work with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, BBB, and other meeting platforms without a platform plugin or meeting API connection. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Meeting platforms
- Zoom,Microsoft Teams,Google Meet,BBB,and other platforms · github.com, 20 Sept 2026
- No-key operation
- Transcription does not require an API key; without an LLM configured, summaries fall back to local heuristics. · github.com, 11 Oct 2026
- No-key use
- Transcription requires no API key; without an LLM configured, summaries fall back to local heuristics or keyword extraction. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Audio capture and Whisper transcription run on the user's machine, and only transcript text is sent to a configured LLM provider; with Ollama, the README says no data leaves the device. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- MeetingBro is an open-source, local-first AI meeting assistant for live transcription, translation, and meeting summaries. · github.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- MeetingBro is an open-source, local-first AI meeting assistant for live transcription, translation, and meeting summaries. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The installation instructions require Python and Node.js, and the README says the Whisper model downloads automatically on first run. · github.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Summaries and action items
- Yes · github.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Summaries and notes
- The rolling summary refreshes automatically with the last 3–5 minutes, while the Meeting Board collects topics, decisions, action items, and open questions. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- Live speech-to-text uses Whisper running locally on the user's machine. · github.com, 12 Oct 2026
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