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 is for
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 is good
- 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
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.
MeetingBro plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI meeting assistants
- Free plan
- Yes
- Transcription
- Yes
- Summaries and action items
- Yes
- Meeting capture
- desktop
- Meeting platforms
- Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, BBB, and other platforms
- Transcription languages
- 3 languages
