Best Open Source Alternatives to Otter.ai

Compare the best free and open-source alternatives to Otter.ai — self-hosted and desktop replacements you fully control, ranked by GitHub stars, license and platform support.

Curated by open-source.store · Updated November 2026 · 5 alternatives

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Otter.ai alternatives compared

Open-source alternatives to Otter.ai, compared by stars, license and platform
Tool		License	Platforms	Self-hosted
Meetily	32,410	MIT	DockerLinuxmacOSWindows	Yes	Nov 2026	Visit
Anarlog	9,759	MIT	DockerLinuxmacOSWindows	Yes	Nov 2026	Visit
Amical	1,595	MIT	DockerLinuxmacOSWindows	Yes	Oct 2026	Visit
Minutes	1,585	MIT	LinuxmacOSWindows	No	Nov 2026	Visit
Prismical	128	MIT	DockerLinuxmacOSWindows	Yes	Oct 2026	Visit

Top open-source Otter.ai alternatives

Meetily32,410MIT

Meetily replaces cloud meeting bots like Otter with 100% local speech transcription and summaries via Whisper, Ollama, and local hardware.

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Edgar Sipki

Go & gRPC engineer · founder of EasyP

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Mentoring for backend developers. Consulting for startups.

Go, gRPC and Protobuf done right, LLM agents in production, and the hard parts of shipping a first product.

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Speaker at HighLoad++, GolangConf, AI Conf, DevOpsConf
Helped launch 7+ startups
Maintainer of EasyP, the open-source Protobuf toolkit

Anarlog9,759MIT

Anarlog is an open-source, local-first alternative to Granola that transcribes meetings and saves notes to Markdown without bots or cloud lock-in.

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Amical1,595MIT

Amical is an open-source, local-first alternative to Wispr Flow that uses Whisper and Ollama for private, context-aware dictation on your machine.

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Minutes1,585MIT

Minutes is an open-source, local-first meeting recorder and memory layer that turns calls into markdown queryable by Claude Code, Cursor, and MCP clients.

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Prismical128MIT

Open-source AI note taker that transcribes meetings locally without bots, offering on-device Whisper and MCP integration.

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