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Kajo vs Meetily

Meetily is an MIT-licensed, local meeting note-taker: it captures a call as it happens, summarises it on your machine, and can import audio and video files too; Pro adds speaker diarization and PDF, DOCX, and Markdown exports, and chat with your meetings is not shipped yet. Kajo is built around the archive: import any recording, transcribe and summarise it on your machine, ask a folder — or, with a confirm, the whole library — with cited answers, and export REFI-QDA. One $49 purchase unlocks unlimited imports and Lifetime convenience (watch folders, batch export) — one payment, no subscription.

Meetily takes notes during a call, locally. Kajo keeps every recording you have — not just meetings — in one private library you can ask with citations.

Kajo Voice cited chat over an archive of recordings, as a Meetily alternative
Any recording — not just live meetings — filed into one local library with cited answers.

Why people choose Kajo over Meetily

  • Any recording, not just live calls

  • Cited answers across a folder

  • Speaker labels included

  • REFI-QDA export for CAQDAS tools

  • Linux packages, not just source

  • Your installed version keeps working

Kajo vs Meetily: side by side

Feature Kajo Meetily
Primary job Archive of any recording Live meeting notes
Where audio is processed On your machine On your machine
Chat with recordings Yes — on your machine, with citations Not shipped yet
Speaker labels Included Pro
Platforms macOS, Windows, Linux packages macOS and Windows installers; Linux from source
Price Free, then $49 launch / $99 standard Free community edition; Pro $10/user/month billed yearly

Three reasons Kajo exists

  1. Local-first / private by default

    Your audio never leaves your laptop.

    Audio is transcribed on-device — there is no cloud-processing path. Private by architecture.

  2. Cross-platform, including Linux

    Mac, Windows, and Linux — one product, three operating systems.

    Native installers for all three. Linux is a first-class target, not a port — the only local audio knowledge base that takes it seriously.

  3. Cited chat

    Ask questions across your archive — get cited answers.

    Chat with your entire library using a local model. Every answer links back to the exact moment in the recording — no copy/paste.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kajo a Meetily alternative?

For keeping and searching what was said, yes — and it goes further by archiving any recording, not just live calls, with cited chat in the app. If your only need is live, in-the-moment meeting capture, Meetily does that job well.

Does Kajo capture live meetings like Meetily?

No. Kajo has no live capture; import the recording afterwards. The strength is what happens next: search, cited answers across a folder, and export.

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