Software · Office & notes
zMeet
Private, on-device meeting notes for macOS — records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your Mac.
- Completely free
- macOS
- Open source
- No account
Overview
zMeet is a note-taking program, available on macOS.
Features described in its GitHub repository: offline use and Markdown support.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Private, on-device meeting notes for macOS — records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your Mac.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “An open-source, local-first meeting notetaker — a private alternative to Granola, Otter, and Fireflies.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “zMeet is a macOS menu-bar app that records your meetings — both your microphone and the other participants' audio — then transcribes and summarizes them into Markdown notes.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
zMeet is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No account needed
- Commercial use allowed
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
- Last technical check: 7 November 2026
- Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub umzcio/zMeet (MIT)
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