Meeting notes · checked 2026-10-19

Can I vibecode MeetGeek?

KINDA· weekend project

Recording a call, transcribing it with Whisper and having a language model write the summary and action items is a sitting of work on your own machine, and a searchable archive with an ask-your-meetings box fits in the same session. The gap is the bot: MeetGeek's notetaker joins Zoom, Meet and Teams from your calendar, which means calendar OAuth, headless-browser or meeting-bot plumbing, per-person speaker labels and lobby rules that each platform changes. Record locally and skip the bot, and it's easy; keep the bot and it becomes a weekend plus maintenance.

$15.99/moprice per seat

$192you'd save a year

weekendbuild time

—people replaced it

Before you start

What you need on hand.

DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.

TimeOne sitting for the recorder; routing system audio is the fiddly part

Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
Python 3.12 and ffmpegfaster-whisper downloads its model on the first run.
A loopback audio deviceBlackHole on macOS, WASAPI loopback on Windows, the PulseAudio monitor on Linux.
An LLM endpointOllama on the same machine is free; a hosted API key costs a few cents per meeting.
A Hugging Face tokenOptional, only for splitting other speakers apart.

Before you buildMeetGeek Basic gives 3 hours of transcription a month for nothing. If you have a few calls a week, you may not need to build anything.

1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.

The prompt

Build me a local meeting recorder and note-writer to replace MeetGeek. Requirements:

- Python 3.12 with FastAPI and Jinja2: `python -m notes` serves http://localhost:4710, and
`notes record "Weekly sync"` starts a recording that Ctrl-C stops.
- Capture: ffmpeg writes the microphone to the left channel and system audio to the right channel
of one 16 kHz WAV in ./data/audio/. Also accept uploaded mp3, m4a, mp4 and wav files.
- Transcription: `faster-whisper` with the model from .env (default `small`), word timestamps and
automatic language detection. Print the model download size before the first run.
- Speakers: the left channel is "You" and the right channel is "Others"; if HF_TOKEN is set, split
"Others" with `pyannote.audio` into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on.
- Summary: any OpenAI-compatible endpoint from LLM_BASE_URL, LLM_MODEL and LLM_API_KEY in .env
(default Ollama on localhost). Templates in ./templates/*.md (1:1, standup, sales call,
interview) produce a summary, decisions, action items with owner, and open questions, each
quoting the minute mark.
- Storage: SQLite via `sqlite3` in ./data/notes.db with meetings, transcript segments and an FTS5
index; every finished meeting is also saved as ~/MeetingNotes/<date>-<title>.md.
- Ask: a search box plus an "Ask your meetings" box that takes the top 8 FTS5 matches, sends them
with their dates to the LLM, and answers with links to the meeting and timestamp.
- Titles: read ICS_URL from .env (a secret iCal address) to name a recording after the event
that is happening now.
- Single user. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first; audio and text leave the machine only if
LLM_BASE_URL points to a remote service.
- Out of scope: a bot that joins calls, a mobile app, team spaces, CRM sync.
- README: loopback setup per OS, rough transcription speed on CPU and GPU, and a reminder to
tell attendees they're being recorded.

Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.

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Then keep going

Next prompts, same folder.

The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own MeetGeek.

Extend the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- Store every action item as a row with owner, due date (if one was said), source meeting and
  status open or done; let me tick items off on the meeting page.
- Add `notes digest` that emails the open items grouped by owner through SMTP settings in .env,
  and a cron example for Friday at 16:00.
- Never invent an owner: if the transcript names nobody, leave it as "unassigned".
- Update the README.

Add a pre-meeting reminder to the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- A background process polls ICS_URL every 2 minutes and shows a desktop notification 1 minute
  before each event that has a video-call link, with a Start recording action.
- Skip events whose title matches an ignore list in .env (for example "Lunch", "Focus").
- Name the recording after the event and attach the attendee list to the meeting page.
- Update the README.

Add an Obsidian export to the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- OBSIDIAN_VAULT in .env points at a vault; write each meeting to Meetings/<date> <title>.md
  with YAML frontmatter (date, attendees, tags) and wiki-links to people mentioned.
- Re-running the export updates files in place and never touches notes I wrote by hand.
- Add a `notes export --since 2026-01-01` command.
- Update the README.

What you lose

A notetaker that joins calls on its own from your calendar
Per-participant speaker names and the Zoom, Meet and Teams join handling
Team spaces, comments and automatic sharing to the right people
Zapier, Make, n8n and CRM hand-offs after each call
Mobile and Chrome extension recording

Why people still pay

The pitch is that meetings take notes of themselves: the bot shows up, the summary lands in your inbox, and the team can search every call. People pay to stop remembering to press record and to have everyone's notes in one shared place.

Moatintegrations collaboration execution polish

Do the math

MeetGeek or your own copy?

Seats

Over

Your usage

Count my time12h ×$/h

MeetGeek, 1 yr$192

Your own copy, 1 yr$56running + build session

You keep$136pays for itself in the first month

Estimate · Whisper runs on your laptop and a local model writes the summaries for free; a hosted model for a handful of meetings a week costs a few dollars of tokens. The build is token usage on your agent plan.

Leaving MeetGeek

Take your data, then cancel.

1 · Take your data out of MeetGeek

1Open a meeting in the web app and use the download option above the audio or video player to save its captions, transcript and recording.
2The pricing page lists transcript export to Google Docs, Word or Excel, and downloads and exports start on Pro.
3If you own the meeting, turn on Share on Google Drive and MeetGeek uploads transcripts for you automatically.
4We found no one-click export of a whole account. Basic includes API access, so a short script can loop over your meetings for the rest.

2 · Cancel MeetGeek

1Sign in at app.meetgeek.ai, open Settings and then Billing, which opens the billing portal, and cancel the active subscription.
2Wait for the cancellation to take effect; the help center says an account with an active paid subscription can't be deactivated.
3Business starts with a 14-day trial that takes a card, so cancel before the trial ends if you don't want to be charged.
4If you subscribed through the iOS app, the help center has a separate article about restoring plans on Apple devices, so check your Apple subscriptions too.

Free Basic keeps transcripts for 3 months and audio for 1 month, so download what you need before you downgrade.
Deleting the account is separate: Settings, Account, Deactivate Account, with an option to erase all data. There is a 7-day recovery window, then it is permanent.
Recordings you only appear in can be removed only by the host's account.
Turn off Pay-as-you-go before you cancel so no overage hours are invoiced afterwards.

Checked 2026-10-19 against MeetGeek's docs: 1, 2, 3, 4

The escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These are already free.

MeetilyOpen sourceMIT desktop app that records, transcribes live and summarizes with Ollama; everything stays on your machine.★ 32k · active Sep 2026 · they host it
macOS, Windows, LinuxVisit ↗anarlogOpen sourceMIT local-first AI meeting notepad that merges your own notes with the transcript; the team behind it has moved to a separate product.★ 9.5k · active Oct 2026 · they host it
macOS, Windows, LinuxVisit ↗VexaOpen sourceApache-licensed meeting-bot API for Google Meet, Teams and Zoom with live WebSocket transcripts and an MCP server; cloud or self-hosted.★ 2.9k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
Web, serverVisit ↗

All 5 free alternatives to MeetGeek ›

The numbers

MeetGeek pricing

Plan	Monthly	Annual, per month	What you get
Basic	$0	$0	3 hours of transcription a month, 2-hour meeting cap, transcripts kept 3 months, audio 1 month, no video. Bot and bot-free recording, uploads, 100+ languages, AI summary, AI chat and search, folders and tags, API and MCP access.
Pro	$15.99	$9.99	20 hours of transcription a month, 2-hour meeting cap, transcripts kept 1 year, audio 6 months. Adds AI agents and workflows, Zapier, Make and n8n, unlimited integrations, meeting templates, personal analytics, downloads and exports.
Business	$27	$17	Unlimited transcription and transcript storage, 3-hour meeting cap, audio and HD video kept 12 months. Adds team spaces, comments, team analytics, private-by-default meetings, rules to skip recording, consent notices and custom branding.
Enterprise	custom	—	Business plus SSO and SCIM, org-wide locks, zero or custom data retention, on-premise storage options, 4-hour meeting cap, dedicated account manager.

Free tier: 3 hours of transcription a month and a 2-hour cap per meeting. Transcripts are kept for 3 months and audio for 1 month, with no video storage.
Billing: Monthly or yearly per seat; yearly is up to 40% cheaper (about 37% on Pro and Business). Licenses are bought on the Plans page, assigned by an admin in User Management, and paid through a billing portal.
Hidden costs: Pro stops at 20 hours a month; with Pay-as-you-go on, extra hours cost $0.50 each, invoiced at the end of the cycle. The monthly allowance resets on the day you activated the plan, not on the 1st. Sources disagree on video: the help center says Pro can enable video recording, while the plan table lists no video storage until Business.
Source: meetgeek.ai

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Basic is free: 3 hours of transcription a month, AI summaries, AI chat and search, API and MCP access.

Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: A notetaker that joins calls on its own from your calendar, Per-participant speaker names and the Zoom, Meet and Teams join handling.

About $15.99 a month on the Pro plan per seat, $191.88 a year (checked 2026-10-19).

A notetaker that joins calls on its own from your calendar; Per-participant speaker names and the Zoom, Meet and Teams join handling; Team spaces, comments and automatic sharing to the right people; Zapier, Make, n8n and CRM hand-offs after each call; Mobile and Chrome extension recording. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.