Meetly vs Private AI Note Taker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meetly
Record, transcribe, and summarize conversations privately on your device. This app turns meetings, lectures, and interviews into searchable notes with AI-powered summaries in over 90 languages. Export your notes as PDF or text.
- On-device recording and transcription
- AI-powered summaries
- 90+ language support
- Unlimited recording length
- Background recording
- Export to PDF/text
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Your private conversation memory. Record. Ask what was said. Hear it again. Transcribed on your device. Free to start, no account needed. Press Record and put your phone down. Meetly works out the language and who spoke, then keeps a summary, the transcript and the original audio together. Later, find the decision, the quote or the action item, and replay the exact words. For client calls, interviews, lectures, one-to-ones and the ideas you say out loud, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free and Pro • Free: up to 5 conversations, up to 25 minutes each. • Meetly Pro: more conversations, recordings with no length limit, up to 300 hours of summaries a month and more AI features. The price is shown in the app before you subscribe. Private by design • Stays on your device: recording, transcription and speaker recognition. Works offline after a one-time model download. • Only if you turn it on: cloud summaries, which send transcript text, never audio. You can turn them off in Settings. • Only if you connect it: an AI assistant can read your library until you revoke access in Meetly. Depending on the connection mode, Connect AI may store encrypted conversation data. • Record with the knowledge and permission of the people involved. What you get • A summary with key points, decisions and action items. • Search across every transcript, with replay of the original audio. • Tag a voice once and Meetly recognizes it next time. • Your own notes beside each conversation, with photos, files and tagged people. • Find & Replace for transcripts, and your own instructions for summaries. • PDF export with speaker labels, and ZIP backup of your library. Works with Claude and ChatGPT Connect Meetly to Claude or ChatGPT in one tap, then ask about any conversation: turn a client call into a follow-up, a brainstorm into a brief, or a product discussion into a spec. Other compatible AI apps can connect too. Available actions depend on your assistant. Your Apple devices, one memory Optional private iCloud sync keeps conversations across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Audio sync is a separate choice. On Mac, record calls on Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and other calling apps, with no meeting bot joining, and with everyone's permission. Your language Meetly detects the language first and picks the right model: English and 24 European languages, specialized models for Chinese and 22 Indian languages, and 50+ more. Availability varies by model. Conversation Insights (beta) On iPhone and iPad, see recurring topics, conversation types, who you talk with and speaking shares over 7 or 30 days. Insights are estimates based on transcripts and speaker labels. Meetly Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Connected AI services have their own features, limits and terms. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getmeetly.ai/privacy
Private AI Note Taker
This app provides private, on-device AI for meeting notes and transcriptions without cloud reliance. It securely records live meetings or processes uploaded audio/video files, offering AI-generated summaries and searchable notes. Your conversations remain offline and private, never shared or used for model training.
- On-device secure and private note-taking
- Offline meeting recording and transcription
- Automatic AI-generated summaries
- Searchable transcripts and export options
- Hands-free recording with Siri Shortcuts
- Support for over 60 languages
- Choice of transcription models (Apple/WhisperKit)
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Basil is a private AI note taker for meetings. Recording, transcription and summaries all run on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no server holding your conversations. WHY ON-DEVICE MATTERS Most AI note takers send your audio to a cloud service to be transcribed and summarized. Basil doesn't. Transcription runs on the Neural Engine, and summaries are generated locally by Apple Intelligence. There is no account to create, no subprocessor list, and no server to subpoena. RECORD ANY MEETING • In Person — capture the room with your microphone. • Computer (Mac) — capture both sides of a Zoom, Teams or Meet call without putting a bot in the meeting. Nothing joins your call, and nothing leaves your Mac. • Import existing audio or video files. Basil extracts the audio locally. TRANSCRIPTS AND SUMMARIES • A fast live transcript while you record, then a refined, higher-accuracy pass right after the session. • Transcripts include speakers names and are fully exportable. • Summaries, action items, decisions and follow-ups, generated on device. • 60+ languages. • Full-text search across everything you have recorded. BASIL FOR LAW A legal edition for attorneys and firms: • Privilege attestation — an on-device provenance record documenting that a recording was captured and processed locally. • Consent log — a timestamped attestation, built to the strictest all-party-consent standard so one workflow works in every state. • Matters and clients — organize by matter rather than by date. • Privileged & Confidential labeling on recordings, transcripts and exports. These are record-keeping tools for legal professionals. They are not legal services or legal advice, and no software can guarantee a privilege outcome. Basil's contribution is architectural: your client conversations never leave your device. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES A universal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your library syncs through your own iCloud account — your iCloud, not our servers. EXPORT Send notes to Apple Notes, Calendar, Reminders and Files. SUBSCRIPTIONS Basil Pro unlocks unlimited recording. Basil for Law adds the legal feature set above. Free trials are available on both. Current pricing and trial length are shown on the subscription screen in the app. - [Privacy Policy](https://basilai.app/privacy) - [Terms of Use](https://basilai.app/terms)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Private AI Note Taker at 38 against Meetly's 5. Meetly's advantage is iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Meetly sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Private AI Note Taker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Private AI Note Taker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Private AI Note Taker has 38 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Meetly's written reviews are positive against 94% of Private AI Note Taker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Meetly ships an update every 3 days, Private AI Note Taker every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Meetly | Private AI Note Taker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EdgeFirst LLC | TONSOR LLC |
Customer experience
Meetly
Private AI Note Taker
In-app purchases
Meetly
- Meetly Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Meetly Pro (Monthly)$7.991 Month
- Meetly Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
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- Meetly Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Meetly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Meetly Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Meetly Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
- Meetly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Meetly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$78.001 Year
- Meetly Pro Yearly$79.001 Year
- Meetly Plus Lifetime$4.99
- Meetly Pro Lifetime$9.99
Private AI Note Taker
- Basil AI Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Basil AI Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Basil for Law Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- Basil AI Pro Yearly (Save 17%)7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Basil for Law Yearly7 Days trial$199.991 Year
- Basil AI Pro Lifetime$199.00
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