The short answer
Fireflies connects to your calendar and sends a “Fireflies Notetaker” bot into your meetings as a participant everyone can see. It records, transcribes and summarises in its cloud, then stores the transcripts and notes on its servers, with broad integrations into CRMs and other tools.
MeetIT does the core job — record, transcribe, write minutes — entirely on your own machine. No bot joins the call, nothing is uploaded, and the files are yours.
The bot in the room
The most visible difference is the bot. With Fireflies, other attendees see a notetaker join the call — fine for some teams, awkward or off-limits for sensitive, client or external meetings where a third-party participant raises eyebrows.
MeetIT has no bot. It captures the audio your own computer plays plus your microphone, locally, so there’s nothing extra in the participant list. You still disclose that you’re recording — but you’re not inviting another company’s software into the conversation.
Where your data lives
Fireflies processes and stores your meetings in its cloud. To its credit, it’s SOC 2 Type II and says it doesn’t train AI models on your conversations, with a generous free tier and strong search and integrations across your meeting history.
But the data still leaves your device. With MeetIT, transcription and the note-writing AI run locally and the notes are saved as files on your disk — so there’s no third-party server holding your conversations, and it works offline with no account.
What Fireflies is good at
Fireflies is strong if your work is cloud-native: automatic capture across calls, conversation intelligence, CRM sync, team-wide search and an assistant that spans email, chat and CRM. For sales and ops teams that want everything centralised and shareable, it’s a genuine fit.
It’s a per-seat subscription once you pass the free minutes, and it depends on the bot being admitted to your calls.
Which should you choose?
Choose Fireflies.ai if you want automatic, cloud-based capture with deep integrations and team-wide sharing, and a notetaker bot in your calls is acceptable.
Choose MeetIT if you don’t want a bot in the meeting, need your conversations to stay on your own device, prefer owning files over a subscription, or work offline. For confidential, client or regulated meetings, local-first is often the only option that fits.
Frequently asked questions
Can I record meetings without a bot joining?
Yes. Unlike Fireflies, MeetIT captures the system audio on your own device, so no notetaker bot appears in the participant list — it’s just your machine recording what it already plays.
Does MeetIT store my meetings in the cloud like Fireflies?
No. Transcription, the AI and storage all run locally by default, so your recordings and notes stay on your machine and are never uploaded.
Is MeetIT a private Fireflies.ai alternative?
Yes. It’s built for confidential, client and regulated meetings: no bot in the call, no account, nothing sent to a third-party server.
Does MeetIT work offline?
Yes. Because everything runs on your device, MeetIT works without a connection — unlike a cloud service whose bot and processing need to reach a server.