The AI Meeting Assistant That Runs On Your Device

Natively is a free, local-first AI meeting assistant that gives you live transcription, real-time answer suggestions, and automatic meeting notes during any call — on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, or Discord. Unlike cloud note-takers that send a bot into your meeting, Natively runs as an invisible native overlay on your own machine, so it never appears in the participant list or in screen recordings.

What an AI meeting assistant actually does

An AI meeting assistant listens to a conversation, transcribes it in real time, and helps you respond and remember. The best ones do three jobs at once: capture (accurate live transcription of everyone speaking), assist (suggest what to say, summarize what was just said, or surface a fact you need mid-sentence), and recall (produce structured notes and let you search past meetings).

Natively does all three locally. It captures system audio and your microphone as two separate channels, transcribes with on-device Whisper, and runs the conversation through a local or bring-your-own-key LLM — with end-to-end latency under 500 milliseconds, fast enough to help while the other person is still talking.

Why local-first matters for meetings

Most meeting assistants are cloud services: a bot joins your call, and your audio and transcripts are stored on a vendor's servers. That is convenient, but it means sensitive client conversations, internal strategy, and confidential figures leave your control — and everyone on the call sees the bot.

Natively takes the opposite approach. In local mode (via Ollama), no audio, transcript, or note ever leaves your device, and there is zero outbound network traffic. You can also bring your own API key for cloud-grade reasoning — and even then, only the text of a specific request is sent, never the raw audio stream.

Key features

• Dual-channel audio — system/meeting audio and your microphone are captured as separate pipelines, so transcripts attribute speech correctly.
• Live transcription — on-device Whisper (Moonshine, Whisper-large-v3-turbo) with GPU acceleration on Apple Silicon and Windows.
• Real-time assistance — ask "what should I say?", shorten a response, recap the conversation, or suggest follow-up questions with a keyboard shortcut.
• Automatic notes — structured summaries you can export to Markdown, JSON, or text.
• Local meeting history — a searchable dashboard with global, cross-meeting semantic search powered by local RAG (SQLite + sqlite-vec).
• Persona modes — switch context for team meetings, sales calls, recruiting, lectures, or interviews.
• Invisible overlay — hides from the dock/taskbar and never shows up in screen shares or recordings.

Natively vs cloud meeting assistants

If you mainly want shareable post-call notes and a CRM integration, a dedicated cloud tool like Fireflies or Otter may suit you. If privacy, real-time help, and cost matter more, Natively is the stronger fit.

Who it's for

Natively works for any conversation where you want to stay present and still capture everything: client and sales calls, internal team meetings, recruiting screens, one-on-ones, university lectures, and job interviews. If you just want clean notes, see the AI note taker.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the AI meeting assistant join my call as a participant?

No. Natively runs as a separate native overlay on your own computer, not as a bot inside the meeting. It captures audio locally, so it never appears in the participant list, and it stays hidden from screen shares and recordings.

Is my meeting data private?

In local mode, everything — audio, transcripts, and notes — stays on your device with zero outbound network traffic. Natively is open source (AGPL-3.0), so the data handling is fully auditable. If you use a bring-your-own-key cloud model, only the specific text request is sent to your chosen provider.

Which meeting apps does it work with?

Because it captures system audio rather than integrating with a specific platform, Natively works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, Discord, and any other app that plays audio on your machine.