# Open-source alternatives to Granola AI

Last reviewed: 2026-09-05

Minutes, Anarlog, and Meetily are candidates for a personal open-source meeting app. Omi adds phone and wearable conversation memory. Vexa serves people who want to operate meeting capture infrastructure. This is a maintainer-written guide based on public documentation, not a hands-on benchmark.

| Project | Fit | Boundary to check |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | Local Markdown conversation memory for an existing AI assistant | Cloud AI receives authorized meeting context; capture support differs by platform |
| Anarlog (formerly Hyprnote) | Editable local notepad with SQLite, Markdown export, CLI and MCP | Local AI depends on provider settings; MIT community code and commercial enterprise components |
| Meetily | Local transcription and summaries | Community and Pro capabilities differ; hosted AI is also selectable |
| Omi | Desktop, phone, and wearable memory | MIT code does not mean local by default; desktop quick start uses the cloud backend |
| Vexa | Self-hosted meeting-bot API, transcripts, and MCP | Apache-2.0 infrastructure that you operate, rather than a personal notepad |

Try [Minutes with sample meetings](https://useminutes.app/for-agents#try), check the [proof limits](https://useminutes.app/proof), and compare the actual workflow on your machine.

## Sources

- [Anarlog](https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog)
- [Meetily](https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily)
- [Omi](https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi)
- [Vexa](https://github.com/Vexa-ai/vexa)
- [Minutes](https://github.com/silverstein/minutes)