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Fireflies is built for teams: its notetaker joins your calls, transcribes in more than 100 languages, and pushes notes into CRMs and project tools. If your company runs on a shared call library, it's a strong choice. LokalBot is for the opposite need — notes that stay on your computer. It captures the call from your computer's audio with no bot, and runs transcription and summaries locally.
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Side by side
| Feature | LokalBot | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| How it captures a meeting | Mic + system audio on your computer — nothing joins the call | A notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and more; the Mac and Windows desktop app and the Chrome extension can capture without it |
| Where transcription runs | On your computer — Qwen3-ASR by default, with Parakeet and Whisper as alternatives, plus Granite Speech on Mac | Fireflies' cloud |
| Account required | None | Yes |
| Works offline | After a one-time model download | Needs a connection |
| Transcription languages | On Mac: 52 languages and dialects with the default model; 99 with Whisper | 100+ |
| Storage | Limited only by your disk | Free: 400 minutes per team · Pro: 8,000 minutes per seat · Business and up: unlimited |
| Integrations | A read-only CLI and MCP server; Markdown export and a daily memory note | CRMs, project tools, and an API |
| Compliance | No LokalBot server ever holds your meetings | HIPAA compliance and private storage on Enterprise |
| System-wide dictation | Hold ⌥ Space (Alt+Space on Windows and Linux) in any app | No |
| Day timeline | App and window activity by default; screen text and encrypted screenshots are opt-in and deleted after 14 days | No |
| Source code | Open source, GPLv3 | Proprietary |
| Price | Free | Free · Pro $10/seat/mo annually ($18 monthly) · Business $19 ($29 monthly) · Enterprise $39, annual only |
| Platforms | macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon; Windows 10/11 x64 and Linux x86_64 in alpha | Web, desktop, iOS, Android, and a Chrome extension |
Verdict
A team call library with a lot of plumbing.
For the calls you'd rather not upload.
Questions
You can capture without the bot through Fireflies' desktop app for Mac and Windows or its Chrome extension, but Fireflies still creates the transcript and summary and keeps them in its cloud, under your account. LokalBot keeps the audio, transcript, and summary on your computer.
Not directly. LokalBot exposes a read-only CLI and MCP server so local tools and agents can read your library, and it also exports meetings as Markdown and can write a daily memory note to a folder. Anything beyond that is up to you.
No — nothing appears in the call, which is why you need to tell participants yourself. On a fresh install, LokalBot asks through a notification before it records a detected meeting.
Download
Free and open source. Models download on first use; built-in inference then works offline.
Download for macOSApple Silicon · macOS 15+ · brew install --cask stevyhacker/tap/lokalbot
macOS · Windows · Linux (alpha) · requirements · all releases and notes
Fireflies and Fireflies.ai are trademarks of their owner; LokalBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Details are based on public pages and pricing as of October 2026 and may change — if something here is wrong or out of date, open an issue and we'll fix it.