It listens, writes down what was said, and keeps it on the device that heard it. No account, nothing to sign up for, and nothing is ever uploaded.
Open MeetPal Get it on your phoneThat is the whole point rather than a nice extra. The meetings that most need writing up are often the ones held in a room with no reception — a site visit, a partner campus, a basement committee room, a plane.
MeetPal does the listening and the writing itself, on your own machine. Open it once on WiFi so it can fetch what it needs, and after that it never asks for a connection again.
Which also means nothing leaves the device. There is no server behind this, no account and no endpoint — not as a policy that could change, but because none was built. The words spoken in that room stay in that room.
It writes as it listens, a passage at a time, so by the time you stand up the meeting is already written down. Flag a moment as it happens and it is waiting at the top of the transcript afterwards.
An example. The meeting and everyone in it are invented.
Every meeting is searchable — not by title, but by what was actually said, so “what did we agree about the exchange?” is one search rather than an afternoon. Copy it, download it as Markdown, or drop it into whatever you write your minutes in.
Because it all lives in the browser on your own device, clearing this site’s data deletes your meetings along with it. Download anything you want to keep for good.
Running a speech model in a browser sounds like it ought to be slow. Measured on an ordinary work laptop, it is not — these are the seconds taken to write up sixty seconds of recording:
| Quality | Took | Faster than real time |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate | 16.9 s | 3.6× |
| Faster | 11.3 s | 5.3× |
A half-hour meeting is written up in about eight minutes on the accurate setting, and it happens while you carry on. The desktop program this replaced managed 3.9× with the same model, natively installed — so the browser costs about a tenth of the speed and saves you an installer.
Anything you flagged as an action can go straight onto your Ta-da list afterwards. It works out which line you meant — the one being spoken when you pressed, not whatever somebody said in reply.
Nothing is added without you looking at it first. MeetPal cannot know which list they belong on or how big a job each one is, so it shows you what it caught and waits.
Open it and install it from the browser — it gets its own icon and window, and works offline afterwards.
Open MeetPalA proper app that keeps recording with the screen off and the phone in your pocket, which a browser cannot do.
Download for AndroidWhich one? If the phone can lie on the table with the screen on, or you are at a computer, the browser version is simpler and needs no installing from a file. If it goes in a pocket, or the meeting is long, use the Android app — a web page stops recording the moment the screen locks, and that limit belongs to Android rather than to MeetPal.
Android will warn you before installing a file downloaded from the web, and on a Samsung you may also need to turn off Auto Blocker in Settings → Security and privacy first. Turn it back on afterwards; the app runs perfectly well with it on.
Whichever you use, open it once on WiFi and start a recording so it can fetch what it needs. It is a sizeable download, it happens once, and it is what buys you a transcript in a room with no signal.