Shmeetings

About Shmeetings

Shmeetings is a desktop app that transcribes and summarizes meetings entirely on the user's own computer. It is aimed at professionals who cannot or would rather not send conversations to cloud services, including consultants, remote workers, agencies, and teams in legal, healthcare, and enterprise settings.

The app runs in the background, detects when a meeting starts, and transcribes audio locally with OpenAI's Whisper. Meta's Llama models then produce key points and action items, with optional auto-emailed notes. It works with any platform, since it captures system audio and microphone input, and it supports more than 80 languages. Users can also drop in MP3, M4A, or WAV files, load custom GGUF models, and write custom prompts for summaries.

The main difference from cloud assistants is the business model and data handling: no account, no subscription, and no data leaving the machine. It is a one-time $39 purchase for both macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows, with free updates and a 30-day money-back guarantee.