Jitsi Meet alternative

A Jitsi Meet alternative where the meeting writes its own notes

Jitsi Meet is free and open source, and its way to record is a YouTube live stream. Meetful's free meetings are recorded, transcribed under each speaker's name and summed up, and nobody needs an account to start or join.

Jitsi Meet, in its own words

What it costs
Jitsi Meet“Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free”jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
Opening a room on meet.jit.si
Jitsi Meet“Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account” — Jitsi's blog, 22 August 2023, about whoever opens a room on meet.jit.sijitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/
Recording
Jitsi Meet“The easiest way to record is to live stream your conference to YouTube and access the recording there.”jitsi.org/user-faq/
Running it yourself
Jitsi Meet“For such cases we strongly recommend hosting your own deployment of Jitsi Meet.” — for people who would rather not sign injitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/

Read on 10 November 2026 from Jitsi Meet's own pages. Something changed? Tell us.

What Meetful does instead

Recorded without YouTubeThe recording stays with the meeting on your dashboard: 300 minutes of video kept on Free.
Written down, under each nameEvery person is transcribed from their own microphone while you talk.
No account to start or to joinType your name, press Start, send the link.
What was decided, afterwardsA recap and the action items are waiting when the meeting ends.

When Jitsi Meet may suit you better

Jitsi Meet is open source: you can run it on your own server and change it as you like, which no hosted service, Meetful included, can offer. If your meetings must never leave machines you control, Jitsi on your own server is the honest answer.

Moving over from Jitsi Meet

  1. Start a meeting at meetful.com where you would have opened a meet.jit.si room, and send the link.
  2. Have caption files or notes from old meetings? Bring them in through Bring meetings in on your dashboard.
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Meetings that take their own notes

Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.

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