The open-source Circleback alternative
Circleback A meeting notetaker with a bot, a bot-free desktop app, and mobile and Apple Watch apps for in-person conversations, built around automations that route the output into other tools. Ledgeur does the same core job — an accurate transcript and notes you can act on — but as open-source software that runs in your browser, so the audio never leaves your machine.
Free tier, then Pro $15, Business $25 and Enterprise $35 per user per month; transcription and summarisation happen in its cloud.
Where Ledgeur differs from Circleback
- Transcription and speaker separation run on your own machine; Circleback processes in its cloud on every plan.
- Free forever for one person, with no minute cap, rather than a free tier that exists to sell the Pro one.
- Open source under MIT, so the record keeps working whatever happens to the company.
- Circleback's automation catalogue is wider today. Ledgeur pushes action items to Linear, Todoist and Asana, and anything else through a signed webhook.
The audio never leaves
Whisper runs in your browser. So does speaker separation. There is no upload step to trust us about — open the network tab and check.
It learns who people are
Ledgeur separates the voices in a recording, and once you have named one, it recognises that person in every meeting afterwards. The voice prints stay on your device.
Nobody joins your call, and nobody can lock it out
No bot in the participant list, no awkward pause while people ask what it is. Ledgeur listens to the tab, the way you would. Which also means no video platform can revoke its access, the way they can with a bot that has to be admitted as a guest.
Free is the whole product
Unlimited recording, transcription, speakers, notes and search — permanently, for nothing. You pay when you want the record shared across a team, or open to your AI agents.
Try the Circleback alternative
No account, no card, and no bot in your meeting. Open it and record your next call — or drag in one you already have.
Search demand (live Google Ads, US): circleback ai 720/mo · circleback (brand) 6,600/mo, rising. The comparison reflects each tool’s publicly described model at the time of writing, not a judgement about its quality — Circleback is good software that made a different architectural choice.