Pluely

Pluely is a small, open-source, privacy-first AI assistant meant for use during video calls and team meetings. It is pitched as an open-source alternative to Cluely and weighs about 10MB.

Pluely is an open-source AI assistant built to sit quietly alongside whatever a user is doing on screen, with a focus on video calls and team meetings. It is positioned as an open-source alternative to Cluely, the commercial tool that popularised the idea of a discreet on-screen helper. The project comes from Srikanth Nani, a senior product engineer, and is listed on his portfolio as one of his products, with a GitHub repository that has gathered roughly 2.7k stars. The pitch rests on three traits. The application is small, around 10MB, so it installs and launches quickly without the weight of a typical Electron-style app. It is described as stealth, meaning it is designed to stay unobtrusive while a call or meeting is in progress. And it is privacy-first, which matters for anyone who does not want conversation context routed through a vendor's own service by default. In practice, Pluely is meant to be invoked in a single step during a live session. The source material gives two example uses: getting AI help during a video call, and debugging in real time while a team meeting is under way. That makes it most relevant to developers, engineers and other knowledge workers who want a second set of eyes on a problem without leaving the conversation or switching windows. Within the wider field, Pluely competes with closed, subscription-based meeting and interview copilots. Its main differentiator is that the code is public, so users can inspect what it does, build it themselves and adapt it. The trade-off is that an open-source project from a single maintainer typically offers less polish, fewer guarantees and thinner documentation than a funded commercial product. The homepage that introduces it is a personal portfolio, so detailed information on setup, supported models and platforms sits on the dedicated Pluely website and the GitHub repository rather than on the page reviewed here.