AI Meeting and Note-Taking Tools

AI tools that join calls to transcribe, summarize, and extract action items from meetings.

18 tools
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Fellow

The privacy-first AI meeting assistant covering the full meeting lifecycle: agendas, AI notes, recordings, and follow-up action tracking.

Fellow is the only AI meeting assistant built from the ground up with enterprise-grade privacy and security as its core design principle. It covers the complete meeting lifecycle: pre-meeting collaborative agendas that keep teams prepared, real-time AI transcription and notes during the call, and structured action item…

Best for:Enterprise teams and people managers in regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and legal who need an AI meeting assistant with proven HIPAA compliance, org-wide governance controls, and a transparent security posture.Growing companies that want to improve meeting culture by combining structured pre-meeting agendas with AI notes and accountability tracking, reducing the number of meetings needed by ensuring every one produces clear outcomes.

Not ideal for: Teams that primarily need advanced conversation intelligence features for sales coaching, deal scoring, or revenue analytics, as Fellow is built around meeting structure and general productivity rather than sales-specific intelligence workflows.

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Granola

The bot-free AI notepad that enhances your rough typed notes with a polished AI transcript after every meeting, with no meeting bot.

Granola is a macOS, Windows, and iOS AI notepad that takes a fundamentally different approach to meeting notes: instead of sending a bot to join your call, it captures system audio locally on your device and then uses your rough typed notes as a scaffold to generate rich, AI-polished meeting notes after the call ends. …

Best for:Founders, product managers, and consultants who attend back-to-back meetings and want AI-polished notes without a visible bot appearing in sensitive client calls, investor pitches, or board meetings.Privacy-conscious professionals and teams at companies where meeting bots are blocked or where participants object to a third-party recording, as Granola captures everything locally with no external participants.

Not ideal for: Teams that need deep CRM automation, sales coaching scorecards, or revenue intelligence features built into their meeting tool, as Granola focuses on clean note-taking and privacy rather than sales workflow automation.

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Read AI

AI meeting assistant with engagement scoring, speaker analytics, and enterprise search across meetings, emails, and messages.

Read AI is an advanced meeting intelligence platform that goes beyond basic transcription to measure meeting quality with real-time engagement scoring, attention tracking, speaker analytics, and sentiment analysis. Its unique Monday Briefing feature proactively surfaces your most important action items and key meeting …

Best for:Sales and customer success teams that want more than transcription — specifically engagement analytics, attention scoring, and real-time meeting quality metrics that help managers coach reps based on data from every interaction.Executives and team leads managing distributed teams who need a cross-platform AI search that works across meetings, email, Slack, and CRM simultaneously, turning all company communication into a single queryable knowledge base.

Not ideal for: Users who need a bot-free recording experience, as Read AI's primary capture method uses a visible meeting bot that auto-joins calls from your calendar and sends summaries to all meeting invitees including external participants.

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tl;dv

AI meeting recorder that transforms conversations into searchable insights, recurring reports, and CRM updates across your entire team.

tl;dv (too long; didn't view) is an AI meeting intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams — and then helps you extract value from your entire meeting history. With multi-meeting AI insights, recurring scheduled reports, and the ability to searc…

Best for:Product managers and UX researchers who need to search across dozens of customer interviews to spot patterns, extract themes, and build evidence-backed roadmaps without watching hours of recordings.Sales managers and revenue operations teams who want automated CRM updates after every call and coaching playbooks that help reps improve based on win/loss analysis across their entire call library.

Not ideal for: Teams that need the simplest possible free meeting notetaker without any setup complexity, as tl;dv's power features can feel overwhelming for users who just want basic transcription and summaries.

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Krisp

Voice AI platform with the world's best noise cancellation, bot-free transcription, and AI meeting notes for crystal-clear calls.

Krisp is a Voice AI platform that uniquely combines the world's leading real-time noise cancellation technology with AI meeting notes, transcription, and accent conversion — all in one desktop app that captures audio locally without any bot joining your call. Krisp's noise cancellation silences background noise on both…

Best for:Remote workers, call center agents, and sales professionals who work from noisy environments and need both crystal-clear audio quality and automatic meeting notes from a single, lightweight app that never adds a bot to their calls.Freelancers, coaches, and consultants who want a privacy-first, bot-free meeting notetaker that works silently across any video platform without any calendar permissions or third-party integrations required.

Not ideal for: Teams that need deep CRM integrations, conversation intelligence dashboards, or deal tracking on top of their meeting notes, as Krisp focuses on audio quality and individual productivity rather than sales analytics pipelines.

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Fathom

The most generous free AI notetaker with unlimited recordings, instant summaries, and bot-free capture across Zoom, Meet, and Teams.

Fathom is widely considered the best free AI meeting notetaker on the market, offering unlimited recording, transcription, and storage with no credit card required — even on the free plan. After every call, Fathom delivers a formatted AI summary in under 30 seconds, automatically generates action items, and can push st…

Best for:Individual contributors, founders, and freelancers who attend multiple meetings daily and want the most accurate free AI notetaker available, with no usage caps that force an upgrade within weeks.Customer-facing teams in sales, customer success, and account management who need auto-populated CRM notes and formatted follow-up emails without paying for a dedicated sales intelligence platform.

Not ideal for: Large enterprise teams that need org-wide meeting analytics, coaching scorecards, or complex admin controls, as Fathom's higher-tier plans focus on team collaboration rather than deep conversation intelligence.

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Avoma

All-in-one AI revenue platform for meeting notes, smart scheduling, call coaching, and CRM intelligence built for sales and CS teams.

Avoma is a full-stack meeting intelligence platform purpose-built for sales, customer success, and revenue operations teams. Beyond automatic notetaking, Avoma provides AI call coaching with custom scorecards (MEDDIC, SPICED, BANT), automated CRM field updates, deal risk intelligence, pipeline forecasting, and built-in…

Best for:B2B sales teams of 10 or more that want an affordable alternative to Gong or Chorus, with AI coaching scorecards, deal risk tracking, and automated CRM data entry that turns every customer call into structured revenue intelligence.Customer success and account management teams who need consistent, structured call notes synced automatically to their CRM after every QBR, onboarding session, and renewal conversation to maintain complete account history.

Not ideal for: Freelancers, solopreneurs, or small teams who only need basic meeting transcription and summaries, as Avoma has no permanent free plan and its lowest tier at $19/seat/month is over-engineered for non-sales workflows.

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Tactiq

Bot-free Chrome extension that transcribes meetings live in Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams with AI summaries and one-click workflow automation.

Tactiq is a lightweight Chrome extension that captures live transcriptions directly within Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams — without any bot joining your call, without a separate app to manage, and without any recording stored on third-party servers. After the meeting, Tactiq's AI generates summaries, action ite…

Best for:Google Workspace users and teams who want the simplest possible bot-free meeting transcription with instant AI summaries and no onboarding friction, since the Chrome extension works the moment it is installed with no configuration required.Content creators, researchers, and educators who use YouTube extensively and need the free YouTube Transcript Generator alongside their live meeting transcription in a single browser extension.

Not ideal for: Teams that need to transcribe meetings on desktop apps like the Zoom or Teams desktop clients rather than in a browser, since Tactiq's Chrome extension only captures meetings running inside the Chrome browser.

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Jamie

Privacy-first bot-free AI notetaker that works offline and in 100+ languages on any meeting platform.

Jamie is a European-built, privacy-first AI meeting notetaker that captures audio locally on your device without any bot joining your call, making it the go-to choice for professionals who handle sensitive conversations. Unlike most AI notetakers, Jamie works completely offline for in-person meetings and phone calls — …

Best for:Lawyers, consultants, and C-level executives who handle confidential conversations and need a meeting notetaker that never uploads audio to a third-party server or adds a visible bot to their calls.European professionals and teams subject to GDPR who require an AI meeting tool with explicit EU data hosting, no AI model training on customer data, and a clear data processing agreement.

Not ideal for: Teams that need deep CRM conversation analytics, sales coaching dashboards, or pipeline intelligence features built into their notetaker, as Jamie focuses exclusively on private note capture and search rather than revenue operations.

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Sembly AI

AI meeting intelligence platform that turns conversations into client-ready deliverables, meeting notes, and automated work products.

Sembly AI is a meeting intelligence platform that goes far beyond notetaking to generate client-ready deliverables directly from your conversations. Designed for professional services teams, agencies, project managers, and consultants, Sembly's Semblian AI agent analyzes every meeting and automatically produces formatt…

Best for:Project management offices, marketing agencies, and IT consulting firms that need AI to go beyond basic summaries and generate formatted client-facing documents, status reports, and risk logs directly from meeting conversations.HR, legal, and leadership teams that need structured AI meeting outputs with automatic detection of risks, issues, requirements, and decisions captured in a format ready for audit or stakeholder review.

Not ideal for: Individuals or small teams who only need simple meeting transcripts and action items, as Sembly's depth of features and pricing structure is optimized for professional services workflows and will feel over-engineered for casual notetaking.

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Supernormal

AI agent platform for agencies that turns meeting context into completed client deliverables: slides, emails, docs, and images.

Supernormal is an AI platform built specifically for agencies and consulting teams that need to turn client meetings into finished work — not just notes. Beyond transcription and summaries, Supernormal generates polished client deliverables including AI slides, emails, documents, and images directly from your meeting r…

Best for:Digital marketing agencies, design studios, and PR firms that need to move from client meeting to finished deliverable in minutes, using AI to generate slides, emails, proposals, and documents that are ready to send without manual formatting.Freelance consultants and independent creative professionals who want a single AI tool that captures their client calls bot-free and immediately produces professional client-facing outputs without switching between multiple apps.

Not ideal for: Enterprise sales and customer success teams that need conversation intelligence, CRM auto-sync, deal tracking, or coaching scorecards, as Supernormal is purpose-built for creative agency workflows rather than revenue operations pipelines.

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Fireflies AI Notetaker

The #1 AI notetaker that transcribes, summarizes, and searches every meeting with 95% accuracy across 100+ languages.

Fireflies AI Notetaker is the dedicated meeting transcription and note-taking product from Fireflies.ai — designed to automatically join your meetings, produce instant AI summaries, and create a fully searchable archive of every conversation. With 95% transcription accuracy across 100+ languages, speaker recognition, a…

Best for:Remote teams and individual contributors who attend multiple meetings daily and need an accurate, searchable archive of every conversation automatically built without any manual effort or setup for each meeting.Sales reps, recruiters, and consultants managing high volumes of external calls who want instant structured notes with action items and the ability to query any past conversation using natural language through AskFred.

Not ideal for: Teams with strict privacy policies where a visible bot participant in their calls is not acceptable, as the Fireflies Notetaker uses Fred bot to join meetings as a visible participant.

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Notta

AI note taker with 58-language transcription, screen recording, and AI-generated summaries for meetings, interviews, and recordings.

Notta is a versatile AI transcription and note-taking platform that converts speech to text in real time across 58 languages, making it one of the most multilingual meeting tools available. Beyond live meeting transcription, Notta handles audio and video file imports, YouTube video transcription, and screen recordings,…

Best for:Journalists, researchers, academics, and multilingual business teams that need accurate transcription across 58 languages with real-time bilingual support for international interviews, conferences, and cross-border business calls.Content creators and media professionals who need a single tool to transcribe meetings, import recorded audio or video files, and transcribe YouTube videos — rather than having separate tools for live and recorded content.

Not ideal for: Teams that primarily need real-time engagement scoring, speaker analytics, or CRM pipeline intelligence from their meeting tool, as Notta is focused on transcription accuracy and content accessibility rather than conversation intelligence.

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Vowel

AI-powered video conferencing platform with built-in transcription, collaborative agendas, and searchable meeting recordings.

Vowel was an innovative AI-powered video conferencing platform that combined meetings, transcription, and collaboration tools in a single product — eliminating the need for a separate video tool and a separate notetaker. Teams could host meetings directly in Vowel with built-in live transcription, real-time collaborati…

Best for:Remote-first teams that wanted a single platform for hosting, transcribing, and archiving all their video meetings without needing to pay for a separate video conferencing tool and a separate AI notetaker on top.

Not ideal for: Any team looking for an active, maintained product, as Vowel ceased operations in December 2023 and is no longer supported. Teams should use alternatives like Fellow, Fathom, or Otter.ai for similar functionality.

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Grain

AI notetaker for growing teams that captures meetings, creates video clips, and delivers enriched context to AI agents and CRM tools.

Grain is an AI meeting notetaker and video intelligence platform built for sales, customer success, product, and research teams that need more than a transcript. It records, transcribes, and generates accurate AI summaries from every meeting, then makes the enriched meeting data available to AI agents — including Claud…

Best for:Sales and customer success teams that need to create shareable video clips of key customer moments and share them with product, marketing, or leadership teams — turning meeting recordings into a living customer evidence library.Product managers and UX researchers who want to enrich AI agents like Claude or ChatGPT with full meeting context to generate better analysis, pattern recognition, and synthesis across large numbers of customer conversations.

Not ideal for: Teams that need a fully bot-free recording experience without any visible participant in their calls, as Grain's recording is handled by a meeting bot that joins as a visible participant.

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Timeless

Agentic meeting platform where your spoken words trigger AI agents to take actions, draft emails, and complete tasks automatically.

Timeless (formerly timeOS) is an agentic meeting platform that treats every conversation as a trigger for intelligent AI agents. Instead of just transcribing what was said, Timeless listens for verbal cues — like 'I'll send the proposal' or 'let's schedule a follow-up' — and automatically activates specialized agents t…

Best for:Founders, sales professionals, and consultants who want their meetings to produce completed tasks and drafted communications automatically, rather than a transcript they have to action manually after every call.Async-first and distributed teams that need context-rich pre-meeting briefs compiled from past calls, emails, and LinkedIn data so every meeting starts with full situational awareness rather than ad-hoc recall.

Not ideal for: Teams that need detailed conversation analytics dashboards, talk-time metrics, or coaching scorecards as core features, as Timeless focuses on triggering actions from speech rather than analyzing conversation patterns.

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Circleback

Y Combinator-backed AI meeting assistant with ultra-accurate notes, action items, automations, and conversational meeting search.

Circleback is a Y Combinator-backed AI meeting assistant designed to deliver unbelievably good meeting notes through a combination of cutting-edge AI models, smart action item detection, and powerful cross-meeting search. It works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, and in-person conversations, wi…

Best for:Professionals at enterprise and growth-stage companies who need the most accurate AI meeting notes available and trust-level automation that routes action items to the right tools without any manual intervention after the meeting.Independent consultants, freelance strategists, and high-volume professionals who attend both virtual and in-person meetings and need a single meeting assistant that handles both modes with equal accuracy and automates their post-meeting workflow.

Not ideal for: Teams with very tight budgets looking for a permanently free meeting notetaker, as Circleback does not have a free tier beyond the 7-day trial and starts at $20.83/user/month on annual billing.

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Bluedot

Invisible bot-free AI note taker for Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams with custom templates, CRM sync, and in-person meeting support.

Bluedot is a privacy-first, bot-free AI note taker that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings without any visible participant joining the call. Operating through a Chrome extension and desktop apps (iOS, Android, and a native desktop recorder), Bluedot works silently on any meeting platform — including Google …

Best for:Sales professionals, recruiters, legal teams, and financial advisors who handle sensitive conversations and need a completely invisible recording solution that never adds a visible bot, never trains AI on their data, and auto-syncs structured notes to their CRM or ATS.Teams and individuals who want highly customizable AI notes that automatically adapt to their specific meeting type — from customer calls to all-hands meetings to legal consultations — rather than a one-size-fits-all summary format.

Not ideal for: Teams that need multi-meeting intelligence dashboards, sales coaching scorecards, or deal pipeline analytics built on top of their meeting recorder, as Bluedot focuses on note quality, customization, and CRM sync rather than conversation intelligence analytics.

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