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Fireflies.ai

Records, transcribes and summarises your meetings automatically.

Visit Fireflies.ai4.5

  • Rating

    4.5 / 5

  • Pricing

    Freemium

  • Difficulty

    Beginner

  • Works on

    Web, Chrome, iOS

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What is Fireflies.ai?

Fireflies joins calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, then produces a searchable transcript with summaries and action items. The real gain is being able to search across months of conversations instead of trusting anyone's memory of what was agreed.

Pros: what Fireflies.ai does well

  • Searchable archive of every call
  • Auto action items save admin time
  • Works across the major meeting platforms

Cons: where it falls short

  • Recording needs clear consent from participants
  • Summaries still need a human check

Who Fireflies.ai is for

Teams that make decisions in meetings and lose them afterwards.

Who can skip it

People in few meetings or in strict no-recording environments.

Compare Fireflies.ai

See how Fireflies.ai stacks up, side by side, plus the lists it made.

Fireflies.ai alternatives

Not sold on Fireflies.ai? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

All Meetings resources

Otter.ai

Focus: speaker labels. Shares transcription and summaries with Fireflies.ai. A web app, not an AI tool. Rated 4.2 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

Web AppFree planWeb, iOS
4.2Visit

Read AI

Focus: meetings, action items and ai notetaker. Shares transcription and summaries with Fireflies.ai. Rated 4.4 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFree planWeb, Chrome
4.4Visit

Fathom

Focus: crm. Shares meeting notes and transcription with Fireflies.ai. Adds macOS and Windows. Rated 4.7 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFree planWeb, macOS
4.7Visit

GranolaEditor's pick, verified

Focus: action items and no bot. Shares meeting notes and transcription with Fireflies.ai. A desktop app, not an AI tool. Adds macOS and Windows. Rated 4.7 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

Desktop AppFree planmacOS, iOS
4.7Visit

call.md

Focus: meetings, ai agents and real-time. Shares transcription with Fireflies.ai. Rated 4.6 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFree planWeb
4.6Visit

Free alternatives to Fireflies.ai

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Meetily

Focus: local ai, open source and otter alternative. Shares meeting notes and transcription with Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Adds macOS and Windows. Rated 4.4 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreemacOS, Windows
4.4Visit

Octop

Focus: ai assistant, self-hosted and multi-agent. Also in AI Productivity and Team Productivity, like Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Rated 4.4 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.4Visit

Agents Universe

Focus: shared agents, project context and team collaboration. Also in AI Productivity and Team Productivity, like Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Rated 4.3 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeWeb
4.3Visit

CubePlex

Focus: managed agents, team workspace and mcp. Also in AI Productivity and Team Productivity, like Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Rated 4.3 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform
4.3Visit

Garden Desk

Focus: private ai, on-premise and self-hosted. Also in AI Productivity and Team Productivity, like Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Rated 4.3 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform
4.3Visit

Agent Room

Focus: ai agents, mcp and claude code. Also in AI Productivity and Collaboration, like Fireflies.ai. Free (Fireflies.ai: Freemium). Rated 4.2 (Fireflies.ai: 4.5).

AI ToolFreeCross-Platform
4.2Visit
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