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AI Notetakers

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AI notetakers record meetings, transcribe them and write summaries with action items, so nobody has to take notes by hand. Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, tl;dv, Read AI and Notta send a bot into Zoom, Meet and Teams calls; Fathom, Grain, MeetGeek and Avoma offer a bot or bot-free capture; Granola listens to device audio with no bot at all. Avoma and Grain lean toward sales and customer teams. Open-source options range from local desktop apps such as Meetily, anarlog, Minutes, Muesli, StenographAI and Humla, through the self-hosted team server Nojoin and the Meet caption saver TranscripTonic, to Vexa and Attendee, which give developers the meeting bot itself.

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Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.

OOtter.ai

AI meeting assistant for transcription, summaries, and action items.

$8.33free tierFFireflies.ai

AI notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings.

free tierFFathom

AI notetaker that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings.

free tierTtl;dv

AI meeting notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams with sales coaching.

free tierRRead AI

AI meeting summaries, transcripts, and productivity automation across platforms.

$5free tierGGranola

AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.

free tierAAvoma

AI platform for meeting notes, scheduling, coaching, and CRM updates.

free tierGGrain

AI meeting notetaker for growing teams

free tierMMeetGeek

AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, summarizes, and automates follow-ups.

free tierNNotta

AI meeting notetaker that transcribes, summarizes, and turns conversations into visuals.

$8.17free tier

Free 10 direct

Free to use. You run it on your own server.

Direct alternatives

They do this job.

MEZackriya-Solutions/meetily

Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

★ 32kFreeANfastrepl/anarlog

Open source Granola AI Alternative

★ 9.5kFreeVEVexa-ai/vexa

Open-source meeting transcription API for Google Meet, Microsoft Teams & Zoom. Auto-join bots, real-time WebSocket transcripts, MCP server for AI agents. Self-host or use hosted SaaS.

★ 2.9kFreeMIsilverstein/minutes

Open-source, local-first Granola/Otter alternative that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client can query. Meetings, calls, and voice memos transcribed on-device into markdown you own.

★ 1.6kFreeMUMuesli-HQ/muesli

Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)

★ 1.4kFreeSTstenolabs/stenoai

StenographAI is the secure privacy-first AI notepad & notetaker for confidential conversations in government & defence sectors. On Windows, Linux & MacOS.

★ 1.3kFreeATattendee-labs/attendee

The universal Meeting Bot API

★ 766FreeHUmichaelwilhelmsen/humla

Open-source AI meeting notes for Mac. Records mic + system audio with no bot, transcribes on-device or via OpenAI / Deepgram / Groq, identifies speakers offline, and writes summaries that fuse your notes with the transcript. Ask your notes and get cited answers. Tauri 2 + Rust + Swift.

★ 319FreeTRvivek-nexus/transcriptonic

Simple Google Meet transcripts. Private and open source. Zoom and Teams transcripts in beta.

★ 232FreeNOValtora/Nojoin

Self-hosted meeting notes with no bot in the call. Records Meet, Teams and Zoom from the browser, transcribes on your own hardware, and lets Claude or ChatGPT read and edit your library over MCP.

★ 84Free

Feature by feature

Every paid tool and free repository we compared, marked against the same features.

✓has itPartlysome plans or extra work—confirmed not available?not confirmed✓the vendor's claim onlypricingClick a mark for its note and source

Paid · 10Free · 10
FeatureZackriya-Solutions/meetilyfastrepl/anarlogsilverstein/minutesMuesli-HQ/mueslistenolabs/stenoaimichaelwilhelmsen/humlaValtora/Nojoinvivek-nexus/transcriptonicVexa-ai/vexaattendee-labs/attendee
Starts at$8.33 per user per month (Pro), billed annually; $16.99 billed monthly$10 per seat per month (Pro), billed annually; $18 billed monthly$15 per user per month (Team), billed annually; $19 billed monthly$18 per seat per month (Pro), billed annually$15 per user per month (Pro), billed annually; $19.75 billed monthly$14 per user per month (Business); billing period not stated$19 per recorder seat per month (Startup), billed annually$15 per seat per month (Starter), billed annually; $19 billed monthly$9.99 per user per month (Pro), billed yearly$8.17 per month (Pro), billed annually ($97.99 a year)MITMITMITMITMITMITAGPL-3.0MITApache-2.0Elastic
Capture
Meeting bot joins callsA notetaker bot can join Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls on its own.
Bot-free captureRecords call audio from the user's device or browser, with no bot in the participant list.
Zoom, Meet and TeamsWorks with all three of the main video meeting platforms.
File upload or importTranscribes recordings that were made elsewhere and uploaded or imported.
Transcription
Live transcriptShows the transcript while the meeting is still running.
Speaker identificationSeparates and labels who said what.
Multilingual transcriptionTranscribes several languages, not only English.
Notes
AI summaries and action itemsWrites a summary with decisions and action items after each meeting.
Custom note templatesLets the user shape the notes with templates or custom prompts.
Ask AI across meetingsAnswers questions across many meetings, not only the current one.
Integrations
CRM syncPushes notes or fields into a CRM such as Salesforce or HubSpot.
Workflow integrationsSends notes to tools such as Slack, Notion, Zapier, Make or n8n.
API or MCP accessGives developers or AI assistants programmatic access through an API, webhooks, MCP or a CLI.
Recording
Video recording and clipsKeeps meeting video and lets the user cut or share clips.
Platforms
Mobile appsHas iOS or Android apps for recording or reading notes.
Control
Local or self-hosted processingCan run transcription and storage on the user's own machine or server.
Single sign-onSupports SAML or OIDC single sign-on for organisations.
Insights
Conversation analyticsMeasures talk time, engagement or coaching metrics across meetings.

Excluded candidates

Looked at, and left out of the comparison, with the reason.

Paid apps

  • BluedotBluedot is a bot-free notetaker that records through a Chrome extension and desktop app; Fathom, Grain and Granola cover the same bot-free capture with fuller published plan tables, so it ranked below them.Source
  • KrispKrisp is best known for AI noise cancellation and bundles a meeting notetaker into that product; the selected tools are built around notes rather than call audio clean-up.Source
  • SemblySembly is a bot-based notetaker with summaries and team workspaces, overlapping Otter, Fireflies and MeetGeek; those three publish fuller plan comparisons, so it ranked below them.Source
  • TactiqTactiq is a Chrome extension that captures live captions from Meet, Zoom and Teams into a transcript; it is a lighter capture tool than the full notetakers compared here.Source
  • CirclebackCircleback is an AI notetaker with automations, overlapping Fireflies and MeetGeek; with ten slots, the more widely documented products with free plans were kept.Source
  • FellowFellow started as a meeting management tool for agendas, one-to-ones and action items, with AI notes added on top; its centre is meeting management rather than note taking.Source
  • GongGong is a revenue intelligence platform for sales organisations where call recording feeds deal forecasting and coaching; it belongs with sales intelligence rather than general AI notetakers.Source
  • Zoom AI CompanionZoom AI Companion is Zoom's built-in assistant that summarises meetings held in Zoom, so it is a feature of one meeting platform rather than a standalone notetaker across Zoom, Meet and Teams.Source

Repositories

  • rishikanthc/ScriberrScriberr is a self-hosted app that transcribes and summarises uploaded audio files rather than capturing meetings; its last release was v1.2.0 in December 2025 and its README says development is only now restarting.Source
  • screenpipe/screenpipeScreenpipe continuously records the screen and audio of a computer for search and automation; meetings are one input among many, and its licence file is a commercial licence rather than an open-source one.Source
  • thepersonalaicompany/amurexAmurex is an AI meeting copilot delivered as a browser extension, but the repository has had no pushes since May 2025.Source
  • Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistantNatively is a live interview and meeting copilot that suggests answers during calls, in the style of Cluely; answering in real time is a different job from taking meeting notes, and its licence is not a recognised one.Source
  • joinly-ai/joinlyJoinly lets AI agents join meetings and speak in them; it is infrastructure for agents in calls rather than a notetaker, and Vexa and Attendee cover the meeting bot role here.Source
  • meetingbot/meetingbotMeetingBot is an open-source meeting bot API like Attendee and Vexa, but its default branch has had no pushes since April 2026 while those two release weekly.Source
  • screenappai/meeting-botScreenApp's meeting bot records Meet, Zoom and Teams through one API; it is a recorder component without transcription or notes, narrower than Vexa and Attendee.Source
  • aws-samples/amazon-transcribe-live-meeting-assistantLive Meeting Assistant is an AWS sample that deploys a meeting transcription and summary stack on Amazon Transcribe and Bedrock; it is a reference architecture tied to AWS services rather than a product.Source
  • owengretzinger/meetingnotesMeetingnotes is a small open-source AI notetaker for engineers, but its repository has had no pushes since December 2025.Source
  • ariso-ai/oatsOats is a young macOS meeting-notes app (98 stars) whose offline transcription and AI notes overlap Meetily, anarlog and Humla, which are more established.Source
  • ZapYap-com/note67Note67 is a local meeting notes assistant with Whisper transcription under AGPL-3.0; it covers the same local workflow as Meetily and StenographAI with fewer features documented.Source
  • 4minitz/4minitz4Minitz is a web app for writing meeting minutes by hand, with no recording or AI, and its last push was in June 2024.Source

Gaps

What the research could not settle from the vendors' own pages.

What vendors don't publish

  • Granola lists $14 and $35 per user per month without saying whether these are monthly or annual prices, so its cost cannot be compared exactly with tools that show both.Granola · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1
  • Fathom's pricing page does not state transcription languages, live transcripts, upload support or mobile apps, which matters for non-English teams and in-person meetings.Fathom · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1
  • Notta and Granola do not say on their pricing pages which meeting platforms they capture or how many transcription languages they support.Granola, Notta · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1 · source 2
  • Most open-source notetakers here leave model costs to the user: transcription can run locally, but summaries often use your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic or another provider, so running cost depends on that choice.Zackriya-Solutions/meetily, fastrepl/anarlog, silverstein/minutes, Muesli-HQ/muesli, stenolabs/stenoai, michaelwilhelmsen/humla · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1 · source 2 · source 3
  • Several local apps are single-platform: Muesli and Humla run on macOS only, so Windows and Linux teams need Meetily, StenographAI or the self-hosted Nojoin.Muesli-HQ/muesli, michaelwilhelmsen/humla · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1 · source 2
  • Attendee's licence is the Elastic License 2.0, which restricts offering it as a managed service; GitHub labels it only as other, so teams should read the licence file before building a hosted product on it.attendee-labs/attendee · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1

Where vendor pages disagree

  • Otter's pricing page showed promotional prices at the check, a Business discount for the first three months and a Pro price tied to an India-issued card, beside the standard prices used here.Otter.ai · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1

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