Best General Meeting Notetakers (2026)

Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker known for an unusually generous free plan that offers unlimited recording, transcription, and storage across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, with bot-free or bot-based capture. Paid tiers add advanced summaries, AI-generated action items, a conversational meeting assistant, and CRM field sync. The product is used by 500,000+ people and is backed by a $17M Series A.

Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that automatically joins online calls across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other platforms to record, transcribe in 100+ languages, and generate AI summaries, action items, and conversation intelligence. Its AskFred assistant answers questions about past meetings, and a credit system governs AI features across Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers.

Otter.ai is one of the most widely adopted AI meeting assistants, pairing live transcription with OtterPilot, a bot that auto-joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls to generate shared live notes, capture slide screenshots, and produce structured summaries with action items. Its AI Chat lets users query their entire meeting history in natural language, and meeting insights can sync to Salesforce and HubSpot.

Circleback is a YC-backed AI meeting notetaker that turns virtual and in-person meetings into precise notes and auto-assigned action items, with transcription that recognizes technical terms and supports 100+ languages. Founded in 2023 by former Stripe and Tableau engineers and based in Delaware, it integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, and connects to 1,000+ apps for automating follow-ups.

Read AI is an AI copilot for meetings, email, and messaging that connects to Google Calendar and Outlook to auto-join calls, transcribe, and generate notes, action items, and meeting reports with engagement and sentiment analytics. Founded in 2021 in Seattle and backed by a $50M Series B, it has expanded its copilot across Slack, Zoom, Teams, and Gmail.

MeetGeek is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, pushing action items, decisions, and insights to 7,000+ tools. Founded in 2020 in Bucharest, Romania, it serves 30,000+ teams, supports 100+ languages, and in 2025 launched AI Voice Agents that can join meetings, listen, speak, and follow instructions.

Bluedot is a bot-free AI notetaker and meeting recorder that captures, transcribes, and summarizes conversations in the background via a Chrome extension or desktop app, with no bot joining the call. It works across Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and in-person meetings via its mobile app, and offers native integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Affinity, Asana, Jira, and Notion.

Jamie is a bot-free AI notetaker that records from the user's device and produces concise summaries and action items, helping popularize bot-free meeting capture. Founded in Berlin in 2022, it supports 100+ languages, works regardless of meeting platform since it captures system audio, and includes meeting notes, transcripts, speaker identification, and action items even on its free plan.

Sembly AI is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, automatically detecting tasks, decisions, and action items and supporting 40+ languages. Founded in 2019 in New York, it positions itself as an agentic solution for professional services, and updated its plan structure to Basic, Pro, and MAX tiers effective March 2026.

Supernormal is a bot-free AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and highlights key moments from video calls and shares notes to Slack, Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, and CRM systems. Founded in 2020 by former Facebook, Klarna, GitHub, and Splice operators, it has moved toward AI agents that turn meeting context into finished work like presentations, briefs, and strategies, on a credit-based plan model.