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Fireflies
Meeting notes only — a bot that records, transcribes and makes every call searchable
Great searchable call archive for a call-heavy founder, provided your clients are comfortable with a recording bot.
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What Fireflies is — in our words
Fireflies is a meeting-notes-only tool, not a scheduling or inbox assistant, and this listing treats it that way. Its bot, Fred, joins your Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls, and the product also offers a Chrome extension, desktop and mobile capture for conversations away from a video call. Afterwards you get a transcript, an AI summary, action items and a searchable archive you can query with its AskFred assistant, plus clips and soundbites you can share with a client instead of sending full notes. Paid plans make transcription and summaries unlimited and add video recording, downloads and a large storage allowance. Where Fireflies goes further than Fathom or Otter is breadth of capture and integrations, pushing notes and tasks into CRMs and work tools, which helps a solo founder who lives on sales and delivery calls. The caveats are the visible bot in the room, which some clients dislike, a free plan with very limited storage, and a separate AI credit pool for assistant and app features that is easy to overlook. It will not book your meetings, defend your focus time, or clear your inbox. Buy it purely to never take call notes again.
What it does end-to-end
- Joins Zoom, Meet and Teams calls to record and transcribe them
- Produces AI summaries, action items and searchable meeting history
- Creates shareable clips and soundbites from calls
- Pushes notes and tasks into CRMs and productivity tools on paid plans
What it does NOT do
- Does not schedule meetings or manage your calendar
- Does not triage inbox or draft general email for you
- Free plan storage is too small for regular call volume
Pricing — checked 2026-11-04
Per seat. Free $0 forever with 400 mins storage per team and limited AI summaries. Pro $10/seat/mo billed annually or $18 billed monthly, Business $19 billed annually or $29 monthly, Enterprise $39 billed annually only. The page displays the annual figure ($10) with the monthly figure ($18) struck through — budget from the figure for your billing period.
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Pro | $10/seat/mo billed annually |
| Business | $19/seat/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | $39/seat/mo billed annually |
Integrations we verified: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Zapier
Pros — our take
- Wide capture options including mobile and in-person conversations
- Strong search and assistant across your whole meeting history
- Cheap Pro tier on annual billing for unlimited transcription
Cons — our take
- A visible meeting bot joins calls, which not every client welcomes
- Free plan storage (400 mins per team) runs out fast
- AI credits for assistant features are a separate, easily missed limit
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