Best Fireflies.ai Alternatives in 2026

Why teams look for alternatives

Teams look for Fireflies.ai alternatives when they would rather no bot joined their calls, or when they want recordings and notes kept with a European vendor or on their own machine. Others want deal-risk signals and forecasting from their calls, a scheduler and coaching from the same vendor, or sales and recruiting agents alongside the notes.

Fireflies.ai is built around a bot that records every scheduled call, with transcription strongest in English and more than 100 other languages in beta, integrations across more than 100 apps, and video recording and downloads from Pro. The alternatives below either change how the meeting is captured or change what the notes are used for.

Choose Granola when you want the notes without the recording. Granola captures audio from your own device instead of sending a bot, deletes the audio once the meeting is transcribed, and builds notes from what you jot during the call. It runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, so in-person meetings are covered. Paid plans start from $14/mo.

Choose Otter.ai when you want sales and recruiting agents from the same vendor as your notes. Its notetaker joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet with live transcription and speaker labels. Otter also sells an SDR Agent that qualifies leads and books meetings and a Recruiting Agent that syncs candidate notes with an applicant tracking system, and its MCP server is included on the free plan. Paid plans start from $8.33/mo billed annually.

Choose Fathom when you want unlimited recordings and AI summaries on a free plan. Fathom records Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack Huddles, captures in-person conversations through its iOS app, and updates live summaries during the call. It became part of Superhuman in September 2026. Paid plans start from $15/mo billed annually.

Choose tl;dv when you want a European vendor with European data hosting. The company is based in Aachen, Germany. Its recorder works with or without a bot, and custom note templates run sales frameworks such as MEDDIC, SPIN and SPICE, with scheduled AI reports and coaching on its Business plan. Paid plans start from $18/mo billed annually.

Choose Avoma when you want scheduling and revenue reporting from the same vendor. Avoma pairs meeting recording and AI notes with a scheduler and lead router that hands meetings from SDRs to AEs, call scoring with custom scorecards, and deal risk alerts with roll-up forecasting. Plans start from $19/mo billed annually.

Choose Gong when the calls feed pipeline decisions for a larger revenue team. Gong records calls, meetings and emails across a revenue organization and uses that record to flag deal risk, forecast pipeline, coach reps and run AI agents. It says it has more than 5,000 customers. Pricing is quote-only.

Choose Spellar AI when you want help during the meeting, not only after it. Spellar records on the device you meet on, with no bot, and its live AI copilot answers questions and takes notes during the call. Server-side transcription is opt-in per meeting, and users can bring their own AI provider key. Plans start from $15/mo billed annually.

Choose Shadow when you want your meetings as files you own. Shadow records system audio and the microphone on a Mac with no bot, transcribes on the device and captures screenshots of the meeting window. Every meeting is saved as plain Markdown that opens as an Obsidian vault and that AI agents can read. Paid plans start from $8/mo billed annually.

Choose screenpipe when you want a record of the whole working day, not only meetings. screenpipe captures screen and audio continuously and keeps the history on your own disk. Its local MCP server lets AI clients search that history, and scheduled agents can work from it, including recipes that draft meeting follow-ups for review. It has a free plan on one device, and paid plans start from $21/mo billed annually.

The split is between changing how the meeting is captured and changing what happens next. Granola, Spellar AI, Shadow and screenpipe capture from your own device without a bot. Otter.ai, Fathom and tl;dv work much like Fireflies.ai with a different emphasis, while Avoma and Gong put the recordings to work for revenue teams.

Fireflies.ai

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AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls on Zoom, Meet and Teams, with an MCP server. Free plan. Pro $10, Business $19 per seat/mo billed annually (USD).

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