Source: https://bestagentsfor.com/ai-agents-for/note-takers/ Markdown: https://bestagentsfor.com/ai-agents-for/note-takers/index.md Title: Best AI Note Takers in 2026 | Best Agents For - Home - /Agents - /Best AI Note Takers # Best AI Note Takers These products record a meeting and write the notes. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, Granola, tl;dv, Read AI, and Notta have a free plan. Paid starts we read run from about $8 to $19 per user. The argument in user threads is the meeting bot: Fathom and Otter join the call, Granola does not. Checked 5 October 2026. 9 products. Prices and descriptions last checked 5 October 2026. ## Best AI Note Takers compared Pricing is the vendor's published starting figure. A free plan or trial is listed only when the pricing page says so. User comments appear only when we could link a short quote. Otherwise the cell says there are no sourced comments. Product Pricing Free plan / trial Key features Integrations Best for What users say #1 Free, then $8.49/user/mo Free plan Your AI notetaker is now also your Conversational Knowledge Engine Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls. People who keep Otter want the searchable transcript and the history of past meetings. #2 Free, then $10/user/mo billed annually Free plan The #1 AI Assistant For Your Meetings Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Teams that want a bot or a bot-free recorder plus search across past conversations. Fireflies gets named when the meeting has to land in other systems, not when someone wants the shortest summary. #3 Free, then $15/user/mo billed annually Free plan AI notetaking that is out of this world Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Individuals who want unlimited free recordings and teams that want CRM updates after calls. Fathom is the one people pick for Zoom summaries and a usable free tier. A week-long test said it was the quicker setup. #4 Free, then $15/user/mo billed annually Free plan Meetings In, Decisions Out Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Notion Individuals who want a few free meeting reports a month and search across email and meetings. No sourced comments. #5 Free, then $14/user/mo Free plan The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack People who do not want a bot in the meeting and still want AI notes on the device. Granola's fans like that no bot joins the call, and that they can type their own notes while the app fills gaps. #6 Free, then €18/seat/mo billed annually Free plan The AI Notetaker built for Team Collaboration Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Teams that want a free notetaker with clips and CRM logging, priced in euros. No sourced comments. #7 From $19/recorder seat/mo billed annually Free plan and trial An all-in-one AI to automate note-taking, scheduling, coaching, forecasting, and more Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex Revenue teams that want notes plus optional coaching and forecasting, and free seats for people who only watch. No sourced comments. #8 Free, then $9/mo billed annually Free plan AI Note Taker to Visualize Meeting Decisions Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Google Drive People who need multilingual transcription and a usable free monthly minute allowance. No sourced comments. #9 From $8/user/mo billed annually Trial Pricing - Meeting AI MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor People who want noise cancellation and notes without a bot joining the call. No sourced comments. ## Ranked list Ranked on fit for this job, autonomy, controls, integrations, access, and how public the product is. Open a score to see the six parts. # Agent Best for Pricing from Free tier Autonomy Integrations Score 1 Otter.ai Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls. Free, then $8.49/user/mo Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +5 - Fit for the job29/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 2 Fireflies.ai Teams that want a bot or a bot-free recorder plus search across past conversations. Free, then $10/user/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +5 - Fit for the job28/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations14/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 3 Fathom Individuals who want unlimited free recordings and teams that want CRM updates after calls. Free, then $15/user/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +5 - Fit for the job27/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 4 Read AI Individuals who want a few free meeting reports a month and search across email and meetings. Free, then $15/user/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +5 - Fit for the job24/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 5 Granola People who do not want a bot in the meeting and still want AI notes on the device. Free, then $14/user/mo Yes Copilot Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +5 - Fit for the job26/30 - Autonomy9/20 - Controls13/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 6 tl;dv Teams that want a free notetaker with clips and CRM logging, priced in euros. Free, then €18/seat/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams +4 - Fit for the job25/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations12/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 7 Avoma Revenue teams that want notes plus optional coaching and forecasting, and free seats for people who only watch. From $19/recorder seat/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet +5 - Fit for the job21/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 8 Notta People who need multilingual transcription and a usable free monthly minute allowance. Free, then $9/mo billed annually Yes Semi-autonomous Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet +4 - Fit for the job22/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations12/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 9 Krisp People who want noise cancellation and notes without a bot joining the call. From $8/user/mo billed annually Trial Semi-autonomous MCP, Claude, ChatGPT +3 - Fit for the job23/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations11/15 - Access8/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 1 88 Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls. - Fit for the job29/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 2 86 Teams that want a bot or a bot-free recorder plus search across past conversations. - Fit for the job28/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations14/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 3 86 Individuals who want unlimited free recordings and teams that want CRM updates after calls. - Fit for the job27/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 4 83 Individuals who want a few free meeting reports a month and search across email and meetings. - Fit for the job24/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 5 82 People who do not want a bot in the meeting and still want AI notes on the device. - Fit for the job26/30 - Autonomy9/20 - Controls13/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 6 81 Teams that want a free notetaker with clips and CRM logging, priced in euros. - Fit for the job25/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations12/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 7 80 Revenue teams that want notes plus optional coaching and forecasting, and free seats for people who only watch. - Fit for the job21/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations15/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 8 78 People who need multilingual transcription and a usable free monthly minute allowance. - Fit for the job22/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations12/15 - Access10/10 - Evidence9/10 Rank 9 76 People who want noise cancellation and notes without a bot joining the call. - Fit for the job23/30 - Autonomy13/20 - Controls12/15 - Integrations11/15 - Access8/10 - Evidence9/10 ## Pricing, features, and summaries 1 ### Otter.ai Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls. Otter records Zoom, Meet, and Teams meetings, transcribes them live, and writes summaries and action items. It can also record from the desktop without a bot, and it can answer questions across meetings. What users say People who keep Otter want the searchable transcript and the history of past meetings. The bot is the complaint. Commenters say clients react badly when Otter joins, and that speaker labels get worse on large calls. - “Otter is still one of the strongest for searchable transcripts and meeting history.”Reddit - “Otter works but the speaker identification used to frustrate me on larger calls.”Reddit Otter.ai pricing and features/Otter.ai alternatives 2 ### Fireflies.ai Teams that want a bot or a bot-free recorder plus search across past conversations. Fireflies records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings from a bot, a Chrome extension, desktop and mobile apps, or uploaded files. AskFred answers questions about past meetings, and the site says it supports 100+ languages. What users say Fireflies gets named when the meeting has to land in other systems, not when someone wants the shortest summary. A commenter on the same thread says it does a lot of things and none of them exceptionally well. - “Fireflies works well if your workflow depends heavily on integrations and recorded calls.”Reddit - “Fireflies feels like it does too much and none of it exceptionally well.”Reddit Fireflies.ai pricing and features/Fireflies.ai alternatives 3 ### Fathom Individuals who want unlimited free recordings and teams that want CRM updates after calls. Fathom records meetings with a bot or a bot-free Mac option in beta, then writes summaries, action items, and clips. Paid plans add CRM sync, coaching scorecards, and team search. What users say Fathom is the one people pick for Zoom summaries and a usable free tier. A week-long test said it was the quicker setup. The bot joins the call. In that test, two clients asked who the extra person was. - “Fathom probably had the best balance between summaries and usability for zoom-heavy teams.”Reddit - “Fathom was quicker to set up and the bot joined every time, but two clients asked who the extra person on the line was.”Reddit Fathom pricing and features/Fathom alternatives 4 ### Read AI Individuals who want a few free meeting reports a month and search across email and meetings. Read AI summarizes meetings and can pull context from email and calendar, then recommend next steps. The free plan includes 5 meeting transcripts a month and needs no install or card. Read AI pricing and features/Read AI alternatives 5 ### Granola People who do not want a bot in the meeting and still want AI notes on the device. Granola takes meeting notes from device audio without a bot joining the call. You can type your own notes and it rewrites them with the transcript, then drafts follow-ups on paid plans. What users say Granola's fans like that no bot joins the call, and that they can type their own notes while the app fills gaps. Other people say it misses nuance, and one commenter called it highly unreliable. A tester also could not get the audio file back. - “Granola feels the most natural during meetings. Lightweight and less intrusive.”Reddit - “Granola on my Mac gave me readable summaries and no bot jumped into the call.”Reddit - “Unfortunately, Granola is still highly unreliable!”Reddit Granola pricing and features/Granola alternatives 6 ### tl;dv Teams that want a free notetaker with clips and CRM logging, priced in euros. tl;dv records Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, then writes summaries, clips, and CRM updates. It says recordings and transcripts are not used to train AI, and that there is no native mobile app. tl;dv pricing and features/tl;dv alternatives 7 ### Avoma Revenue teams that want notes plus optional coaching and forecasting, and free seats for people who only watch. Avoma records meetings, writes notes, updates CRM fields, and schedules meetings. Conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence, and lead routing are paid add-ons. Avoma pricing and features/Avoma alternatives 8 ### Notta People who need multilingual transcription and a usable free monthly minute allowance. Notta transcribes online meetings, in-person recordings, and uploaded files in 58 languages, then summarizes them and can generate slides or infographics. The free plan includes 120 minutes a month. Notta pricing and features/Notta alternatives 9 ### Krisp People who want noise cancellation and notes without a bot joining the call. Krisp is a bot-free meeting assistant that combines noise cancellation, transcription, recording, and AI notes for online and in-person meetings. It also sells a separate call-center voice product. Krisp pricing and features/Krisp alternatives ## What is an AI note taker? An AI note taker records a meeting and returns a transcript and a summary. An AI meeting assistant and an AI meeting note taker are the same product in search. An AI notetaker can mean a bot that joins the call or an app that records from your computer. That difference is the buying decision. A free AI note taker is common on this list, and the cap is the part to read. ## How an AI meeting assistant works Fathom, Otter, and Fireflies can join the meeting as a visible bot, then send the notes. Granola records from the device, so the other people do not see an extra participant. tl;dv, Read AI, Krisp, Notta, and Avoma sit on the same shelf, with different bots, languages, and minute caps. The notes are only as good as the audio. Public comments about Granola include missed nuance. Public comments about bots include the extra person on the call. ## Features of an AI meeting note taker Transcript, summary, and a choice about whether a bot appears. - A transcript and a summary - A choice between a bot and local capture - A free plan with a clear minute or meeting cap ## Benefits of a free AI note taker You stop typing the recap, and you can start without a card on most of these products. - Stop typing notes in the meeting - Keep client calls free of a surprise bot when that matters - Start free and pay when the cap is real ## Who uses an AI notetaker Anyone in daily meetings who is tired of writing the recap, and teams that have already been asked who the extra person on the call was. Client-facing work should decide the bot question before the price. ## AI note taker pricing Starting points we could verify: Otter.ai free, then $8.49/user/mo. Fireflies.ai free, then $10/user/mo billed annually. Fathom free, then $15/user/mo billed annually. Granola free, then $14/user/mo. tl;dv free, then €18/seat/mo billed annually. Read AI free, then $15/user/mo billed annually. Notta also has a free plan. Last checked 5 October 2026. Paid starts we read run from about $8 to $19 per user. ## How to choose the best AI note taker If clients will react to a bot, start with Granola and read the complaints about missed nuance. If you want a generous free bot and you can warn the other attendees, read Fathom. Fireflies is the one people name when the notes have to reach other systems. Otter is the searchable archive, with the same bot objection. ## Related categories Nearby jobs have their own lists. Open one when this page is only part of the work. - Best AI Personal Assistants - Best Legal AI Tools - Best AI Recruiters ## FAQ ### What is an AI note taker? ### Which note takers join the meeting as a bot? ### What do the paid plans cost? ## Scoring method Last verified 5 October 2026 Every product is scored out of 100 on the same six parts. Rank follows the total, then job fit, then name. The parts are shown on each row. Read the full method.