Granola
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Captures audio locally — no bot joins the call
- Enhances your own notes with the transcript
- Structured summaries and actions
- Free trial meetings
Productivity & Workflow (16)
All 16 AI meeting assistants and transcription tools in the Flocci catalog, 14 of them free or freemium. Pricing tier and real capabilities on every entry — no ads, no sponsored placement.
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Fathom
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Unlimited recording & summaries on the free plan
- Auto-generated action items
- Syncs to CRM and Slack
- Highlights and clips
Otter.ai
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Pioneer of live meeting transcription
- AI chat and automated summaries
- Meeting agents that answer live
- Free monthly minutes
tl;dv
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Record, transcribe and clip meetings
- Bot and bot-free options
- Strong compliance controls
- Free plan with unlimited recordings
Fireflies.ai
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Notetaker across Zoom, Meet and Teams
- Searchable conversation intelligence
- Automations and CRM sync
- Free tier available
Read AI
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Free tier gives 5 meeting transcripts/month with summaries and search
- "Ask Read" cross-searches meetings, email, and messaging
- Personalized meeting-coaching performance metrics
Circleback
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- AI-generated custom insight templates per meeting type
- Cross-meeting AI search with speaker recognition
- 100+ language transcription support
MeetGeek
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Free-forever plan with 3 hrs/mo transcription and unlimited AI summaries
- AI voice agents and workflow automation on Business tier
- Global cross-meeting search plus team analytics
Sembly AI
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Multi-meeting AI chat across an entire workspace history
- HIPAA-compliant tier for regulated industries
- Sentiment and risk/issue detection in meeting analytics
Avoma
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Combines meeting assistant + conversation intelligence + revenue intelligence in one suite
- AI deal-risk alerts and win-loss analysis for sales teams
- Permanent free viewer/collaborator access after trial
Bluedot
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Bot-free recording (no visible meeting participant) for privacy
- Free plan gives 5 lifetime meetings, 1-hour cap each
- Popular Chrome Web Store note-taker extension
Spinach
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Purpose-built for agile/engineering standups and sprint rituals
- Auto-creates tickets in Jira/Linear and updates CRM from meeting content
- Free-to-start tier across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack
Supernormal
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Free Starter plan: unlimited meetings, 1,000 min storage/member, no card required
- Credit-based usage system for AI task complexity
- Repositioned in 2026 toward AI agents for client/agency work
Laxis
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Free tier with 300 transcription minutes/month
- AI Writer with 40+ pro templates built on meeting context
- Voice Keyboard AI-agent mode for instant content generation
Jamie
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Bot-free meeting capture (does not join as a visible participant)
- Free tier: 10 meetings/month, 30 minutes each
- Team workspace and shared summaries on paid tiers
Grain
Meeting Assistants & Transcription
- Free viewer seats can access shared meetings and try AI notes at no cost
- Bot-free AI notes and recaps across Zoom/Meet/Teams/Webex
- AI coaching and custom follow-up emails on Business tier
Meeting Assistants & Transcription — straight answers
What are the best free AI meeting assistants and transcription tools?
Flocci AI Tools lists 16 AI meeting assistants and transcription tools, ordered free tiers first: Avoma, Bluedot, Fathom, Fireflies.ai and Grain. 14 of the 16 are free or have a free tier. Every entry states what it uniquely does, not a score.
Are there completely free AI meeting assistants and transcription tools?
None in this sub-category are fully free, but 14 are freemium with a usable free tier. The Completely Free AI Tools collection lists the 115 entries site-wide that carry no paid plan at all.
See the full list →What should I look for in AI meeting assistants and transcription tools?
Start with what you need to do: record a call and get the summary and action items. Then check the pricing tier, because "free" here means no paid plan at all while "freemium" means a free tier under paid plans. Every tool on this page lists both.
See the full list →Looking for a ranked shortlist instead? See the best free AI meeting assistants and transcription tools.