# Alternatives to Fireflies

Meeting recorder across platforms.

Fireflies ranks #2 of 8 in Transcription tools, with an Alt Score of 82. It is proprietary, freemium from $10 per seat / month, billed annually and available on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Web and Browser extension. 8 of 10 checklist rows are verified against a public source.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/fireflies/
Category: Transcription tools

## Where Fireflies stands out

- **Meeting bot (auto-join)** — 3 of 8 apps with a verified answer have this

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Teams and professionals who spend significant time in meetings (sales, recruiting, marketing, engineering, healthcare, etc.) and need a record of what was discussed and decided without manually taking notes.
- **What you get**: An AI bot joins calls (or records via browser extension/mobile app) to produce transcripts with speaker identification across 100+ languages. It generates automatic summaries, action items, and topic/sentiment analysis, and lets you search or ask questions across past meetings. Meeting content syncs into tools like Salesforce, Slack, and Asana.
- **How it works**: Add the Fireflies bot to a meeting (or record via extension/app); it transcribes the conversation, then generates a summary with action items shortly after the call ends; users can review, search, or query the transcript afterward and push notes into connected apps.

## Profile

- **License**: Proprietary (verified 2026-07-10)
- **Pricing model**: Freemium (verified 2026-07-10)
- **Starts at**: $10 per seat / month, billed annually (verified 2026-07-10)
- **Platforms**: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Web, Browser extension
- **Status**: active (verified 2026-07-10)

## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Rev](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/rev.md) | 91 | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android |
| 2 | [Otter.ai](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/otterai.md) | 78 | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 3 | [Sonix](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/sonix.md) | 73 | Proprietary | Web |
| 4 | [MacWhisper](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/macwhisper.md) | 64 | Proprietary | macOS |
| 5 | [Trint](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/trint.md) | 64 | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 6 | [superwhisper](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/superwhisper.md) | 60 | Proprietary | macOS, Windows, iOS |
| 7 | [Whisper](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/whisper.md) | 55 | MIT | Windows, macOS, Linux |

Alt Score = Verified coverage (90%) + Visibility (10%). See https://altcatalog.com/how-alt-score-works/

## Feature comparison

Legend: Yes / No / Partial / ? (not verified).

| Transcription tools checklist | Fireflies | Rev | Otter.ai | Sonix | MacWhisper | Trint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Usage-based | Freemium | Subscription |
| Starts at | $10 per seat / month, billed annually | $0.25/minute (AI captions) | $8.33/user/month (Pro, billed annually) | $10 per hour | €64 one-time (MacWhisper Pro, Personal Use) | ? |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Web, Browser extension | Web, iOS, Android | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Web, Browser extension | Web | macOS | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| Accuracy (benchmark class) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Speaker diarization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Languages supported | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Runs locally / offline | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| Meeting bot (auto-join) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Summaries & action items | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Export formats (SRT, VTT) | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API access | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Free tier limits | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial |
| Human review option | ? | Yes | ? | Partial | No | ? |

## Sources

Sources for Fireflies. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.

- **License**: Proprietary — <https://fireflies.ai/terms-of-service> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “© 2026 Fireflies.AI Corp. All rights reserved.”
- **Pricing model**: Freemium — <https://fireflies.ai/pricing> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “400 mins of storage/team”
- **Platforms**: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Web, Browser extension — <https://fireflies.ai/desktop> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “Available on Windows 10+ and MacOS 12+”
- **Starts at**: $10 per seat / month, billed annually — <https://fireflies.ai/pricing> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “$10 per seat / month, billed annually”
- **Status**: active — <https://fireflies.ai/blog/fireflies-1-billion-valuation/> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “Fireflies.ai, the #1 AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies, today announced it has reached a valuation of over $1 billion following its first tender offer.”
- **Accuracy (benchmark class)**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/blog/fireflies-mobile-app/> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “Our web app lets you record, transcribe, summarize, and analyze online meetings with 90%+ accuracy in 60+ languages.”
- **Speaker diarization**: Yes — <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fireflies-ai-notetaker/id6463164203> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “Speaker identification, sentiment analysis, and conversation metrics”
- **Languages supported**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/blog/fireflies-multi-language-transcription/> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “You can now invite Fireflies AI notetaker to your meetings and transcribe them in one of the 100+ new languages, including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.”
- **Meeting bot (auto-join)**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/desktop> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “no bot joining your call and no one seeing an extra participant”
- **Summaries & action items**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/features> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “AI Summaries”
- **Export formats (SRT, VTT)**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/blog/extract-subtitles-from-mp4/> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “After transcribing, you can download the transcripts in various formats, such as DOCX, PDF, CSV, JSON, and SRT, the most commonly used subtitle format.”
- **API access**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/api> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “Process audio, generate transcripts, and extract actionable data.”
- **Free tier limits**: Yes — <https://fireflies.ai/pricing> (verified 2026-07-10)
  - Quote: “400 mins of storage/team”

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