Fathom alternatives

What Fathom is and who it is for

Fathom is aimed at people who want free notes from Zoom, Meet and Teams, and at teams that want the CRM kept up to date. It has a free plan plus Premium, Team and Business.

It records with a bot by default. The bot-free option, from the device, is in beta and only on Mac.

Fathom and PolarParrot side by side

When Fathom is the better choice

• You want to record as much as you can for free. Fathom gives you unlimited recordings and transcripts without paying. PolarParrot gives you 3 meetings per Mac.
• You use Windows. PolarParrot only runs on a Mac.
• You are a team that wants the CRM kept up to date. Fathom sells Team and Business. PolarParrot has no team plan.
• You have a lot of meeting hours. PolarParrot Pro has a monthly hour cap.

When PolarParrot fits

• You do not want to rely on a beta to record without a bot. In PolarParrot it is the only way to record.
• You prefer paying in euros with VAT included. Fathom publishes its prices in dollars.

Which AI meeting note taker is actually free?

Fathom and Circleback publish unlimited meetings on their free plans. Fireflies also has a free plan, with an asterisk. PolarParrot is not free to keep using: you get 3 meetings per Mac of up to 1 hour each, no card.

Other Fathom alternatives

Prices as they appeared on each website on 2 November 2026. Some websites change the currency by country. Only PolarParrot says here whether tax is included.

Other Fathom alternatives, according to each website as of 2 November 2026

Tool	Who it is for	Published price	What it does
PolarParrotpricing	Anyone who has video meetings on a Mac and wants the notes done without taking any. Mac only.	Free for 3 meetings per Mac, up to 1 hour each, no card. Pro: €15 a month or €150 a year, with 20 hours of meetings a month, VAT included and no minimum term.	Records your Mac's audio and your microphone, with no bot on the call and with the macOS permissions. Keeps your voice apart from everyone else's and leaves notes with a summary, decisions, actions and questions. Your AI reads them over MCP on every plan, read-only.
Granolasource, 2 November 2026	People who go from meeting to meeting and want an AI notepad with no bot.	Basic is free, with 30 days of history. Business: $14 per user a month. Enterprise: $35 per user a month.	From the device, with no bot, on every plan. Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Apple Watch.
Ottersource, 2 November 2026	Teams that want live transcription, a summary and actions from each meeting.	Basic is free: 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation. Pro: $16.99 per user a month, or $8.33 paid yearly. Business: $30, or $19.99 paid yearly. Enterprise by demo.	Both: an assistant that joins the meeting and a desktop app that records without a bot. Mac, Windows, web, iOS, Android and a Chrome extension.
tl;dvsource, 2 November 2026	Teams that want to record and summarise Zoom, Meet and Teams.	Free plan. Pro: €29 per seat a month, or €216 a year (€18 a month). Business: €39, or €348 a year (€29 a month).	Both: a bot in the meeting or a desktop app with no bot. Mac, web, iOS, Android and a Chrome extension.

What PolarParrot does not do

• It only runs on a Mac. There is no version for Windows, iPhone or Android.
• It needs two macOS permissions: the microphone and system audio recording. Without them it cannot record.
• FaceTime. PolarParrot cannot record the other people on FaceTime: macOS only lets it record your voice.
• Download. The App Store version is not available yet. You download PolarParrot from this website.
• The audio leaves your Mac. It is uploaded to our server to write the notes and deleted when they are done. You can change that in Settings. Transcription does not run on your Mac.
• The free part is short: 3 meetings per Mac. Pro includes 20 hours a month, and extra hours are sold separately.
• The price is per person. There is no team plan.

What we could not check

Some details about Fathom we could not settle:

• iOS: one official page says there is an app for in-person meetings and another says it is not out yet.
• Which plan includes MCP: its comparison says all of them, without confirming it in the pricing table.