Fireflies alternatives

What Fireflies is and who it is for

Fireflies is aimed at teams that want meetings, email, chat and CRM in one knowledge base. It has a free plan plus Pro, Business and Enterprise.

It records with its bot, Fireflies Notetaker, or without a bot through the Chrome extension or the desktop app. Without the bot, labels stay as Speaker 1 and Speaker 2.

Fireflies and PolarParrot side by side

When Fireflies is the better choice

• You are a team and want it all in one place. Fireflies joins meetings, email, chat and CRM. PolarParrot has no team plan.
• You use Windows or your phone. PolarParrot only runs on a Mac.
• You record FaceTime. Its guide mentions FaceTime and WhatsApp. PolarParrot cannot record the other people on FaceTime.
• You want to start free and stay free. Fireflies has a free plan with limits. PolarParrot's free part is a few meetings.

When PolarParrot fits

• You want your voice kept apart from the others with no bot. PolarParrot does that. Fireflies, without a bot, leaves Speaker 1 and Speaker 2.
• You never want a bot. PolarParrot has no bot mode.
• You want to decide when it records. It only records when you press record.
• You prefer paying in euros with VAT included. Fireflies publishes its prices in dollars.

Other Fireflies 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 Fireflies 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.
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.
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.
Fathomsource, 2 November 2026	People who want free notes from Zoom, Meet and Teams, and teams that want the CRM kept up to date.	Free forever, with unlimited recordings and transcripts. Premium: $20 per user a month, or $16 paid yearly. Team: $19, or $15 paid yearly, 2 users minimum. Business: $34, or $25 paid yearly, 2 users minimum.	Both: a bot by default, and bot-free device recording, in beta and only on Mac. Mac and Windows. Without the bot, Mac only.

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 Fireflies we could not settle:

• Its pricing page does not mention MCP: this comes from its docs, through the search snippet.
• One official source says bot-free desktop recording starts at Pro. We did not see that on the pricing page.