The best AI note taker for meetings in 2026, compared.

Scribbl is the best AI note taker for meetings in 2026, for most people on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Nothing joins the call, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items in one account. Automations do the follow-up, like drafting the email or logging notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive, and on Pro you can ask Claude or ChatGPT about every meeting. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv and Read AI join with a bot by default, and Granola keeps no recording.

From each company’s official pricing page on 19 October 2026, per user per month billed annually: Scribbl Pro $13 ($20 monthly), Otter Pro $8.33 ($16.99), Fireflies Pro $10 ($18), Fathom Premium $16 ($20), tl;dv Pro $18 ($29), Read AI Pro $15 ($19.75) and Granola Business $14. Every one has a free plan. Scribbl’s free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript, AI notes and action items with nothing joining the call.

Scribbl, for most people who meet on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Nothing joins the call, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, all in one account. Smart Collections sort your meetings by themselves, Automations do the follow-up, and on Pro you can ask Claude or ChatGPT about every meeting. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $20 monthly. Otter, Fireflies and Fathom send a bot into the call by default, and the platforms’ own tools, Zoom AI, Gemini in Google Meet and Copilot in Teams, each cover one platform, mostly on paid plans.

A bot dials into your meeting as a participant. It shows up in the list with a name, everyone sees it, and on some platforms somebody has to admit it from the waiting room. A bot-free tool works from your own computer, so nothing joins and nobody has to admit anything. Bot-free tends to feel better in client-facing and sensitive meetings. Scribbl is bot-free on Google Meet, Zoom and Teams.

No, and this is the most common misunderstanding in the category. Bot-free describes what the other people in the meeting see. It says nothing about where the recording goes afterwards: most AI note takers, bot-free or not, process meetings in the cloud. Ask each vendor directly. With Scribbl, recordings are private by default, and Scribbl doesn’t use your meetings to train AI for anyone other than you.

Nobody can honestly answer this yet, and you should be suspicious of any page that does. No vendor in this category publishes a word error rate against a stated test set with defined conditions: accents, overlapping speakers, jargon, poor audio. Until someone does, "most accurate" is a claim without evidence. What you can check quickly is how a tool handles your own meetings, so run Scribbl’s free plan on a real call rather than trusting a table.

Yes. Recording laws vary by region, so get the consent you need. A bot-free tool removes the visible signal that would otherwise tell people a recording is happening, which makes telling them more important, not less.

Yes. Scribbl’s free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams: 10 meetings a month with no limit on meeting length, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript, AI notes and action items, with nothing joining the call. Fathom records without a cap, but a bot joins and advanced summaries cover only your first 5 calls a month. Otter’s free plan is 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation. Granola’s free plan shows notes from the last 30 days and keeps no recording. Read the exact mechanic rather than the word "free": some caps are monthly, some are per conversation, and some are once ever.

Possibly. Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion) is included on most paid Zoom plans. Microsoft Teams Intelligent Recap needs a Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. Google Meet can take notes for you on the higher Workspace tiers. Each one covers only its own platform. If you meet on more than one, or your Workspace edition does not include it, Scribbl covers Google Meet, Zoom and Teams in one account, with nothing joining the call.

Scribbl. The Chrome extension records Google Meet with nothing joining the call, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items. Google’s own "take notes for me" is only on the higher Workspace tiers and stays on Meet. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv and Read AI join Meet with a bot by default.

Scribbl. Scribbl Desktop records Zoom with nothing joining the call, on Mac with Apple silicon and on Windows, and the same account covers Google Meet and Teams. Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion) is included on most paid Zoom plans but stays on Zoom. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv and Read AI join Zoom with a bot by default, and Granola keeps no recording.

Scribbl. Scribbl Desktop records Teams with nothing joining the call, on Mac with Apple silicon and on Windows. Teams Intelligent Recap needs a Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot licence and covers only Teams. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv and Read AI join Teams with a bot by default, and Microsoft has been tightening what third-party bots may do in Teams.

This is increasingly common, and it is the case bot-free tools exist for. Nothing joins the call, so there is nothing to admit. On this page that is Scribbl and Granola, and Scribbl is the one that also keeps the video. You still need to tell people you are recording.

Because you do not have to take our word for anything about the other tools. Every fact about them is what the vendor publishes about itself, and each name links to that vendor’s own page so you can check it. We make Scribbl and we think it is the best choice, and we say so plainly. If you find something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.