Scribbl vs Fireflies.ai: Botless vs Bot (2026 Comparison)

If you are choosing between Scribbl and Fireflies.ai, here is the short answer. Pick Scribbl if you do not want a bot ever joining your calls and you want notes wired into ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up actually gets done; it is botless, works with Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, and has a free plan with no credit card. Pick Fireflies.ai if you want a deep, multi-platform team product with conversation intelligence, talk-time analytics, CRM sync, and a large library of integrations, and a visible bot joining the call is fine for your meetings. The one decision that changes your day to day is the capture method, and the rest of this comparison breaks it down row by row with current 2026 details.

Scribbl vs Fireflies.ai at a glance

Both tools turn a live meeting into a transcript, a summary, and action items. Where they split is the question your attendees notice first: does something join the call. The table below is organized around the decisions buyers actually make, so read it, then jump to the section for whichever row decides it for you. Figures are directional as of June 2026; confirm Fireflies' current limits and prices on its own pricing page, since they change.

Decision factor	Scribbl	Fireflies.ai
Capture method	Botless: captures from your own session	Fred bot joins the call
Visible to attendees	No bot, nothing announced, no email to guests	Yes, the bot appears as a participant
Platforms	Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams	Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams (and more)
How it runs	Chrome extension (Meet) + desktop app (Zoom, Teams)	Calendar-joined bot plus a web app
Free plan	Yes, no credit card required	Yes, with storage and AI-credit caps
Paid pricing	Per-user plan for heavier use (see pricing page)	Per-seat tiers (commonly ~$10 to $19+/seat/mo, billing varies)
Post-call AI	Summary, action items, and connects to ChatGPT or Claude	Summaries and AskFred chat inside the Fireflies app
Transcription accuracy	Strong on clear audio; can miss heavy jargon and accents	Strong, with broad language coverage; bot-audio dependent
Languages	Solid coverage for common languages	Broad multi-language support (often cited at 60+ to 100+)
Conversation intelligence	Not the focus	Talk-time, sentiment, and topic analytics
Integrations / CRM sync	Leaner, plus your own AI via ChatGPT or Claude	Large library, CRM sync (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)
Best at	Notes with no bot, wired into your own AI	Multi-platform team analytics and integrations
G2 rating	5.0 from 3,000 reviews	Large review base, solid score (check G2 for current)
Used by	10,000+ organizations	Established, large user base
Recording consent	Disclose and get consent; no bot to admit	Disclose and get consent; the bot is visible

Feature	Scribbl	Fireflies.ai
No bot ever joins the call		–
Nothing announced, no email to attendees		–
Works with Google Meet
Works with Zoom
Works with Microsoft Teams
Free plan, no credit card		Free tier, with caps
Connects to ChatGPT or Claude		–
In-app AI assistant	Your own AI	AskFred, in-app
Conversation intelligence and talk-time analytics	–
CRM sync and large integrations library	–
Rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews		Check G2
Used by 10,000+ organizations		Large user base

Capture method: their bot vs Scribbl botless

This is the whole comparison in one section, and it is the reason most people land on this page. Fireflies.ai generally relies on a bot, often named Fred, that joins your meeting from your calendar. When it works, it sits in the call, records, and produces a transcript, a summary, and analytics afterward. The trade is that the bot is a visible participant. Other attendees see it join, it shows up in the roster, and on a client, prospect, or candidate call it can feel like a recording device walked into the room uninvited. If someone removes or blocks it mid-call, or never admits it, the notes never get captured at all. And once it is in, pulling a bot out gracefully in front of a client is awkward.

Scribbl takes the botless route. It captures the meeting from your own session, so there is no extra participant in the attendee list, nothing is announced when the call starts, and no notification is sent to the people you are meeting with. The call looks exactly as it would with no notetaker running. For sales calls, client meetings, interviews, and any cross-company conversation where a visible recording bot would change the tone, botless capture is the difference between getting notes and skipping the tool entirely. If you want the deeper argument, see our explainer on the botless AI notetaker.

Scribbl

Participants (2)

You

Client

No bot in the room. Scribbl captures from your side.

Google Meet

Participants (3)

You

Client

Notetaker (bot)

A visible bot joined the call and appears in the roster.

Platforms and how each one runs

Both tools cover the major meeting platforms, so this rarely decides it, but it is worth understanding the shape of each. Fireflies is multi-platform by way of its bot: point it at your calendar and Fred joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other supported platforms to record. Because the capture happens through a joining bot, the experience is consistent across platforms, and that breadth is a real strength for teams whose calls are scattered across tools.

Scribbl captures from your own device, split across two surfaces. The Chrome extension handles Google Meet directly in the browser, and the desktop app handles Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The result is the same coverage of the big three platforms, just without anything joining the call. If you live almost entirely in Google Meet, the Chrome extension alone is the lightest possible setup; if your team spans Zoom and Teams too, the desktop app extends botless capture there.

The honest read: if you need the widest possible platform net through a single bot and you do not mind the bot, Fireflies has the edge on raw breadth. If your meetings center on the big three and you want them captured with no participant added, Scribbl covers the same ground botless.

Beyond the transcript: your own AI vs an in-app assistant

There is a second difference that matters once the call ends. Fireflies keeps your notes, search, AskFred chat, and analytics inside its own product, which is genuinely part of its appeal for teams that want everything in one place and a dashboard to roll it all up. Scribbl goes the other way and connects your meetings to the AI you already use, ChatGPT or Claude, so the work gets done, not just the notes. Hand your own assistant the transcript and ask it to draft the follow-up email in your voice, pull the decisions into a project tracker, or answer a question across several past calls at once. The notes are the input; the work is the output.

This is a real fork, not a marketing line. If you want a self-contained meeting hub with built-in conversation intelligence, Fireflies' in-app model fits. If you would rather your meetings flow into the assistant you already trust and act on them there, Scribbl's connect-to-your-AI model fits.

Scribbl

In ChatGPT or Claude

You: Draft the follow-up from today's client call.

Assistant: Here is a recap, the two decisions, and next steps for each owner.

Integrations, CRM sync, and team analytics

This is where Fireflies plays to its strength. Fireflies offers a large integrations library and CRM sync (Salesforce, HubSpot, and others), so a sales or success team can route call notes and fields into the systems they already run on, plus conversation-intelligence features like talk-time ratios, sentiment, and topic tracking across a team. If your buying decision hinges on dropping meeting data straight into a CRM and reporting on rep behavior at the team level, Fireflies is built for that and Scribbl is not trying to be.

Scribbl is leaner on native integrations by design. Rather than maintaining a sprawling connector catalog, it points your meetings at ChatGPT or Claude and lets your own assistant do the routing, drafting, and cross-meeting analysis. For an individual or a small team that wants notes with no bot and the freedom to act on them in their own AI, that is plenty. For a larger revenue team that needs deterministic CRM sync and built-in dashboards, Fireflies' depth is the honest advantage.

Free plan and pricing

Both tools let you start without paying. Scribbl has a free plan with no credit card required, and what you get on day one is botless notes. Paid plans add more for people who need it, and team plans extend capture to Zoom and Microsoft Teams alongside Google Meet. You can see Scribbl's plans on the pricing page.

Fireflies offers a free tier as well, commonly with caps on stored transcripts and AI-summary credits, with Pro, Business, and Enterprise seats layered above it for more storage, conversation intelligence, integrations, and admin controls. Paid seats are typically cited in the range of roughly $10 to $19 or more per seat per month depending on tier and billing cadence. We are not going to lock in an exact competitor price here, because they change and you should confirm the current number on Fireflies' own pricing page rather than trust a stale figure from a comparison post.

The durable takeaway: both are free to start, so the better question is not price but capture method. Scribbl's free plan gives you notes with no bot in the room; Fireflies' free plan gives you bot-based capture with storage and credit limits. Decide on the experience first, then weigh paid tiers only if you outgrow free.

Accuracy, languages, and honest weaknesses

Both tools produce good transcripts on clear audio, and both lean on strong speech-to-text under the hood. Fireflies emphasizes broad multi-language coverage (often cited in the 60-plus to 100-plus language range) and team-grade summaries; because it captures through a bot, transcript quality tracks the audio the bot receives. Scribbl transcribes clean audio well, and like every notetaker it can miss heavy industry jargon, unusual proper nouns, and strong accents; a quick skim and edit is worth it on technical calls regardless of which tool you pick.

Here is the part most comparison pages skip, the honest weaknesses of each:

• Scribbl's tradeoffs: it is centered on Google Meet through the Chrome extension (Zoom and Teams come via the desktop app), its native integration list is leaner than Fireflies', transcription can stumble on heavy jargon and accents, and free-plan recordings are not meant to live forever, so save anything you need to keep. If your whole reason for buying is CRM sync and team analytics, Scribbl is not the deepest option.
• Fireflies' tradeoffs: the bot is a visible, sometimes awkward participant on external calls, it can be clumsy to remove gracefully mid-meeting, and several of the features people actually want (the richer conversation intelligence, integrations, and storage) sit behind paid tiers. If a recording bot in the room is a problem for your meetings, more features will not fix that.

Neither of these makes a tool wrong. They map cleanly to two different buyers, which is exactly what the next section sorts out.

Who each is best for

Pick Fireflies.ai if you are a team whose calls are spread across Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, you want conversation intelligence and talk-time analytics, you need CRM sync and a deep integrations library, you want everything to live in one in-app hub, and a visible bot joining the call is not a problem for you or your attendees. It is a mature, multi-platform team product, and that breadth is its real strength.

Pick Scribbl if any of your meetings are with clients, prospects, or candidates where a recording bot changes the room, if you want to start free with no credit card, if you need capture across Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams without anything joining the call, and if you want your notes wired into ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up work actually gets done. Solo operators and small teams who live in Google Meet land here first, and sales teams in particular tend to choose botless; see Scribbl for sales and Scribbl for teams.

Fireflies.ai

• Best for: multi-platform teams wanting analytics
• Capture: a Fred bot joins the call (visible)
• Standout: CRM sync + deep integrations library
• Also: conversation intelligence, talk-time, sentiment
• Accept: a bot in the room, best features paywalled

Scribbl

• Best for: solo or small teams living in Google Meet
• Capture: botless, nothing joins or is announced
• Standout: notes wired into ChatGPT or Claude
• Also: Google Meet, Zoom, Teams; free, no credit card
• Accept: leaner native integrations, no team analytics

If you are weighing several tools at once, our Fireflies alternative breakdown covers the wider bot-based field, and best Otter alternatives maps the broader botless-versus-bot landscape.

Scribbl is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews and is used by more than 10,000 organizations. Fireflies.ai is an established product with a large G2 review base and a solid rating, commonly cited in the mid-4-star range; check G2 for the current numbers before you decide. The pattern among people who switch is consistent: they appreciated the features of a bot-based tool, but they did not want a bot announcing itself on every external call.

FAQ

What is the main difference between Scribbl and Fireflies.ai?

The capture method. Scribbl is botless: it captures the meeting from your own session through a Chrome extension or desktop app, so no bot ever joins, nothing is announced, and no email goes to attendees. Fireflies.ai typically sends a notetaker bot, often called Fred, that joins your call as a visible participant. Everything else, the platforms, the integrations, the analytics, sits on top of that one decision: whether something shows up in the room or not.

Does Scribbl send a bot into my meeting like Fireflies does?

No. Scribbl is botless, so nothing joins the call and nothing is announced to other attendees. Fireflies typically uses a Fred bot that joins as a visible participant from your calendar. That difference in capture method is the main reason people pick one over the other, especially on client, sales, and recruiting calls where a recording bot changes the tone.

Is Scribbl or Fireflies better for client and sales calls?

For external calls, botless capture is usually the better fit because no recording participant appears, nothing is announced, and no email goes to the other side. Scribbl is botless. Fireflies is feature-rich, but it typically joins the call as a visible bot, and prospects and clients sometimes react to that. Pick based on whether a visible bot is acceptable in those rooms. If your meetings are mostly internal, the bot matters less; if they are client-facing, it can be the whole decision.

Does Scribbl have a free plan like Fireflies?

Yes. Scribbl has a free plan with no credit card required, and what you get for free is botless notes on day one. Fireflies also offers a free tier with paid plans above it, commonly with caps on storage and AI-summary credits. Confirm Fireflies' current free-plan limits on its own pricing page, since they change. The durable point: both are free to start, so the real decision is the capture method, not the price of entry.

Does Scribbl work with Zoom and Microsoft Teams, or only Google Meet?

Scribbl works with Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. The Chrome extension covers Google Meet, and the desktop app covers Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Fireflies also supports the major platforms with its bot. The practical difference is how each one captures the call, botless versus a bot that joins, not which platforms are on the list.

How are Scribbl and Fireflies.ai rated on G2?

Scribbl is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews and is used by more than 10,000 organizations. Fireflies.ai is an established product with a large G2 review base and a solid rating, commonly cited in the mid-4-star range. Review counts and scores move over time, so check G2 for the current numbers; the gap that matters day to day is the capture method and how deep your team needs the integrations and analytics to go, not the star average.

Does Scribbl connect to ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes. Instead of trapping your notes inside its own app, Scribbl connects your meetings to the AI you already use, ChatGPT or Claude, so the work gets done, not just the notes. You can ask your own assistant to draft the follow-up email, pull decisions into a tracker, or answer a question across several past meetings. Fireflies keeps its AI, search, and analytics inside the Fireflies app, which is part of its appeal for teams that want everything in one place.

Can I use Scribbl without telling people I am recording?

Botless does not mean secret. Recording and consent laws vary by region, and some places require all-party consent. The right move with any tool, Scribbl or Fireflies, is to tell people you are taking AI notes and get consent. Scribbl simply removes the awkward bot from the room; it does not remove your responsibility to be transparent. You can start free at extension.app.scribbl.co/signup.