Alternatives to Otter.ai
An AI meeting notetaker that transcribes conversations live and produces summaries and action items. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Otter.ai
An AI meeting notetaker that transcribes conversations live and produces summaries and action items.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Otter.ai.
Fireflies.ai
An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls and conversations.
Fireflies.ai transcribes in over 100 languages with summaries and action items, adds CRM and dialer integrations and a browser extension, but its meeting bot is visible to participants.
Mem
An AI note-taking workspace with an agent that tracks your tasks, projects and goals from your notes.
Mem captures meeting notes without a bot joining the call inside an AI note workspace with task tracking, but its desktop app is shown only for Windows.
Motion
An AI work app that combines tasks, projects, calendar scheduling, meeting notes and docs.
Motion includes an AI meeting notetaker inside a work app for tasks, projects and calendar scheduling, with no free plan and web-only access.
Fathom
An AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls.
Fathom records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls with or without a bot and states SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA compliance. It is web only, with CRM features on paid plans.
tl;dv
An AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls.
tl;dv records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with customizable summaries and automatic CRM logging. It is web based and aimed more at sales teams.
Granola
An AI notepad that transcribes meetings from computer audio and expands your own notes.
Granola transcribes from computer audio without a bot and expands the notes you type yourself. It is free, with apps for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Otter.ai as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Read AI
An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings, emails and messages.
Otter.ai offers live transcription with speaker recognition, summaries and action items, plus a desktop app that records without a bot, but does not search email or chat.
Tactiq
A browser extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls live and summarizes them.
Otter.ai adds Windows, macOS, mobile and web apps with live transcription, summaries and chat across past meetings, and its desktop app records without a bot.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Speechify
A text-to-speech and voice typing app that reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud.
Snipd
A podcast app that uses AI to save highlights, transcribe snippets and summarise episodes.
ElevenLabs
An AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text and music.
Reclaim.ai
An AI scheduling assistant that blocks calendar time for tasks, habits, focus time and breaks.
Descript
A video and audio editor where you edit recordings by editing their text transcript.
Superwhisper
A voice dictation app that turns speech into text in any app, using offline or cloud recognition.
