Alternatives to Read AI
An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings, emails and messages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Read AI
An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings, emails and messages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Read AI.
Otter.ai
An AI meeting notetaker that transcribes conversations live and produces summaries and action items.
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.
Fireflies.ai
An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls and conversations.
Fireflies.ai transcribes in over 100 languages with speaker recognition and adds CRM and dialer integrations, capturing meetings through a visible bot, extension, desktop or mobile app.
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 has a free plan for individuals, while CRM and team features need a paid plan.
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, and is aimed more at sales teams than individuals.
Granola
An AI notepad that transcribes meetings from computer audio and expands your own notes.
Granola transcribes from computer audio with no meeting bot and builds on notes you type, working with any meeting app, but lacks cross-email and chat search.
Tactiq
A browser extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls live and summarizes them.
Tactiq is a Chrome or Edge extension that transcribes Meet, Zoom and Teams live without a bot, in more than 60 languages, with no desktop or mobile apps.
ScreenApp
A screen and audio recorder with AI transcription, summaries and meeting notes across desktop, mobile and browser.
ScreenApp is a screen and audio recorder that adds transcription, summaries and question answering across saved recordings, on desktop, mobile and browser.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Mem
An AI note-taking workspace with an agent that tracks your tasks, projects and goals from your notes.
Motion
An AI work app that combines tasks, projects, calendar scheduling, meeting notes and docs.
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.
Wispr Flow
A voice dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in any application.
