Alternatives to Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai is a cloud-based meeting assistant that automatically joins your virtual meetings on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex. It records meetings and creates transcripts with speaker labels, making everything searchable after the meeting ends.

The system pulls out key points, action items, and summaries without you having to take notes yourself. You can search through transcripts using keywords to find specific information from your discussions.

Fireflies.ai connects with workplace tools like Slack, Asana, and various CRM systems, helping teams link meeting insights with their existing workflows. The AskFred chatbot lets you ask questions about meeting content without having to read entire transcripts.

Users look for alternatives to Fireflies.ai because...

• Accuracy Issues: Users often report transcription mistakes, especially with technical terms, accents, or poor audio. For example, a project manager found that during technical meetings, Fireflies consistently misheard "SQL queries" as "sequel queries," forcing them to spend time editing transcripts afterward.

• Limited Integration Options: While Fireflies connects with some tools, many users find these connections unreliable or too basic. A sales team reported that the Salesforce integration often failed to sync meeting notes properly, forcing them to copy information manually between platforms—defeating the purpose of automation.

• Pricing Concerns: Many find the pricing too expensive, particularly for larger teams, with important features only available in higher-priced plans. One startup founder had to downgrade their plan after growing from 5 to 15 team members because the per-user cost became too high, losing access to analytics tools they had come to rely on.

How Circleback can help

Why people like Circleback

People choose Circleback mainly because it's simple and focuses on delivering good meeting notes without unnecessary bells and whistles. Users like that Circleback sends clean, organized summaries directly to their email after meetings, so they don't need to log into another tool to get their information.

How Circleback addresses Fireflies.ai "cons"

Based on what users say about Fireflies.ai, Circleback solves several common problems:

1. Simplicity: While Fireflies.ai sometimes overwhelms users with too many features, Circleback sticks to the basics—focused squarely on good meeting notes rather than trying to do everything.

2. Email Delivery: Circleback emails notes to everyone automatically, so you don't have to remember to log in somewhere else to find your notes.

3. No Video Recording: By only focusing on notes (not recording video/audio), Circleback avoids privacy worries that some have with Fireflies.ai's recording features.

4. Clearer Notes: Users say Circleback creates more readable, to-the-point summaries compared to the sometimes wordy or confusing transcripts from Fireflies.ai.

5. Straightforward Pricing: Circleback typically offers simpler pricing without hiding key features behind expensive tiers like some Fireflies.ai users complain about.

Feature comparison

What is Circleback?

Circleback provides best-in-class AI-powered meeting notes and automations. We support over 100 languages and automatic participant identification in both in-person and online meetings.

• Automatically-identified and assigned action items

• AI-enabled search across all meetings

• Automations with 100+ app integrations

• Industry-leading security with SOC 2 Type II, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and HIPAA compliance

• Ability to capture both online and in-person meetings with desktop and mobile apps