Bluedot vs Fathom

Bluedot

Browser, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch

Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode.

EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot 2.1 release

Fathom

Mac for the new bot-free experience; Windows on the older path

Fathom supports major online platforms on computers, but its current 3.0 rollout is limited to Mac and English-language meetings. Windows remains supported through the older bot-based experience. Official pages conflict on whether iOS in-person capture is already live; Android, Chromebook, Linux, phone calls, webinars, and breakout rooms are not normal supported paths.

EvidenceFathom supported systemsFathom 3.0 rollout

Bluedot

Mobile, watch, and desktop room recording

Bluedot supports iOS, Android, Apple Watch, browser, and desktop capture for room conversations. The Watch records without an iPhone nearby, then syncs through the iPhone app. Bluedot’s speaker-recognition matrix documents desktop and browser meeting platforms, not mobile or Watch name-label parity, so verify those modes on a real group meeting.

EvidenceBluedot mobile appBluedot Apple Watch captureBluedot speaker recognition

Fathom

iOS is staged; the old room workaround cannot separate speakers

Fathom’s marketing overview says its iOS app captures in-person meetings, but the help center and current launch page still call it coming soon or pre-download. In the older workaround, every room voice is attributed to the Fathom user rather than separated. Verify iOS access and room-speaker labeling in the actual account before rollout.

EvidenceFathom in-person meetingsFathom product overview

Bluedot

Audio on Basic; video, clips, and unlimited duration on Pro+

The lowest paid plan is deliberately audio-only and limits meeting length. Video and longer calls require Pro, while clips and playback are otherwise polished.

EvidenceBluedot pricingBluedot recording download

Fathom

Unlimited AV, playback, highlights, and clips

Fathom has polished review and sharing for online calls. Video no longer universally requires the bot, but the current bot-free video path is limited to Zoom on Mac rather than equivalent across every supported platform.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom bot-free recordingFathom product overview

Bluedot

AI notes, templates, action items, chat, and workspace memory

Notes and meeting chat are easy to use. Templates can extract action items, responsible people, and timelines. Bluedot does not document an all-meetings workspace task center with assignment and completion state, so serious follow-through usually moves into another system.

EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot custom note templates

Fathom

Fast summaries, assigned action items, Ask Fathom, and team search

Summary quality and speed are core strengths. Paid AI action items identify assignees and link to the source moment; the API also returns completion state and assignee metadata. Fathom presents action items inside each meeting rather than documenting a workspace-wide task dashboard. Advanced summary types and some AI capabilities are plan-limited even while base transcription is free.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom product overviewFathom AI action items

Bluedot

Workspace meeting memory, without broader email relationship context

Bluedot can search and chat across meetings, but it does not emphasize a combined email/calendar/person/company history as a primary product surface.

EvidenceBluedot product overview

Fathom

Meeting and customer-call library

Fathom organizes team calls and customer context well, but does not center a broader email/calendar/person/company knowledge layer for all departments.

EvidenceFathom pricing

Bluedot

Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions

Individuals can automatically share recordings and notes with meeting participants. Workspace admins can restrict external sharing and enforce recording defaults, while conditional auto-sorting remains a user-level setting rather than a workspace-wide sharing policy.

EvidenceBluedot automatic sharingBluedot workspace settings

Fathom

Organization and team visibility defaults, plus attendee auto-share

Admins can set auto-capture and visibility separately for external, internal, and unscheduled meetings at organization or team level, including whether users may override the default. Individuals can also send a summary, a recording, or both automatically—but the audience is every calendar invitee, including people who did not attend.

EvidenceFathom auto-capture and visibility controlsFathom attendee auto-share

Bluedot

Advanced workflows and task-capable webhooks on Business

Bluedot supports automated recording and post-meeting workflows. Webhooks can send summaries and transcripts to custom endpoints that create tasks in Asana, Trello, or Jira, although that downstream mapping is something the customer builds. Its deepest CRM/ATS and team-wide workflow features are reserved for Business.

EvidenceBluedot pricingBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot webhooksBluedot custom note templates

Fathom

CRM, webhook, Zapier, and Asana follow-through

Fathom handles common customer-facing follow-through well. Assigned action items can sync automatically or manually to Asana, webhooks can deliver action-item payloads, and Zapier or CRM integrations extend delivery. It does not document the same broad native trigger/condition/action builder for arbitrary work systems.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom Asana integrationFathom public API

Bluedot

Core collaboration tools; CRM and ATS on Business

The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature.

EvidenceBluedot pricing

Fathom

Strong CRM, Asana, Zapier, and common work-tool connections

CRM delivery and collaboration integrations cover the common sales workflow, while Asana turns assigned meeting actions into trackable tasks. Broader issue-tracker coverage and custom operational actions are less central.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom Asana integration

Bluedot

Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business

Personal MCP and user-level webhooks are available below Business; organization-wide MCP and team webhooks require Business. MCP follows the meetings the authenticated Bluedot user can already access, while team webhooks can receive events for every workspace user after support enables them. Users can also export transcripts as PDF or TXT and recordings as WebM.

EvidenceBluedot MCP with ClaudeBluedot webhooksBluedot transcript exportBluedot recording download

Fathom

Rich public API and MCP, scoped to the connected user

The REST API can return speaker-attributed transcripts, summaries, action items with assignees and completion state, attendees, CRM matches, playback metadata, and recording downloads. Its official MCP connects authorized meeting data to ChatGPT, Claude, and other clients. Both follow what the authenticated user owns or can see through team sharing; an administrator key does not automatically reach private meetings across the organization.

EvidenceFathom public APIFathom MCPFathom release notes

Bluedot

Retention, SSO/SCIM, and advanced administration on Business

Business adds SSO/SAML, SCIM, configurable retention, and EU residency. Bluedot says customer data is not used to train models and AI providers retain nothing after generation. Its pricing and cancellation help pages currently disagree on whether canceled recordings are deleted after one or three months.

EvidenceBluedot workspace settingsBluedot cancellation policyBluedot pricingBluedot security

Fathom

Strong upper-tier controls, with US-only hosting

Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, and custom retention. Fathom currently supports one retention policy per team and asks customers to configure it through support. All data is US-hosted; de-identified data may improve Fathom’s in-house models unless users or a Team Edition admin opt out.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom auto-capture and visibility controlsFathom security and AI trainingFathom retention policies

Bluedot

100+ languages advertised

Bluedot advertises broad language support. As with every vendor, evaluate real calls with accents, crosstalk, and domain vocabulary rather than relying on the count alone.

EvidenceBluedot pricing

Fathom

38 languages on the free plan

Fathom documents 38 supported languages. Bot-free rollout is currently narrower, so language support should be checked per capture mode.

EvidenceFathom pricingFathom bot-free recording