# Bluedot vs Fathom: pricing, features, and which is better > Bluedot and Fathom compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/bluedot-vs-fathom - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/bluedot-vs-fathom.json - Comparison directory: https://circleback.ai/compare - Language: en-US - Editorial perspective: Neutral competitor comparison. Circleback appears only as a clearly labeled third option. ## Short answer Bluedot covers more bot-free devices, including phone and Watch. Fathom has the more generous free tier and a more established online-call clip and CRM workflow. The useful buying test is to run both products on the same external call, internal planning session, and noisy in-person meeting. Compare the result, the sharing defaults, and the work that still has to happen by hand. ## Bluedot at a glance Bluedot has grown from a browser recorder into a credible multi-device meeting memory with desktop apps, mobile, Apple Watch, MCP, clips, workspace chat, and automated recording. Plan gates and capture-mode speaker limits deserve a close read. **Best for:** Teams that strongly prefer bot-free capture, want a clean recorder across desktop and mobile, and value simple notes, clips, and workspace chat. **Less ideal for:** Teams needing a generous free tier, inexpensive video, deep CRM/admin capabilities below the top plan, or a sophisticated native workflow builder. **Price:** Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually Prices are per recorder/month. Basic is $14 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month, but is audio-only and capped at one-hour meetings. Pro is $20 or $25 and adds video, unlimited duration, templates, and imports. Business is $32 or $39 with advanced workflows, CRM/ATS, SSO/SCIM, retention, webhooks, and organization MCP. **Free option:** Yes, but only five meetings total—not five per month. ### Bluedot strengths - Bot-free browser and macOS/Windows desktop capture, plus iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. - A modern, low-friction interface with notes, clips, auto-recording, workspace chat, and MCP. - Only recorder seats are billed, which can make broad read access economical. - Customer meeting data is not used for model training; admins can set retention, SSO/SCIM, and EU residency, while users can export recordings and transcripts. ### Bluedot tradeoffs - The free plan is five meetings for the lifetime of the account, and Basic is audio-only with a one-hour limit. - CRM/ATS sync, organization MCP, webhooks, retention, and SSO/SCIM are gated to Business. - Speaker recognition varies by recording path; the browser extension does not identify speakers for Zoom. - Bluedot’s current pricing page says canceled recordings are deleted after one month, while its cancellation help article says three months; confirm the policy in writing if portability matters. - The integration and native automation catalog is smaller than older, broader platforms. - Action items can include owners and deadlines and webhooks can create external tasks, but Bluedot does not document a native workspace-wide action-item tracker. ### Choose Bluedot when - A visible bot is a deal-breaker and you want easy capture from almost any personal device. - Your workflow values a clean recording library, clips, and workspace chat more than deep workflow automation. - Paying only for recorders is more important than having a useful forever-free recorder tier. ## Fathom at a glance Fathom is easy to love for online calls: unlimited free recordings and transcripts, quick summaries, clips, assigned action items, CRM sync, and a focused interface. Its new Mac experience adds useful bot-free modes, while Windows parity and a generally available in-person app are still arriving. **Best for:** Individuals and sales teams that live in Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams and want a generous free plan, fast summaries, clips, and CRM-friendly workflows. **Less ideal for:** Companies that need proven iOS/Android or in-person capture today, broad cross-platform botless video, a workspace-wide task board, or a cross-channel context graph. **Price:** Free; Premium from $16/user/month annually Free includes unlimited recordings and transcripts but only five advanced AI summaries per month. Paid prices are per user/month: Premium is $16 with annual billing or $20 month-to-month; Team is $15 or $19 with a two-seat minimum; Business is $25 or $34. Enterprise is custom. **Free option:** Yes: unlimited recordings and transcripts, with five advanced summaries per month. ### Fathom strengths - Unlimited free recording and transcription is unusually generous for a solo online-meeting workflow. - Fast, polished summaries, highlights, clips, playlists, assigned action items, and CRM sharing. - Public API and MCP support make the meeting library available to custom tools and agents. - Action items include assignees and transcript evidence, and an Asana integration can synchronize assigned work automatically or on demand. ### Fathom tradeoffs - Fathom’s current pages disagree about iOS availability: the product overview says in-person capture is live, while the help center and launch page still describe the official app as pre-download or coming soon. Treat it as a staged rollout until your account can use it. - Chromebook, Linux, Android, tablet, phone call, webinar, and breakout support remains limited or absent. The current Fathom 3.0 bot-free experience is Mac- and English-only; Windows users remain on the older experience for now. - Bot-free video is currently available for Zoom on Mac. Google Meet support is still described as coming, Teams support depends on how the call is joined, and the bot remains the broadest cross-platform path. - The free plan’s advanced AI summaries are capped even though raw recordings and transcripts are unlimited. - Fathom may use de-identified meeting data to improve its in-house AI models unless the user or Team Edition administrator opts out. Third-party model providers are prohibited from training on it. - All Fathom data is US-hosted. Custom retention is Enterprise-only, applies one policy to the whole team, and is currently configured through support rather than self-service. ### Choose Fathom when - You want a generous free online-meeting recorder and rarely need in-person capture. - Clips, highlights, fast summaries, and simple CRM delivery are the center of the workflow. - You are comfortable keeping the bot for video and named-speaker fidelity. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Bluedot | Fathom | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Broad support — Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Bluedot usually captures meeting and system audio without joining a bot. Its newer desktop apps broaden support beyond browser-based Google Meet and Teams workflows, while an optional recorder bot is also documented for Zoom. | Available with limits — Meeting bot or bot-free transcript, audio, and Zoom video on Mac. The bot remains the broadest mature path. Eligible Mac users can choose bot-free transcript-only, audio plus transcript, or Zoom video; Google Meet bot-free video is still coming and Teams behavior varies by how the call is joined. Fathom says the bot-free modes preserve speaker attribution and action items. | | Desktop and mobile | Broad support — 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. | Narrow or indirect — 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. | | In-person capture and speaker labels | Broad support — 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. | Narrow or indirect — 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. | | Recordings, playback, and clips | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Automations | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | | Integrations | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | | Languages | Broad support — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | Ratings describe documented breadth rather than overall product quality: - **Broad support:** Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans. - **Available with limits:** Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits. - **Narrow or indirect:** Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support. - **Not documented:** No current first-party documentation for a native option. ## Detailed analysis ### Capture options **Bluedot has broader documented support for capture options.** **Bluedot:** Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Bluedot usually captures meeting and system audio without joining a bot. Its newer desktop apps broaden support beyond browser-based Google Meet and Teams workflows, while an optional recorder bot is also documented for Zoom. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot Zoom recorder bot](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting). **Fathom:** Meeting bot or bot-free transcript, audio, and Zoom video on Mac. The bot remains the broadest mature path. Eligible Mac users can choose bot-free transcript-only, audio plus transcript, or Zoom video; Google Meet bot-free video is still coming and Teams behavior varies by how the call is joined. Fathom says the bot-free modes preserve speaker attribution and action items. Evidence: [Fathom bot-free recording](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11578049), [Fathom product overview](https://www.fathom.ai/overview), [Fathom 3.0 rollout](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11577345), [Fathom release notes](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/6220097). ### Desktop and mobile **Bluedot has broader documented support for desktop and mobile.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1). **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. Evidence: [Fathom supported systems](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/296576), [Fathom 3.0 rollout](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11577345). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Bluedot has broader documented support for in-person capture and speaker labels.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot mobile app](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app), [Bluedot Apple Watch capture](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch), [Bluedot speaker recognition](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview). **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. Evidence: [Fathom in-person meetings](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/5500225), [Fathom product overview](https://www.fathom.ai/overview). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **Fathom has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording). **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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom bot-free recording](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11578049), [Fathom product overview](https://www.fathom.ai/overview). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1), [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom product overview](https://www.fathom.ai/overview), [Fathom AI action items](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/640768). ### People, companies, and context **Both products support people, companies, and context, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/). **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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **Fathom has broader documented support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot automatic sharing](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing), [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview). **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. Evidence: [Fathom auto-capture and visibility controls](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/13729025), [Fathom attendee auto-share](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/7574785). ### Automations **Both products support automations, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1), [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot), [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom Asana integration](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/7639617), [Fathom public API](https://developers.fathom.ai/quickstart). ### Integrations **Both products support integrations, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom Asana integration](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/7639617). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Fathom has broader documented support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot MCP with Claude](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp), [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot), [Bluedot transcript export](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt), [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording). **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. Evidence: [Fathom public API](https://developers.fathom.ai/quickstart), [Fathom MCP](https://developers.fathom.ai/mcp-docs), [Fathom release notes](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/6220097). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview), [Bluedot cancellation policy](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription), [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot security](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom auto-capture and visibility controls](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/13729025), [Fathom security and AI training](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/296512), [Fathom retention policies](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/6057089). ### Languages **Bluedot has broader documented support for languages.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing), [Fathom bot-free recording](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11578049). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback turns online meetings, in-person conversations, and imported calls into one shared company memory. Record with a bot, with the botless desktop app, from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Apple Watch. Every route produces the same speaker-labeled record, detailed notes designed to stand alone, and automatically assigned action items. Sharing rules and automations carry the useful parts into the teams and tools that need them. Circleback is built for people and AI agents: the complete meeting record available to a person is also available programmatically through its API, MCP, and CLI. Circleback can also search connected apps and take action in them. It is built for people and AI agents: the same complete meeting data available to a person is available programmatically to ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and internal tools through the API, MCP, and CLI. Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is better: Bluedot or Fathom? Bluedot covers more bot-free devices, including phone and Watch. Fathom has the more generous free tier and a more established online-call clip and CRM workflow. ### Which is less expensive, Bluedot or Fathom? Bluedot: Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually. Fathom: Free; Premium from $16/user/month annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need. ### Can Bluedot and Fathom record without a bot? Bluedot: Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Fathom: Meeting bot or bot-free transcript, audio, and Zoom video on Mac. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names. ### Which is better for a whole company? First ask who gets each note automatically; otherwise useful context stays with the recorder. Then compare permissions, retention, and enforced defaults. Bluedot: Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions. Fathom: Organization and team visibility defaults, plus attendee auto-share. ### Can I access and move the full meeting data? Bluedot: Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business. Fathom: Rich public API and MCP, scoped to the connected user. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need. ### How was this comparison researched? We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and capabilities move, so check the linked sources when a detail is important to your decision. Every feature dimension links to the exact first-party documents used for that claim. Ratings describe documented breadth, not an overall score or winner. This page is a neutral competitor-to-competitor comparison. There are no paid placements or affiliate rankings. ## First-party sources ### Bluedot sources - [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing): Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance. - [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/): Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory. - [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1): June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention. - [Bluedot speaker recognition](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview): Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom. - [Bluedot Zoom recorder bot](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting): Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes. - [Bluedot automatic sharing](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing): User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants. - [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview): Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior. - [Bluedot mobile app](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app): iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing. - [Bluedot Apple Watch capture](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch): Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path. - [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot): User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user. - [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates): Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines. - [Bluedot MCP with Claude](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp): Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata. - [Bluedot cancellation policy](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription): Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement. - [Bluedot security](https://www.bluedothq.com/security): No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior. - [Bluedot transcript export](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt): Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT. - [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording): WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction. ### Fathom sources - [Fathom pricing](https://www.fathom.ai/pricing): Free, Premium, Team, Business, and Enterprise prices and feature gates. - [Fathom supported systems](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/296576): Computer, platform, mobile, phone call, webinar, and breakout limitations. - [Fathom in-person meetings](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/5500225): Current workaround, speaker limitation, and upcoming iOS path. - [Fathom bot-free recording](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11578049): Current Zoom-on-Mac bot-free video and Google Meet/Teams rollout status. - [Fathom product overview](https://www.fathom.ai/overview): Current bot-free capture modes, speaker attribution, action items, Ask Fathom, programmatic access, and the marketing claim that iOS capture is available. - [Fathom 3.0 rollout](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/11577345): Current Mac-only, English-only eligibility and staged rollout behavior for the new bot-free experience. - [Fathom auto-capture and visibility controls](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/13729025): Organization and team defaults for capture and visibility across external, internal, and unscheduled meetings. - [Fathom attendee auto-share](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/7574785): Automatic delivery of summaries, recordings, or both to every calendar invitee, including no-shows. - [Fathom public API](https://developers.fathom.ai/quickstart): User-scoped API keys plus meeting metadata, speaker-attributed transcripts, summaries, assigned action items, CRM matches, pagination, and administrator visibility limits. - [Fathom MCP](https://developers.fathom.ai/mcp-docs): Official authenticated MCP access from ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, and other compatible clients. - [Fathom AI action items](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/640768): AI detection of action items and their assignees plus follow-up email generation. - [Fathom Asana integration](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/7639617): Automatic or manual synchronization of assigned meeting actions into Asana with source links. - [Fathom release notes](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/6220097): July 2026 API recording-download support and current product changes. - [Fathom security and AI training](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/296512): US data hosting, de-identified in-house model training and opt-out controls, plus third-party no-training terms. - [Fathom retention policies](https://help.fathom.video/en/articles/6057089): Enterprise-only, support-managed retention with one policy per team.