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Plan gates and capture-mode speaker limits deserve a close read.", "bestFor": "Teams that strongly prefer bot-free capture, want a clean recorder across desktop and mobile, and value simple notes, clips, and workspace chat.", "lessIdealFor": "Teams needing a generous free tier, inexpensive video, deep CRM/admin capabilities below the top plan, or a sophisticated native workflow builder.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Light, bot-free recording across desktop and mobile", "chooseFor": [ "Bot-free capture", "Simple recordings and clips" ], "watchFor": [ "Zoom extension has no speaker labels", "No workspace-wide task tracker" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually", "detail": "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. 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Its newer desktop apps broaden support beyond browser-based Google Meet and Teams workflows, while an optional recorder bot is also documented for Zoom.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "Browser, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch", "detail": "Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode.", "level": "strong" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Mobile, watch, and desktop room recording", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "Audio on Basic; video, clips, and unlimited duration on Pro+", "detail": "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.", "level": "available" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "AI notes, templates, action items, chat, and workspace memory", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "Workspace meeting memory, without broader email relationship context", "detail": "Bluedot can search and chat across meetings, but it does not emphasize a combined email/calendar/person/company history as a primary product surface.", "level": "available" }, "sharing": { "summary": "Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions", "detail": "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.", "level": "available" }, "automations": { "summary": "Advanced workflows and task-capable webhooks on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Core collaboration tools; CRM and ATS on Business", "detail": "The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature.", "level": "available" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available" }, "admin": { "summary": "Retention, SSO/SCIM, and advanced administration on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available" }, "languages": { "summary": "100+ languages advertised", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." }, { "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." }, { "label": "Bluedot 2.1 release", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1", "note": "June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention." }, { "label": "Bluedot speaker recognition", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview", "note": "Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom." }, { "label": "Bluedot Zoom recorder bot", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting", "note": "Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes." }, { "label": "Bluedot automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing", "note": "User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants." }, { "label": "Bluedot workspace settings", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview", "note": "Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior." }, { "label": "Bluedot mobile app", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app", "note": "iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing." }, { "label": "Bluedot Apple Watch capture", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch", "note": "Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path." }, { "label": "Bluedot webhooks", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot", "note": "User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user." }, { "label": "Bluedot custom note templates", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates", "note": "Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines." }, { "label": "Bluedot MCP with Claude", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp", "note": "Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata." }, { "label": "Bluedot cancellation policy", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription", "note": "Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement." }, { "label": "Bluedot security", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/security", "note": "No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior." }, { "label": "Bluedot transcript export", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt", "note": "Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT." }, { "label": "Bluedot recording download", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording", "note": "WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction." } ] }, { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "shortName": "Krisp", "logoPath": "/marketing/comparisons/logos/krisp.png", "website": "https://krisp.ai", "tagline": "Bot-free notes paired with real-time noise cancellation and voice technology.", "positioning": "Krisp’s differentiator is not another summary format—it is the audio layer. Noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion sit beside a capable bot-free note taker, recordings, mobile capture, MCP, and webhooks.", "bestFor": "People who work in noisy environments, contact centers, or distributed teams where call clarity and bot-free capture matter as much as the notes.", "lessIdealFor": "Teams that need 100+ languages, a broad company knowledge graph, deep multi-system automations, or advanced governance without an enterprise contract.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Bot-free notes with real-time audio cleanup", "chooseFor": [ "Noise removal and call clarity", "Low-cost bot-free capture" ], "watchFor": [ "Mobile lacks its noise cancellation", "US cloud; HIPAA starts at 100 seats" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually", "detail": "Prices are per user/month. Core is $8 with annual billing or $16 month-to-month and includes unlimited bot-free notes, audio recording, screen/video recording, optional bot video, in-person capture, AI chat, MCP, webhooks, integrations, and 10 GB storage. Advanced is $15 or $30 and adds Salesforce, manager/deal views, policy enforcement, team webhooks, and 60 GB. Enterprise is custom.", "freePlan": "No permanent free plan is shown; a seven-day trial is available." }, "strengths": [ "Krisp’s clearest differentiator is real-time noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion across calling apps.", "Bot-free audio and screen/video capture, optional bot-based video, iOS/Android in-person support, AI chat, MCP, and webhooks come at a relatively low entry price.", "Action items are automatically generated and assigned, then managed workspace-wide with assignees, due dates, priority, and status.", "On-device and private deployment options for enterprise customers with strict audio requirements.", "Krisp says meeting data is not used to train its AI models; transcript-only audio can be processed on-device or deleted immediately after cloud transcription." ], "tradeoffs": [ "Mobile recording does not include Krisp’s signature noise cancellation.", "Core includes only 10 GB of storage, while Salesforce, policy enforcement, manager views, and stronger team workflows require Advanced.", "HIPAA/BAA is listed for enterprise deployments of 100+ seats.", "Its 16-language count is materially narrower than products advertising 75–100+ languages.", "Calendar-based speaker names are documented for one-on-one calls; group meetings still require a closer test of diarization and naming behavior.", "Standard cloud meeting data is stored in the United States with no general regional-storage option. Enterprise pricing advertises a negotiable data-center choice and on-device private processing, so residency-sensitive buyers should verify the deployed architecture." ], "chooseIf": [ "Call clarity and bot-free capture are the top requirements.", "You want AV recording, MCP, webhooks, and mobile capture at a low per-recorder price.", "Your enterprise may need private or on-device audio processing." ], "features": { "capture": { "summary": "Bot-free system-audio capture", "detail": "Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android", "detail": "Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.", "level": "strong" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Native iOS and Android room capture", "detail": "Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video", "detail": "Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams.", "level": "strong" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker", "detail": "Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "Meeting library and AI chat", "detail": "Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages.", "level": "limited" }, "sharing": { "summary": "Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing", "detail": "Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder.", "level": "strong" }, "automations": { "summary": "Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules", "detail": "Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas.", "level": "available" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced", "detail": "Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.", "level": "available" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core", "detail": "The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise.", "level": "strong" }, "admin": { "summary": "Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise", "detail": "Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option.", "level": "available" }, "languages": { "summary": "16 transcription languages", "detail": "Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.", "level": "limited" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp mobile recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App", "note": "iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation." }, { "label": "Krisp calendar and speaker naming", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp", "note": "Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings." }, { "label": "Krisp meeting sharing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior." }, { "label": "Krisp Manager View", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View", "note": "Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers." }, { "label": "Krisp Microsoft Teams integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams", "note": "Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing." }, { "label": "Krisp recording FAQ", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature", "note": "Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide." }, { "label": "Krisp bot-free screen recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions." }, { "label": "Krisp multilingual transcription", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings", "note": "Current 16-language transcription list." }, { "label": "Krisp MCP", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP", "note": "OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context." }, { "label": "Krisp centralized action items", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard", "note": "Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion." }, { "label": "Krisp Zapier integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier", "note": "Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier." }, { "label": "Krisp webhook API", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API", "note": "Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope." }, { "label": "Krisp security and data handling", "url": "https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/", "note": "No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls." }, { "label": "Krisp cloud processing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud", "note": "Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode." } ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "key": "capture", "label": "Capture options", "lead": "Both products document broad support for capture options, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." }, { "label": "Bluedot Zoom recorder bot", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting", "note": "Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Bot-free system-audio capture", "detail": "Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp bot-free screen recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions." } ] } }, { "key": "platforms", "label": "Desktop and mobile", "lead": "Both products document broad support for desktop and mobile, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode. Krisp: Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Browser, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch", "detail": "Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." }, { "label": "Bluedot 2.1 release", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1", "note": "June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android", "detail": "Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp mobile recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App", "note": "iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation." } ] } }, { "key": "inPerson", "label": "In-person capture and speaker labels", "lead": "Both products document broad support for in-person capture and speaker labels, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Mobile, watch, and desktop room recording", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot mobile app", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app", "note": "iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing." }, { "label": "Bluedot Apple Watch capture", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch", "note": "Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path." }, { "label": "Bluedot speaker recognition", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview", "note": "Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Native iOS and Android room capture", "detail": "Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp mobile recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App", "note": "iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation." }, { "label": "Krisp calendar and speaker naming", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp", "note": "Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings." } ] } }, { "key": "recordings", "label": "Recordings, playback, and clips", "lead": "Krisp has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Audio on Basic; video, clips, and unlimited duration on Pro+", "detail": "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.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." }, { "label": "Bluedot recording download", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording", "note": "WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video", "detail": "Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp recording FAQ", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature", "note": "Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide." }, { "label": "Krisp bot-free screen recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions." } ] } }, { "key": "notesAndSearch", "label": "Notes, action items, and search", "lead": "Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "AI notes, templates, action items, chat, and workspace memory", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." }, { "label": "Bluedot 2.1 release", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1", "note": "June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention." }, { "label": "Bluedot custom note templates", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates", "note": "Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker", "detail": "Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp centralized action items", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard", "note": "Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion." } ] } }, { "key": "companyMemory", "label": "People, companies, and context", "lead": "Bluedot has broader documented support for people, companies, and context.", "analysis": "Bluedot: Bluedot can search and chat across meetings, but it does not emphasize a combined email/calendar/person/company history as a primary product surface. Krisp: Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Workspace meeting memory, without broader email relationship context", "detail": "Bluedot can search and chat across meetings, but it does not emphasize a combined email/calendar/person/company history as a primary product surface.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Meeting library and AI chat", "detail": "Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages.", "level": "limited", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp MCP", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP", "note": "OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context." } ] } }, { "key": "sharing", "label": "Automatic sharing and workspace defaults", "lead": "Krisp has broader documented support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions", "detail": "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.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing", "note": "User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants." }, { "label": "Bluedot workspace settings", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview", "note": "Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing", "detail": "Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp meeting sharing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior." }, { "label": "Krisp Manager View", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View", "note": "Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers." }, { "label": "Krisp Microsoft Teams integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams", "note": "Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing." } ] } }, { "key": "automations", "label": "Automations", "lead": "Both products support automations, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Advanced workflows and task-capable webhooks on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." }, { "label": "Bluedot 2.1 release", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1", "note": "June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention." }, { "label": "Bluedot webhooks", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot", "note": "User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user." }, { "label": "Bluedot custom note templates", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates", "note": "Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules", "detail": "Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp centralized action items", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard", "note": "Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion." }, { "label": "Krisp webhook API", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API", "note": "Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope." }, { "label": "Krisp Zapier integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier", "note": "Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier." }, { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." } ] } }, { "key": "integrations", "label": "Integrations", "lead": "Both products support integrations, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature. Krisp: Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Core collaboration tools; CRM and ATS on Business", "detail": "The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced", "detail": "Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp webhook API", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API", "note": "Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope." }, { "label": "Krisp Zapier integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier", "note": "Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier." } ] } }, { "key": "agentsAndApi", "label": "API, MCP, CLI, and data portability", "lead": "Krisp has broader documented support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot MCP with Claude", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp", "note": "Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata." }, { "label": "Bluedot webhooks", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot", "note": "User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user." }, { "label": "Bluedot transcript export", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt", "note": "Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT." }, { "label": "Bluedot recording download", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording", "note": "WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core", "detail": "The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp MCP", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP", "note": "OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context." }, { "label": "Krisp centralized action items", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard", "note": "Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion." }, { "label": "Krisp webhook API", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API", "note": "Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope." } ] } }, { "key": "admin", "label": "Security, privacy, and admin", "lead": "Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "Retention, SSO/SCIM, and advanced administration on Business", "detail": "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.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot workspace settings", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview", "note": "Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior." }, { "label": "Bluedot cancellation policy", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription", "note": "Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement." }, { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." }, { "label": "Bluedot security", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/security", "note": "No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise", "detail": "Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "label": "Krisp security and data handling", "url": "https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/", "note": "No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls." }, { "label": "Krisp cloud processing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud", "note": "Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode." } ] } }, { "key": "languages", "label": "Languages", "lead": "Bluedot has broader documented support for languages.", "analysis": "Bluedot: 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. Krisp: Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.", "productA": { "id": "bluedot", "name": "Bluedot", "summary": "100+ languages advertised", "detail": "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.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "krisp", "name": "Krisp", "summary": "16 transcription languages", "detail": "Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.", "level": "limited", "sources": [ { "label": "Krisp multilingual transcription", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings", "note": "Current 16-language transcription list." } ] } } ], "directComparison": null, "thirdOption": { "product": { "id": "circleback", "name": "Circleback", "shortName": "Circleback", "logoPath": "/logos/circleback_square.png", "website": "https://circleback.ai", "tagline": "Every meeting becomes useful company memory.", "positioning": "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.", "bestFor": "Companies that want one shared meeting system across sales, product, engineering, recruiting, customer success, and leadership—with automatic sharing, function-specific workflows, and complete data for people, agents, and their own software.", "lessIdealFor": "A team that only wants a cheap transcript now and then, or a sales organization buying mainly for forecasting and rep coaching.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Every meeting becomes shared, useful company memory", "chooseFor": [ "Detailed notes; always speaker-labeled", "People and AI agents; leading security" ], "watchFor": [ "Paid plans are per user", "Not a forecasting suite" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually", "detail": "Free includes unlimited meetings and members with 30 days of meeting and recording history, limited automations, and API, MCP, and CLI access. Pro adds automations with all integrations, including Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, webhooks, and many more apps, plus custom AI insights. Paid prices are per user/month: Pro is $15 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month; Business is $25 or $29; Enterprise is $35 with annual billing only. See https://circleback.ai/pricing for current plan packaging.", "freePlan": "Free includes unlimited meetings and members, with 30 days of meeting and recording history, limited automations, and API, MCP, and CLI access." }, "strengths": [ "Online, in-person, phone, desktop, mobile, Watch, bot, and botless capture all produce a speaker-labeled transcript; every route can keep its recording or discard it after notes are made.", "The notes are detailed enough to stand alone, while automatically assigned action items stay trackable across the workspace and can become issues in Linear or another work tracker.", "Conditional automatic sharing, company context, free viewers, enforced defaults, and actions in connected apps make each meeting useful beyond the person who recorded it.", "Circleback is built for people and AI agents. The complete meeting record available to a person—including the recording, full speaker-labeled transcript, notes, action items, attendees, people, and companies—is also available programmatically through the public API, MCP, and CLI.", "Industry-leading security practices include encryption at rest and in transit, SOC 2 Type II, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification, GDPR support, and HIPAA compliance. Customer data is never used to train models, and an external infrastructure pentest report is available through the security portal." ], "tradeoffs": [ "The Free plan has shorter history and limited automations. Pro adds automations with all integrations, including Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, webhooks, and many more apps, plus custom AI insights. A solo user who only wants occasional transcripts may find a more generous free recorder elsewhere.", "It is not a sales forecasting suite. Gong goes further on deal inspection, rep coaching, and forecasting.", "It is not a live meeting coach. Read AI goes further on real-time engagement and sentiment signals, while Krisp specializes in cleaning up audio before it reaches the transcript.", "Circleback’s primary processing operations are in the United States. A company with a hard regional-hosting or on-premises requirement should confirm fit during security review." ], "chooseIf": [ "You want the same speaker-labeled record from an online call, a room, a phone recording, or your Watch.", "You want notes designed to stand alone and follow-through that does not disappear inside each meeting: assigned action items, one workspace-wide list, and a path into your issue tracker.", "You want Circleback to look things up and do the next step in the apps where your team works.", "You want coworkers, ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and your own tools to use the same company context." ], "features": { "capture": { "summary": "Any meeting, with the same speaker-labeled result", "detail": "Use the meeting bot for scheduled Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Webex calls; record locally from macOS or Windows with no bot; use iPhone, Android, or Apple Watch in person; or import a phone call or existing file. Whichever path you take, Circleback processes it into a speaker-labeled transcript, notes, and action items in the same workspace.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch", "detail": "Desktop apps handle bot-free system audio and video. The iOS and Android apps record in-person conversations and include Assistant. Apple Watch can record from your wrist without the iPhone nearby, then sends the meeting through the same transcription and notes pipeline.", "level": "strong" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Phone, desktop, or Watch—with speaker labels", "detail": "Record an in-person meeting from iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, or Apple Watch. Circleback separates and labels the speakers instead of returning one undifferentiated wall of text. Imported phone recordings get the same treatment.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "A recording when you want one; notes-only when you do not", "detail": "Every capture route can keep the source recording with the meeting. Play it beside the transcript, download it, link to a moment, or make a clip. If you only want notes and the speaker-labeled transcript, turn recording storage off.", "level": "strong" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "Detailed standalone notes, assigned action items, and cited search", "detail": "Our editorial judgment is that Circleback’s notes are more detailed and need less transcript archaeology than the short recaps common in meeting tools. It automatically creates action items, assigns each one to an owner when the conversation makes the owner clear, and gathers work from every meeting in a workspace-wide view where it can be filtered and marked done. Custom insights extract the fields a team cares about, while Assistant searches meetings and connected email with citations.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "A shared company memory, not isolated meeting pages", "detail": "Person and company pages combine rolling summaries, relationship timelines, emails, meetings, attendees, and upcoming events. Search and Assistant work across that context, so a conversation stays useful to the next person and the next team.", "level": "strong" }, "sharing": { "summary": "Conditional automatic sharing with workspace safeguards", "detail": "Automations can share matching meetings with specific people, teams, or the whole workspace based on titles, participants, invitee emails or domains, tags, and combined conditions. Admins can set or enforce default sharing access while members retain explicit controls for private or sensitive conversations.", "level": "strong" }, "automations": { "summary": "One automation layer for every function", "detail": "Run actions when meetings match conditions, extract the fields each team cares about, share notes, and route the result into the system where work happens. Sales can update the CRM; product and research can collect themes; engineering can open assigned issues in Linear or another tracker; recruiting and customer teams can route structured follow-up. Automations also post to Slack, call webhooks, and re-run against older meetings.", "level": "strong" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Search other apps, then do the work there", "detail": "Circleback Assistant can look up context and take actions in tools such as Linear, Notion, Asana, HubSpot, PostHog, Attio, Ashby, and Intercom. Automations can create Linear issues from assigned meeting action items, write action items to monday.com, and send outcomes to Slack, Salesforce, Zoho, and more. Zapier, Make, webhooks, and custom MCP servers cover the long tail.", "level": "strong" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "The same complete meeting data for people and AI agents", "detail": "Circleback is built for people and AI agents. The complete meeting record a person can access—its full speaker-labeled transcript, recording, notes, action items, metadata, attendees, and related people and companies—is also available programmatically through the public API, MCP, and CLI. The API also supports action-item updates. MCP and CLI are read-only and add search and retrieval across meetings, transcripts, action items, calendars, email, people, companies, and tags. Use the stack from ChatGPT or Claude, build internal tools, or receive meeting payloads by webhook.", "level": "strong" }, "admin": { "summary": "Industry-leading security, privacy, and governance", "detail": "Customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit and never used to train models. Circleback is SOC 2 Type II, certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, supports GDPR obligations, and is HIPAA-compliant with BAAs available. The security portal includes compliance materials and an external infrastructure pentest report. Available controls include single sign-on (SAML or OIDC) and SCIM provisioning, configurable data retention and recording storage, enforced workspace and sharing settings, teams and roles, domain and API key access controls, centralized billing, usage reporting, and free viewer seats.", "level": "strong" }, "languages": { "summary": "100+ transcription languages", "detail": "Users can choose from more than 100 meeting languages and separately control the output language used for generated notes.", "level": "strong" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Circleback product guide", "url": "https://circleback.ai/llms.txt", "note": "Capture modes, apps, search, automations, integrations, recordings, MCP, CLI, webhooks, and security resources." }, { "label": "Circleback pricing", "url": "https://circleback.ai/pricing", "note": "Current plan prices, included features, Business controls, Enterprise options, and free viewer seats." }, { "label": "Circleback recording guide", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/11090138-getting-started-with-recording", "note": "Desktop, mobile, bot, and import capture paths for online and in-person conversations." }, { "label": "Circleback optional recording storage", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/10581965-configure-whether-meeting-recordings-are-saved", "note": "Keep notes, action items, transcript, and insights while disabling stored audio and video." }, { "label": "Circleback mobile and Apple Watch apps", "url": "https://circleback.ai/mobile", "note": "iOS, Android, and Apple Watch capture for in-person meetings and conversations." }, { "label": "Circleback public API", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/api", "note": "Programmatic access to the complete meeting record available in Circleback, including notes, action items, transcripts, recordings, people, and companies." }, { "label": "Circleback MCP documentation", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/13249081-circleback-mcp", "note": "Read-only access from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients to meetings, transcripts, action items, people, companies, calendar, email, and tags." }, { "label": "Circleback CLI documentation", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/14677613-circleback-cli", "note": "Command-line and JSON access to meetings, speaker-labeled transcripts, action items, calendars, email, people, companies, and cross-meeting action-item search." }, { "label": "Circleback Assistant connectors", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/13615023-ask-circleback-assistant", "note": "Search and take action in connected work apps from Circleback Assistant." }, { "label": "Circleback automatic sharing", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/10460582-automatically-share-meetings-with-your-workspace", "note": "Conditional sharing by meeting title, participants, invitee emails or domains, and tags to people, teams, or the workspace." }, { "label": "Circleback enforced workspace settings", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/11095989-default-and-enforced-workspace-settings", "note": "Admin-controlled defaults for sharing access, recording storage, joining preferences, and other meeting settings." }, { "label": "Circleback security and data processing", "url": "https://circleback.ai/dpa", "note": "Retention responsibilities, subprocessors, and United States primary processing operations." }, { "label": "Circleback security overview", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/10460553-security", "note": "Encryption at rest and in transit, SOC 2 Type II, no-training commitment, GDPR support, HIPAA compliance and BAA availability, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification, and an external infrastructure pentest." }, { "label": "Circleback security portal", "url": "https://security.circleback.ai/", "note": "Compliance materials, security controls, subprocessors, and an external infrastructure pentest report." }, { "label": "Circleback action items in Linear", "url": "https://support.circleback.ai/en/articles/13622158-integrate-with-linear", "note": "Automatically create Linear issues from meeting action items and preserve the matched assignee." } ] }, "label": "A third option to consider" }, "faqs": [ { "question": "Which is better: Bluedot or Krisp?", "answer": "Bluedot emphasizes a clean recording library across desktop, phone, and Watch. Krisp emphasizes noise removal and voice processing, with notes and recording around it." }, { "question": "Which is less expensive, Bluedot or Krisp?", "answer": "Bluedot: Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually. Krisp: Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need." }, { "question": "Can Bluedot and Krisp record without a bot?", "answer": "Bluedot: Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Krisp: Bot-free system-audio capture. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names." }, { "question": "Which is better for a whole company?", "answer": "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. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing." }, { "question": "Can I access and move the full meeting data?", "answer": "Bluedot: Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business. Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need." }, { "question": "How was this comparison researched?", "answer": "We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below." } ], "variableMeasured": [ "Capture options", "Desktop and mobile", "In-person capture and speaker labels", "Recordings, playback, and clips", "Notes, action items, and search", "People, companies, and context", "Automatic sharing and workspace defaults", "Automations", "Integrations", "API, MCP, CLI, and data portability", "Security, privacy, and admin", "Languages" ], "sources": [ { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot pricing", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing", "note": "Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot product overview", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/", "note": "Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot 2.1 release", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1", "note": "June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot speaker recognition", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview", "note": "Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot Zoom recorder bot", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting", "note": "Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing", "note": "User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot workspace settings", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview", "note": "Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot mobile app", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app", "note": "iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot Apple Watch capture", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch", "note": "Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot webhooks", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot", "note": "User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot custom note templates", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates", "note": "Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot MCP with Claude", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp", "note": "Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot cancellation policy", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription", "note": "Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot security", "url": "https://www.bluedothq.com/security", "note": "No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot transcript export", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt", "note": "Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT." }, { "productId": "bluedot", "productName": "Bluedot", "label": "Bluedot recording download", "url": "https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording", "note": "WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp pricing", "url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/", "note": "Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp mobile recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App", "note": "iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp calendar and speaker naming", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp", "note": "Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp meeting sharing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp Manager View", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View", "note": "Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp Microsoft Teams integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams", "note": "Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp recording FAQ", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature", "note": "Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp bot-free screen recording", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp", "note": "Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp multilingual transcription", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings", "note": "Current 16-language transcription list." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp MCP", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP", "note": "OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp centralized action items", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard", "note": "Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp Zapier integration", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier", "note": "Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp webhook API", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API", "note": "Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp security and data handling", "url": "https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/", "note": "No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls." }, { "productId": "krisp", "productName": "Krisp", "label": "Krisp cloud processing", "url": "https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud", "note": "Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode." } ], "methodology": { "approach": "First-party pricing, product documentation, help-center articles, and release notes. Capability levels describe documented breadth, not overall product quality. Competitor strengths and material plan or capture-mode limits are both included. No pay-to-play rankings.", "ratingLabels": { "strong": "Broad support", "available": "Available with limits", "limited": "Narrow or indirect", "not-available": "Not documented" }, "ratingScale": { "strong": "Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans.", "available": "Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits.", "limited": "Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support.", "not-available": "No current first-party documentation for a native option." }, "claimLevelEvidence": "Each feature dimension includes the exact first-party sources used for both products.", "limitations": "Prices and features change. Check the linked sources and test both products on real calls." } }