# Fireflies vs Pocket: pricing, features, and which is better > Fireflies.ai and Pocket compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/fireflies-ai-vs-pocket - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/fireflies-ai-vs-pocket.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 Fireflies offers broad live assistance, integrations, and a shared task feed. Pocket pairs a physical recorder with personal notes and tasks, desktop recording in beta, and API, webhooks, and MCP. Test both products on meetings that reflect your work, such as a customer call, planning session, or in-person conversation. Compare the notes, speaker labels, sharing defaults, and follow-up you still need to do by hand. ## Fireflies.ai at a glance Fireflies is one of the broadest meeting assistants: bot, desktop, mobile, integrations, search, API, and live or sales assistance. The nuanced bit is that its capture modes are not equivalent—bot-free desktop gives up recordings, named speakers, and Sales Assist. **Best for:** Teams that prioritize a large integration catalog, live assistance, sales workflows, flexible bot/desktop/mobile capture, and competitive pricing. **Less ideal for:** Teams that need the same recordings, speaker labels, and sales intelligence with or without a meeting bot. **Price:** Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually Prices are per user/month: Pro is $10 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month; Business is $19 or $29; Enterprise is $39 with annual billing. Storage, AI credits, video, advanced integrations, and governance differ by plan. **Free option:** Yes. Unlimited transcription requires both Auto-join and Share-all; otherwise initial transcription credits, storage limits, and plan-gated summaries or AI features apply. ### Fireflies.ai strengths - Bot, bot-free macOS/Windows, iOS/Android, uploads, and supported native meeting SDK paths. - A large integration catalog, public API, webhooks, remote MCP, AI apps, live assistance, and Sales Assist. - Automatically generated and assigned action items live in a team-wide task feed and can flow into tools such as Linear, Asana, Monday.com, and Microsoft Planner. - Competitive pricing and 100+ language claims make it accessible to distributed teams. - Meeting content is not used to train internal or external AI models, and compliance modes can retain the full record, text only, summary only, or summary plus audio. ### Fireflies.ai tradeoffs - Bot-free desktop mode stores no audio/video, labels speakers generically, and cannot run Sales Assist. - Fireflies says mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so in-person transcripts may need manual speaker relabeling. - The Google Meet SDK bot-free path asks attendees for approval, so “bot-free” does not always mean invisible or frictionless. - The advertised unlimited free transcription is conditional: users must enable both automatic bot joining and automatic sharing with every participant. Teams choosing tighter defaults fall back to a small transcription-credit allowance. - Meeting recaps default to workspace-wide access plus anyone with the link. Admins can enforce safer defaults and Enterprise rules can protect sensitive categories, but teams should configure this before broad rollout. - Two current Fireflies help articles disagree on whether Free includes 400 or 800 stored minutes, so confirm the live limit before relying on long-term free storage. - Advanced AI features use workspace-pooled credits that do not increase with seat count, so heavier teams may need a paid credit add-on. - The GraphQL API exposes transcripts and core meeting data but not Super Summaries or Custom Apps output. - Some advanced MCP search and retrieval tools are marked experimental. Data sent to an external AI is outside Fireflies’ zero-data-retention guarantee. - Company relationship context and general-purpose native automations are less cohesive than the sheer integration count suggests. ### Choose Fireflies.ai when - A large integration catalog and live assistance are high priorities. - You are happy to use the Fireflies bot when you need recordings, named speakers, and Sales Assist. - You want mobile and desktop capture at a lower entry price than many competitors. ## Pocket at a glance Pocket combines a single-press recorder with apps for transcripts, summaries, mind maps, and follow-through. Its hardware records independently of a phone, including phone calls through a contact microphone. A separate desktop app captures online meetings without a bot. API, MCP, and webhooks let recordings and action items feed other tools. **Best for:** People who want dedicated recording hardware for conversations and phone calls, a central task list, and unlimited base transcription. **Less ideal for:** People who want to avoid another device for in-person recording, or teams that need recorded meeting video and clearly documented conditional workspace sharing. **Price:** Recorder advertised at $139; optional Pro subscription The storefront advertises a $139 hardware offer; bundles and promotions vary. Its plan table lists Pro at $19.99/month billed annually ($239.88/year). Other promotional copy uses different bundle and billing terms, so confirm the selected offer. Enterprise has custom pricing. Hardware and Pro are separate costs. **Free option:** Free includes unlimited base transcription, summaries kept for 30 days, mind maps, tasks, text export, and audio download. Ask Pocket allows three chats per day with three messages each. Pro extends history and adds advanced features. ### Pocket strengths - A single physical press starts offline capture, with a light and vibration for confirmation. Its contact microphone records phone calls without speakerphone. - The Checklist gathers extracted tasks across recordings, links them to their source, and supports follow-through through calendars and task integrations. - Public API, signed webhooks, and MCP support custom workflows. MCP can also update action-item status, due date, priority, and assignee. ### Pocket tradeoffs - Using the dedicated recorder means buying, carrying, charging, and syncing another device. Desktop capture is a separate option and the desktop app is labeled beta. - Longer summary history, automatic speaker names, advanced exports, and some integrations require Pro. Speaker detection is unavailable for recordings of three hours or longer. - Desktop recording captures audio, not video, webcams, shared screens, or meeting chat. ### Choose Pocket when - You prefer a dedicated physical recording button and offline audio capture. - You need contact-microphone phone-call recording and unlimited base transcription. - You want searchable recordings, mind maps, a task hub, and programmable access. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Fireflies.ai | Pocket | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Broad support — Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. Fireflies has unusually broad capture. The modes differ: desktop bot-free capture works across apps but drops stored media and named speaker labels; the bot preserves the richer meeting record. | Broad support — Single-press hardware and bot-free desktop audio. The recorder captures room audio or phone calls with a physical button and mode slider, storing audio offline until upload. The desktop app records microphone and system audio from Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other calls, with optional meeting detection and Auto Record. Wi-Fi upload can send device recordings directly to the account without the phone nearby. | | Desktop and mobile | Broad support — Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop supports system-audio recording and live assistance. Mobile supports in-person recording, reviewing meetings, search, sharing, and tasks. | Available with limits — Recorder, iOS, Android, web, and desktop beta. Pocket has iOS and Android companion apps, web access, and macOS and Windows desktop apps. The desktop download guide explicitly labels the app beta. USB-C Web Sync supports Chrome, Edge, and Brave; Safari and Firefox do not support its required file-system access. No native Apple Watch recording app is documented in these guides. | | In-person capture and speaker labels | Broad support — Mobile and desktop room capture. iOS and Android can capture in-person conversations. Fireflies documents that mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so names may need manual correction. Bot-free desktop can also hear room/system audio, with its own media and generic-label caveats. | Available with limits — Dedicated recorder with speaker management. Record in person on the Pocket device without a phone connection. Speaker Management supports naming and merging speakers and finding their other recordings. Automatic speaker detection is unavailable for recordings of three hours or longer. Automatic speaker naming is a Pro feature; detecting separate speakers and naming them are different capabilities. | | Recordings, playback, and clips | Available with limits — Bot mode saves AV; bot-free desktop saves neither. This is the key evaluation detail: bot meetings can preserve audio/video and named speakers, while desktop bot-free mode produces notes/transcript without recording files and uses Speaker 1/Speaker 2 labels. | Available with limits — Saved audio, downloads, and recording exports. Pocket retains audio and supports downloads through the app and API. USB-C Web Sync transfers large recordings directly from the device. Recordings can be combined into a merged memory. Desktop capture is audio-only and does not preserve video, webcams, shared-screen content, or chat. | | Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — Notes, search, and a workspace-wide assigned task feed. Fireflies offers meeting search, AI apps, and live assistance. It automatically creates and assigns meeting tasks, lets teams manage all accessible tasks in one feed, and can turn action items into trackable work in several project tools. Usage credits and plan gates still apply to advanced AI apps and assistant capabilities. | Broad support — Summaries, mind maps, Ask Pocket, and a task hub. Summaries and mind maps organize recordings; Ask Pocket answers questions with date and recording filters. The Checklist consolidates extracted actions with source references and labels. MCP can search tasks and change status, priority, due date, or assignee. Pro adds unlimited chat and custom templates; free chat is limited. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — Meeting channels and cross-meeting search. The meeting library is searchable and collaborative, but the product is less centered on a unified relationship timeline combining meetings, email, calendar, people, and companies. | Available with limits — Recording memory, speaker history, and calendar context. Ask Pocket searches conversation history, and named speaker profiles collect their recordings. Calendar Hub connects follow-up actions to calendar events. This provides useful personal context; the cited guides do not document company pages combining email threads, relationship timelines, and rolling company summaries. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Broad support — Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy. Enterprise admins can match meeting title, host, participants, or internal/external type, then route to a channel, share with users or teams, or enforce privacy. Recaps default to teammates plus anyone with the link; review that setting before rollout. | Narrow or indirect — Exports, connected destinations, and organization access. Pocket supports exporting recordings and notes to other tools. Organization roles govern access to recordings, templates, and analytics. Its published guides do not establish meeting-level automatic sharing rules by participant, domain, title, and team; confirm those requirements for an Enterprise rollout. | | Automations | Broad support — Meeting rules, AI apps, CRM workflows, and automatic task handoff. Fireflies can automatically create and assign tasks, then route them to Linear, Asana, Monday.com, Planner, Salesforce, and other systems with meeting filters on eligible plans. It also supports specialized AI apps. The experience spans several feature systems rather than one simple general condition/action canvas. | Available with limits — Task follow-through and recording-event webhooks. Automatically add extracted tasks to the Checklist and use calendar or task integrations for follow-up. Webhooks cover completed transcripts and summaries, speaker labeling, and task updates, with personal and organization destinations. Custom backends, Zapier, Make, or n8n can consume these events; organization controls depend on Enterprise packaging. | | Integrations | Broad support — 100+ integrations plus Zapier and API. Breadth is a major advantage across CRM, collaboration, storage, dialers, and productivity tools. Verify the plan required for each connector and direction of sync. | Broad support — Calendars, task apps, document sync, and AI tools. Pocket connects calendars and task apps; its Pro table lists Notion, Google Drive, OneDrive, Linear, Asana, and ClickUp sync. MCP connects recordings to AI assistants, while API and webhooks support custom destinations. Confirm which integrations your selected plan includes. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Broad support — GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Fireflies exposes transcripts and core meeting data through GraphQL plus webhooks for custom integrations. Its OAuth or API-key remote MCP server can retrieve full transcripts, summaries, action items, active meetings, analytics, soundbites, channels, and user data; it can also share, rename, organize, and clip meetings. Some advanced search and fetch tools remain experimental. Super Summary and Custom Apps data are still absent from the documented GraphQL API, and content passed into an external AI follows that provider’s retention terms. | Broad support — Public API, webhooks, and MCP with task updates. The API provides recordings, transcripts, summaries, semantic search, uploads, audio downloads, and organization resources. MCP includes conversation and task search plus task updates on all plans; targeted recording retrieval and synthesized meeting queries require Pro. Recent-transcript retrieval is also available through MCP search. No first-party standalone CLI is documented. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Broad support — Business and Enterprise governance. Enterprise adds SSO/SCIM, Rules Engine governance, custom retention, and private storage. Its Super Admin role can access every workspace meeting, including “Only Me” content—useful for compliance, but a material privacy-policy decision. Fireflies says meeting content is never used for internal or external model training. | Available with limits — Encryption and Enterprise organization controls. Pocket documents encryption at rest and in transit, US-based processing, and a no-training commitment. Its Organization API defines owner, admin, member, and viewer roles. Enterprise lists centralized billing, recording access controls, organization exports, and BAA support. Verify specific compliance reports and deployment requirements with the vendor. | | Languages | Broad support — 100+ languages advertised. Fireflies advertises broad transcription coverage. Real-world speaker separation and accuracy still depend on capture mode, room acoustics, accents, and vocabulary. | Broad support — 120+ languages advertised. Pocket advertises support for more than 120 languages. Test the required languages and mixed-language conversations on real recordings; a published language count does not establish accuracy for a particular accent, room, or specialist vocabulary. | 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 **Both products document broad support for capture options, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. Fireflies has unusually broad capture. The modes differ: desktop bot-free capture works across apps but drops stored media and named speaker labels; the bot preserves the richer meeting record. Evidence: [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app), [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app). **Pocket:** Single-press hardware and bot-free desktop audio. The recorder captures room audio or phone calls with a physical button and mode slider, storing audio offline until upload. The desktop app records microphone and system audio from Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other calls, with optional meeting detection and Auto Record. Wi-Fi upload can send device recordings directly to the account without the phone nearby. Evidence: [Pocket recording overview](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs), [Pocket desktop recording](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/record-zoom-teams-google-meet), [Pocket Wi-Fi upload](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/wifi-upload). ### Desktop and mobile **Fireflies has broader documented support for desktop and mobile.** **Fireflies.ai:** Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop supports system-audio recording and live assistance. Mobile supports in-person recording, reviewing meetings, search, sharing, and tasks. Evidence: [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app), [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app). **Pocket:** Recorder, iOS, Android, web, and desktop beta. Pocket has iOS and Android companion apps, web access, and macOS and Windows desktop apps. The desktop download guide explicitly labels the app beta. USB-C Web Sync supports Chrome, Edge, and Brave; Safari and Firefox do not support its required file-system access. No native Apple Watch recording app is documented in these guides. Evidence: [Pocket apps and desktop beta](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/download-app), [Pocket Wi-Fi upload](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/wifi-upload), [Pocket USB-C Web Sync](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/pocket-web-sync). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Fireflies has broader documented support for in-person capture and speaker labels.** **Fireflies.ai:** Mobile and desktop room capture. iOS and Android can capture in-person conversations. Fireflies documents that mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so names may need manual correction. Bot-free desktop can also hear room/system audio, with its own media and generic-label caveats. Evidence: [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app), [Fireflies speaker labels](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4994477228-how-to-edit-speaker-labels-or-names-in-a-transcript). **Pocket:** Dedicated recorder with speaker management. Record in person on the Pocket device without a phone connection. Speaker Management supports naming and merging speakers and finding their other recordings. Automatic speaker detection is unavailable for recordings of three hours or longer. Automatic speaker naming is a Pro feature; detecting separate speakers and naming them are different capabilities. Evidence: [Pocket recording overview](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs), [Pocket speaker management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/speaker-management), [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **Both products support recordings, playback, and clips, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** Bot mode saves AV; bot-free desktop saves neither. This is the key evaluation detail: bot meetings can preserve audio/video and named speakers, while desktop bot-free mode produces notes/transcript without recording files and uses Speaker 1/Speaker 2 labels. Evidence: [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app). **Pocket:** Saved audio, downloads, and recording exports. Pocket retains audio and supports downloads through the app and API. USB-C Web Sync transfers large recordings directly from the device. Recordings can be combined into a merged memory. Desktop capture is audio-only and does not preserve video, webcams, shared-screen content, or chat. Evidence: [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/), [Pocket desktop recording](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/record-zoom-teams-google-meet), [Pocket exports and data management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/organization/data-management), [Pocket USB-C Web Sync](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/pocket-web-sync), [Pocket public API](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** Notes, search, and a workspace-wide assigned task feed. Fireflies offers meeting search, AI apps, and live assistance. It automatically creates and assigns meeting tasks, lets teams manage all accessible tasks in one feed, and can turn action items into trackable work in several project tools. Usage credits and plan gates still apply to advanced AI apps and assistant capabilities. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies AI credits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/9606045468-fireflies-billing-terms), [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed). **Pocket:** Summaries, mind maps, Ask Pocket, and a task hub. Summaries and mind maps organize recordings; Ask Pocket answers questions with date and recording filters. The Checklist consolidates extracted actions with source references and labels. MCP can search tasks and change status, priority, due date, or assignee. Pro adds unlimited chat and custom templates; free chat is limited. Evidence: [Pocket first-day workflow](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/day-1), [Pocket Ask Pocket](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/ask-pocket), [Pocket action items](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/productivity/tasklist), [Pocket Pro features](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/plans/pocket-pro), [Pocket MCP](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/mcp). ### People, companies, and context **Both products support people, companies, and context, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** Meeting channels and cross-meeting search. The meeting library is searchable and collaborative, but the product is less centered on a unified relationship timeline combining meetings, email, calendar, people, and companies. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans). **Pocket:** Recording memory, speaker history, and calendar context. Ask Pocket searches conversation history, and named speaker profiles collect their recordings. Calendar Hub connects follow-up actions to calendar events. This provides useful personal context; the cited guides do not document company pages combining email threads, relationship timelines, and rolling company summaries. Evidence: [Pocket Ask Pocket](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/ask-pocket), [Pocket speaker management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/speaker-management), [Pocket first-day workflow](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/day-1). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **Fireflies has broader documented support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults.** **Fireflies.ai:** Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy. Enterprise admins can match meeting title, host, participants, or internal/external type, then route to a channel, share with users or teams, or enforce privacy. Recaps default to teammates plus anyone with the link; review that setting before rollout. Evidence: [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies recap privacy defaults](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/5319481450-how-to-configure-privacy-settings-for-your-meeting-recaps). **Pocket:** Exports, connected destinations, and organization access. Pocket supports exporting recordings and notes to other tools. Organization roles govern access to recordings, templates, and analytics. Its published guides do not establish meeting-level automatic sharing rules by participant, domain, title, and team; confirm those requirements for an Enterprise rollout. Evidence: [Pocket exports and data management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/organization/data-management), [Pocket organization controls](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/organization). ### Automations **Fireflies has broader documented support for automations.** **Fireflies.ai:** Meeting rules, AI apps, CRM workflows, and automatic task handoff. Fireflies can automatically create and assign tasks, then route them to Linear, Asana, Monday.com, Planner, Salesforce, and other systems with meeting filters on eligible plans. It also supports specialized AI apps. The experience spans several feature systems rather than one simple general condition/action canvas. Evidence: [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed), [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies). **Pocket:** Task follow-through and recording-event webhooks. Automatically add extracted tasks to the Checklist and use calendar or task integrations for follow-up. Webhooks cover completed transcripts and summaries, speaker labeling, and task updates, with personal and organization destinations. Custom backends, Zapier, Make, or n8n can consume these events; organization controls depend on Enterprise packaging. Evidence: [Pocket action items](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/productivity/tasklist), [Pocket webhooks](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/webhooks), [Pocket first-day workflow](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/day-1). ### Integrations **Both products document broad support for integrations, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** 100+ integrations plus Zapier and API. Breadth is a major advantage across CRM, collaboration, storage, dialers, and productivity tools. Verify the plan required for each connector and direction of sync. Evidence: [Fireflies integration directory](https://fireflies.ai/integrations), [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies). **Pocket:** Calendars, task apps, document sync, and AI tools. Pocket connects calendars and task apps; its Pro table lists Notion, Google Drive, OneDrive, Linear, Asana, and ClickUp sync. MCP connects recordings to AI assistants, while API and webhooks support custom destinations. Confirm which integrations your selected plan includes. Evidence: [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/), [Pocket webhooks](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/webhooks). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Both products document broad support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Fireflies exposes transcripts and core meeting data through GraphQL plus webhooks for custom integrations. Its OAuth or API-key remote MCP server can retrieve full transcripts, summaries, action items, active meetings, analytics, soundbites, channels, and user data; it can also share, rename, organize, and clip meetings. Some advanced search and fetch tools remain experimental. Super Summary and Custom Apps data are still absent from the documented GraphQL API, and content passed into an external AI follows that provider’s retention terms. Evidence: [Fireflies API](https://docs.fireflies.ai/introduction), [Fireflies MCP tools](https://docs.fireflies.ai/mcp-tools/overview). **Pocket:** Public API, webhooks, and MCP with task updates. The API provides recordings, transcripts, summaries, semantic search, uploads, audio downloads, and organization resources. MCP includes conversation and task search plus task updates on all plans; targeted recording retrieval and synthesized meeting queries require Pro. Recent-transcript retrieval is also available through MCP search. No first-party standalone CLI is documented. Evidence: [Pocket public API](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api), [Pocket MCP](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/mcp), [Pocket webhooks](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/webhooks), [Pocket organization controls](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/organization). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Fireflies has broader documented support for security, privacy, and admin.** **Fireflies.ai:** Business and Enterprise governance. Enterprise adds SSO/SCIM, Rules Engine governance, custom retention, and private storage. Its Super Admin role can access every workspace meeting, including “Only Me” content—useful for compliance, but a material privacy-policy decision. Fireflies says meeting content is never used for internal or external model training. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies storage limits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4777633252-learn-about-meeting-storage-limits), [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies data safety](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/2154538358-policy-on-keeping-information-safe), [Fireflies compliance recording modes](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3598930706-set-up-transcript-only-mode-for-compliance), [Fireflies Enterprise controls](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4771323041-learn-about-fireflies-enterprise-plan). **Pocket:** Encryption and Enterprise organization controls. Pocket documents encryption at rest and in transit, US-based processing, and a no-training commitment. Its Organization API defines owner, admin, member, and viewer roles. Enterprise lists centralized billing, recording access controls, organization exports, and BAA support. Verify specific compliance reports and deployment requirements with the vendor. Evidence: [Pocket organization controls](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/organization), [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/), [Pocket trust and privacy](https://heypocket.com/pages/pocket-trust). ### Languages **Both products document broad support for languages, with different scope and plan limits.** **Fireflies.ai:** 100+ languages advertised. Fireflies advertises broad transcription coverage. Real-world speaker separation and accuracy still depend on capture mode, room acoustics, accents, and vocabulary. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans). **Pocket:** 120+ languages advertised. Pocket advertises support for more than 120 languages. Test the required languages and mixed-language conversations on real recordings; a published language count does not establish accuracy for a particular accent, room, or specialist vocabulary. Evidence: [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback records online meetings with a meeting bot or bot-free desktop app, then turns them into detailed notes, speaker-labeled transcripts, and automatically assigned action items. Automatic sharing, search, and automations turn those meetings into shared company memory. People and AI agents can use the same complete record through the app, API, MCP, and CLI. In-person conversations captured on mobile or Apple Watch, plus imported recordings, flow through the same system. 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: Fireflies.ai or Pocket? Fireflies offers broad live assistance, integrations, and a shared task feed. Pocket pairs a physical recorder with personal notes and tasks, desktop recording in beta, and API, webhooks, and MCP. ### Which is less expensive, Fireflies.ai or Pocket? Fireflies.ai: Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually. Pocket: Recorder advertised at $139; optional Pro subscription. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need. ### Can Fireflies.ai and Pocket record without a bot? Fireflies.ai: Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. Pocket: Single-press hardware and bot-free desktop audio. Check whether your preferred recording method preserves video and speaker labels. ### Which is better for a whole company? Compare automatic sharing, permissions, retention, and the defaults admins can enforce. Fireflies: Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy. Pocket: Exports, connected destinations, and organization access. ### Can I access and move the full meeting data? Fireflies: GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Pocket: Public API, webhooks, and MCP with task updates. 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. Links appear in each feature comparison and in the Sources section. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and features change; confirm the details that matter to your decision in the linked sources. 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 ### Fireflies.ai sources - [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans): July 2026 prices and plan structure. - [Fireflies unlimited free transcripts](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8632872350-how-to-get-unlimited-meeting-transcripts-on-fireflies-ai-s-free-plan): Auto-join and Share-all requirements for unlimited free transcription. - [Fireflies storage limits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4777633252-learn-about-meeting-storage-limits): Current storage limits by plan; its Free figure conflicts with an older Free-plan article. - [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app): No AV files, generic speakers, and Sales Assist limitation. - [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app): Capture modes, Live Assist, and bot versus botless behavior. - [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app): iOS/Android in-person recording, search, sharing, and tasks. - [Fireflies speaker labels](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4994477228-how-to-edit-speaker-labels-or-names-in-a-transcript): Manual corrections and the mobile-recording speaker-detection caveat. - [Fireflies API](https://docs.fireflies.ai/introduction): GraphQL authentication, user/admin scope, available meeting data, and current Super Summary/Custom Apps gaps. - [Fireflies MCP tools](https://docs.fireflies.ai/mcp-tools/overview): Remote MCP authentication, full meeting-data access, read/write tools, and experimental-tool status. - [Fireflies AI credits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/9606045468-fireflies-billing-terms): Workspace-pooled credit allowances, non-seat scaling, and add-on behavior. - [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed): Automatic task generation and assignment, all-team task views, completion, reassignment, and project-tool handoff. - [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies): Automatic issue creation, project and status routing, assigned-task filtering, and meeting-rule conditions. - [Fireflies integration directory](https://fireflies.ai/integrations): Current first-party directory advertising 100+ integrations across CRM, project, collaboration, storage, and other categories. - [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature): Enterprise conditions and actions for routing, automatic sharing, privacy enforcement, and deletion. - [Fireflies recap privacy defaults](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/5319481450-how-to-configure-privacy-settings-for-your-meeting-recaps): Default teammates-and-link visibility, narrower audience choices, and retroactive privacy changes. - [Fireflies data safety](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/2154538358-policy-on-keeping-information-safe): No-training and third-party zero-retention commitments plus governance controls. - [Fireflies compliance recording modes](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3598930706-set-up-transcript-only-mode-for-compliance): Full-record, text-only, summary-only, and summary-plus-audio retention modes. - [Fireflies Enterprise controls](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4771323041-learn-about-fireflies-enterprise-plan): SSO, SCIM, private storage, retention, and Super Admin access behavior. ### Pocket sources - [Pocket product and plans](https://heypocket.com/): Hardware offers, Free/Pro/Enterprise packaging, integrations, and language coverage. - [Pocket recording overview](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs): Physical recording controls, capture modes, syncing, and the recording-to-task workflow. - [Pocket desktop recording](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/record-zoom-teams-google-meet): Microphone/system-audio capture, meeting detection, Auto Record, and audio-only limitations. - [Pocket apps and desktop beta](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/download-app): Supported platforms and the explicit desktop beta designation. - [Pocket Wi-Fi upload](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/wifi-upload): Device uploads over saved Wi-Fi networks without the phone nearby. - [Pocket USB-C Web Sync](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/device/pocket-web-sync): USB-C transfers and the supported browser/file-system requirements. - [Pocket speaker management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/speaker-management): Speaker names, merged profiles, recording history, and the three-hour detection limit. - [Pocket action items](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/productivity/tasklist): Consolidated Checklist, automatic task extraction, labels, and source references. - [Pocket Ask Pocket](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/ai/ask-pocket): Conversation questions, recording/date filters, chat history, and usage limits. - [Pocket first-day workflow](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/getting-started/day-1): Summary styles, mind maps, source-linked actions, and calendar follow-through. - [Pocket Pro features](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/plans/pocket-pro): Paid chat, longer recordings, custom templates, and bulk actions. - [Pocket exports and data management](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/features/organization/data-management): Exports, combined recordings, bulk management, and deleted-recording retention. - [Pocket public API](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api): Recording, transcript, summary, search, upload, and audio-download endpoints. - [Pocket MCP](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/mcp): OAuth/API-key access, read and task-update tools, and per-tool plan requirements. - [Pocket webhooks](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/webhooks): Recording and task events, personal/organization destinations, and signature verification. - [Pocket organization controls](https://docs.heypocketai.com/docs/api/organization): Organization roles, API keys, templates, analytics, recordings, and membership. - [Pocket trust and privacy](https://heypocket.com/pages/pocket-trust): Encryption, US processing, no model training, and Enterprise BAA availability.