How MeetMi compares with other AI note takers

On a Mac, MeetMi hears whatever the Mac plays, whichever app it comes from, so there is nothing to install in the meeting app. Because it hears the Mac’s whole audio mix, other sounds playing at the same time, such as music or a second video, are transcribed too. macOS asks for its Screen & System Audio Recording permission for this. You can decline and use the microphone alone.

On iPhone, the microphone suits a meeting in the room: put the phone on the table and MeetMi keeps transcribing with the screen locked. From version 1.0.1, on iOS 27, you can switch MeetMi to system audio instead, to transcribe what the phone itself plays, such as a video or a lecture. System audio can’t hear calls.

Since no bot joins the call, MeetMi doesn’t appear in the call’s participant list. Rules on recording and transcription differ by place and workplace, so check the ones that apply to you and tell people you’re using MeetMi when they require it.

Some note takers send a bot into the call. Otter’s Notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings as a participant, and can join calendar events on its own once you connect a calendar. By default, once you sign up, Fireflies’ Notetaker joins every calendar meeting that has a web-conference link. You can change that in its settings. Both companies also have desktop apps that record without a bot. Granola uses your system audio and microphone.

You can’t play a meeting back in MeetMi. What you keep is the transcript, the analysis and the notes.

Otter’s free Basic plan lists audio recording playback, and you can export a conversation’s audio as an MP3. Fireflies’ bot-free desktop mode saves no audio or video. Granola’s iPhone app caches audio during the meeting and deletes it once transcription is done.

If a language’s speech model isn’t on the device yet, MeetMi downloads it once, and after that transcription works without an internet connection. When the meeting is in a different language from the one MeetMi writes in (not just a different variant or script of the same language), MeetMi can also translate each line on the device with Apple’s translation and show it under the original, for language pairs Apple can translate.

On-device transcription doesn’t mean everything stays on the device. The text cloud AI works on includes the transcript, your questions and passages from your folder. Nothing goes to cloud AI until you accept the data notice, and you can choose “Local Transcription Only” instead. Audio is never sent. The privacy policy lists what goes where.

MeetMi posts short cards, at most one every 20 seconds by default, each with one to four points tagged Fact, Advice, Risk or Action. In the background, MeetMi keeps an analysis of the people named, the numbers and the commitments, and revises it every 3 minutes by default. You can type a question at any point and get an answer based on what has been said so far. If you point MeetMi at a folder of briefs, contracts or your own notes from earlier meetings, the analysis, the notes and most answers check that material, and the live suggestions pick up what the analysis found there.

When you end the meeting, if you’re subscribed with credit left, have accepted the data notice and enough was said, MeetMi writes the notes with cloud AI: a one-line title, then Overview, Discussion, Decisions and Action Items. Without cloud AI, the meeting is still saved to your history, just without notes. You can export the notes, the analysis and the transcript as Markdown or plain text.

MeetMi isn’t the only tool that helps during a meeting. Fireflies’ Live Assist shows AI suggestions and instant answers in one panel during the meeting; outside the Fireflies desktop app and Chrome extension, it needs the Fireflies bot in the call. Otter’s AI Chat answers questions you ask during a live meeting.

Without a subscription, you can still transcribe and translate on your device, keep your meeting history and export it. The subscription adds the cloud AI: suggestions, analysis, answers and notes. You share notes by exporting them.

Otter’s apps ask you to sign in to an Otter account, where you can join or create a Workspace. Fireflies and Granola sign you in with a Google or Microsoft account, and Granola has no other sign-in option.

The people in MeetMi’s analysis are the ones named aloud or in your folder, not recognized by voice.

Otter tags speakers automatically from voice profiles it learns in your account, mostly after the recording stops, and its Notetaker tags Zoom speakers live by participant name. Fireflies transcripts have speaker labels and can fall back to generic ones such as Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. Granola labels speakers by display name in Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls on Mac and Windows, and its mobile app (iPhone and Android) can tell different speakers apart in face-to-face meetings. Where speaker tags aren’t available or turned on, its transcript shows Me and Them, for your microphone and your system audio.

• No bot, no audio, no account: on a Mac, MeetMi listens to what the Mac itself plays, so nothing is added to the meeting. It transcribes on your device and keeps only the text. There is nothing to sign up for; the App Store subscription is the only thing you buy.
• Folder material can be briefs, contracts or your own notes from earlier meetings.
• Languages: MeetMi offers 13 transcription options covering 10 languages, and writes its suggestions, analysis and notes in whichever of its 10 writing languages you pick. Up to Mac 1.0.1 and iPhone 1.0, a new install writes in Simplified Chinese; from Mac 1.0.2 and iPhone 1.0.1 it starts on “Follow System”: English, or Simplified Chinese when that is the device’s first language. Change it under Settings → Meeting & Language → “MeetMi writes in” (on iPhone, the Meeting tab).
• Mac and iPhone: one subscription covers both when they use the same Apple Account.
• Lectures, talks and videos: the Video / Lecture / Podcast meeting type adds two sections to the analysis: a fact check of the speaker’s numbers and claims, and an adversarial review that argues the other side.

• Speaker names: MeetMi only tags each line Mic or System. Granola’s mobile app tells speakers apart in face-to-face meetings.
• Platforms: MeetMi runs only on Mac and iPhone. Otter also works in a web browser, while Fireflies has a Chrome extension.
• Calendars: MeetMi starts only when you press Start Meeting or continue a past meeting, and it doesn’t connect to a calendar. Otter’s and Fireflies’ Notetakers can join calendar meetings for you.
• Recordings: MeetMi keeps no audio. Fireflies lets you download recordings on its Pro plans and above.
• Shared history: MeetMi keeps history on each device, with no sync between Mac and iPhone. Fireflies can send meeting recaps to everyone on the invite.
• Languages: MeetMi transcribes each meeting in one language, from its 13 options.
• Free plans: Fireflies’ Free plan lists limited AI summaries, and Granola’s Basic plan includes AI meeting notes with limited meeting history. Otter also has a free Basic plan, with 300 transcription minutes a month. MeetMi’s on-device transcription works without a subscription, but its suggestions, analysis and notes need the subscription: $9.99 a month in the United States (the App Store shows your local price), with a one-week free trial for new subscribers.