Fireflies: AI notetaker

Fireflies joins scheduled meetings from your calendar and records them without manual input. It produces a transcript with speaker names, and the company says its transcription runs at roughly 95% accuracy. Meeting transcription also works on uploaded audio and video files. The real value is simpler than the feature list suggests: you don't have to click record at the start of every call, and you get a text version of the meeting whether or not anyone remembered to save it.

After each meeting, Fireflies writes a summary covering the main points, decisions, and assigned tasks. You can pick a template that matches your meeting type, so a sales call and a standup don't get the same shape of notes. Action items can be pushed into task managers, which is where the summary stops being a document and starts being a to-do list. That sync is the difference between notes you read once and notes you act on.

AskFred is the assistant you query in plain language, something like "what did we decide about pricing last quarter?" Search reaches into past transcripts down to the sentence and timestamp, so you don't have to remember which meeting something came from. Ask a question. Get the moment it was said. It's the feature that changes Fireflies from a recorder into something closer to a searchable memory, and it's the one capability that no amount of manual note-taking can really replace.

Fireflies tracks speaking time per participant, detects sentiment and key topics, and surfaces talk-time patterns across calls. Sales managers use this to spot whether a rep is talking too much on discovery calls. Want to know how much you dominate the room? The analytics answer that. This side of the product leans toward team use, and a solo user won't get much out of it.

AI Skills are one-click add-ons that extract specific things from meetings, like scoring a candidate or drafting a follow-up email. Fireflies also connects with CRM platforms, project tools, Slack, and an ATS for hiring workflows. The practical effect is simple. Meeting notes flow into the tools where work already happens.

Fireflies works as an Android app, an iOS app, a desktop app, and a Chrome extension. The mobile app records in-person conversations. The Chrome extension captures Google Meet calls without placing a bot in the meeting. The desktop app covers calls that run outside a browser. Between the four, there's rarely a conversation you can't capture.

Fireflies offers API access for teams that want to pull transcripts and summaries into their own systems, and it can process calls from dialers like Aircall and RingCentral. This is the path for anyone whose conversations don't live inside a standard video platform.

Fireflies holds SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance, and offers SSO, SCIM, audit logs, private storage, and custom data retention on higher plans. Zero Data Retention means your meeting data isn't used for AI training. These controls matter if you work in healthcare, finance, or anything with a legal review process.