Gistsmith listens on your Mac with no bot, keeps notes on your Mac, translates live and has one simple personal plan. Fireflies sends its notetaker bot into Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, keeps meetings in its cloud and is built for teams, with a free plan, workspaces and many integrations.
Prices checked November 2026.Source: fireflies.ai/pricing
It listens to your Mac's audio, so it works with any call app and nobody sees a note-taker join.
Every note opens with your tasks, owners and due dates, then the summary, decisions and glossary.
Read along in your language as people talk: 35 spoken languages, notes and translation in any of 37.
Notes to Slack, Microsoft Teams and Notion, tasks to Linear and Jira, and your AI apps over MCP. $5.99 a month or $49 a year, taxes included.
| Topic | Gistsmith Our app | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 a month or $49 a year, taxes included | Free $0; Pro $18 per seat a month billed monthly ($10 billed annually); Business $29 per seat a month billed monthly ($19 billed annually); Enterprise $39 per seat a month, billed annually only |
| Free option | Free trial: 3 meetings or 7 days, whichever comes first; no card needed | Free plan: transcription listed as unlimited (with a footnote), limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits |
| How it hears the meeting | No bot. Listens to your Mac's system audio and microphone, so it works with any call app, and finishes the recording when the call ends (after a 30-second countdown you can stop); also records in-person meetings and imports audio or video files | A bot (the Fireflies Notetaker) joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and more; a Chrome extension can record without the bot |
| Platforms | Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later | Web, desktop app, iOS and Android apps, Chrome extension |
| Meeting limits | Up to 10 meeting hours a month and up to 4 hours per meeting | Recording limit of 2 to 4 hours per meeting depending on plan; storage of 400 minutes per team on Free, 8,000 minutes per seat on Pro, unlimited on Business |
| Languages | 35 spoken languages, including Turkish and Finnish; notes in 37; app in 12 languages | Transcription in 100+ languages (beyond English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, in beta); automatic language detection; Multi-language Mode on Business |
| Live translation | Included: what others say is translated into your language (any of 37) within seconds | Not checked |
| Notes | The note starts with your own tasks (with owners and due dates), then a summary, decisions and a glossary; templates picked from the meeting title; a follow-up email drafted from the note | AI summaries (limited on Free); action items and a task manager from Pro |
| Questions across meetings | Ask across all your meetings; answers cite the meetings they came from, can look things up on the web, and copy or save as Markdown | AskFred AI assistant |
| Voice typing | Voice typing in any Mac app, transcribed on your Mac; free with any account | Fireflies Talk: free dictation wherever you type |
| Shared screens | Optional snapshots of the shared screen, matched to what was said; notes and Ask can use them if you allow it | Records meeting video on paid plans |
| Integrations | Notion, Apple Notes, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Zoom Team Chat; tasks to Linear, Jira and Apple Reminders; Markdown folders (Obsidian) and webhooks (Zapier, Make, n8n) | Integrations including CRMs and a Slack assistant; unlimited integrations from Pro; an API on every plan, with rate limits |
| MCP for AI apps | Built-in read-only MCP server for Claude, Cursor and VS Code, on every plan | Not checked |
| Where notes are kept | Notes, transcripts and recordings are saved on your Mac | In Fireflies' cloud; private storage and custom data retention on Enterprise |
| Plans for teams | One personal plan, billed monthly or yearly; no shared team workspace | Per-seat Pro, Business and Enterprise plans with team workspaces, channels and admin analytics |
A dash means the point wasn't part of what we checked on the vendor's own site. It doesn't mean the feature is missing.
3 meetings or 7 days free, no card needed. Then $5.99 a month or $49 a year, taxes included.
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