Fathom alternative

A Fathom alternative where the meeting takes its own notes

Fathom's free plan is for individuals, and its way of recording without a bot is in beta. Meetful is a meeting app whose meetings write their own notes, every line under the name of whoever said it, with nothing joining the call.

Fathom, in its own words

On the free plan
Fathom“Unlimited recordings + transcriptions” — Free, for individualswww.fathom.ai/pricing
How it gets into a call
Fathom“Choice of bot-free (in beta) or bot capture”www.fathom.ai/pricing
The cheapest paid plan
Fathom“Free Plan or Plans from $15/mo”www.fathom.ai/pricing

Read on 10 November 2026 from Fathom's own pages. Something changed? Tell us.

What Meetful does instead

Nothing joins the callThe meeting writes its own notes, so there is no bot to admit, and no beta to rely on.
Each line under the right nameEvery person is transcribed from their own microphone, so the name beside a line is whose microphone it came from rather than a guess from one mixed recording.
Recordings to watch back, on FreeThe free plan keeps 300 minutes of video. Transcripts, recaps and action items are not counted at all.
Calls elsewhere, tooWhen a call has to be on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Webex, Meetful's notetaker can join it: 90 minutes a month on Free, with no limit on paid plans.

When Fathom may suit you better

If most of your calls happen on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams and have to stay there, Fathom records them where they are, and its free plan for one person states no cap on recordings. Meetful's notetaker can join those calls too, but the free plan carries 90 minutes of it a month; it is the meetings held on Meetful itself that have no limit.

Moving over from Fathom

  1. Download the transcripts of the Fathom calls you want to keep, or copy each one into a text file.
  2. Open your dashboard, press Bring meetings in, and drop the files in. It takes plain text, .vtt and .srt captions, .json, Markdown and Word files, and keeps the speaker names that were in them.
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Meetings that take their own notes

Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.

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