Best AI meeting assistants

AI notetakers now sit on almost every call — they join (or quietly listen), transcribe with speaker labels, and hand back a summary with action items before you've left the meeting. The split is simple: bot-based joiners (Otter, Fireflies, Read.ai) that scale across a team and log to your CRM, versus botless capture (Granola) that records locally and blends your own notes. Fathom is the value pick — genuinely free, unlimited, and fast. We ranked them on transcription accuracy, summary quality, integrations, and price.