Comparisons

Bluedot vs Fireflies.ai

Compare pricing, recording options, notes, and follow-up—with the plan limits and tradeoffs that matter to your team.

At a glance

Bluedot

Light, bot-free recording across desktop and mobile

Price

Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually

Pricing details

Prices are per recorder/month. Basic is $14 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month, but is audio-only and capped at one-hour meetings. Pro is $20 or $25 and adds video, unlimited duration, templates, and imports. Business is $32 or $39 with advanced workflows, CRM/ATS, SSO/SCIM, retention, webhooks, and organization MCP.

Free option: Yes, but only five meetings total—not five per month.

Good for

  • Bot-free capture
  • Simple recordings and clips

Watch for

  • Zoom extension has no speaker labels
  • No workspace-wide task tracker

Fireflies.ai

Live assistance and a broad integration catalog

Price

Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually

Pricing details

Prices are per user/month: Pro is $10 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month; Business is $19 or $29; Enterprise is $39 with annual billing. Storage, AI credits, video, advanced integrations, and governance differ by plan.

Free option: Yes. Unlimited transcription requires both Auto-join and Share-all; otherwise initial transcription credits, storage limits, and plan-gated summaries or AI features apply.

Good for

  • Live meeting help
  • Lots of integrations at a low price

Watch for

  • Bot-free mode loses media and names
  • Free unlimited requires share-all

Features and limits

Ratings show documented breadth, not overall product quality. Open a row for specifics.

Capture options

BluedotBroad support
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot

Bluedot usually captures meeting and system audio without joining a bot. Its newer desktop apps broaden support beyond browser-based Google Meet and Teams workflows, while an optional recorder bot is also documented for Zoom.

EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot Zoom recorder bot

Fireflies.ai

Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture

Fireflies has unusually broad capture. The modes differ: desktop bot-free capture works across apps but drops stored media and named speaker labels; the bot preserves the richer meeting record.

EvidenceFireflies bot-free desktop recordingFireflies desktop app

Desktop and mobile

BluedotBroad support
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Browser, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch

Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode.

EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot 2.1 release

Fireflies.ai

Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android

Desktop supports system-audio recording and live assistance. Mobile supports in-person recording, reviewing meetings, search, sharing, and tasks.

EvidenceFireflies desktop appFireflies mobile app

In-person capture and speaker labels

BluedotBroad support
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Mobile, watch, and desktop room recording

Bluedot supports iOS, Android, Apple Watch, browser, and desktop capture for room conversations. The Watch records without an iPhone nearby, then syncs through the iPhone app. Bluedot’s speaker-recognition matrix documents desktop and browser meeting platforms, not mobile or Watch name-label parity, so verify those modes on a real group meeting.

EvidenceBluedot mobile appBluedot Apple Watch captureBluedot speaker recognition

Fireflies.ai

Mobile and desktop room capture

iOS and Android can capture in-person conversations. Fireflies documents that mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so names may need manual correction. Bot-free desktop can also hear room/system audio, with its own media and generic-label caveats.

EvidenceFireflies mobile appFireflies speaker labels

Recordings, playback, and clips

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesAvailable with limits

Bluedot

Audio on Basic; video, clips, and unlimited duration on Pro+

Basic records audio only and limits meetings to one hour. Pro adds video and removes the meeting-length limit, with playback and clips for reviewing and sharing recordings.

EvidenceBluedot pricingBluedot recording download

Fireflies.ai

Bot mode saves AV; bot-free desktop saves neither

This is the key evaluation detail: bot meetings can preserve audio/video and named speakers, while desktop bot-free mode produces notes/transcript without recording files and uses Speaker 1/Speaker 2 labels.

EvidenceFireflies bot-free desktop recording

Notes, action items, and search

BluedotBroad support
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

AI notes, templates, action items, chat, and workspace memory

Notes and meeting chat are easy to use. Templates can extract action items, responsible people, and timelines. Bluedot does not document an all-meetings workspace task center with assignment and completion state, so serious follow-through usually moves into another system.

EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot custom note templates

Fireflies.ai

Notes, search, and a workspace-wide assigned task feed

Fireflies offers meeting search, AI apps, and live assistance. It automatically creates and assigns meeting tasks, lets teams manage all accessible tasks in one feed, and can turn action items into trackable work in several project tools. Usage credits and plan gates still apply to advanced AI apps and assistant capabilities.

EvidenceFireflies pricing guideFireflies AI creditsFireflies Tasks Feed

People, companies, and context

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesAvailable with limits

Bluedot

Workspace meeting memory, without broader email relationship context

Bluedot supports search and chat across meetings. The cited docs do not establish person and company histories that combine meetings, email, and calendar context.

EvidenceBluedot product overview

Fireflies.ai

Meeting channels and cross-meeting search

The meeting library is searchable and collaborative, but the product is less centered on a unified relationship timeline combining meetings, email, calendar, people, and companies.

EvidenceFireflies pricing guide

Automatic sharing and workspace defaults

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions

Individuals can automatically share recordings and notes with meeting participants. Workspace admins can restrict external sharing and enforce recording defaults, while conditional auto-sorting remains a user-level setting rather than a workspace-wide sharing policy.

EvidenceBluedot automatic sharingBluedot workspace settings

Fireflies.ai

Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy

Enterprise admins can match meeting title, host, participants, or internal/external type, then route to a channel, share with users or teams, or enforce privacy. Recaps default to teammates plus anyone with the link; review that setting before rollout.

EvidenceFireflies Rules EngineFireflies recap privacy defaults

Automations

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Advanced workflows and task-capable webhooks on Business

Bluedot supports automated recording and post-meeting workflows. Webhooks can send summaries and transcripts to custom endpoints that create tasks in Asana, Trello, or Jira, although that downstream mapping is something the customer builds. Its deepest CRM/ATS and team-wide workflow features are reserved for Business.

EvidenceBluedot pricingBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot webhooksBluedot custom note templates

Fireflies.ai

Meeting rules, AI apps, CRM workflows, and automatic task handoff

Fireflies can automatically create and assign tasks, then route them to Linear, Asana, Monday.com, Planner, Salesforce, and other systems with meeting filters on eligible plans. It also supports specialized AI apps. The experience spans several feature systems rather than one simple general condition/action canvas.

EvidenceFireflies Rules EngineFireflies pricing guideFireflies Tasks FeedFireflies Linear integration

Integrations

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Core collaboration tools; CRM and ATS on Business

The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature.

EvidenceBluedot pricing

Fireflies.ai

100+ integrations plus Zapier and API

Breadth is a major advantage across CRM, collaboration, storage, dialers, and productivity tools. Verify the plan required for each connector and direction of sync.

EvidenceFireflies integration directoryFireflies Linear integration

API, MCP, CLI, and data portability

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business

Personal MCP and user-level webhooks are available below Business; organization-wide MCP and team webhooks require Business. MCP follows the meetings the authenticated Bluedot user can already access, while team webhooks can receive events for every workspace user after support enables them. Users can also export transcripts as PDF or TXT and recordings as WebM.

EvidenceBluedot MCP with ClaudeBluedot webhooksBluedot transcript exportBluedot recording download

Fireflies.ai

GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server

Fireflies exposes transcripts and core meeting data through GraphQL plus webhooks for custom integrations. Its OAuth or API-key remote MCP server can retrieve full transcripts, summaries, action items, active meetings, analytics, soundbites, channels, and user data; it can also share, rename, organize, and clip meetings. Some advanced search and fetch tools remain experimental. Super Summary and Custom Apps data are still absent from the documented GraphQL API, and content passed into an external AI follows that provider’s retention terms.

EvidenceFireflies APIFireflies MCP tools

Security, privacy, and admin

BluedotAvailable with limits
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

Retention, SSO/SCIM, and advanced administration on Business

Business adds SSO/SAML, SCIM, configurable retention, and EU residency. Bluedot says customer data is not used to train models and AI providers retain nothing after generation. Its pricing and cancellation help pages currently disagree on whether canceled recordings are deleted after one or three months.

EvidenceBluedot workspace settingsBluedot cancellation policyBluedot pricingBluedot security

Fireflies.ai

Business and Enterprise governance

Enterprise adds SSO/SCIM, Rules Engine governance, custom retention, and private storage. Its Super Admin role can access every workspace meeting, including “Only Me” content—useful for compliance, but a material privacy-policy decision. Fireflies says meeting content is never used for internal or external model training.

EvidenceFireflies pricing guideFireflies storage limitsFireflies Rules EngineFireflies data safetyFireflies compliance recording modesFireflies Enterprise controls

Languages

BluedotBroad support
FirefliesBroad support

Bluedot

100+ languages advertised

Bluedot advertises broad language support. As with every vendor, evaluate real calls with accents, crosstalk, and domain vocabulary rather than relying on the count alone.

EvidenceBluedot pricing

Fireflies.ai

100+ languages advertised

Fireflies advertises broad transcription coverage. Real-world speaker separation and accuracy still depend on capture mode, room acoustics, accents, and vocabulary.

EvidenceFireflies pricing guide

A third option

Circleback

If neither Bluedot nor Fireflies quite fits, consider Circleback for shared meeting notes, assigned follow-up, and automations across your team’s apps. Online and in-person meetings stay together, with the full record available to people and AI agents through the app, API, MCP, and CLI.

Every meeting

Online meetings with or without a bot, plus mobile and Apple Watch recording. Speaker-labeled transcripts every time; keep recordings if you need them.

Shared company memory

Detailed notes, automatic sharing, and meeting and email history for each person and company.

People and AI agents

Assigned actions and automations for people; the same full meeting data for agents through API, MCP, and CLI.

Sources

First-party pricing, product docs, help articles, and release notes.

Bluedot sources16 first-party references
Fireflies.ai sources18 first-party references

Frequently asked questions

Bluedot focuses on bot-free recording across desktop, phone, and Apple Watch. Fireflies adds live assistance, a broader integration catalog, API access, and Enterprise sharing rules.

Bluedot: Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually. Fireflies.ai: Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.

Bluedot: Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Fireflies.ai: Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. Check whether your preferred recording method preserves video and speaker labels.

Compare automatic sharing, permissions, retention, and the defaults admins can enforce. Bluedot: Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions. Fireflies: Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy.

Bluedot: Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business. Fireflies: GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need.

We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. Links appear in each feature comparison and in the Sources section.