Fellow

Overview

Fellow turns meetings into a record people can revisit, from a transcript and decisions to assigned follow-up. It is best suited to teams that want meeting capture and cross-meeting search in one place. Its strongest case is the combination of recaps, archive search, and botless recording; the main trade-off is that the free allowance is a small lifetime quota rather than a recurring monthly benefit.

Key features

Recaps and follow-through

Fellow records meetings and produces a Meeting Recap with a summary, transcript, decisions, and automatically identified action items. Speaker labels, note templates, and calendar integrations support organizing the record around meetings and their follow-up. That makes Fellow more than a transcript store, though teams should still decide whether its AI-identified tasks fit their own follow-up process.

Search across meetings

Ask Fellow searches past transcripts, summaries, and notes to answer questions and surface decisions or action items. For teams that need to recover context across many meetings, this is a more useful proposition than treating every recap as a standalone document. Fellow also connects to more than 50 tools, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Trello, GitHub, Claude, Zapier, Glean, and Global Relay.

Capture and control

Fellow supports Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, and in-person meetings. Capture can use a bot, or desktop and mobile apps can record audio directly without one joining the call. Admins can set consent workflows and retention policies, including optional zero-day retention; users can pause and resume recording for off-the-record conversations. The AI Note Taker supports transcription in 93 languages, while Fellow also lists 99 transcription languages, so buyers should confirm which count applies to their intended workflow.

Pricing

The Free plan costs nothing and includes five AI notes and five AI recordings per user for life, with a maximum of five seats. That is enough to evaluate the workflow, but it is not a sustainable allowance for regular meeting capture across a team.

Team costs $7 a month per user when billed annually, or $11 billed monthly. It provides 10 AI notes per user per month and 10 AI recordings per user, with up to 20 seats. This is the natural step up for a small team with recurring use, but its quotas still require attention. Business costs $15 a month per user billed annually, or $23 billed monthly, and removes the AI note and recording limits for up to 50 seats. It suits organization-wide use where the Team caps would constrain adoption.

Enterprise costs $25 a month per user billed annually; monthly pricing is custom pricing. It starts at 10 users, has no maximum seat count, and includes unlimited AI notes and recordings. Enterprise adds RBAC, SSO/SAML, provisioning, retention controls, audit logs, and a Super Admin API, making it the fit for organizations that need centralized administration rather than simply higher quotas.

Fellow offers a 14-day trial; when it ends, the workspace moves to Free. Workspaces are billed monthly or yearly for active users at the start of each billing cycle. Payment is accepted by credit card, check, or bank transfer. All plans include chat and email support, while higher tiers add onboarding and dedicated account management.

Platforms

Fellow is available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and the web, with an extension and API also listed. Desktop and mobile capture without a meeting bot is useful when a bot joining the call is undesirable.

Who it's for

Fellow is a strong fit for teams that need meeting records to feed decisions and action items into ongoing work, especially when they want to search across meetings or connect records to other business tools. Its SOC 2 Type II certification, HIPAA eligibility, GDPR and CCPA compliance, and policy that meeting data is not used to train Fellow or third-party AI models—including on Free—also make its privacy and governance posture relevant to organizations evaluating meeting capture. Smaller teams with only occasional meetings may find the Free lifetime caps too restrictive, while teams seeking uncapped use need Business or Enterprise.

Pros and cons

Pro: Recaps combine transcripts, decisions, summaries, and identified action items, giving teams a practical record for follow-through.

Pro: Ask Fellow searches across past meeting material, which helps recover context beyond a single call.

Pro: Botless audio capture and configurable consent and retention controls offer options for sensitive or carefully governed meetings.

Con: Free's five lifetime AI notes and recordings per user are a one-time allowance, not a monthly quota.

Con: Team retains monthly notes and recording limits, so regular users may need the higher-priced Business tier for uncapped use.

Con: The two transcription-language counts differ, which complicates choosing Fellow on language coverage alone.

Alternatives

Choose Bluedot if a free plan with five lifetime meetings and Chrome extension, desktop, and mobile apps better matches a light trial workflow. Circleback is another freemium option with AI meeting notes, action items, online and in-person meetings, and limited automations on its free plan. Consider Notta when a free allowance of 120 transcription minutes per month for one seat is a better fit than Fellow's lifetime caps.

Grain may suit personal email users who can work within its free plan's 20 bot-recorded meetings and 45-minute meeting limit. MeetGeek offers a free plan with three transcription hours per month and three months of transcript storage. Laxis is worth considering for a free monthly allowance of 300 transcription minutes, with a 45-minute maximum per recording.

ScreenApp AI Meeting Notes offers a free plan with two trial transcriptions and 10 AI chats and templates per month. Read AI may be a better fit for five free meetings per month and support for more than 20 languages. For broader comparisons, see AI Meeting Assistants, Meeting Management Software, Sales Follow-Up Software, Meeting Notes Software, Meeting Assistant Software, and Meeting Intelligence Software.

Verdict

Choose Fellow if your team wants meeting capture to produce searchable records and usable follow-up, with botless recording and meaningful administrative controls. Its free tier is best treated as a limited introduction, and the Team tier's quotas make Business the clearer choice for broad, uncapped use. Look elsewhere if you need a substantial recurring free allowance or a single unambiguous language-coverage figure before committing.