MeetingNotes by SmartKit vs Read AI

MeetingNotes by SmartKit helps teams prepare agendas, capture minutes, record decisions, assign action items, and share meeting summaries. Agendas can use time-boxed topics with owners, while discussion notes attach to those agenda items during the meeting. A decision register records who made each decision and when. Action items include an owner and due date, and unfinished items can carry forward automatically to the next meeting. Attendance tracking covers invitees, attendees, and apologies. Arabic and Urdu text are supported with right-to-left layouts and Unicode-safe rendering. Teams can share professional summaries and create printable PDFs. SmartKit presents MeetingNotes for teams, boards, committees, schools, standups, and recurring reviews. The product is described as mobile-first and available through SmartKit; its page does not identify a separate downloadable app. SmartKit says content stays in the creator’s workspace and is shared through selected access controls. The Free plan costs nothing, with no specific usage limits stated.

Read AI captures meetings and provides transcription, summaries and action items. Its meeting bot supports Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, and calendar integrations are available. The service is listed for web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, and it also supports file uploads. The product listing gives a transcription-language count of 16. The free plan is always free, requires no credit card and allows five meetings per month; its plan details list support for 20+ languages. Paid plans are billed annually: Pro costs $15 a month and includes 100 file upload credits per month. Enterprise costs $22.50 a month with 200 credits, while Enterprise+ costs $29.75 a month with 300 credits and requires at least five licenses. The different language counts given for transcription and the free plan may matter when checking suitability for a particular meeting. Read AI was founded in 2021 and is based in Seattle, Washington, United States.