The best Fireflies alternative for meetings in 2026
Fireflies is a solid meeting notetaker for teams, but it captures calls by sending a notetaker that joins as a participant. Poisely works differently: it listens to your computer's own audio, so nothing joins the meeting, nobody sees an extra name in the room, and your notes stay invisible when you share your screen.
Poisely vs Fireflies at a glance
| Poisely | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|
| How it captures the call | Listens to your computer's audio, nothing joins | A notetaker joins the call to record |
| Shows in the participant list | No, nothing joins | Yes, the notetaker appears as a participant |
| Needs the host to admit it | No permission needed | The notetaker has to join the call |
| On a screen share | Invisible, hidden at the OS level | The app window is visible if you present it |
| Also does live interview help | Yes | No |
| Pricing | $19/mo Pro, $39/mo Max | Free tier plus paid plans (see their pricing) |
What Poisely does in a meeting: it captures the call's audio and your microphone together, shows a live transcript labeled by speaker, then gives you a clean AI summary and clear action items in one click. On Max you can ask questions across your saved meetings.
Where Poisely wins
No notetaker joins your call. Fireflies records by adding a notetaker to the meeting. Poisely never joins anything, it listens to the audio already on your computer. Nothing to admit, nothing in the participant list, no extra name on a client, candidate, or partner call.
No permission, and it works where bots are blocked. Many company and external calls refuse notetaker bots or external participants. Poisely doesn't join, so there's nothing to approve and nothing to block. It runs on your machine, on any call.
Invisible when you share your screen. The desktop app is excluded from screen capture at the operating-system level, so your transcript, summary, and notes never appear in what you present, even on a full-screen share.
Any platform, no integration required. Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, a Slack huddle, even a phone call on speaker. If the audio plays on your computer, Poisely hears it, with no per-platform bot and no calendar connection.
Both sides, labeled by speaker. It captures your microphone and the call audio together and separates the voices, so both halves of the conversation are transcribed, in 50+ languages.
Summary and action items, in one click. The moment a call ends, you get a tight summary and action items with owners. On Max, ask-the-call answers questions across any saved meeting.
One app, two jobs. Poisely is also a live interview copilot, real-time answers in your ear, invisible on screen share. No meeting notetaker does that. One tool covers both your meetings and your interviews.
Where Fireflies is strong
To be fair: Fireflies is built for teams and pipelines. A notetaker that auto-joins from your calendar can attend calls even when you're not there, and Fireflies is known for its integrations and workflows for logging conversations across a team. If you want an assistant that joins every meeting for a whole organization and pushes structured notes into your other tools, that is the model Fireflies is designed around. Poisely is for the person in the call who wants private, bot-free notes that stay off the screen.
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No notetaker in your call, invisible on screen share, live transcript with an AI summary and action items. Start free, no card needed.
Frequently asked
Does Poisely add a notetaker to my meeting like Fireflies? No. Poisely listens to your computer's own audio, so nothing joins the call and nobody sees an extra participant.
Will people know I'm capturing notes? Nothing joins the call and the app is hidden on screen share, so nothing on your side is visible to them. Always follow the recording-consent rules for your region.
Which platforms does it work on? Any call whose audio plays on your computer, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, and more.
What does it cost? Meetings are included on Pro ($19/mo, up to 2 meetings a day) and Max ($39/mo, up to 5 a day, plus ask-the-call).