Category: Productivity
Excellent notes, but recording visibility is a paid feature.
Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings, and is widely preferred for the quality of its summaries and action items, with a genuinely generous free tier. It added bot-free capture, where no visible participant joins the call, and native integrations with the main assistants. It ships an MCP server available on every plan including free. Superhuman, the renamed Grammarly, announced its acquisition in September 2026 and the domain has moved. For UK buyers the consent position needs stating plainly: a visible in-meeting banner shows by default, but disabling that banner and renaming the bot are paid features on the business tiers, bot-free mode removes the participant signal entirely, there is no spoken announcement and no blocking consent gate, and the advance-notice email is opt-in rather than default.
The best summaries in the category and a free tier generous enough that most individuals never pay, which is why it spreads through organisations quickly. The MCP server on every plan including free is good. We would steer you to Otter for external calls, though, and the reason is structural rather than a quibble: on Fathom the features that make recording less visible, disabling the banner and renaming the bot, are on the paid tiers, and bot-free capture removes the participant signal altogether. So the product makes recording progressively harder to notice as you pay more, which is the wrong direction for UK consent obligations where the burden is on you to show the other party knew. Use it for internal calls, and if you use it externally, build your own notice process. All data is stored in the United States per their own documentation, and the Superhuman acquisition adds roadmap uncertainty.
Best for: Internal meetings and teams recording their own calls, rather than external calls where consent must be demonstrable.
Pricing: Free, then from $15/user/mo billed yearly (Freemium)
Rating: 4/5