Best AI meeting assistants

AI notetakers now sit on almost every call, they join (or quietly listen), transcribe with speaker labels, and hand back a summary with action items before you've left the meeting. The split is simple: bot-based joiners (Otter, Fireflies, Read.ai) that scale across a team and log to your CRM, versus botless capture (Granola) that records locally and blends your own notes. Fathom is the value pick, genuinely free, unlimited, and fast. We ranked them on transcription accuracy, summary quality, integrations, and price.