Fluent vs Fireflies. Send no one.
Fireflies is a thorough notetaker with deep search and integrations across a team's meetings. To capture each one, it sends its Fred bot to join the call as a participant.
Fluent sends no one. It captures the room from a device you already carry.
How each one gets the audio
Fireflies
- Sends the Fred bot to join the video call.
- Strong cross-meeting search and team integrations.
- Visible in the participant list; records the call stream.
- Audio routes through Fireflies' servers.
- Bound to the call — in-person meetings produce nothing.
Fluent
- Captures the room through a pendant or your phone's mic.
- Never joins the call; never appears in the participant list.
- Works in person, on walks, at lunch, in the hallway.
- Audio lives in your own account, encrypted at rest, never used to train models.
- Summary, action items by speaker, attributed transcript, cross-meeting patterns, an MCP server.
Fireflies is built for a team that meets on video and wants every call searchable. Fluent is built for the individual whose important conversations happen in rooms a bot was never invited into.
The conversations a bot can't reach
A bot follows a calendar invite. It can't follow you into an in-person 1:1, a walking meeting, a working lunch, a pitch in someone else's office, or the hallway exchange that turns out to be the most useful sixty seconds of the day.
Fluent captures all of it, because it listens to the room rather than the call. Phone capture is rolling out now, so you don't need a pendant to start.
The honest boundary: Fluent will not join your Zoom call to record the far-side stream — that's the bot's job, and the bot is the thing we deliberately don't build. See how AI meeting notes work without a bot.
No Fred. No bot. Just the notes.
Nothing joins the room. The notes are waiting when the meeting ends.
See how Fluent does meeting notes