Best Read AI alternatives

1. Otter.ai

FreemiumFrom $13.59/mo

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records conversations, produces live transcripts, and turns discussions into summaries, decisions, and action items. It can automatically join Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet calls, or record directly from a browser, mobile device, or Mac and Windows desktop app…

• Live transcription
• Summaries and action items
• Searchable meeting chat

Best for Sales teams, Students and educators, Media professionals, Recruiting teams

2. Fireflies.ai

FreemiumFrom $18/mo

Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records conversations, creates transcripts, and turns discussions into summaries and action items. It supports transcription in more than 100 languages, identifies speakers, and lets users search past conversations or ask its AskFred assistant questions about their…

• Multilingual meeting transcription
• AI summaries and action items
• Search and AskFred

Best for Sales teams, Recruiting teams, Product and user research teams, Collaborative teams

3. Fathom

FreemiumFrom $19/mo

Fathom is an AI notetaker for online meetings. It records and transcribes calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, then produces summaries and action items so participants can stay in the conversation. Capture can run through a meeting bot or, in beta on Mac, without a bot joining the call. After a call…

• Meeting capture
• AI summaries
• Action items

Best for Sales teams, Customer success teams, Marketing teams, Product and engineering teams

4. Bluedot

FreemiumFrom $14/mo

Bluedot is an AI meeting recorder and note taker for online calls and in-person conversations. It captures meetings through a Chrome extension, desktop apps, or mobile apps rather than sending a bot into the call. It works with platforms including Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, and produces…

• Bot-free meeting recording
• Multilingual transcripts and notes
• Cross-meeting AI chat

Best for Sales and customer success teams, Recruiters, Founders and managers, Engineering teams

5. Granola

FreemiumFrom $14/mo

Granola is an AI notepad that combines the notes you write with meeting transcripts to produce structured summaries and action items. It captures device audio rather than sending a bot into the call, and works with meeting apps such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Its mobile apps also support in-person…

• Bot-free meeting capture
• AI-enhanced notes
• Cross-meeting chat

Best for People with frequent meetings, Sales teams, Product teams, Enterprise teams

6. Notta

Freemium

Notta is an AI transcription service that converts meetings, calls, interviews and audio or video files into searchable text. Recordings can be captured in the browser, through a mobile app, a Chrome extension or the Notta Memo voice recorder, and uploaded files are processed the same way. Speaker labels separate…

• Audio and video transcription
• Speaker identification
• AI summaries and notes

Best for Sales and customer success teams, Recruiters and HR teams, Educators and students, Healthcare and professional practices

7. Superwhisper

FreemiumFrom $8.49/mo

Superwhisper is an AI dictation app for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. It turns spoken input into formatted text and pastes it into the app you are using, including email, messaging tools and coding assistants. It supports more than 100 languages and dialects, with an option to translate speech into English. Users…

• Dictation across apps
• Custom writing modes
• Offline and cloud models

Best for People writing at work, Developers, Multilingual users

8. ParakeetAI

FreemiumFrom $149.90/mo

ParakeetAI is a real-time AI assistant for interviews, sales calls, and meetings. It listens to conversations, transcribes speech, and suggests answers while a call is happening. Users can request answers manually or enable automatic responses when questions are detected. It also offers spoken mock interviews with an…

• Live answer suggestions
• Technical interview support
• Document-based context

Best for Job seekers, Technical candidates, Sales and client-facing teams

9. Notion

FreemiumFrom $10/mo

Notion combines documents, databases, project tracking, and AI in a shared workspace. Individuals can organize personal projects, while teams can keep knowledge, tasks, and working documents together. Databases support subtasks, dependencies, custom properties, and filtering, with forms and charts available depending…

• Shared knowledge and projects
• Notion Agent
• Search with citations

Best for Individuals, Small teams, Operations and support teams, Enterprise organizations

10. Scite

Free trial

Scite is an AI research platform for finding scientific literature and examining the evidence behind research claims. Its AI Assistant answers questions using scholarly sources and links claims to specific passages so users can inspect the underlying evidence. Search covers more than 300 million research items…

• Citation-backed AI answers
• Smart Citations
• Full-text research search

Best for Academic researchers, Students, Industry research teams