Fellow

Overview

Fellow is an AI meeting assistant for teams that need recordings, transcripts and follow-up in one meeting workflow. It suits teams that want to search past discussions as well as capture them, but the Free plan’s lifetime quotas make it a short runway for regular use.

Its strongest case is the combination of flexible capture, searchable meeting history and controls for handling sensitive conversations. The main trade-off is that meaningful ongoing use requires a paid plan, whose seat caps and per-user quotas should be checked against the size and activity of the team.

Key features

Meeting records and follow-through

Fellow creates a Meeting Recap with a summary, transcript, decisions and automatically identified action items. Recordings can include audio and video, and transcripts have speaker labels. That gives teams a useful record beyond brief notes, especially when decisions and assigned work need to be revisited.

Fellow supports Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles and in-person meetings. Capture can use a bot, or desktop and mobile apps can record audio directly without one joining the call. Admins can configure consent workflows, while users can pause and resume recording for off-the-record conversations. Those options offer practical flexibility, though teams still need to decide which capture method and consent process fit their meetings.

Search and integrations

Ask Fellow searches meeting transcripts, summaries and notes to answer questions and surface decisions or action items from earlier conversations. Combined with a searchable archive, it is more useful to teams that regularly need to recover context than to people who only want a one-off transcript. Calendar integrations and note templates support preparation and consistent note-taking.

Fellow connects to more than 50 tools across areas including CRM, project management, AI, automation and compliance. Named integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Trello, GitHub, Claude, Zapier, Glean and Global Relay.

Privacy and administration

Fellow says meeting data is not used to train its own or third-party AI models, including on the Free plan. It is SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA-eligible, GDPR compliant and CCPA compliant. Admins can configure retention policies, including optional zero-day retention. Enterprise adds role-based access control, SSO/SAML, provisioning, retention controls, audit logs and a Super Admin API, making that tier the clearest fit for organizations with stricter administrative needs.

Pricing

Fellow is freemium, with a 14-day trial. When the trial ends, the workspace moves to Free. Workspaces are billed monthly or yearly based on active users at the start of the billing cycle; payment is accepted by credit card, check or bank transfer. All plans include chat and email support, while higher tiers add onboarding and dedicated account management.

• Free: free, billed annually. It includes 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user for life, with a maximum of 5 seats. The lifetime caps make this a way to try Fellow or support very occasional capture, not a sustainable plan for a team that records meetings routinely.
• Team: $7 a month per user, billed annually, or $11 billed monthly. It includes 10 AI notes per user per month and 10 AI recordings per user, with a maximum of 20 seats. This is the entry point for small teams, but the note and recording quotas remain important for frequent meeting schedules.
• Business: $15 a month per user, billed annually, or $23 billed monthly. It includes unlimited AI notes and recordings and has a maximum of 50 seats. The removal of those quotas suits broader, heavier use, provided the team fits the seat cap.
• Enterprise: $25 a month per user, billed annually; custom pricing is also available by contacting sales. It includes unlimited AI notes and recordings, starts at 10 users, and has unlimited maximum seats. Its expanded controls and security features make it the plan to consider for larger organizations, but the 10-user minimum is a poor fit for smaller teams.

Platforms

Fellow supports Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and web, as well as an API and browser extension. Desktop and mobile apps also enable botless audio capture.

Who it's for

Fellow is best suited to teams that want meeting capture and follow-up to become a searchable shared record, particularly when they work across supported meeting platforms and connect meeting outcomes to tools such as CRMs or project-management apps. Its privacy and administrative controls make it relevant to organizations with retention, consent or access requirements. Solo users and small teams with only occasional needs can start on Free, but the lifetime caps and five-seat maximum quickly limit ongoing use.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Recaps combine summaries, transcripts, decisions and action items, reducing the need to assemble those pieces from separate meeting records.
• Pro: Botless capture, configurable consent workflows and pause/resume recording give teams options for meetings where a bot or continuous recording is unsuitable.
• Pro: Search across past transcripts, summaries and notes can recover decisions and follow-up tasks from earlier meetings.
• Pro: More than 50 integrations and enterprise controls support teams that need meeting outcomes to connect with existing tools and administration.
• Con: Free allowances are lifetime quotas, not recurring monthly limits, so regular use requires a paid plan.
• Con: Team still limits notes to 10 per user per month and recordings to 10 per user; frequent users may need Business.
• Con: Team and Business cap seats at 20 and 50 respectively, while Enterprise starts at 10 users, narrowing the fit for teams near those thresholds.

Alternatives

Consider Notta if a free transcription plan with a stated monthly allowance is a better fit: its Free plan supports one seat and 120 transcription minutes per month. Otter.ai is another freemium option for readers comparing meeting transcription tools; its Basic plan allows up to five workspace members and 300 transcription minutes per user monthly.

Laxis may suit readers who want a free monthly transcription allowance: its Basic plan includes 300 minutes, 30 days of conversation history and a 45-minute maximum per recording. Bluedot is worth comparing for a free option with a lifetime meeting cap; its Free plan includes five meetings for life and a Chrome extension plus desktop and mobile apps.

MeetGeek offers a free plan with three transcription hours per month and three months of transcript storage, which may better match readers focused on those limits. Fireflies.ai is another freemium alternative; its Free plan includes 400 minutes of team storage and 20 AI credits.

Fathom may be a better fit for readers seeking unlimited free recordings and transcriptions, bot or bot-free capture, and instant AI call summaries. Avoma is an alternative with a Startup plan priced at $19 a month billed annually, up to 25 paid seats and unlimited free view-only seats.

Browse AI Meeting Assistants, Meeting Notes Software, Meeting Management Software, Sales Follow-Up Software, Meeting Assistant Software and Meeting Intelligence Software for more options.

Verdict

Choose Fellow if your team needs searchable meeting history, structured recaps and flexible capture, and can budget for the tier that fits its meeting volume and seat count. Look elsewhere if a genuinely ongoing free allowance is essential: Fellow’s free notes and recordings run out for each user over a lifetime.