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Meeting Assistants

Ranked by current activity, adjusted for momentum — measured, not bought.

Updated nightly · momentum over the last 7 days · No paid placement. No pay-to-rank. Ever.

Rank shows current measured activity — not which tool is best for you.

bestofnow tracks which AI tools are gaining attention fastest, across ten categories. What do these numbers mean? →

  1. 1
    Avoma↗ Rising

    AI meeting assistant for revenue teams that combines transcription with conversation intelligence, coaching scores, and CRM sync.

    Score 66.75

    Why it's rising

    Avoma: score 67/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  2. 2
    Read AI↘ Cooling

    AI meeting assistant that links calls to emails and messages, building a searchable knowledge graph with summaries and action items.

    Score 66.41

    Why it's cooling

    Read AI: score 66/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  3. 3
    Granola↘ Cooling

    Bot-free AI notepad that transcribes meetings locally and turns rough notes into structured summaries and action items.

    Score 50.48

    Why it's cooling

    Granola: score 50/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  4. 4
    Omi AIWatchlist — no trend yet

    Open-source assistant that captures screen and conversation, then answers from what you saw and heard with transcripts, summaries and action items

    Score 29.55

    What the data shows

    Omi AI: score 30/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  5. 5
    Oats by ArisoWatchlist — no trend yet

    Free, open-source meeting notetaker for Mac and Windows that records without a bot and transcribes and summarizes on-device

    Score 23.33

    What the data shows

    Oats by Ariso: score 23/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

Watchlist — building baseline

Too little current activity in our sources to score or read a direction reliably. These are measured nightly — they move up the moment the data does.

  • Fathom

    AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls, with an unlimited free tier and a bot-free capture option.

  • Fireflies.ai

    AI meeting assistant that records and transcribes calls, with voice agents, CRM autofill, and search across past meetings.

  • Otter.ai

    AI meeting assistant that transcribes calls in real time with speaker labels, summaries, and conversational search across meetings.

  • Gong

    Revenue intelligence platform that records and analyzes sales calls, surfacing deal risks, coaching insights, and CRM updates.

  • tl;dv

    AI meeting assistant for sales teams that records and clips calls, with multi-meeting reports and coaching analytics.

  • Jamie

    Bot-free AI meeting assistant that captures calls on-device in 100+ languages, with notes, action items, and speaker identification.

  • Ellis

    AI note-taker for in-person meetings on iPhone and Apple Watch, with one-tap recording, speaker-identified transcripts, and natural-language Q&A

  • Subanana

    AI transcription platform built for mixed-language audio, covering meeting notes, interviews, subtitles and live captions audiences follow in their own language

  • Hemory

    Always-on listening app for phone and Apple Watch that turns everyday conversations into searchable memory that AI agents can query

  • LUCI Desktop

    Free desktop app that records screen activity and meetings locally with encryption, giving coding agents searchable memory of what the user has seen

  • Kai

    AI executive assistant that records meetings without a bot joining, triages email, drafts replies for approval and manages the calendar