On-device: audio never leaves your machine. No bot, no cloud.
Teams look for Avoma alternatives for three reasons: the bot, the cloud, and the per-seat subscription that starts at $19. Avoma is the strongest revenue-intelligence tool in this comparison. It just hits a wall for anyone who needs privacy, no-bot meetings, or a tool that doesn't bill per seat forever.
Avoma is the cloud sales-intelligence incumbent. A bot or conferencing integration joins every call, sends the audio to Avoma's AWS US servers, and returns a transcript, AI notes, action items auto-synced to the CRM, coaching scorecards, deal-risk alerts, and a conversation-intelligence dashboard the sales manager reads after the call. The Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet integrations are strong. The CRM sync covers Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Copper, and Zendesk Sell, the broadest in this comparison. Outreach and Salesloft sequencing tie in for revenue teams that live in those tools. iOS and Android apps cover mobile. 40+ languages are supported, with translation on Organization tier and above.
For a sales team that wants every call synced to Salesforce, coaching scorecards on every rep, and deal-risk alerts on stalled opportunities, Avoma is the default pick, and $19–39 a seat a month annual is the going rate. The Conversation and Revenue Intelligence add-ons layer team analytics on top, and custom keyword and smart topic trackers are a paid add-on for teams tracking competitor mentions and objection patterns. The CRM auto-entry, coaching scorecards, deal-risk alerts, Ask Avoma copilot, custom AI topics and templates on Organization tier and above, smart playlists and AI automations, and team analytics add-ons are the deepest revenue workflow in this comparison. The weakness isn't the intelligence layer. It's everything around it.
The bot is the first wall. A bot or integration joins every call as a visible participant. On an internal pipeline review nobody cares. On a customer call, a prospect sees "Avoma" in the participant list and asks why you're recording before the rep has finished the intro. For a revenue team that's a known trade-off; the coaching and CRM value outweighs the bot. For a coach, a lawyer, a researcher, or anyone on a confidential board call, a visible recording bot ends the conversation.
The cloud audio path is the second wall. Audio uploads to Avoma's AWS US servers with no on-device transcription and no offline mode. Avoma markets itself as privacy-friendly by design, with Enterprise-tier controls for consent, deletion, and compliance. SOC2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA on Enterprise are real. For a sales team that's a documented story. For a healthcare practice, a law firm, or a regulated team that can't let audio leave the device, the certification doesn't move the line. The audio still leaves the machine.
The per-seat subscription is the third wall. There's no free tier, only a 14-day trial. Paid plans run $19, $24, and $39 a seat a month annual, with paid add-ons for conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence, and custom topic trackers. A team that runs more than a handful of calls a week burns through the trial fast, and the only path forward is a per-seat subscription that compounds across the team.
People who switch off Avoma tend to fall into one of three camps. Some need no bot on external or confidential calls. Some are in regulated work and can't let audio leave the device, regardless of Avoma's Enterprise compliance tiers. Some are a solo user or small team that looked at $19–39 a seat a month forever and found a local option with a free tier. The alternatives below speak to each camp differently, which is why the ranking isn't a single axis.
Ranked by fit for local, bot-free meeting notes. Clearminutes is the local-first anchor at the end.
Otter.ai puts a bot in every call and sends audio to its servers. Clearminutes runs on your machine.
Best for: sales teams that want CRM-synced cloud notes and a polished shared workspace. A bot joins every call and audio goes to Otter's servers. The free tier caps at 300 minutes a month, with no on-device or offline option.
Price: $0/forever
Otter.ai is best for sales teams who want CRM-synced cloud notes and a polished shared workspace. A bot joins every call and audio goes to Otter's servers, with a free tier capped at 300 minutes a month and no on-device or offline option. Strong on Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, and HubSpot integration, weak on privacy and native cross-platform apps. Pick it when team collaboration matters more than keeping audio on the device.
Meeting transcription without the awkward "Fireflies has joined" announcement or monthly subscription.
Best for: teams that want a rich searchable transcript archive and deep CRM integrations with Salesforce and HubSpot. A cloud bot joins every call and audio is stored on Fireflies.ai's servers. The free tier is limited to 800 minutes of storage per seat.
Price: $0/forever
Fireflies.ai is best for teams who want a rich searchable transcript archive and deep CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. A cloud bot joins every call and audio is stored on Fireflies.ai's servers, with the free tier limited to 800 minutes of storage per seat. Strong on search and CRM workflows, weak on privacy and offline use. Pick it when searchable team transcripts matter more than local processing.
Fathom is a free Zoom-only cloud notetaker. Clearminutes works with any audio source, runs locally on Mac and Windows, and doesn't need Zoom.
Best for: teams on Zoom who want a free, simple cloud notetaker with unlimited recordings and 28-language support. A bot joins every call, coverage is Zoom-only, and audio is uploaded to Fathom's servers. There's no on-device transcription path and no offline option.
Price: $0/forever
Fathom is best for teams on Zoom who want a free, simple cloud notetaker with unlimited recordings and broad 28-language support. A bot joins every call, coverage is Zoom-only, and audio is uploaded to Fathom's servers with no on-device transcription path. Strong on free-tier generosity and language coverage, weak on platform breadth and privacy. Pick it when you live on Zoom and want free cloud notes.
Jamie is bot-free but summarises in the cloud on Mac and Windows. Clearminutes keeps the summary on-device too, with a real free tier and Linux support.
Best for: individuals who want a free, bot-free local summary on Mac and Windows with export to Notion, Slack, and HubSpot. The free tier is limited and the paid plan is £25/month for fuller features. The feature set is lighter than the cloud incumbents.
Price: £0/forever
Jamie is best for individuals who want a free, bot-free local summary on Mac and Windows with Notion, Slack, and HubSpot export. Processing is partial — offline is available but summaries are not fully on-device. The free tier is limited and the paid plan is £25 a month. Strong on bot-free capture and export, weak on Linux, a real free tier, and a local LLM. Pick it for solo Mac or Windows use.
Granola is a polished Mac-only drafting app that processes audio in the cloud. Clearminutes runs on-device, on Mac and Windows, with a one-off Pro price.
Best for: Mac users who want a polished meeting summary app that drafts notes and exports to Notion, Slack, and HubSpot. It's Mac-only with cloud-only audio processing, a limited free tier, and a £14–35/month subscription. The integration surface is smaller than the cloud incumbents.
Price: £0/forever
Granola is best for Mac-only users who want a polished cloud-native drafting workflow with custom templates, chat-with-meetings, action items, cross-meeting search, and speaker diarization, plus Notion, Slack, and HubSpot export. Audio is processed on Granola's servers with no local option, and the paid plans run £14–35 a month. Strong on the Mac drafting experience, weak on Windows, Linux, offline, and a real free tier. Pick it for Mac-only work in those three tools.
Krisp pioneered noise cancellation. Clearminutes is a complete AI meeting assistant: transcription, summaries, action items, and task sync.
Best for: teams that need noise cancellation first and a meeting assistant second. Transcription is a cloud add-on, not the core product. There's a 14-day trial then a limited free tier, 16-language support, and an $8–15/month paid plan for full features.
Price: $0/forever
Krisp is best for teams who need noise cancellation first and a meeting assistant second. Transcription is a cloud add-on rather than the core product; noise cancellation runs locally but transcription does not. A 14-day trial gives way to a limited free tier, with a paid plan at $8–15 a month for full features across 16 languages. Strong on noise removal, weak on on-device transcription and offline notes. Pick it when call audio is noisy.
tl;dv records Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams in the cloud with a bot in the call. Clearminutes keeps the recording on your machine and works offline.
Best for: teams on Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams who want a free-tier cloud recorder with 30+ language transcripts and Chrome-based capture. A bot joins every call and audio is uploaded to tl-dv's servers. The paid plan is $20–25/month, with no on-device transcription option.
Price: $0/forever
tl;dv is best for teams on Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams who want a free-tier cloud recorder with 30+ language transcripts and Chrome-based capture. A bot joins every call and audio is uploaded to tl;dv's servers, with a $20–25 a month paid plan and no on-device transcription option. Strong on multi-platform recording and language coverage, weak on privacy and offline use. Pick it for free cloud recording across meeting platforms.
Two local-first Tauri apps built on similar technology. Meetily is open source with a new Pro tier. Clearminutes adds speaker diarization, integrations, guided onboarding, and active commercial development.
Best for: developers who want an open-source local notes tool that runs Whisper on-device with unlimited free use. There are no integrations and no diarization polish. The split is Free Community / $10 Pro, and on Linux it's buildable from source rather than a packaged app.
Price: £0/forever
Meetily is best for developers who want a fully auditable, MIT-licensed local notes tool that runs Whisper on-device with unlimited free use. There are no integrations, diarization is only coming soon on Pro, and there's no commercial support, just the community. On Linux it's buildable from source rather than a packaged app. Strong on openness and local processing, weak on polish, integrations, and support. Pick it when an auditable open-source codebase matters more than a finished product.
Notion AI Meeting Notes lives in your Notion workspace and sends audio to cloud sub-processors. Clearminutes keeps audio on your machine with no account and no uploads.
Best for: teams already living in Notion who want meeting notes inline in their workspace. Audio goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other third-party LLMs, with no on-device transcription. Speaker identification is English-only and 1:1-best, and a Notion account is required.
Price: £0/forever
Notion AI Meeting Notes is best for teams already living in Notion who want meeting notes inline in their workspace. Audio goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other third-party LLMs, with no on-device transcription, and a Notion account is required. Speaker identification is English-only and works best 1:1. Strong on in-workspace notes and custom templates, weak on privacy, offline, and any no-account workflow. Pick it when workspace notes matter more than keeping audio off third-party servers.
Speechmark is a Mac menu-bar app that processes on-device after the call. Clearminutes adds Windows and Linux, a live transcript during the call, and a network monitor.
Best for: UK teams on macOS who want a local-first, no-bot meeting notes tool with one-time pricing (free during beta) and a Claude Desktop connector. It's Mac-only, with no live transcript and no privacy network monitor. Summaries are processed after you stop recording.
Price: Free/during beta
Speechmark is best for UK teams on macOS who want a local-first, no-bot meeting notes tool with one-time pricing, free during beta then a single purchase, and a Claude Desktop connector. It's Mac-only on Apple silicon, with no live transcript because it processes after you stop, and no privacy network monitor. Strong on local audio and no-account simplicity, weak on cross-platform and live capture. Pick it when a one-time Mac tool matters more than Windows, Linux, or a live transcript.
Trilla is a free local-first Mac app on Apple Silicon. Clearminutes adds Windows, task sync, and a Pro tier.
Best for: Mac users on Apple Silicon who want a free, local, no-bot transcriber running Whisper and Ollama on-device, with local voice prints and no account. It's macOS-only, with no Windows or Linux build. The integration surface is smaller and the feature set is lighter than the cross-platform options.
Price: £0/forever
Trilla is best for Mac users on Apple Silicon who want a free, local, no-bot transcriber that runs Whisper and Ollama on-device with local voice prints and no account. Every feature is free with no subscription and no gating. It's macOS-only, with no Windows or Linux build, and it relies on Ollama for local summaries rather than shipping a built-in LLM. Strong on free local capture, weak on cross-platform and integrations. Pick it when free and local on Mac matters more than Windows or Pro integrations.
On-device, no bot, no cloud audio.
Best for: privacy-first teams who want meeting notes without uploading audio to the cloud.
Price: £0/forever
Clearminutes is best for teams who need meeting audio to stay on the device. Transcription runs on local Whisper and summaries on a built-in local LLM, with no cloud upload at any step. It works offline, ships for Windows alongside macOS, and shows zero outbound audio connections in its in-app network monitor. A real free tier and bring-your-own API keys make it the local-first pick when every other tool on this list sends audio to the cloud.
| Feature | Granola | Jamie | Speechmark | Fireflies.ai | Krisp | tl;dv | Trilla | Otter.ai | Fathom | Meetily | Notion AI Meeting Notes | Clearminutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting bots | No | No | No | Yes (bot joins call) | No (bot-free option) | Yes (bot joins call) | No | Bot joins call | Yes (bot joins call) | No | No | No |
| Local processing | No (cloud-only) | Partial (offline available) | — | No (cloud-only) | Partial (noise cancellation local, transcription cloud) | No (cloud-only) | Yes (Whisper + Ollama) | No (cloud-only) | No (cloud-only) | Yes (Whisper) | No | Yes (on-device models) |
| Speaker identification | Yes | Yes | Yes (confirm-name flow) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes (local voice prints) | Yes | Yes | — | Yes (English only, 1:1 best) | Yes (Pro) |
| Works offline | — | — | — | No | Partial (noise cancellation offline) | No | — | No | No | — | No | Yes (local models) |
| Free tier | Yes (limited history) | Yes (limited) | — | Yes (limited AI summaries, 800 min storage) | Yes (14-day trial, then limited) | Yes (limited recordings) | Yes (unlimited) | Yes (300 min/month) | Yes (unlimited recordings) | Yes (unlimited, open source) | Limited AI trial (Free/Plus) | Yes |
| Language support | — | — | — | 69 languages | 16 languages | 30+ languages | — | English, French, Spanish | 28 languages | — | 16 languages | 6+ languages |
These aren't bugs. They're the shape of a cloud, bot-attended, CRM-heavy revenue platform, and each one bites a specific kind of buyer.
They bite only when your requirement is no bot, local processing, or a real free tier. If you live in Salesforce, don't mind the bot, and the coaching scorecards justify the seat cost, none of these bite.
Pick the tool that matches your hard constraint, not the one with the longer feature list. Avoma optimises the cloud revenue-intelligence workflow and accepts a bot, cloud audio, and a per-seat subscription. Clearminutes optimises where the audio goes and accepts a lighter collaboration layer.
Your hard requirement is that meeting audio never leaves the device, or that no bot joins the call. Transcription and summarisation run locally on Whisper and Gemma with no cloud upload at any step. Clearminutes captures microphone and system audio on the machine, works with any audio source, runs offline, and shows zero outbound audio connections in its in-app network monitor. No bot, bring-your-own API keys, no monthly subscription. For healthcare, legal, regulated work, or anyone whose calls can't show a recording bot, that's the structural difference. The trade is the revenue-intelligence layer: no CRM auto-entry, no coaching scorecards, no deal-risk alerts, no Salesforce or HubSpot sync, no mobile apps.
You want a cloud revenue-intelligence platform where every call syncs to Salesforce or HubSpot, coaching scorecards score every rep, deal-risk alerts flag stalled opportunities, and the Ask Avoma copilot searches across your call library. You're fine with a bot in the participant list, audio on Avoma's AWS US servers, a 14-day trial with no free tier, and $19–39 a seat a month annual with paid add-ons. Avoma is the right call for a revenue team that lives in Salesforce and Outreach, has decided the bot is acceptable on customer calls, and can justify the per-seat cost against the CRM and coaching value.
Do the maths for your team before you commit. A 10-person team on Avoma pays $2,280 a year at Startup and $4,680 at Enterprise, before any add-on. Clearminutes has a generous free tier and a £12/mo Pro plan that doesn't scale per seat. Over a year the delta is thousands. For a team that lives in the CRM and coaching workflow, the revenue intelligence often justifies the gap. For everyone else, it's overhead without a matching return.
Last updated: 2026-06-22. Compared from each tool's public pricing and feature data (see sources), as of the last-updated date.
Sources: Avoma official site (2026-06-22), Avoma pricing page (2026-06-22), Avoma security page (2026-06-22), Avoma integrations page (2026-06-22).
Clearminutes is our own product; we've kept the comparison fair.
Local transcription, live transcript view, AI summaries, and a verifiable privacy network monitor. No cloud uploads, no bots, runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.