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.
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- 1Read AI↘ Cooling
AI meeting assistant that links calls to emails and messages, building a searchable knowledge graph with summaries and action items.
Score 63.74
Why it's coolingRead AI's engagement is cooling, with recent Hacker News activity showing 33 stories, 526 points, and 262 comments.
- 2Granola↗ Rising
Bot-free AI notepad that transcribes meetings locally and turns rough notes into structured summaries and action items.
Score 51.56
Why it's risingGranola's engagement is rising, with recent Hacker News activity showing 6 stories, 171 points, and 35 comments.
- 3AvomaWatchlist — no trend yet
AI meeting assistant for revenue teams that combines transcription with conversation intelligence, coaching scores, and CRM sync.
Score 40.13
What the data showsAvoma has 9 Hacker News stories and 50 points over the past 7 days, but insufficient history exists to determine a reliable trend direction.
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