Wavenote as a Fireflies.ai alternative
A meeting assistant with the strongest compliance paperwork in the category. A bot joins your calls under a name you choose, or a browser extension records without one, and everything is searchable afterwards.
What Fireflies.ai does better
Fireflies is the one to pick when the paperwork decides it: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA with a BAA, stated on the pricing page itself. It runs on the web, Windows, iPhone and Android as well as the Mac, joins your calendar automatically, names each speaker, and AskFred answers questions across every meeting a whole team has had. Wavenote is one person on one Mac and has none of that.
Where Wavenote is different
- Fireflies uploads every second of the audio and then tells you how long it keeps it. Wavenote turns the recording into text on your Mac, so the retention question never comes up.
- No bot and no account. Wavenote can read today's meetings if you switch that on, and it never joins one.
- Recording, transcription, search, tags and Markdown export are the $4.90 app. Asking a note for a summary is the subscription.
Side by side
| Wavenote | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Recording leaves your Mac | Never | Always |
| Bot in the call | Never | Optional |
| SOC 2 and HIPAA | No | Yes, with a BAA |
| Cost | $4.90 once | Free, then $10 to $18 a seat a month |
Fireflies.ai pricing: Free with unlimited transcription and 400 minutes of storage a team, Pro $18 a seat a month or $10 on annual billing, Business $29 or $19, Enterprise $39 on annual billing only. Checked against fireflies.ai on 10 August 2026.