
Fellow
Fellow makes a meeting notes app whose note taker joins Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, with a desktop app for botless recording on any platform and uploads for other recordings.
- How it listens
- A bot joins the call
- A bot joins the call, Records your computer's audio, Upload a file
- Free plan
- Free plan, with limits
- Cheapest paid
- $7/mo
- Team, per seat, billed yearly
- Trains AI on your recordings
- Says it doesn't train on them
- Where it transcribes
- In the cloud
- Botless recordings are captured locally but stored and processed in Fellow
Where it stands among 43
Each fact with every app's answer. Fellow is outlined.
Trains AI on your recordings
Says it doesn't train on them
Says it doesn't train on them 30
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Yes, no bot joins 32
A bot joins the call 7
Doesn't join live calls 4
Where it transcribes
In the cloud
On your device 3
On device or in the cloud 5
In the cloud 35
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Free plan
Free plan or free with the device
Free plan or free with the device 31
No free plan 11
Not stated 1
Can skip keeping the audio
Yes
Yes 24
Keeps the audio 2
EU data storage
Not stated
Offered 19
Not offered 3
Not applicable 5
HIPAA
Says it supports HIPAA
Says it supports HIPAA 25
No 2
Plans and prices
In US dollars, per month, as listed by Fellow. Prices exclude VAT and sales tax. Checked 19 October 2026.
Swipe the table sideways for both billing terms.
| Plan | Made for | Billed yearly | Billed monthly | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free5 lifetime recordings and 5 uploads (100 MB) per user | Anyone | $0 | $0 | Not statedCounted in recordings, not minutes: 5 AI recordings per user for the lifetime of the account |
| SoloOne user, no team workspace | One personPer account | $19/moLive pricing page, Individuals tab, billed annually, 2026-10-19 | $29/moLive pricing page, Individuals tab, billed monthly, 2026-10-19 | UnlimitedUnlimited AI notes, recordings and transcriptions |
| Team10 uploads per user a month | TeamsPer seat | $7/mo | $11/mo | Not statedCounted in recordings: 10 AI recordings per user a month |
| BusinessCRM integrations, bot avatar | TeamsPer seat | $15/mo | $23/mo | UnlimitedUnlimited AI recordings |
| EnterpriseSSO, auto-deletion policies | CompaniesPer seat | $25/moStarts at 10 users | Not offeredBilled annually | Unlimited |
How others are told
What the other people in the meeting see or hear, as Fellow describes it.
- The bot shows in the call
The note taker joins the call; consent capture 'notifies participants before recording begins' but the channel isn't stated. Botless: you tell participants
All the facts
How it listens
- Ways it captures
- A bot joins the call, Records your computer's audio, Upload a file Note taker auto-joins calls; botless desktop recording on Mac and Windows; mobile recording; file uploads
- No bot in your calls
- Yes Note taker auto-joins calls; botless desktop recording on Mac and Windows; mobile recording; file uploads
- How others are told
- The bot shows in the call The note taker joins the call; consent capture 'notifies participants before recording begins' but the channel isn't stated. Botless: you tell participants
- Labels who said what
- YesYes Learns workspace users' voices across meetings when voice recognition is on; not external guests
- Languages
- 99+ With auto-detection
- Mixed-language meetings
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
What happens to your recordings
- Trains AI on your recordings
- Says it doesn't train on them Fellow's claim: recordings, transcripts and summaries are never used to train AI models, on all plans including free
- Where it transcribes
- In the cloud Botless recordings are captured locally but stored and processed in Fellow
- Can skip keeping the audio
- YesYes Zero-day deletion of recordings after processing (Enterprise)
- How long it's kept
- Default not stated; Enterprise admins can auto-delete recordings and transcripts after a set number of days or at once
- EU data storage
- Not statedNot stated Storage region not stated
- SOC 2
- YesYes SOC 2 Type II
- HIPAA
- YesYes BAA on Enterprise (the pricing table ticks 'HIPAA / BAA compliance' only for Enterprise)
What it costs
- Free plan
- Free plan, with limits 5 lifetime recordings and 5 uploads (100 MB) per user
- Cheapest paid plan
- $7/month per seat, billed yearly
- Pay per minute (AI)
- Not stated No per-minute price; uploads are counted per plan
- Human transcription
- Not stated No human transcription stated
- One-time price
- None No one-time licence listed
- Device price
- No device Software only; no device sold
- Free trial
- 14 days, no card Paid features
- Refund window
- 14 days Annual plans only; monthly subscriptions aren't refundable
Where it works
- Zoom
- YesYes
- Google Meet
- YesYes
- Microsoft Teams
- YesYes
- Webex
- YesYes Through desktop audio capture
- In-person meetings
- YesYes Botless desktop or mobile recording
- Phone calls
- YesYes Desktop capture of phone dialers, WhatsApp and FaceTime calls
- Apps
- Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, Chrome
What you get out
- Transcript exports
- Not stated
- Subtitles (SRT)
- Not statedNot stated File formats not named
- Audio download
- Not statedNot stated Only failed botless recordings can be saved as M4A; general audio download not stated
- Integrations
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zapier, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Docs, Notion, Confluence, API
Who makes it
- Company
- Fellow Legal entity not named in the cited excerpt
- Owned by
- Not stated No parent company named
- Based in
- Not stated Headquarters not stated in the cited excerpts
- Founded
- 2017 November 2017
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