Littlebird vs Fireflies: which one fits how you work?

Littlebird and Fireflies both take meeting notes, but they go about it differently. Fireflies sends a bot into your Zoom, Meet, or Teams call as a visible participant, then transcribes, summarizes, and pushes notes to your CRM. Littlebird is bot-free. It listens from your own computer and connects every meeting to a running memory of your work: your screen, your docs, and every earlier conversation.

The short version

Littlebird is the better pick: bot-free notes connected to everything else you work on. Fireflies only wins if you need a team notetaker wired to your CRM and accept a bot in every call.

Download for Windows (beta)

Get download link

Download for Mac

Preview it now ›

The difference is a bot versus a memory

No bot in your meetings

Littlebird captures audio from your device. No extra participant in the call, no recording notice for everyone to see, no bot to explain.

Memory beyond the call

Littlebird connects each meeting to what you did before and after it, so you can ask about a project or a client, not just a single call.

No AI credits

Littlebird Meeting Notes are included in every plan. Fireflies meters its advanced AI features, like AskFred and action items, with monthly credits.

Fireflies vs Littlebird at a glance

Fireflies

What it is

AI work memory app for Mac and Windows

AI meeting notetaker that joins calls with a bot, transcribes, and syncs notes to your CRM

Built for

People who want their meetings connected to the rest of their work

Sales and customer teams that want recorded calls and CRM notes

Setup

Install and it starts working

Connect your calendar and let the bot auto-join your meetings

Meeting notes

Automatic notes and transcription built in

Bot joins Zoom, Meet, and Teams; unlimited transcription on every plan; advanced AI features metered by credits

Ask your memory

Chat across your full work context

AskFred answers questions about your meeting transcripts

Platforms

Mac and Windows, with iOS and Android companion apps

Web, iOS, Android, and a Chrome extension

In-meeting presence

None. Nothing joins the call

Visible bot participant that records the meeting

Data handling

Encrypted with AES-256 at rest and in transit, TLS 1.3, stored in the cloud on AWS. SOC 2 certified. Full details at trust.littlebird.ai

Cloud; SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA on Enterprise; storage capped by plan

Pricing

Basic is free, Plus from $17 per month. Full tiers at littlebird.ai/pricing

Free with limited storage; Pro $10, Business $19, and Enterprise $39 per seat per month billed annually (as of September 2026)

Support

Product support from the Littlebird team

Email support; priority support on higher tiers

Best for

Bot-free notes tied to your whole workday

Team meeting records with CRM sync

Download for Windows

BETA

Try it for free

Where each one wins

Where Fireflies is genuinely strong

Its CRM and workflow integrations are deep. Notes land in Salesforce or HubSpot automatically, and conversation intelligence tracks talk time, sentiment, and topics across a whole team.

Every plan has unlimited transcription in 100+ languages, and per-seat prices are low. The catch is that the useful AI features sit behind monthly credits, and the memory ends where the call ends.

Where Littlebird is different

Meeting Notes that write themselves, without a bot joining your calls

Chat that answers questions across everything you have worked on, not just one meeting

Routines that surface what matters without you asking

Hover, a floating chat window over whatever you are looking at (macOS only)

An MCP server on every paid plan, so your memory works inside tools like Claude

On privacy: Littlebird runs on your computer and you control what it sees. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and in transit, stored on AWS, never used to train models, and never sold. Littlebird is SOC 2 certified and you can delete your data at any time. Details at trust.littlebird.ai and littlebird.ai/privacy.

Download for Windows

BETA

Try it for free

Common questions

Is Fireflies free?

There is a Free plan with unlimited transcription, but storage is capped at a few hundred minutes for the team and advanced AI features run on a small credit allowance, so most people outgrow it quickly. Paid plans are Pro at $10, Business at $19, and Enterprise at $39 per seat per month billed annually, as of September 2026. Littlebird Basic is free and includes Meeting Notes.

Does Fireflies join meetings as a bot?

Yes. Fireflies works by sending its notetaker into your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call as a visible participant. You can set rules for which meetings it attends. Littlebird never joins a call. It captures audio from your own computer, so it works for any conversation you can hear, with no bot for other people to see.

Which is better for meeting notes, Littlebird or Fireflies?

Littlebird, for most people. Both produce solid transcripts and summaries, but Littlebird does it without a bot and connects each meeting to your screen, documents, and every earlier conversation, so you can ask about a client across months of work. Fireflies is the better fit only if your priority is logging every sales call into the CRM automatically.

Does Littlebird integrate with my CRM?

Littlebird connects to tools like Notion, Gmail, Google Calendar, and GitHub, it can connect to any MCP server, and it includes its own MCP server on every paid plan. The full list is at littlebird.ai/all-integrations. Fireflies has native, automatic sync to Salesforce and HubSpot built specifically for logging calls, which is a deeper CRM workflow than Littlebird offers today.

Can I use Littlebird and Fireflies together?

You can, but you probably do not need both. If your team runs Fireflies for CRM logging, Littlebird still remembers everything outside those calls. Choosing one for yourself, pick based on whether you want a bot in your meetings.

Last updated September 2026.