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Fathom vs Granola vs Read AI

All three are meetings & notes tools. Here is what separates them.

	Fathom	Granola	Read AI
What it is	Meeting notes with a free tier that is unusually complete, and summaries ready seconds after the call.	Takes notes from your meeting audio without joining as a bot, merging them with what you typed.	Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents.
Category	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes
Pricing	Freemium · Free · from $19/user/mo	Freemium · Free trial · from $18/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $19.75/user/mo
How it bills	Per seat	Per seat	Per seat
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	Unlimited recording on the free plan Summaries within seconds of ending Highlight clipping during the call CRM sync on paid plans Zoom, Meet and Teams	No meeting bot — captures system audio Merges your typed notes with the transcript Templates per meeting type Searchable history Works with any conferencing tool	Engagement and sentiment scoring Speaker time analysis Transcripts and summaries Email and chat coverage Meeting recommendations
What works	Best free tier in the category Very fast summaries Simple to adopt	No awkward bot in the participant list Notes reflect what you cared about Works regardless of platform	Insight into how meetings actually go Broad coverage beyond meetings Useful for improving your own facilitation
What does not	Fewer analytics than rivals Team features need a paid plan Bot must join the call	macOS-first Needs the app running locally No free tier beyond a trial	Raises legitimate surveillance concerns Sentiment scoring is crude Expensive per seat

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