Is Colibri.ai or OpenOats better for AI meeting notes?

It depends on your workflow. Colibri.ai is strong for sales call coaching and review, while OpenOats is strong for getting live, context-aware prompts from your own notes during sales or customer calls. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.

How do Colibri.ai and OpenOats compare on price?

Colibri.ai is a free tier with paid upgrades and OpenOats is a free tier with paid upgrades. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.

Can I use both Colibri.ai and OpenOats?

Yes. Many teams run more than one meeting assistant when the workflows are complementary.

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Colibri.ai vs OpenOats

Colibri.ai: Real-time meeting notes and live sales coaching/conversation intelligence OpenOats: Open-source macOS meeting note-taker that transcribes calls locally and surfaces relevant talking points from your own notes in real time. We compare them on cost, capture approach, and day-to-day fit so you can choose faster.

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Final recommendation

Shortlist Colibri.ai when sales call coaching and review matters most, and OpenOats when privately transcribing meetings on a mac without sending audio to the cloud matters most. Run both through a week of actual calls to see which suits your workflow.

Colibri.ai

CustomAI Sales Meeting Assistants

Real-time meeting notes and live sales coaching/conversation intelligence

AI summaries and action itemsConversation intelligence and analyticsCRM integrations

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OpenOats

CustomAI Meeting Assistants

Open-source macOS meeting note-taker that transcribes calls locally and surfaces relevant talking points from your own notes in real time.

Auto-saved transcripts and session logs to local files

About Colibri.ai

Colibri.ai is an AI meeting assistant and conversation-intelligence tool aimed primarily at sales and customer-facing teams. It records and transcribes calls across major conferencing platforms, generates summaries and action items, and offers live cue cards and real-time guidance to help reps during conversations. Beyond individual notes, Colibri analyzes calls at the team level, tracking topics, talk-time, and other signals so managers can coach reps and understand what happens across the pipeline. It integrates with CRMs and other sales tools so call data and follow-ups land in existing systems automatically. The product blends in-call assistance with after-call intelligence, which makes it useful both for reps who want help in the moment and for leaders who want visibility into conversations. Colibri is typically adopted by sales organizations that want a single tool for recording, coaching, and CRM-connected meeting notes. Platforms: Zoom / Google Meet / Microsoft Teams. Integrations: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.

Best suited for

Sales call coaching and review
Live guidance during calls
CRM-connected meeting notes

About OpenOats

OpenOats is an open-source macOS meeting note-taker, created by Yazin Akkawi (the project was previously named OpenGranola before being renamed), that sits alongside your calls and both transcribes the conversation and helps you contribute to it. It captures both sides of a meeting and transcribes audio locally on Apple Silicon so audio never leaves the device, while in real time it searches your own markdown or plain-text knowledge base to surface relevant talking points and things worth saying during the discussion. The application window is hidden from screen sharing by default, which lets it stay private during video calls, and transcripts and session logs are auto-saved locally. OpenOats supports both fully local operation through Ollama and cloud providers such as OpenRouter and Voyage AI, so users can choose between complete offline privacy and hosted models. It is written primarily in Swift, distributed under the MIT license, and actively maintained with very frequent releases. The project documents itself at openoats.com and targets users who want a privacy-respecting, self-hostable alternative to cloud meeting copilots, combining live transcription with a retrieval layer over personal notes rather than only producing an after-the-fact summary. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.

Best suited for

Getting live, context-aware prompts from your own notes during sales or customer calls
Privately transcribing meetings on a Mac without sending audio to the cloud
Self-hosting a meeting copilot as an alternative to subscription cloud tools

Feature	Colibri.ai	OpenOats
Core capability	Recording and live transcription	Real-time local transcription of both sides of a conversation on Apple Silicon
Standout feature	AI summaries and action items	Live retrieval of relevant talking points from your own notes during meetings
Team usage	Real-time cue cards	Window hidden from screen sharing by default for privacy on calls
Integrations	Conversation intelligence and analytics	Auto-saved transcripts and session logs to local files
Languages & capture	CRM integrations	Works fully local via Ollama or with cloud models (OpenRouter, Voyage AI)
Best-fit workflow	Recording and live transcription	MIT-licensed, self-hostable Swift application

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