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

It depends on your workflow. Colibri.ai is strong for sales call coaching and review, while Shadow is strong for capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.

How do Colibri.ai and Shadow compare on price?

Colibri.ai is a free tier with paid upgrades and Shadow 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 Shadow?

Often yes: teams combine tools when one handles capture and another handles analysis.

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Colibri.ai vs Shadow

Colibri.ai: Real-time meeting notes and live sales coaching/conversation intelligence Shadow: A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant. The right pick comes down to team size, budget, and the workflows you want to automate.

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Final recommendation

Shortlist Colibri.ai when sales call coaching and review matters most, and Shadow when privacy-conscious teams that prefer on-device transcription 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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CustomAI Meeting Assistants

A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant.

Bot-free capture that records system audio without joining the meeting as a participant

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 Shadow

Shadow is a bot-free AI meeting assistant for macOS that captures meetings by listening to your computer's audio in the background rather than joining the call as a visible participant. Because transcription runs locally on the Mac, the audio does not need to leave the device for that core processing step, which the company positions as a privacy advantage. Shadow can automatically detect when a meeting starts, transcribe the conversation with speaker identification, and turn the discussion into structured notes, summaries, and follow-up items. It also captures on-screen content alongside the spoken audio, so material shared during a call (slides, dashboards, or shared windows) can be reflected in the output. The tool works across common conferencing platforms including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack, and Discord. Users can configure customizable prompts (described as Skills) to generate notes, summaries, or drafted emails, and connect outputs to other tools via webhooks. It is aimed at professionals and teams who want meeting capture without adding another bot to the call. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.

Best suited for

Capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining
Privacy-conscious teams that prefer on-device transcription
Reviewing both what was said and what was shown during screen-shared meetings

Feature	Colibri.ai	Shadow
Core capability	Recording and live transcription	Bot-free capture that records system audio without joining the meeting as a participant
Standout feature	AI summaries and action items	On-device (local) transcription on macOS
Team usage	Real-time cue cards	Speaker identification during transcription
Integrations	Conversation intelligence and analytics	Captures on-screen content in addition to spoken audio
Languages & capture	CRM integrations	Customizable prompts/Skills to generate notes, summaries, and emails
Best-fit workflow	Recording and live transcription	Webhook integration to connect outputs to other tools

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