Fellow: Fellow is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Webex, with automatic action items and an AI agent for follow-ups. Shadow: A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant. Below, they line up on price, capture method, and how each fits a real meeting stack.
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Shortlist Fellow when automatically capturing notes, decisions, and action items during recurring team meetings matters most, and Shadow when privacy-conscious teams that prefer on-device transcription matters most. Try them side by side on real calls before deciding — needs vary by team.
Fellow is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Webex, with automatic action items and an AI agent for follow-ups.
A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant.
Fellow (fellow.ai, formerly fellow.app) is an AI meeting assistant focused on privacy and security. It records and transcribes meetings with real-time transcripts in 90+ languages, generates structured summaries, and automatically extracts and assigns action items. Recordings can run with a visible bot or "botless" directly from the desktop apps (Mac/Windows), and mobile apps capture in-person conversations. Its AskFellow AI agent searches across meetings you have access to, then drafts follow-up emails, memos, and CRM updates. Fellow works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles, phone calls, and in-person meetings, and integrates with 50+ tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Jira, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Slack, and Zapier. It offers SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. The free plan includes a lifetime cap of 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user.
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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.
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Fellow is from $7/mo (freemium); Shadow is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Fellow | Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | AI transcription | Bot-free capture that records system audio without joining the meeting as a participant |
| Standout feature | Meeting summaries | On-device (local) transcription on macOS |
| Team usage | Action item tracking | Speaker identification during transcription |
| Integrations | Botless recording | Captures on-screen content in addition to spoken audio |
| Languages & capture | AskFellow AI agent | Customizable prompts/Skills to generate notes, summaries, and emails |
| Best-fit workflow | AI transcription | Webhook integration to connect outputs to other tools |
Fellow
Choose Fellow if you need automatically capturing notes, decisions, and action items during recurring team meetings — strengths include records and transcribes across zoom, google meet, teams, webex, plus phone and in-person meetings.
Shadow
Choose Shadow if you need capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining — strengths include does not add a visible bot to meetings.
Fellow
Shadow
It depends on your workflow. Fellow is strong for automatically capturing notes, decisions, and action items during recurring team meetings, while Shadow is strong for capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Fellow is from $7/mo and Shadow is a free tier with paid upgrades. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
You can — some teams pair them when each covers a different part of the meeting workflow.
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