Felo Subtitles: A browser extension and companion app that adds real-time transcription and translated live subtitles to online meetings and live streams without joining as a bot. Grain: Grain is an AI notetaker and conversation intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and summarizes video calls and Slack huddles, with or without meeting bots. Below, they line up on price, capture method, and how each fits a real meeting stack.
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Shortlist Felo Subtitles when following and translating multilingual video meetings on zoom, google meet, teams, or webex in real time matters most, and Grain when recording and summarizing client or team meetings for action items matters most. Test each on your own meetings; the right choice tends to become obvious quickly.
A browser extension and companion app that adds real-time transcription and translated live subtitles to online meetings and live streams without joining as a bot.
Grain is an AI notetaker and conversation intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and summarizes video calls and Slack huddles, with or without meeting bots.
Felo Subtitles, made by Felo Inc. (Sparticle), is a real-time transcription and translation tool delivered as a Chrome/Edge browser extension plus companion desktop apps for Windows and macOS. It listens to meeting and video audio, recognizes speech, and overlays live captions with instant translation into other languages, so participants can follow conversations across language barriers. The browser extension captions web-based audio such as Google Meet (web), YouTube Live, Twitch, and Facebook Live, while the separate Felo desktop app extends coverage to Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Tencent Meeting without a bot joining the call. It recognizes speech in roughly 23 languages and translates into about 20 target languages. Captured sessions can be saved as transcripts and exported as text, and the tool offers AI summaries using templates for contexts like sales, learning, and one-on-ones. Custom speech and translation dictionaries let teams add industry terminology. It is aimed at IT, research, HR, legal, education, and video-creator users needing multilingual meeting communication.
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Grain is an AI meeting assistant and conversation intelligence platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, generating AI notes, action items, and shareable video clips. It supports Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams (plus Slack huddles), and can capture audio without a meeting bot via bot-free desktop capture, or join calls with a recording bot. Transcription covers 100+ languages. On higher tiers, Grain syncs meeting notes and insights to CRMs including HubSpot and Salesforce, making it useful for sales and customer success teams tracking deal conversations. The Business tier also adds AI coaching, custom AI follow-up emails, trackers, and team interaction metrics. The Free plan includes unlimited meetings with a 45-minute recording limit, AI notes and action items, 30-day meeting history, and unlimited free viewer seats; paid seats unlock unlimited meeting duration, history, and uploads.
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Felo Subtitles is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); Grain is from $15/mo (freemium). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Felo Subtitles | Grain |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Real-time live transcription with subtitles overlaid on meetings and video streams | AI meeting notes & action items |
| Standout feature | Instant translation of captions across roughly 20 target languages (speech recognition in ~23 languages) | Multi-language transcription (100+ languages) |
| Team usage | No-bot capture: transcribes audio locally/in-browser without joining the meeting as a participant | Shareable video clips & highlight reels |
| Integrations | Transcript saving and export to text documents | CRM sync (HubSpot & Salesforce) |
| Languages & capture | AI-generated meeting summaries using templates (sales, learning, one-on-one) | Bot-free desktop capture |
| Best-fit workflow | Custom speech and translation dictionaries for industry-specific terminology | AI meeting notes & action items |
Felo Subtitles
Choose Felo Subtitles if you need following and translating multilingual video meetings on zoom, google meet, teams, or webex in real time — strengths include captures meetings without adding a visible bot participant, which is less intrusive than bot-based notetakers.
Grain
Choose Grain if you need sales and customer success teams capturing call insights synced to a crm — strengths include records and transcribes meetings with or without a bot, including bot-free desktop (computer-audio) capture.
Felo Subtitles
Grain
It depends on your workflow. Felo Subtitles is strong for following and translating multilingual video meetings on zoom, google meet, teams, or webex in real time, while Grain is strong for sales and customer success teams capturing call insights synced to a crm. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Felo Subtitles is a free tier with paid upgrades and Grain is from $15/mo. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Yes. Many teams run more than one meeting assistant when the workflows are complementary.
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