Fathom
AI meeting notetaker with the category's best free recording tier
Overview
Fathom records, transcribes, and summarises Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls, with CRM sync on paid tiers. Recording and transcription stay unlimited on the free plan, but as of 2026 advanced AI summaries are capped at 5 calls/month.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Unlimited recordings + transcripts
- AI summaries capped at 5/month
- Clips, playlists and search
- Unlimited AI summaries
- AI action items + Ask Fathom assistant
- Custom meeting bot, no branding
- Global search across team calls
- Team playlists and folders
- Comments and keyword alerts
- Salesforce/HubSpot field sync
- Deal view summaries
- Coaching metrics + AI scorecards
- SSO/SCIM provisioning
- Custom data retention
- Dedicated success manager
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Fathom in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Fathom records, transcribes, and summarises Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams calls, with summaries typically ready within 30 seconds and transcripts linked to video timestamps. The free tier is still the category's most generous on core usage — unlimited recording and transcription — though advanced AI summaries are now capped at 5 calls/month, a retreat from the old unlimited pitch. Paid plans run $15–25/user/month annual with CRM sync at the Business tier, backed by an unusual 90-day money-back guarantee. It now ships a public API with TypeScript and Python SDKs, closing an old gap. It stays meeting-centric — follow-up emails and tasks are on you — and non-English accuracy trails the multilingual leaders, so ASEAN teams should test their language mix before standardising on it.
What people say
The deal changed in 2026: Fathom's free plan, long the category's 'unlimited everything' benchmark, now caps advanced AI summaries at five calls a month. Recording and transcription stay unlimited — past the cap you get a basic chronological summary rather than nothing — but the shift matters, because the bottomless free tier was Fathom's whole identity against Otter, Fireflies, and tl;dv.
Even post-cap it's arguably still the best free notetaker on core usage. Summaries land within about 30 seconds of a call ending, transcripts click through to video timestamps, and reviewers keep rating it near the top of the category for ease of use. Paid plans run $16/month for Premium (annual), $15/user for Team, and $25/user for Business, which adds CRM sync — and Fathom backs paid tiers with a 90-day money-back guarantee, which nothing else in this category matches.
It has also quietly grown up on the developer side. There's now a public API with TypeScript and Python SDKs plus webhooks, so 'no API' — a long-standing knock — is no longer true; teams can pipe summaries, transcripts, highlights, and action items into their own tools.
What hasn't changed: Fathom stops at the meeting. Follow-up emails, task creation, and scheduling are all manual, the notetaker bot stays visible to attendees even when renamed on Premium, and non-English accuracy still trails the multilingual leaders — worth testing before rolling it out across a mixed-language ASEAN team. For English-heavy teams that mostly need reliable notes without another per-seat bill, the order of operations stays the same: Fathom first, questions later.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Fathom's free tier is genuinely unlimited for individual use — no caps on recordings, storage, or summaries — funded by team and enterprise subscriptions.
- The AI summary feature produces structured notes in under 30 seconds after a meeting ends, before participants have left the call.
- Fathom was voted Product Hunt's #1 AI tool of 2022 by the developer community.
Frequently asked questions
About this listing
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