Read AI
Meeting AI that scores your engagement, not just your notes
Overview
Read AI joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls to transcribe, summarize and score meetings on sentiment and participation, then extends that search layer into email and Slack. Per-seat pricing runs free to $39.75/mo.
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 These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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.
- Summaries & meeting coach
- Basic integrations
- 20+ languages
- Unlimited transcripts
- 100 file-upload credits/mo
- Premium integrations (Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot)
- Audio & video playback + highlights
- 200 file-upload credits/mo
- Priority support
- HIPAA compliance
- SAML & SCIM
- Custom data retention
- Domain capture
Use cases
What you can produce with Read AI
- Live transcription for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams
- Automated meeting summaries and action items
- Sentiment and engagement scoring (talk-time, participation balance)
- Video playback and highlight reels (Enterprise tier)
- Cross-meeting search across recordings and notes
- CRM/workspace integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Jira, Zapier)
- SSO/SAML and HIPAA-eligible workspace (Enterprise+)
ASEAN Perspective
Read AI 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).
A transcript alone tells you what was said, not how the room felt — that's the wedge Read AI works: on top of Zoom/Meet/Teams transcription it layers talk-time ratios, sentiment swings and an overall meeting score, then rolls all of it into email and Slack search. The free tier covers five meetings a month; Pro removes the cap for $15-19.75/mo depending on billing term, and video playback/highlights sit behind the $22.50+ Enterprise tier.
The catch is the bot itself: it visibly joins the call and, per G2 reviewers, keeps sending recap emails to every invitee with no easy way for a non-admin to opt out — which is why University of Washington and Chapman University blocked it outright, and why Trustpilot (driven mostly by recorded bystanders, not buyers) sits at 1.4/5 against G2's buyer-side 4.0/5. Fine for a sales or ops team that wants engagement metrics on top of notes; check your organization's recording-consent policy before turning it on.
What people say
Opinions on Read AI split hard along one line: bought it, or got recorded by it. On G2, active users rate the product 4.0 out of 5 across 38 reviews, with 71% handing out five stars — transcription accuracy and quick setup are the most-cited strengths, appearing in roughly 10 reviews each, followed closely by ease of use and integration depth (about 8 mentions). Users like that summaries and action items show up automatically enough that they can stop taking notes and just talk.
Trustpilot tells a different story: 1.4 out of 5 from 94 reviews, with 89% one-star. Most of that isn't from subscribers — it's from meeting attendees who had a Read AI bot show up uninvited, tied to their calendar by a colleague, recording and summarizing a call they never agreed to have logged. The bot posts a chat message naming who invited it, but there's no granular control over who the recap gets emailed to, and it goes to every invitee including outside guests. Two universities, University of Washington and Chapman, have gone as far as blocking or prohibiting it campus-wide over consent concerns.
Even fans flag the same friction point — on G2, complaints about automatic meeting joining creating friction with attendees are the single most-repeated gripe (8 mentions), ahead of anything about accuracy or price. Billing draws separate criticism: several reviewers describe upgrading a plan and not getting the features the tier promised, and one Enterprise subscriber says they lost access to all of their recordings the moment they cancelled after a single $29.75 month, with no way to export first.
Net: buyers who run a lot of external meetings — sales, customer success, consulting — get real value out of the sentiment and participation scoring layered on top of a solid transcript. Anyone on the receiving end of someone else's Read AI bot is a lot less charitable, and that split shows up directly in the review scores. Worth checking your company's recording-consent policy and Read AI's cancellation/export terms before committing to Enterprise.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Read AI's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Read AI unless explicitly stated.
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