10 Best AI Meeting Assistants for Google Meet in 2026

The best AI meeting assistant for Google Meet depends on how you want it in the call. Gemini's Take notes for me is built into Meet on eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. Fathom has the most generous free plan of the bot-based tools. Granola, Tactiq, Jamie and Bluedot take notes without a bot joining at all.

Google Meet is where a lot of client calls, interviews and weekly check-ins happen, and the question is rarely whether to use an assistant. It's which one, and whether you want a named bot sitting in the participant list while a customer is on camera. Below are ten options, sorted by how they get into the call, with free limits and prices as each vendor publishes them, plus the setup checks worth doing before your next meeting.

The 10 AI meeting assistants for Google Meet at a glance

Google Meet assistants fall into three groups: Google's own note taker, bots that join as a participant, and apps or Chrome extensions that capture the call from your side. This table is the short version; each tool gets its own section below.

Prices are per user and change often, so check the linked pricing page before you buy. If you want the wider field beyond Meet, including Zoom-only tools, our wider comparison of meeting note takers looks at free plans across platforms.

Bot, extension or desktop app: how each one joins a Google Meet call

How an AI assistant gets into a Google Meet call matters more than its summary quality, because it decides what everyone else sees. There are three ways in.

• A bot participant. Fathom, Otter, Fireflies and Read AI can send a notetaker that joins the call like a guest, with its own tile and name. Everyone can see it, which is honest, but on a meeting with outside guests it can also mean someone has to let it in, depending on the meeting's access settings.
• A Chrome extension. Tactiq and Bluedot run in your browser tab and capture the call from your side. Nothing appears in the participant list, so telling people you're taking notes is on you.
• A desktop app. Granola and Jamie listen to your computer's audio, so they work with Meet in any browser and with Zoom or Teams too. Again, no bot, and again, you do the telling.

Gemini sits apart from all three. It's part of Meet itself, there's nothing extra to install, and the notes land in Google Drive and on the Calendar event.

The first time a notetaker bot turned up in a client pitch I was hosting, the client asked who it was before anyone had said hello. Since then I keep bots for internal calls and use something bot-free when outside guests are on the invite.

The 10 best AI meeting assistants for Google Meet, reviewed

Each tool below gets the same four checks: how it joins Meet, what the free plan really covers, what it costs, and the catch that's easy to miss. The details are from the vendors' pricing pages and help articles, linked in each section.

1. Gemini in Google Meet (Take notes for me)

Gemini's Take notes for me is Google's built-in note taker, and it's the easiest choice if your plan already includes it. Google's admin help lists it for Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, and since June 29, 2026, Google says Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use it in Meet on web and mobile.

According to Google's Meet help page, the notes doc is saved in the organizer's Google Drive, in a Google Meet folder, and attached to the Calendar event. It has a Quick notes tab with a short summary and action items and a Full notes tab with more detail. The organizer picks who gets the notes: all invited guests, invited guests inside the organization, or only hosts and co-hosts.

The catch: it works in one language per meeting, from a list of eight (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish), and if Host Management is on, only hosts and co-hosts can turn it on or off. It writes notes, not a recording; if you also need the video, see how to record a Google Meet.

When I have a run of internal calls in one afternoon, Gemini is what I leave on. I skim the Quick notes tab between meetings and only open Full notes when someone asks what was decided.

2. Fathom

Fathom is the bot-based assistant with the most generous free plan. The pricing page gives free users unlimited recordings and transcriptions with instant AI call summaries. Premium is $16 a month on a yearly plan, or $20 if you pay monthly. Team starts at $15 per user billed yearly, with a two-user minimum.

Fathom normally joins as a notetaker bot. The free plan also offers bot-free recording, which the pricing page labels a beta for Mac.

The catch: Fathom's help center says it can only record a Meet, Zoom or Teams call if you are also on it, and it leaves when the meeting ends. You can't send it to a call you're skipping.

3. Otter.ai

Otter.ai gives you a choice in Google Meet: send its OtterPilot bot, or record from your own browser with the Otter Chrome extension, which the store listing says works with no bot in the meeting. The Otter pricing page puts Pro at $8.33 a month billed yearly or $16.99 month to month, and Business at $19.99 billed yearly.

The catch: the free Basic plan caps you at 300 minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation, and keeps your 25 most recent conversations. A 45-minute client call gets cut short on the free plan. The setup steps, including how to stop auto-join, are in the guide to using Otter in Google Meet.

4. Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai works much like Otter: a notetaker bot by default, or a Chrome extension that records without the bot, per the Fireflies pricing page. Pro costs $10 per user a month billed yearly or $18 month to month, with 8,000 minutes of storage per seat.

The catch: the Fireflies free plan includes 400 minutes of storage per seat, recordings capped at 2 hours, and 20 AI credits that are granted once and don't refresh. Weekly calls fill 400 minutes within a couple of months, after which you delete old meetings to make room.

5. tl;dv

tl;dv is built for teams who want recordings they can clip and search. Its homepage says no bot is required and lists Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Prices are in euros: the tl;dv pricing page shows Pro at €18 a month billed yearly or €29 month to month, and Business at €29 billed yearly.

The catch: the free plan limits are for the life of the account. tl;dv's help center says your first 10 meetings get full AI notes, after which only the first 10 minutes of each meeting do, and free recordings are kept for 3 months. If the free plan is the reason you're there, the tl;dv alternatives page covers where people go next.

6. Tactiq

Tactiq is the lightest option on this list: a Chrome extension (also on Edge) that writes a live transcript of your Google Meet call, with no bot. The Tactiq homepage says it doesn't record or store meeting audio and saves the transcript as text, and that it supports more than 60 languages.

The Tactiq pricing page lists a free plan with 10 transcripts and 5 AI credits a month, and Pro at $8 a month billed yearly with unlimited transcripts.

The catch: with no audio kept, you can't play back a moment to check a quote. For calls where the exact wording matters, such as a pricing negotiation, that's a real gap.

7. Granola

Granola is a desktop app that listens to your computer's audio while you type rough notes, then turns both into finished notes. The Granola homepage says it doesn't join your meeting and works with Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, with apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

The Granola pricing page lists a free Basic plan, Business at $14 per user a month and Enterprise at $35. Audio is deleted after transcription on every plan.

The catch: free accounts only keep 30 days of meeting history, and since Granola keeps no audio, there's no recording to go back to.

Granola suits the way I run interviews. I jot two or three words when something matters, and the notes afterward are built around what I flagged rather than a flat summary of everything.

8. Read AI

Read AI's meeting assistant joins Google Meet, Zoom and Teams as a participant, and it also has Mac and Windows apps that record from your computer, per the Read AI pricing page. Workspace admins can control which meetings it joins, which helps if your company is cautious about bots.

The catch: the free plan covers 5 meetings a month of up to an hour each, and audio and video playback only comes with the Enterprise plans. Pro is listed at $15 to $19.75 per user a month depending on billing, and it still has no playback.

9. Jamie

Jamie is a bot-free note taker that runs on your device. The Jamie homepage lists apps for Windows, macOS, iOS and the web, says it works with Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and in-person meetings, and says audio is streamed and never stored.

The Jamie pricing page is in euros: a free plan with 10 AI notes a month and a 30-minute meeting limit, Plus at €21 and Pro at €39 a month billed yearly.

The catch: the 30-minute cap on the free plan rules out most real meetings, so treat it as a trial.

10. Bluedot

Bluedot records Google Meet through a Chrome extension, with no bot joining the call, and can keep video or just the transcript and notes, according to the Bluedot homepage. It also covers Zoom, Teams, Webex and Slack huddles, with transcripts in more than 100 languages.

The catch: the free plan is 5 meetings in total, not per month. The Bluedot pricing page puts Basic at $14 or $18 per user a month depending on billing, and Basic is audio-only with a one-hour limit per recording; video starts on Pro.

Which AI meeting assistant for Google Meet I'd pick

The right Google Meet assistant comes down to your plan, your guests and whether you need the audio later. A quick way to decide:

• Your Workspace plan already includes Gemini: start with Take notes for me. It costs nothing extra and the notes are already where your team looks: Drive and the Calendar event.
• You're on a free Gmail account and want a bot that just works: Fathom, for its free plan with unlimited recordings.
• Outside guests are often on the call: a bot-free tool, such as Granola, Jamie, Tactiq or Bluedot, so nobody has to admit a stranger.
• You need to replay exact words: pick a tool that keeps a recording, such as Fathom, Otter or Fireflies. Granola, Jamie and Tactiq don't keep audio.
• Your team wants a library of clips: tl;dv or Fathom.

A common mistake is choosing on summary quality alone and finding out later that the tool keeps no audio or deletes free recordings after a few months. Check retention first; it's the limit you notice too late.

Before you add an AI assistant to a Google Meet call

A few checks before your first meeting with any of these tools save an awkward conversation afterward.

1. Say it out loud. With a bot-free tool, nobody else knows notes are being taken. I open with one line, "I'm taking AI notes so I can listen properly, shout if you'd rather I didn't."
2. Check who receives the notes. In Gemini, the organizer chooses between all invited guests, guests inside the organization, or hosts and co-hosts. Many bot tools also email a recap to attendees. Decide before the call, not after.
3. Ask your Workspace admin. Admins can turn Gemini note-taking on or off and set its sharing defaults, and some tools let admins limit which meetings a bot can join.
4. Turn off auto-join where you don't want it. Bots connected to your calendar can try to join every meeting with a Meet link, including ones you didn't mean to record.
5. Read the notes before you forward them. Summaries can attach an action to the wrong person or miss a "we're not doing that" said quickly. A two-minute read catches it.

I learned the second one the hard way. I once left a recap set to go to all invited guests, and a vendor received a summary that included our internal discussion about their pricing. Now I set sharing to people inside the organization by default and widen it only when I mean to.