Fellow

Meeting management platform for agendas, notes, action items, and team accountability.

Pricing Free / Team $7 annual ($11 monthly) / Business $15 annual ($23 monthly) / Enterprise $25 annual (10+ users)

Category Notetakers & Recording

Founded 2017

HQ Ottawa, Canada

Quick take

Fellow is the best purpose-built meeting management tool. It solves a real problem (meetings lack structure and follow-through) with a focused product. The limitation is that it occupies a niche: many teams use Notion or Google Docs for meeting notes and do not see the need for a dedicated tool. If meeting productivity is a priority for your organization, Fellow is worth $7-15/user/month. If you just need notes, a free alternative works fine.

Trusted by

Shopify

HubSpot

Stanford University

Vidyard

Uber

Fellow scorecard

How we grade

B+ 84/100

Overall grade

A mature, security-forward meeting and AI tool with a credible enterprise story, held back by a crowded notetaker market and unverified scale claims.

Idea A- Meeting management plus AI notes addresses a real, durable pain, with a well-timed AI pivot.

Brand B+ Clean rebrand to fellow.ai and a strong privacy-first position, with some confusion versus the unrelated Fellow coffee brand.

Product A- Mature feature set (agendas, action items, AI notes, API, MCP) across web, desktop, and mobile.

Market fit B+ Strong in mid-market and enterprise, but crowded against Granola, Fireflies, and Otter on pure notetaking.

Adoption B Solid G2 review volume (~2,000), though the "5,000 orgs" claim is self-reported.

Features A- Broad: agendas, recaps, CRM sync, transcript redaction, an API, and workflows.

Security A SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, GDPR, and AES-256 with Canadian data residency, a genuine differentiator.

Value B The free tier is capped at 5 notes; real value lands at the $15+ Business tier.

Overview

Fellow started as a meeting management platform covering agendas before the meeting, collaborative notes during, and action item tracking after. It now positions itself as an AI meeting notetaker for organizations that prioritize privacy, security, and data governance: it records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings with a bot, botless desktop capture, or in-person recording. That puts it in direct competition with Fathom and Otter, while keeping the agenda and 1:1 tooling that managers running standups and recurring meetings rely on.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

+Strong meeting culture and accountability features
+Affordable pricing
+Good for manager-report 1-on-1s

Limitations

–Free plan is capped at 5 AI notes per user (lifetime)
–Unlimited AI notes start at Business ($15 annual, $23 monthly)
–Limited conversation intelligence compared with sales-focused tools

Pricing

FreeTeam $7 annual ($11 monthly)Business $15 annual ($23 monthly)Enterprise $25 annual (10+ users)

Prices per user per month, billed annually (monthly in brackets). Free: 5 AI notes and 5 recordings per user (lifetime). Team $7 ($11): 10 AI notes per user per month, automations, project management integrations, API. Business $15 ($23): unlimited AI notes and recordings, Salesforce and HubSpot integration, keyword tracking. Enterprise $25 (from 10 users, via sales): user provisioning, transcript redaction, analytics, CRM field updates.

Who it's for

Managers who run regular 1:1s and team meetings and want structured agenda and action tracking. Companies focused on meeting culture improvement. Teams that want meeting notes linked to action items in their project management tool. Teams that want recording and transcription with stronger data-governance controls than consumer notetakers.

Verdict

B+ · 84/100

Follows our review methodology

· Last reviewed October 2026

Key features

AI meeting recording, transcription (100+ languages) and summaries
Bot or botless capture (Mac and Windows desktop app), plus in-person
Collaborative meeting agendas
Action item tracking with assignees
Ask Fellow AI chat across meetings
1-on-1 meeting templates

Frequently asked questions

Is Fellow free?

Fellow has a free plan with 5 AI notes and 5 recordings per user (lifetime). Team costs $7/user/month billed annually ($11 monthly) with 10 AI notes per user per month; unlimited AI notes start at Business, $15/user/month billed annually ($23 monthly).

Does Fellow record meetings?

Yes. Fellow records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, with the choice of a bot, botless capture through its Mac and Windows desktop app, or in-person recording. Transcription covers 100+ languages.

Does Fellow integrate with Slack and Jira?

Yes. Fellow integrates with Slack, Jira, and Asana to push action items into existing workflows. Project management integrations are available from the Team plan up, and Fellow lists 50+ integrations in total.

What is Fellow best for?

Fellow excels at structured recurring meetings like 1:1s, standups, and retrospectives. It provides collaborative agendas, meeting templates, and action item tracking with assignees and due dates.

What is the difference between Fellow and Fathom?

Both now record meetings and produce AI summaries. Fellow adds collaborative agendas, action item tracking, and governance features aimed at security-conscious organizations, while Fathom leads with a generous free plan for individuals.