Fellow alternatives: agendas, AI notes, and pricing

Consider Dictaria as a Fellow alternative for individual live coaching, Granola for personal enhanced notes, and Fireflies or MeetGeek for connected meeting workflows. Keep Fellow if shared agendas and a structured meeting routine are the features you rely on. Compare Solo and Team entitlements carefully: the lowest headline price is not necessarily the right plan for one frequent-meeting user.

Capabilities: Fellow and four alternatives

Compare capture, live help, and what you can do with a meeting afterward. These are documented product capabilities; the pricing table identifies plans and limits. This is not an accuracy benchmark.

Capabilities · 5 tools · Scroll sideways on smaller screens.
Tool	Capture & notes	Assistance & follow-through
Fellow	Transcripts, recordings, shared agendas, and collaborative meeting notes.	Ask Fellow, assigned action items, meeting preparation, and project/CRM integrations. Particularly relevant if you also want a structured meeting routine.Fellow product & plans · Feature guide
Dictaria Our product	Local or cloud transcription, a live transcript, and saved meetings in an account. Guest local sessions are temporary.	Coach actions for advice, explanations, the latest question, or your own question, with selected reference documents. Workspace Chat and MCP extend recall.Dictaria product & plans
Granola	Bot-free capture combines the conversation with your typed notes, then produces an enhanced meeting record.	Chat with meeting knowledge; Business adds shared folders, integrations, API access, and MCP. A strong fit for a personal note-taking habit.Granola product & plans · Feature guide
Fireflies	Meeting transcription and summaries through multiple capture options, with a cloud meeting library.	AskFred, real-time assistance, CRM connections, and automation. Particularly useful when notes need to enter existing work systems.Fireflies product & plans · Feature guide
MeetGeek	Meeting records through bot, browser, desktop, or mobile workflows, with transcripts and summaries.	AI Chat, meeting analytics, agents, and automated follow-up. Its current feature list also includes in-call Copilot assistance.MeetGeek product & plans · Feature guide

Want a wider shortlist? Compare all 20 meeting tools by capabilities, pricing, and privacy.

Pricing: what would your meeting week cost?

For one person, compare Fellow Solo at $29 monthly or $19 with an annual commitment. The lower Team headline is a different offer with ten AI notes per month, so it should not stand in for an unlimited personal plan. The free five-note lifetime allowance is a trial-sized budget. Dictaria’s planned Pro price includes Coach, with Pro currently free in beta.

Amounts are USD per user per month unless marked otherwise; Jamie is in EUR. Annual equivalents require an annual commitment, and unconfirmed billing terms are labeled.

Pricing · 5 tools · Scroll sideways on smaller screens.
Tool	Paid plan & billing	Free access & limits that matter
Fellow	Solo Monthly $29 Annual equivalent $19	Free has 5 lifetime AI notes/recordings. Solo includes unlimited AI notes and recordings. Team starts at $11 monthly or $7/month annually, but has 10 AI notes/user/month.Fellow pricing source
Dictaria Our product	Pro — planned launch price Monthly $20 Annual equivalent $16.67	Currently free Pro access during public beta. Planned Pro: 100 cloud hours/month, 8-hour meetings, and unlimited interactive AI requests under fair use. $200/year.Dictaria pricing source
Granola	Business Monthly $14 Annual equivalent Monthly only	Basic is free with limited history. Business adds unlimited meeting history. Billing is per workspace seat; annual billing is not currently offered.Granola pricing source · Billing details
Fireflies	Pro Monthly $18 Annual equivalent $10	Free has limited AI summaries and 400 minutes of team storage. Pro includes unlimited transcription/summaries, 8,000 storage minutes per seat, and 20 AI credits; advanced AI usage is separately metered.Fireflies pricing source
MeetGeek	Pro — advertised from $9.99/month Monthly Not confirmed Annual equivalent Not confirmed	The public page shows $9.99/user/month; confirm the selected billing term at checkout. Free: 3 hours/month. Pro: 20 hours/month; additional hours are $0.50 each.MeetGeek pricing source

Dictaria Pro is free during the public beta. Its planned launch price is $20/month or $200/year, with Coach included. The planned $12/month Plus plan does not include Coach. Compare your meeting hours and AI requests with the full Dictaria plan limits before choosing.

Privacy: where the audio and text go

Fellow states that customer data is not used for AI training, but notes still live in its cloud service. Organization governance and retention options need a plan-specific check. Decide whether the record belongs in a shared organizational workflow or your own meeting history. Dictaria has its own account storage and provider retention, so it should be evaluated as a separate service.

Bot-free capture does not guarantee local processing. Likewise, a no-training promise does not mean meeting content is never stored. These rows describe published policies, not an independent security audit.

Privacy · 5 tools · Scroll sideways on smaller screens.
Tool	Audio, text & processing	Training, retention & control
Fellow	Cloud meeting records, with workspace permissions and controls for recording and sharing. Check the exact plan’s administrative features.	Fellow states that meeting data is never used to train AI models. Deletion and organization governance remain separate from that no-training commitment.Fellow privacy source
Dictaria Our product	Guest local audio and text stay on-device. Signed-in local transcripts are saved to the account. Cloud transcription and Coach send relevant content to providers.	No general-purpose model training. Provider retention can reach 30 days for transcription and 55 days for text AI. Saved content defaults to one year, with shorter or manual retention options.Dictaria privacy source
Granola	Meeting audio is not stored; mobile can cache it temporarily for transcription. Notes and transcripts are stored on US-hosted infrastructure.	Granola can use anonymized data to improve its own models unless you opt out. Enterprise is opted out by default. Third-party AI providers cannot train on the data.Granola privacy source
Fireflies	Meeting records live in Fireflies. Its zero-retention agreements apply to processing vendors, not to your saved Fireflies library.	No internal or external AI training on meeting content. Sharing permissions and admin retention controls govern saved records; some governance features require Enterprise.Fireflies privacy source
MeetGeek	EU/US storage options. Pro lists one-year transcript and six-month audio storage; Free lists three months and one month respectively.	Its pricing page promises no training of external models. Enterprise adds custom/zero retention and on-premise storage options. Confirm the scope of any internal model use with the vendor.MeetGeek privacy source · Additional detail

In Dictaria, guest local transcription is temporary and has no cloud AI. Signed-in local mode saves text to your account, and Coach sends selected context to cloud AI. Follow Dictaria’s complete data flow to choose the mode that fits your meeting.

When to keep Fellow

Fellow documents collaborative meeting notes with calendar context, assigned action items, and task-tool connections. Its agenda product also supports preparation before people join the call. Fellow documentation; Fellow meeting agendas.

Keep Fellow in the running if shared agendas are a working team habit. Removing a place where everyone prepares may create more friction than a different note generator removes.

A personal assistant cannot create shared ownership for you

Write down who prepares the meeting and who owns the next step. If those people need to edit the same agenda, evaluate collaboration first. If your difficulty is personally keeping up with a dense conversation, evaluate assistance first. The distinction prevents you from expecting an individual tool to repair a missing team process.

Where Dictaria fits

Dictaria fits the individual side of that decision. Coach can help explain a point or suggest a next question during a meeting, using selected reference documents for context. The resulting transcript, editable notes, and saved meeting history support your own follow-up and preparation for the next call. See how Coach works.

Dictaria should not be assumed to replace Fellow’s shared agenda and task-assignment workflow. If your colleagues rely on a common action list, test the handoff explicitly or keep that process alongside your personal assistant.

What to test before switching

Use a short, representative meeting you have permission to record. Keep the source material consistent so you can compare the work each tool helps you finish.

Have two participants prepare the same recurring meeting. Check whether the proposed replacement supports the collaboration you need.
Track one action from discussion to a confirmed owner and due date. Notice where human agreement is still required.
Use a personal clarification request and evaluate it independently from the team’s agenda process.

Making the choice

Choose around the process that needs improvement. Try Dictaria for individual guidance and recall; retain or select a shared meeting workspace when preparation and accountability are the essential jobs.

Sources & editorial notes

Written by Dictaria, a provider included in this comparison. Reviewed September 5, 2026 against the official pages linked above and below. The selection advice is our editorial judgment; we did not conduct a hands-on accuracy, latency, or pricing benchmark. Features and access can change.

Names belong to their respective owners. Inclusion does not imply affiliation or endorsement.