Bluedot
Records and transcribes Google Meet and Zoom calls from a browser extension, with no visible bot joining the call on the other side.
What you'd use it for
Getting a transcript and AI summary of a Zoom or Google Meet call without a visible bot joining as a participant.
- Transcribe and summarise meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex without a bot appearing in the participant list
- Generate action items, Q&A notes and follow-up emails from a call automatically
- Ask an AI chat questions across multiple past meetings and get answers pointing back to the source clip
- Push meeting notes automatically into a CRM or ATS on higher tiers via the API or MCP
- Upload and transcribe existing MP4, MP3 or M4A recordings that were not captured live
The verdict
Bluedot's real differentiator is narrow but genuine — nobody on the call sees a bot join, which matters more than it sounds once you're doing recruiting or client calls where that visibly changes the room. Once recording starts it's a competent, unremarkable notetaker, with transcript, summary and action items, priced so you pay separately for the transcript and the video, so check which one you actually use before picking a tier. The free plan is a five-meeting trial, not something to build a habit on.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/user/month | Trying it on a handful of meetings before deciding to pay. | 5 meetings for the life of the account, Chrome extension, desktop and mobile apps, Slack/Notion/Zapier/Make integrations. |
| Basic | $14/user/month billed monthly, or $18/user/month billed annually paid upfront | Someone who mainly needs the transcript, not the recording. | Unlimited audio-only meetings, unlimited storage, up to 1 hour per recording, webhook access, MCP integration. |
| Pro | $20/user/month billed monthly, or $25/user/month billed annually paid upfront | Someone who wants the video recording too, with no length cap. | Everything in Basic, plus unlimited video meetings, unlimited recording duration, custom note templates, Zoom and Google Drive imports. |
| Business | $32/user/month billed monthly, or $39/user/month billed annually paid upfront | A team that needs the notes flowing straight into its CRM or ATS. | Everything in Pro, plus CRM and ATS integrations, admin controls, SSO and SCIM, custom data retention, org-wide MCP and webhooks. |
| Enterprise | One fixed company-wide price, arranged via demo | An organisation that wants unlimited seats without per-user billing. | Company-wide access regardless of headcount, negotiated via a sales demo. |
Read from Bluedot's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
What you need to start
- Chrome, or the Bluedot desktop or mobile app, to actually record a call
- A Google or email account to sign up
- A meeting on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Webex to record from
A few minutes to install the extension and sign up, with no credit card needed for the free plan; the first transcript and summary land automatically once your next meeting ends.
Your first run Install the Chrome extension or desktop app and join your next Zoom or Google Meet call as normal — Bluedot records from inside the tab, and a transcript with an AI summary appears automatically once the call ends.
Where it breaks
Chrome extension plus desktop and mobile apps; records from inside the browser tab rather than sending a separate bot into the call, which is the feature most reviewers lead with.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
When not to use it
Anyone who wants a genuinely free, ongoing meeting notetaker — five meetings for the life of the account is a trial, not a plan. Also skip it if you want the recording and the transcript together in one tier, since that split sits right at the Basic-to-Pro boundary.
The bot that visibly joins a Zoom call to record it has become its own small annoyance — a name in the participant list that makes everyone aware they’re being recorded before anyone’s said a word. Bluedot’s whole pitch is that it doesn’t do that: it records from a browser extension on your own machine, so nothing extra shows up on the call for the other participants to notice.
Under the hood it’s a fairly standard meeting-notes tool once the recording starts — transcript, AI summary, action items, and the option to push notes into Slack, Notion, a CRM or an ATS depending on the tier. Where it differs from Fireflies or Otter is that split between audio-only and video plans: Basic is transcript-and-summary only, and you pay more on Pro specifically for the recording itself, which is a pricing structure worth checking against your actual habits before assuming you need the video.
Free gives you five meetings total, not five a month, so it’s really a trial rather than an ongoing free tier — expect to hit the wall within the first couple of weeks of real use. Business is where this starts looking like recruiting or sales infrastructure rather than a personal notetaker, with the CRM and ATS integrations that make interview or sales-call notes land in the right record automatically.
Named alongside Krisp and Fellow in “bot-free” category roundups, Bluedot is a reasonable default when a client or candidate would visibly bristle at a third-party bot joining the call — which, for anyone doing recruiting or sensitive client work, is often enough reason on its own.
Alternatives
Fireflies.ai
Joins and records meetings across Zoom, Google Meet and Teams automatically, transcribes them, and pushes searchable notes into your CRM.
Meetings & notesAppsOtter.ai
Joins your video calls, transcribes them live, and emails a summary with action items once the meeting ends.
Meetings & notesAppsKrisp
A desktop app that strips background noise and echo out of your voice before it reaches a call, and transcribes the conversation alongside it.
Meetings & notesAgentsFellow
A shared meeting workspace that builds the agenda before a call, takes AI notes during it, and tracks whether the follow-up actions actually got done afterward.
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