Fireflies.ai vs EchoPilot

Fireflies joins your calls as a notetaker, records them, and pushes what it finds into your team’s tools. EchoPilot records the room you are in. That single difference decides how much of your working week actually gets captured.

A bot only attends the meetings it was invited to

The corridor decision. The client lunch. The phone call from the car. The workshop where six people are in one room and nobody opened a laptop. A notetaker bot cannot attend any of them.

EchoPilot treats every one of those exactly like a video call, because the recorder is the phone in your pocket, the computer on your desk, or the watch on your wrist. Put the phone on the table and record: four hours in one capture, in the background, with the screen locked, written to disk in segments as it goes so a crash costs seconds rather than the meeting.

And nothing appears in the participant list. A name in that list is something other people see, ask about, and sometimes object to. EchoPilot never puts one there, which makes it usable in client meetings, sensitive conversations and workplaces where an unfamiliar attendee is a problem.

What comes back

Both products produce a transcript, a summary and action items. EchoPilot’s output is built to be checked and then acted on.

Meeting Minutes come back as a titled document with a summary, chaptered timestamped notes, key points anchored to the moment they came from, action items and the full transcript. Tap any point and the recording plays from the sentence that produced it. Search the transcript with match stepping, rename or merge speaker turns on supported Pro meetings, and correct a misheard line while the original audio and text stay underneath as evidence.

Ask answers questions across one meeting, a series, or everything you have recorded, and cites the moment it used so a wrong answer is one tap from being caught. It is read-only: it never creates, edits or sends anything.

The follow-up is the product

An action item inside a summary is still work. Someone has to read it, decide where it belongs, and put it there. That step happens at the end of a long day, and it is the first thing to get skipped.

EchoPilot drafts a card for each commitment with the destination already chosen, and then stops. Todoist, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders, Notion, Slack, Google and Outlook calendars, Drive, OneDrive, Teams, Mail. You read the card, correct the destination if the guess was wrong, and confirm. Nothing is created before that, and there is no setting to turn the review off. Fireflies’ published pages describe pushing to Asana, Trello, Slack and CRMs without describing a per-item approval step, so the table says “Not stated” rather than asserting an absence.

One person, one price

Fireflies is sold per seat, from $18 a month. EchoPilot is $11.99 a month, or $89 a year, for one person, and that single subscription covers the iPhone app, Android, the Apple Watch companion, the Mac and Windows capture apps and the web app.

If you are buying for yourself, you are not buying a seat.