Meeting intelligence
Fireflies captures meetings through bots, browser, desktop, mobile, uploads, and integrations, then creates transcripts, summaries, action items, search, and analytics.
Fireflies alternative
Fireflies is built for meeting intelligence. SpeechToDo is built for owned voice artifacts.
Fireflies is a mature AI notetaker for meetings, summaries, search, collaboration, integrations, and API workflows. SpeechToDo is for operators who want voice files to become markdown artifacts in a workspace they control.
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# Pick by workspace ## Choose Fireflies when - Meetings are the source - Team search matters - Integrations move the notes ## Choose SpeechToDo when - Audio starts as your own file - Markdown is the durable output - Reuse happens in your workspace
Fireflies and SpeechToDo are solving adjacent jobs.
Fireflies turns meetings into searchable, shareable team knowledge. SpeechToDo turns recorded voice into local-first markdown outputs that can move through your own files, editors, and automation.
File-native artifacts
SpeechToDo watches a user-owned workspace and creates reviewable markdown outputs from audio: transcript, summary, decisions, and tasks.
Different operating surface
Fireflies is strongest when the meeting archive, search, and collaboration live in Fireflies. SpeechToDo is strongest when files are the source of truth.
SpeechToDo's unique selling point: a file-native layer before the workflow automation.
Fireflies is strongest when meeting knowledge should flow through a team meeting workspace, integrations, analytics, APIs, and automation. SpeechToDo is strongest when the first durable output should be a reviewable file you own.
Fireflies' center of gravity
- Meeting capture, transcripts, summaries, action items, and search.
- Team collaboration, channels, comments, analytics, and soundbites.
- CRM, project-management, API, webhook, and broader workflow integrations.
- A mature meeting intelligence workspace for teams with recurring calls.
SpeechToDo's center of gravity
- Source audio and generated markdown living together in your workspace.
- Voice notes that become transcripts, summaries, decisions, and task docs before any automation.
- Human review before action items are promoted into the rest of the operating system.
- A local-first beta for operators who want ownership before integration breadth.
Fireflies vs SpeechToDo.
Use this table to choose the workflow that fits the job. Fireflies is broader and more mature; SpeechToDo is narrower and file-native by design.
Question
Fireflies
SpeechToDo
Primary use case
AI notetaker and conversation workspace for meetings, uploads, summaries, search, action items, analytics, and team workflows.
Voice notes, audio files, founder dumps, operating thoughts, and local workspace transcription.
Capture model
Invite a notetaker to meetings, use Chrome, desktop, or mobile capture, connect integrations, or upload audio and video files.
Drop or record audio into a watched local or cloud-synced workspace, then review generated markdown files.
Output surface
Transcripts, AI summaries, action items, tasks, meeting feed, search, analytics, comments, channels, downloads, integrations, and API/webhook workflows.
Portable markdown artifacts beside the source audio, ready for your editor, docs, scripts, or task workflow.
Best fit
Teams and operators who want a mature meeting archive, collaboration layer, integrations, and conversation intelligence.
Operators who want local-first, file-native voice artifacts they can own, edit, and move.
Current maturity
Mature meeting product with public plans, team collaboration, integrations, security/compliance materials, API, and webhook docs.
Early paid beta with founder-led setup and a narrow file-native workflow wedge.
When Fireflies is probably the right choice.
Fireflies is a better fit when the meeting workspace, collaboration layer, and integrations are the main value.
- ✓ You want an AI notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, in-person meetings, mobile recordings, or uploaded calls.
- ✓ You need meeting search, summaries, action items, tasks, channels, comments, soundbites, analytics, and team collaboration today.
- ✓ You rely on integrations, CRM/project-management handoffs, API access, webhooks, or enterprise controls.
- ✓ You want meeting knowledge to live in a dedicated meeting intelligence workspace.
When SpeechToDo is the better fit.
SpeechToDo is for voice work that should end as files you own, not as another meeting archive you have to remember to search.
Use SpeechToDo when you want
- Voice notes to markdown, not only meeting intelligence.
- Transcript, summary, decision, and task files in your workspace.
- A local-first workflow where files remain the durable surface.
- Founder-led beta setup around your real capture habits.
Use Fireflies when you need
- A polished meeting assistant and conversation workspace.
- Team search, collaboration, channels, analytics, and integrations.
- Business or enterprise controls that SpeechToDo has not shipped yet.
- Meeting-centric automation instead of a narrow file-native beta.
Current beta boundaries.
SpeechToDo should earn trust by being specific. It is not trying to match every Fireflies meeting, analytics, or team feature.
What SpeechToDo claims today
A file-native workflow for turning audio into reviewable markdown artifacts, with local workspaces as the primary product surface and hosted processing where the beta needs it.
What SpeechToDo is not claiming
Fully offline transcription, enterprise admin controls, a mature meeting intelligence suite, or automatic execution of every action item without human review.
Sources used for this comparison.
Product comparisons should use current public claims and avoid guessing about another company's roadmap.
Try the desktop alpha
with your own recordings.
Download the early Mac or Windows build, point it at a workspace you control, and turn recordings into markdown transcripts, summaries, and action docs.
Alpha release SpeechToDo Alpha
- Mac notarized build and unsigned Windows ZIP
- Local workspace and markdown outputs
- Feedback shapes the paid beta
Cloud plans
Choose a tier inside the desktop Account panel.
Create or sign in to a SpeechToDo account in the app, then pick the Cloud tier that matches your monthly recording volume. Checkout opens with your account attached.
Student $6/mo 20 hours of hosted AI Pro Recommended $16/mo 60 hours for solo operators Business $30/mo 120 hours of hosted AI
Cloud checkout opens from the desktop app so your subscription attaches to the right account.
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